Cpannel installation on ec2

CPanel is a fully featured popular web based hosting control panel that helps to manage your domain

through a web browser(You are able to manage hosting related tasks such as setting up email accounts,

create new folders, delete unwanted files, create a backup copy o your entire hosting account, setup

additional FTP accounts , CGI scripts, and check on daily website traffic statistics).

cPanel is designed to function either as a dedicated server or virtual private server and it supports

CentOS, Red Hat Linux, and FreeBSD.

Application-based support includes Apache, PHP, MySQL, Postgres, Perl, and BIND (DNS). Email based

support includes POP3, IMAP, SMTP services. cPanel is commonly accessed on port 2082, with an SSL-

secured server operating on port 2083.

1. cd /home — Opens the directory /home.

2. wget -N http://httpupdate.cpanel.net/latest — Fetches the latest installation file from the cPanel

servers.

3. sh latest — Opens and runs the installation files.(is ascript will run for nearly 2 hr)

4. /usr/local/cpanel/cpkeyclt — Activates your license after installation.

Ports open 2086 2083

create accounts

cd /var/cpanel/users/

for ec2 machine vim /etc/ssh/sshd_config

# To disable tunneled clear text passwords, change to no here!

#PasswordAuthentication yes

#PermitEmptyPasswords no

#PasswordAuthentication no

PasswordAuthentication yes

and restart /etc/rc.d/init.d/ssh restart

and create passwd for root

now able to login cpannel with root

http://ipadd:2086