Many of our customers who do not provide commercial hosting services but host a few websites needed a free control panel recommendation and installation guide. We installed the CWP (CentOS Web Panel) control panel on a Linux Level1 VPS virtual server with CentOS 6. CWP has many essential features for hosting management and more. Here are our experiences with it.
Installation is quite simple. After connecting to the server via SSH, paste the following commands into the console and the installation will complete in about 15 minutes:
cd /usr/local/src
wget http://centos-webpanel.com/cwp-latest
sh cwp-latestAfter installation, the necessary URLs to log in and the MySQL root password will appear on the console. Copy these and connect to the CWP control panel at:
http://YOURSERVERIPADDRESS:2030/
The username and password are your server’s ROOT user credentials.
Along with the control panel, Apache, MySQL, PhpMyAdmin, Varnish, Pure-ftpd, Bind, Postfix, Dovecot and other essential applications are installed. We were pleasantly surprised to see Varnish cache system included, as well as CSF firewall (commonly used in cPanel) and a backup system that can be configured daily, weekly, and monthly per user.
To create a new account, you first need to configure DNS settings. Go to DNS Functions > Edit Nameservers IPs in the control panel and specify the nameserver records. Then go to User Accounts > New Account to create a hosting account. You can define the domain name, hosting username, process limits, and file count limits. After configuring PHP or Apache settings, connect via FTP with the created account credentials and upload your site.
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