Install cPanel from Fresh Server

This guide will help you how to install cPanel from scratch a.k.a fresh server. This usually happened when Linux server provisioned, and cust has cPanel license but the server hasn’t install any cPanel yet. Therefore, we need to assist them to install cPanel instead.

Note: cPanel only applicable for Linux. Minimum to install is 1 GB ram.

Fresh Install

Make sure the server is fresh and hasn’t install any software yet. ie. Apache, MySQ, etc.

cd /home && curl -o latest -L https://securedownloads.cpanel.net/latest && sh latest

If you are using Centos 7, sometime the NetworkManager will make your installation become fail. Therefore, we need to disable NetworkManager first. Refer to this redhat article how to deal this NetworkManager.

Then we proceed install. Don’t forget to screen first.

screen -S install
sh latest

Installation will begin within background. Once finished, you will see welcome message.