Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Steps to install Cpanel & WHM

Steps to install cpanel

A valid cpanel  cpanel licenese you will need to obtain for your IP address before starting the cpanel installation. You can also get the trail and paid license from cpanel.You can use Red hat Linux or Cent OS to install the cpanel. (SELinux should be disabled in /etc/selinux/config ).

ssh into root
ping google.com

1.check the free memory -df -l
2.check the ram speed -free -m
Both i386 (32-bit) and x86-64 (64-bit) architectures will work with cPanel.
512 MB of RAM (1 GB minimum is recommended when hosting many accounts). -arch
10 GB free hard drive space (More is required to host multiple accounts).
3.check the hostname
4.service httpd status " active " yum remove httpd
   service iptables stop
5.uname -a
6.cat /etc/redhat-release
7.cd /home
8.wget -N http://httpupdate.cpanel.net/latest
9.screen
10.sh latest

If licensing has failed (due to a strict firewall or changed IP), execute the following command to activate your license:
  /usr/local/cpanel/cpkeyclt
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