New Menu Structure

I think its time for a discussion about the main menu. I know we have discussed around these ideas a bit in the past. But I have been thinking about it a lot lately.

Whether its switching to dialog for menus, adding more command shortcuts, or just rewriting the scripts in bash for submenus, the menu needs some attention IMHO.

Streamlining the main centmin menu will make Centmin Mod much easier to use and understand, and most importantly, it will allow space for Centmin Mod to expand and grow without making the menus too long. Additionally with all of the custom commands and shortcuts to remember its becoming very cumbersome to search the forum and documentation to find everything, and even discover something new that is hidden. With the new lets encrypt system coming, as well as so many options and features and one, its very easy to forget what is there.

Of course, the purpose of Centmin Mod is to have a fast and secure system, for sysadmin professional level users. Still, expanding the menu system makes sense because it simplifies administration, saves time searching and most of all presents a better user experience.

So, here is my proposal for a new menu structure which I think is logical by topic, and allows for room to grow as needed. I didn't double check everything except the main menu to be sure nothing is missing. I am sure a lot can be tweaked and added to this, but I think its a good start for the discussion.

Code:

Centmin Mod Main Menu

    1) Install / Update CentminMod      (old item #1)
    2) Add / Edit vhost domains
    3) Nginx Management
    4) PHP Management
    5) MariaDB Management
    6) Memcached Management
    7) NSD Management
    8) CentminMod Addons
    9) Security & Firewall
    10) System Status & Information

Update Centmin Mod Code Base [Menu Option 1]
    1) Setup Centmin Mod Github Environment (as now)
    2) Update Centmin Mod Current Branch (as now)
    3) Update Centmin Mod Newer Branch (as now)


Add / Edit vhost domains [Main Menu Option 2]
    1) Add Nginx vhost domain   (old item #2)
    2) Add Wordpress Nginx vhost + WP Super Cache    (old item #22)
   

Nginx Management  [Main Menu Option 3]
    1) Nginx Upgrade / Downgrade     (old item #4)
    2) Restart NginX Service (New)
    3) NginX Service Status (New)
    4) Edit nginx.conf = nginxconf ( /usr/local/nginx/conf/nginx.conf )
    5) Edit (nginx) virtual.conf  (vhostconf)
    6) Edit (nginx) php.conf ( phpinc  )
    7) Edit (nginx) drop.conf ( dropinc )
    8) Edit (nginx) staticfiles.conf = ( statfilesinc ) 
    9) Multi-thread compression: pigz,pbzip2,lbzip2 (old #17)   
    10) Update - Nginx + PHP-FPM + Siege (old #21)
   
PHP Management[Main Menu Option 4]
    1) PHP Upgrade / Downgrade  (old item #5)
    2) Edit php.ini (new, phpedit command)
    3) Restart PHP-FPM Service (new)
    4) PHP-FPM Service Status  (new)
    5) XCache Re-install        (old item #6)
    6) APC Cache Re-install     (old item #7)
    7) XCache Install           (old item #8)
    8) APC Cache Install        (old item #9)
    9) Install FFMPEG and FFMPEG PHP Extension
    10) Install/Reinstall ImagicK PHP Extension (old item #15)
    11) Suhosin PHP Extension install (old item #18)
    12) Zend OpCache Install/Re-install  (old item #12)
   

MariaDB Management [Main Menu Option 5]
    1) Restart Mariadb Service (New)
    2) Mariadb Service Status (New)
    3) Edit my.cnf  (new, mycnf command)
    4) MariaDB 5.2.x Branch Upgrade Only (old menu item 11,1)
    5) MariaDB 5.2.x to MariaDB 5.5 YUM upgrade (old menu item 11,2)
    6) MariaDB 5.5 to MariaDB 10.x YUM upgrade (old menu item 11,3)
    7) MariaDB 5.5 to MariaDB 10.1.x YUM upgrade (old menu item 11,4)
    8) MariaDB 10.x to MariaDB 10.1.x YUM upgrade (old menu item 11,5)
     

Memcached Management [Main Menu Option 6]
    1) Memcached Server Re-install (old item #10)
    2) Restart Memcached Service (New)
    3) Memcached Service Status (New)
   
   
NSD Management [Main Menu Option 7]
    1) NSD setup domain name DNS (old #3)
    2) Restart NSD Service (New)
    3) NSD Service Status (New)
    4) NSD Re-install (old #20)
   
CentminMod Addons [Main Menu Option 8]
    1) Install ioping.sh vbtechsupport.com/1239/ (old #13)
    2) AVG Anti-Virus For Linux
    3) Linux Malware Detect (Maldet)
    4) Wordpress WP-CLI
    5) Mysqladmin_shell.Sh
    6) Linfo
    7) IonCube Loader
    8) Phusion Passenger For Nginx
    9) GeoIP PHP Extension
    10) Python 2.7 & NodeJS Support

9) Security & Firewall
    1) SELinux disable (old #14)
    2) Change SSHD Port Number (old #16)
    3) Edit CSF.conf
    4) CSF Restart
   
System Status & Information [Main Menu Option 10]
    1) Common file paths  (https://community.centminmod.com/threads/new-menu-option-motd-common-file-paths.5785/)
    2) Services status  (list status for all centminmod services)
    3) Installed Addons (detect all installed addons)
    

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If we make a FAQ page to track the old menu options conversion to new menu option, I think it might help...

Also I think we use "Menu Option X" text in forum posts a lot of the time. It may be easy to add a tag, or do a sql replace to link these to this faq page.