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

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