CWP Control 7 Installation Instructions

Installation Instructions
Setup Web Hosting platform with CWP

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

• They do not provide an uninstaller After you install CWP, you must reinstall the server to remove it.
• They 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 STABLE/LATEST)
They have a custom repositories making CentOS 8 Stream a stable version.

CentOS 8 & 9 Stream MINIMAL or BOOT
Direct installation or converted from CentOS 8 Linux. (Recommended)

Rocky Linux 8 & 9 MINIMAL or BOOT
Compatible but with possible issues, Recommended is to use CentOS 8 Stream or CentOS 7

Alma Linux 8 & 9 MINIMAL or BOOT
Compatible but with possible issues, Recommended is to use CentOS 8 Stream or CentOS 7

Oracle Linux 7 & 8 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 8 & 9 – 64bit (MINIMAL or BOOT)
• Download Alma Linux 8 & 9 – 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/Stream, 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

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

Installer for CentOS 8/stream, Alma Linux, and Rocky Linux (recommended)

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

Installer for CentOS 9/stream, Alma Linux 9, and Rocky Linux 9 (beta)

CWP is released for EL9 as a beta, and old PHP versions are removed i.e. only PHP 7.4 to 8.3 are supported.

cd /usr/local/src
wget http://centos-webpanel.com/cwp-el9-latest
sh cwp-el9-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

Optional – 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 packageOr edit default package.
• Setup shared IPMust be your public IP address.
• Setup nameservers

And now you are ready to host domains.