Help install CentOS for cPanel

Hello, I have a new server and I plan on putting CentOS 5.1 and cPanel. The thing is I never installed Linux before as I have had Dedicated servers since day 1 and never done linux install. I figured out the paritions part but I need to know when I am in the CentOS intall GUI it brings me the list of options to install.

I am so lost at this part becuase I was told you have to install certain things. I don't think I did it right the first time because after I ran cPanel install the web server never came up for me to goto WHM. So I am starting fresh again and need to know exactly what options to uncheck and check. I appriate the help.

 

Ok guys, now i'm getting a little worried, I formated and install CentOS twice already and ran through the cPanel install but after it says "Complete" I can't get access to the WHM to finish the websetup. It is like port 80 and the other WHM ports don't work. Fresh new CentOS 5.1 machine and ran the

wget http://layer1.cpanel.net/latest
sh latest

let install

Finshed and no WHM.. I can SSH just fine. Anyone know what could be the issue?

 

Hello,

It works now, I guess it was iptabales, and also SELinux was set to permissive. Should I uninstall iptables and use another one? is there a better one to use besides IPtables?

 

I wanted to double-check with everyone if I correctly installed my CentOS and cPanel. This will be my first time so I really want to know if I did it correctly before I ship the server out to the Colo facility. I spent the time and went step by step everything I did.

1. Loaded CentOS 5.1 32bit CD

2. Run setup in GUI mode

3. Choose English for install laung

4. Choose US English for keyboard type

5. In partitions area, choose "Create custom layout" and clicked next

6. Created the following partitions based of 1TB HD space and 8GB RAM.

swap 8GB
ext3 /boot 512MB
ext3 /tmp 2GB
ext3 /usr 50GB
ext3 / 2GB
ext3 /var 60GB
ext3 /home fill to max 820~GB

??? I was wondering, can I just create a 100GB "/" partition and allow /var & /usr to share it vs. create 3 of them? So I'd just have /home, /boot, /tmp and /. Is there any issues with doing it this way? Cons vs. the above?

7. Taken to boot loader screen and choose default option of using GRUB boot loader. It installs under /dev/sda

?? do I need boot loader, and should I have installed it under the /boot parition not the default /dev/sda???

8. Taken to network config screen and configured eth0 IP/netmask and hostname and gateway and 2 isp dns servers.

???? Should I keep IPV6 enabled?

9. Taken to timezone screen and configure correct zone.

10. Taken to root password config screen and configure root password

11. Taken to install options screen which has a list of general install packages to choose from they are:

Desktop GNOME, Desktop KME, Server, Server GUI, (I unchecked Desktop GNMOE) I also choose "Customize now" and clicked next

12. Taken to screen that has install options in more detail and has categories on left and details on the right side. The selection is as follows:

Desktop Environment - Left all uncheked
Applications - Editors and Text Based internet was checked (left both options checked).
Development - Left all unchecked (should I have checked anything in this one???)
Server - LEft all unchecked
Base System - Base and Dial up networking was checked, I unchecked Dialup networking.
Virtualization - left all unchecked
Clustering - Left all unchecked
language - left all unchecked.

13. Install starts format of partitions and installs OS. Out of all 6 CDs, only #1 was used.

14. When system boot for first time I am taken to a bluescreen DOS-Like GUI interface titled "Setup Agent" It had 4 config areas in which to setup. I only made changes to 1 of them.

1 Authentication
2. Firewall Configuration - I went in and disabled Firewall and disabled SELinux.
3. Network Configuration
4. System Services

15. Taken to command prompt.

16. I type "yum update" and system updates kernal and packages.

17. I than do:

# /home
# wget http://layer1.cpanel.net/latest
# sh latest

cPanel installs and finishes

Log into web interface to finish setup.

Configure CSF.

OK, so My question is, did I miss anything from the installing of CentOS upto the cPanel install, such as missing install packages from centos or not running other commands on system before I install. I ask this because I have 4 more servers to setup and don't want to be configuring these boxes wrong.

 

Can anyone confirm the above for me please?

 

Thanks Dave,

I just wanted to make sure I am not installing to much stuff.

Can you verify if CentOS 5.1 x64 is fully compatible with cPanel and that there isn't any known issues that will crop up on me with regards to Apache/PHP or Perl etc. I see allot of hosts still installing 4.6 which makes me think there might be an issue running 5.1 x86

 

Ok, just curious becuase I was searching around in the threads and saw older posts with people complaiming about x64 instllations. Just wanted to make sure all the packages and such will not have issues. I can't afford moving 200 sites than to find out later all these problems crop up

 

That's not the case. I setup my cPanel server with 192.168.1.x IP scheme and hides fully behind a NAT and was able to retrive the license without any issues. All I did was add my Public IP addr to the cPanel store .