Tutorial on installing cPanel and problem fixing

A quick guide to installing cPanel onto your server.

 

Firstly, check that you have a fresh install of your chosen operating system (CentOS is recommended) and that SELinux is disabled (How do you disable SELinux? find out below).

 

Connect to your server through the root SSH login.

 

 

Edit the file at directory “/etc/selinux/config“, if you are using nano on your server, you can use the following command to open the file for editing through SSH:

 

  1. nano /etc/selinux/config

Replace:

  1. SELINUX=enabled

With:

  1. SELINUX=disabled

Save the file and continue by entering the following commands:

  1. cd /home
  2. wget http://layer1.cpanel.net/latest
  3. sh latest
  4. /usr/local/cpanel/cpkeyclt

 

Problems during installation?

 

A common problem which occurs near the beginning of the cPanel installation, is an incorrect hostname.

cPanel requires that your system is setup with a full hostname (e.g. server1.mydomain.com NOT JUST server1).

To fix this hostname problem, simply run the following command:

 

  • hostname yourhostnamehere

 

(Replace “yourhostnamehere” with your full required hostname as shown in the example above)

 

Once setup has successfully completed you can access your WHM at http://yourip:2087/.

 

 

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  3. This small tutorial is very useful. It will really help me a lot to install CPanel. Nice post.

  4. Great info! cPanel has made the installation process a simple one and only takes a few commands to get the install going

  5. Do you think I’ll be able to install the cPanel on a Dreamhost account? I love cPanel’s backup function that archives your site files and also its database.

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  7. cPanel is above all other control panels. Very easy to set up as well.

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  13. its easy to install cpanel , config it , very hard

  14. I was very afraid in installing it, but after going through your article, it looks very simple and easy, thanks. I’m just going to install it.

  15. What exactly does cPanel do? What does everyone else think of it?

  16. First time when i have used cpanel for my site than at that time i realized to work with panel is really easy and interesting no doubt i was confused also at that time, but now i am proficient in it and looking to install manually, and from this article i got the information also related to this.

  17. Been trying to figure out how to install this. Thanks!

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