CloudLinux + cPanel Installation

This is a brief guide on setting up CloudLinux (6.4), cPanel, and softaculous.

CloudLinux

Set it up using PXE or DVD. For my particular server, I have set my parition scheme up like so:

Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1        20G  1.3G   18G   7% /
tmpfs            32G     0   32G   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sdb2       500G  198M  475G   1% /home
/dev/sda3       9.9G  151M  9.2G   2% /tmp
/dev/sda5       214G  188M  203G   1% /usr/local
/dev/sdb1        50G  425M   47G   1% /var

Since cPanel runs out of /usr/local/cpanel, and because logs are placed in /usr/local/apache/logs by default, it's a good idea to give it as much room as possible. The databases and configuration files for cPanel will be placed in /var. Your user's contents will be placed in their home directories in /home.

Once the install is done, you will need to activate the license with CloudLinux's CLN. To do so, run:

/usr/sbin/rhnreg_ks --activationkey=xxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

The activation key is found on your CLN account.

Once activated, you will then be able to update the system.

yum -y update

Installing cPanel

As per the instructions on cPanel's website, to start the cPanel installation process, run:

cd /home
wget -N http://httpupdate.cpanel.net/latest
sh latest

Depending on your system, the install process will take about an hour. Once completed, you should reboot the system.

Installing Softaculous

In order for softaculous to work on cPanel, you must activate Ioncube for cPanel's PHP engine through WHM (Server Configuration -> Tweak Settings -> PHP -> check ioncube next to 'cPanel PHP Loader').

Start the install process by running:

wget -N http://files.softaculous.com/install.sh
chmod 755 install.sh
./install.sh