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Page 1 of 5 After having initially installed your latest CentOS5 OS on your server you need to take a few steps to get cPanel/WHM running securily on your server.
Log into root via SSH and disable selinux
nano /etc/selinux/config
and change
SELINUX=enforcing
to
SELINUX=disabled
You now need to either reboot for this to take effect, or disable it using this command:
setenforce 0
Then check if it is disabled:
cat /selinux/enforce
If this returns 0, SELinux is disabled.
Also you need to stop your firewall IP tables
service iptables stop
iptables -L -n
Ok, so now after you have ordered a cPanel licence you need to initiate the install with those commands
mkdir /home/cpins
cd /home/cpins
wget http://layer1.cpanel.net/latest
sh latest
The install can take quiet a while and is depending on hardware configuration and network speed
cPanel requires a fresh/clean server!
If you are serving websites off this server (and are
not already running cPanel) this installer will
overwrite all of your config files. You should hit
Ctrl+C NOW!!!
Now is the time to go get another cup of coffee or two :)
After the initial setup , it is always a good idea to firstly install your IPs for your name servers
In SSH via root
Edit the file
pico /etc/nameserverips
The format of the file is IP address = name server. For example:
111.222.333.444=ns1.yourserver.com
Just put the IP address that you want to add in the first part and the name of the new name server in the second part.
To reboot or add IPs
/etc/init.d/ipaliases restart
So now just logg into WHM
http://yournewserverip:2086/
After accepting the licence aggreement on the first page , you get redirected to
Step 2 Basic cPanel/WHM Setup
There you set your Server Contact E-Mail Address and other information
Once you are satisfied with the configuration, click the Next Step Button.
Quotas are now being setup in the right frame. You can continue at any time any
quota setup will finish in the background.
If you wish to enable the nameserver, you can do so in the right frame.
Otherwise, just click the Next Step button.
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