fatvegan

I've finally managed to install ISPConfig for Debian 3.1 on OpenVZ when 128MB of RAM and 8MB of swap. It took many attempts, and the ISPConfig installer doesn't exactly make life easy.

The trick was to stop all the services on the machine before starting the installer. That includes all the services that ISPConfig needs you to have - bind, postfix, courier, apache, mysql. The installer will start Mysql without asking part way through the installation and you'll need to stop it reasonably quickly when that happens, because not long after there's some fairly memory intensive compilations. Make sure you don't make any mistakes with stuff like passphrases for the SSL certificate, because you'll have to start the whole thing again.

Eventually it will ask you for the name of your Mysql host. I started Mysql again and gave it the details it needed. From there it should install by itself happily.

I wasn't very optimistic after seeing the installer but the ISPConfig application itself is actually pretty sweet and well-made.