Installation guide

To avoid facing any issues, please make sure to read all of this instructions manual thoroughly prior to the installation process.

Requirements Before the Initialization of Control Web Panel installer

• We do not provide an uninstaller

After you install CWP, you must reinstall the server to remove it.

• We only support static IP addresses.

We do not support dynamic, sticky, or internal IP addresses.

• Only install CWP on a freshly installed operating system without any configuration changes

System Requirements

Make sure that you complete the following tasks before you start the installation process:

1. Setup Hostname

This hostname cannot be the same as any domain that is on your server (for example, if example.com is a domain on your server, use hostname.example.com as your fully qualified hostname).

You can use the following command for hostname setup eg. srv1.example.com

hostname srv1.example.com

2. Setup Server IP addresses

Define additional IP address, subnet address, and default gateway IP address for your server — your service provider can provide you with this information.

3. Software Requirements

You must have a clean/fresh installation of supported operating systems:

• CentOS 7 MINIMAL is recommended version. (RECOMMENDED STABLE)

The best version to be used with CWP as it provides the most features and CWP Secure Kernel.

• CWP-CentOS 8 MINIMAL or BOOT Stream-Delayed. (RECOMMENDED LATEST)

We have our custom repositories making CentOS 8 Stream a stable version. More Info

• CentOS 8 Stream MINIMAL or BOOT

Direct installation or converted from CentOS 8 Linux. (Recommended)

• Rocky Linux MINIMAL or BOOT

Compatible but with possible issues, Recommended is to use CentOS 8 Stream or CentOS 7

• Alma Linux MINIMAL or BOOT

Compatible but with possible issues, Recommended is to use CentOS 8 Stream or CentOS 7

• Oracle Linux MINIMAL or BOOT

Compatible but with possible issues, Recommended is to use CentOS 8 Stream or CentOS 7

4. Hardware Requirements

64 bit operating systems require a MINIMUM of 2GB RAM.

Recommended System: 4 GB+ RAM so you would have the full functionality such as Anti-virus scan of emails.

OPTIONAL: You can download CentOS 7/8 Installation here (if your hosting provider doesn’t offer it).

• Download CentOS 7.x – 64bit MINIMAL (recommended)
• Download CentOS 8 Stream – 64bit (MINIMAL or BOOT)
• Download Rocky Linux – 64bit (MINIMAL or BOOT)
• Download Alma Linux – 64bit (MINIMAL or BOOT)
• Download CentOS for openVZ

Server Updates

1. Preparing Server

Let’s install required packages for CWP installation

yum -y install wget

CentOS 8, Alma Linux and Rocky Linux: may need to install the EPEL repository to be able to install tools like wget:

yum install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm dnf install wget -y

2. Server Update

Now we need to update your server to the latest version

yum -y update

3. Reboot Server

Reboot your server so that all updates can take effect.

reboot

 

Installation

Now you are ready to start CWP Installation

CWP installer can run more than 30 minutes because it needs to compile apache and php from source.

Installer for CentOS 7 (recommended)

cd /usr/local/src wget http://centos-webpanel.com/cwp-el7-latest sh cwp-el7-latest

Installer for CentOS 8, Alma Linux and Rocky Linux

cd /usr/local/src wget http://centos-webpanel.com/cwp-el8-latest sh cwp-el8-latest

Optional Installer Arguments

Available long name arguments
–restart yes (for automatic restart after successfull install)
–phpfpm [5.3|5.4|5.5|5.6|7.0|7.1|7.2|7.3|7.4] (you can use only one)
–softaculous yes (install softaculous – script installer)

Available short name arguments
-r yes (for automatic restart after successfull install)
-p [5.3|5.4|5.5|5.6|7.0|7.1|7.2|7.3|7.4] (you can use only one)
-s yes (install softaculous – script installer)

Example for centos 7 (you can combine short and long name arguments)

sh cwp-el7-latest -r yes --phpfpm 7.3 --softaculous yes

Any of this additionals can be also installed later from cwp gui.

Reboot Server

Reboot your server so that all updates can take effect and CWP gets started.

reboot

 

Cloud Linux Installer

You need to have CloudLinux License.

wget //repo.cloudlinux.com/cloudlinux/sources/cln/cldeploy sh cldeploy -k YOUR-KEY cd /usr/local/src/ wget //dl1.centos-webpanel.com/files/c_scripts/cloudlinux.sh sh cloudlinux.sh

After CloudLinux installer is done it will automatically reboot the server!!

After reboot, you need to build CageFS and enable it

/usr/sbin/cagefsctl --init cagefsctl --enable-all

 

Configuration

Log in to your CWP server using the link provided by the installer on your server.

Control WebPanel Admin GUI at http://SERVER-IP:2030/
Username: root
Password: YOUR_ROOT_PASSWORD

• Setup root email
• Setup at least one hosting package

Or edit default package.

• Setup shared IP

Must be your public IP address.

• Setup nameservers

And now you are ready to host domains.

For additional configuration instruction, please check our wiki/documentation site:

• wiki.centos-webpanel.com

You can order CWP Pro Webhosting from here: CWP Pro Hosting (biswashost.com)

You can get Managed CWP Pro VPS from here: Economy Managed VPS | Biswas Host Ltd

You can get Unmanaged VPS from here: Cloud VPS Hosting - Biswas Host Ltd

This installation guide collected from Control Web Panel website.