How to manage multiple servers using CentOS Web Panel
To manage multiple servers using CentOS Web Panel
This article explains how to manage multiple domain servers using the CentOS Web Panel. It is an open-source hosting control panel which allows managing multiple domain servers. It has features like CSF, backups, Live monitoring, Free DNS server, file system lock etc.
Software Requirements
You must have a clean/fresh installation of Supported Operating Systems:
CentOS 6, RedHat 6 or CloudLinux 6, MINIMAL installation. CentOS 7 is NOT supported.
Hardware Requirements
32 bit or 64 bit Operating System requires minimal of 1024 MB RAM
It is recommended is to have 4 GB+ RAM in 64 bit Operating System so you would have the full functionality, like Anti-virus, scan of emails.
To install CentOS Web Panel
You need to access your server as root. Set host name and static IP address.
To fetch the CWP installation script you have to install wget utility
yum -y install wget
To update the server
yum -y update
reboot
To download CentOS Web Panel installation script using wget utility
First move to the below mentioned path
Example
\[user1@linuxhelp ~\]$ cd /usr/local/src/
\[root@linuxhelp src\]# wget http://centos-webpanel.com/cwp-latest
--2016-03-09 17:18:08-- http://centos-webpanel.com/cwp-latest
Resolving centos-webpanel.com... 37.187.72.216
Connecting to centos-webpanel.com|37.187.72.216|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently
Location: http://dl1.centos-webpanel.com/files/cwp-latest \[following\]
--2016-03-09 17:18:09-- http://dl1.centos-webpanel.com/files/cwp-latest
Resolving dl1.centos-webpanel.com... 37.187.72.216
Reusing existing connection to centos-webpanel.com:80.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 27790 (27K) \[text/plain\]
Saving to: &ldquo cwp-latest&rdquo
100%\[======================================> \] 27,790 43.0K/s in 0.6s
2016-03-09 17:18:10 (43.0 KB/s) - &ldquo cwp-latest&rdquo saved \[27790/27790\]
Now the installation is completed.
\[root@linuxhelp src\]# sh cwp-latest
After installation is complete
Now press enter for server reboot. If not rebooted type reboot and press enter.
Once system reboot is completed login to server account as root.
To access CentOS web panel
http://your-ip-addresss.com:2030
OR
https://your-ip-addresss.com:2031 (over SSL)
As I have done the installation in local machine, I&rsquo m accessing using local ip
http://192.168.5.126:2030/
Enter root user name and password.
CWP dashboard
A small definition about the blocks present in the dashboard:
CWP info - shows current setup for severs name, IP , hostname and version.
System info - Shows information of server CPU model, OS name, kernel, server time, uptime, system IP etc
System stats - shows the current usage of memory
Disk details - shows detailed description of disk partitioning and usage.
Application Version- Displays the currently installed versions of Apache, PHP, MySQL, FTP
Service status -Displays the current state of services and also helps to stop, start, restart the services in a single click
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Here is the full view of the CWP page
You can also check the page using CentOS web panel demo ip address
Non SSL Login &ndash http://185.4.149.65:2030/
SSL Login &ndash https://185.4.149.65:2031/
Admin / Root Login
Username: root
Password: admin123
User Login
Username: test-dom
Password: admin123