cPanel Install Problem On VPS

[jjmalloy3]

This is the first time I have come across this problem.

I recently bought a VPS with CentOS 5.0 Installed on it.

I went to install cPanel and everything weng great until.. Optimizing VPS.

When it came to that step it seems that it isn't responding.

I have being waiting 5 hours now and all it is saying is Optimizing VPS ...+..+++++++++++++++++++++++++ etc........

I tried several times on a clean server each time but still no luck.

Does anyone have a cure for this problem?

Thanks

- Jason

 

[acenetryan]

What does your swap and free RAM look like during the install?

 

[jjmalloy3]

What does your swap and free RAM look like during the install?

total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 770 615 425 0 75 235
-/+ buffers/cache: 254 496
Swap: 996 0 996

 

[acenetryan]

What perl version are you using? We had [thread=124689]problems with cpan during installation[/thread]. Make sure you're running perl 5.8.8 and try installing cpan manually before the installation.

 

[jjmalloy3]

What perl version are you using? We had [thread=124689]problems with cpan during installation[/thread]. Make sure you're running perl 5.8.8 and try installing cpan manually before the installation.

I will try that thanks :P

- Jason

 

[jjmalloy3]

I just noticed I already installed CPAN.

So is there anything else I can do cause it's still the same

 

[acenetryan]

I'd say check that gcc is properly installed also, but if your installer is getting that far, I assume it is. CentOS 5.0 is relatively old, you could try updating your kernel/OS to the latest version of CentOS (5.4 IIRC). Beyond that, it's probably about time to submit a ticket with cPanel.

 

[Spiral]

How much memory does your VPS have?

You really need a minimum of 512M of memory for Cpanel itself to run somewhat effectively and I really recommend a baseline of 768M.

Now regarding installing Cpanel, usually a little prep work is in order and I sometimes use this little script to get basic things out of the way which mainly kills the default CentOS firewall filters and sets up basic base components that will needed later:

#!/bin/bash
IFS="$"

if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/iptables ]; then
   rm -f /etc/sysconfig/iptables
   service iptables restart
fi

yum -y install traceroute whois coreutils binutils yum-utils make gcc gcc-* mlocate glibc* openssl openssh libmcrypt libgcrypt dialog screen mailx bzip2 zip arj tar wget lynx
yum -y upgrade
cd /root
wget -nc -T30 http://layer1.cpanel.net/latest-dnsonly
chmod 700 ./latest
./latest

You will probably want to do a little follow up after install:

# cpan
- install CPAN
- reload CPAN
- exit
# /scripts/checkperlmodules
# /scripts/upcp

After this you'll want to login to WHM and run the setup wizard and then you can begin the fun of configuring your new Cpanel installation.

 

[Spiral]

ADDENDUM NOTE: The 'wget' line in the last post should actually end with "latest" instead of "latest-dnsonly'

(Difference is whether you want full cpanel or just a "DNS Only" server)

 

[cpane1]

Hey, check this out if you still facing the same problem.

Installing cpanel on a VPS requires the below applications installed on your VPS.
This is installed when you setup your VPS.

1) Development Tools
(the os devel tool)

2) mysql-as4
MySQL is a multi-user, multi-threaded SQL database server. 4.1.20

3) php-as4
The PHP HTML-embedded scripting language.

Install the above Applications as per your OS and then setup your VPS.
You should the be able to install cPanel on your VPS....