NextCaligo is a VPS infrastructure management system that allows you to deploy and manage Linux containers from a web interface. Create your own VPS in less than a minute & monitor your VPS or access it live SSH console! VPS management made easy!

NextCaligo is an open source, free VPS management platform. The aim of the project is to offer a modern, free alternative to the currently used VPS hosting softwares. Most web hosting companies use the same expensive, cumbersome VPS control panel softwares. Imagine a fast interface where you can create VPSs, application containers & high availability (HA) VMs in less than 1 minute with just one click. This is the future and will be the main direction of the project.

...and this is just the beginning. Different versions will have different functions.

• Virtualization: OpenVZ 7/8
• Frontend: ReactJS, Material UI + Material Icons, Bootstrap Grid, ApexCharts, Font-Logos, Roboto
• Backend: PHP, Laravel 10 (with Breeze), NodeJS (Socket.io, Express)
• Database engine: MySQL
• Webserver: Apache2 (with HTACCESS)

The software only runs on CentOS-based systems, since the latest OpenVZ can be operated on them. The most viable way is to install the OpenVZ Linux distribution, then install epel-release and then the technologies mentioned above.

1. Install Apache2

   yum -y install httpd nano && systemctl enable httpd.service
   

   Edit httpd.conf:

   sudo nano /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
   

   The DocumentRoot should be set to the /var/nextcaligo directory and the AllowOverride None value should be overwritten with AllowOverride All. Also, wherever there is /var/www/html, change it to /var/nextcaligo.

2. Install PHP 8.2

   sudo yum -y install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
   sudo yum -y install http://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-7.rpm
   sudo yum-config-manager --enable remi-php82
   sudo yum install php8.2-{bz2,cli,common,curl,intl,mbstring,mysql,zip}
   sudo usermod -aG wheel apache
   service httpd restart
   

3. Node, NPM, Composer

   sudo yum install nodejs -y
   sudo yum install php-cli php-zip wget unzip -y
   php -r "copy('https://getcomposer.org/installer', 'composer-setup.php');"
   php composer-setup.php --install-dir=/usr/local/bin --filename=composer
   

4. Install MySQL

   sudo yum install https://dev.mysql.com/get/mysql80-community-release-el7-3.noarch.rpm
   sudo yum install mysql-community-server
   sudo systemctl start mysqld
   sudo systemctl enable mysqld
   sudo grep 'temporary password' /var/log/mysqld.log
   sudo mysql_secure_installation
   mysql -u root -p
   CREATE DATABASE nextcaligo;
   exit;
   

5. Download NextCaligo & Install

   yum -y install wget unzip
   cd /var && wget https://github.com/stutzerik/nextcaligo/archive/refs/heads/master.zip
   unzip master.zip -d /var/nextcaligo
   

6. Virtualization environment

   wget http://repo.virtuozzo.com/vzlinux/vzdeploy/vzdeploy8
   chmod 755 vzdeploy8
   ./vzdeploy8
   

   More information: https://docs.virtuozzo.com/virtuozzo_linux_8_quick_start_guide/converting-from-centos/

7. Enable NextCaligo

   cd /var/nextcaligo
   npm install
   npm run build
   npm run dev # Then Ctrl + V
   composer install
   cd nodejs && npm install && npm run build && node server.js && cd ..
   

   Rename env.example to .env, and fill with MySQL login details (MySQL username, password, and for DATABASE_NAME write nextcaligo)!

   php artisan migrate
   

Default login details:

• Email: admin@domain.tld
• Password: admin (Change after first login)

In the future, you will get a permission system, a teamwork option, and an end-user API. In addition to the container-based OpenVZ VPS, 1-Click app containers and XEN virtualization high-availability VMs will come. This version will be available on the project's official website.

I used the following libraries, frameworks and technologies for my work: PHP, Laravel, Laravel Breeze, Node, Express, Socket.io, SSH2, MySQL, ReactJS, Material UI 5.13, Material Icons, Bootstrap, TailwindCSS, Roboto fonts, ApexChart, NPM, Composer, OpenVZ, Axios, Linux - these technologies are not my intellectual products, I just use them for writing code.

All of them are open source - at least that's the version I use - and the comments on internet forums helped a lot in the coding.

I ❤️ Open Source.

Feel free to use my software, but don't forget to mention the author. In fact, I will be proud if you link to my Github.