How to install cPanel on your VPS

We’ve done a few of these installs for customers lately & it’s really very simple, so here’s a short step-by-step on it.

a) Ensure you have a good amount of disk space available and that your VPS OS is up to date (so do a “yum upgrade” or “apt-get upgrade” or such to get all the latest OS Packages & kernels, please feel free to contact us for help on that, or to check the most recent backups of your VPS (we do backups weekly)).

At a minimum, you need Perl installed to the VPS before running the cPanel ‘latest’ installer script. On Redhat based Linux (CentOS etc) that’s done with yum -y install perl or on Debian/GNU based Linux (Ubuntu etc) with apt-get install perl

b) In a directory on a file system with lots of space available, download the latest cPanel ‘self extracting archive’ Installer via:

wget -N http://httpupdate.cpanel.net/latest

c) Become the root user (if not already) & run the downloaded file named ‘latest’ from the above wget:

sh ./latest

d) Wait. The Installer downloads all the various cPanel software components & dependencies, installs & configures them etc, it can take anywhere from ~15 mins to a few hours.

It’s really that easy, the hard work probably begins after this basic install as you setup cPanel for your desired hosting environment & settings.