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Help install CentOS for cPanel

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by mm1250, Apr 18, 2008.

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  1. mm1250

    mm1250 Well-Known Member

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    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.
     
    #1 mm1250, Apr 18, 2008
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    mm1250 Well-Known Member

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    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?
     
    #2 mm1250, Apr 18, 2008
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    Hi,

    I think you have a firewall blocking that port.
    Try disable the firewall temporary to test this.
    /etc/init.d/iptables stop
    try to connect to WHM. If you can connect now you know its your firewall rules that is blocking you.
    Try opening up the ports u need with the command system-config-securitylevel
    Also make sure SELinux is off.

    Please read http://www.cpanel.net/security/firewalls.html

    Also consider installing CSF.
    This script takes care off all your security needs (well most of them anyway) and it will open the ports needed for cpanel.

    General info CSF : CSF
    Install information : Install CSF

    Ronald.
     
    #3 hydra, Apr 19, 2008
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  4. mm1250

    mm1250 Well-Known Member

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    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?
     
    #4 mm1250, Apr 19, 2008
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    No need to uninstall iptables, you can open up ports with the command i gave you
    Proceed by installing CSF.
    This script takes care off all your security needs (well most of them anyway) and it will open the ports needed for cpanel. (uses iptables i think)

    General info CSF : CSF
    Install information : Install CSF

    Ronald.
     
    #5 hydra, Apr 19, 2008
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    Ronald is correct, CSF (and it's older, balding uncle APF for that matter) is a front-end controlling script that makes it easy to configure iptables. The second part of the CSF 1-2 punch is LFD, which acts as a monitor for several things system wide and alerts you if things go amiss. It's definitely the most CPanel friendly of the iptables config scripts.
     
    #6 mctDarren, Apr 19, 2008
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    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.
     
    #7 mm1250, Apr 19, 2008
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    mm1250 Well-Known Member

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    Can anyone confirm the above for me please?
     
    #8 mm1250, Apr 21, 2008
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    No idea but i'm about to be in a simular situation myself shortly.
    I have installed Linux before but i've only ever used Ubuntu/Debian as a Linux server and it was on a home machine.

    I've installed Fedora on A desktop before.
     
    #9 dragon2611, Apr 24, 2008
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    Don't worry, we'll add any package, modules, software that we need during the install. As long as your package management system works (yum, up2date, etc), your hostname is a valid FQDN and you have the proper ports open on your firewall, you'll be good to go.

    After installing, set your updates to automatic in WHM and we'll take care of making sure your system packages are up to date (minus kernel upgrades).

    Alternatively, we offer a kickstart DVD image on layer1.cpanel.net for centos that allows you to skip a lot of the installation steps.
     
    #10 DaveUsedToWorkHere, Apr 24, 2008
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    I plan to do some of my Inital setup before the server gets placed in the datacenter, I hope to have the basics setup before then So that when I install the server in the datacenter so I'll have a minimum of things to whilst onsite.

    Although Cpanel installation will probably have to wait untill i'm onsite due to the Licencing being tied to the IP address.
     
    #11 dragon2611, Apr 24, 2008
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    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
     
    #12 mm1250, Apr 24, 2008
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    Yes, CentOS 5.1 x64 is fully compatible with cPanel ;)
     
    #13 gorilla, Apr 24, 2008
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    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 :)
     
    #14 mm1250, Apr 24, 2008
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    we have been running 64 bit on all our servers for the last few years, there were issues in the beginning , but nowadays everything is ironed out.
    New default Centos 5.1 x64 setups are straightforward without any problems.
     
    #15 gorilla, Apr 24, 2008
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    We have *many* people that set up their servers in their office (on a connection with a publicly visible static IP of course) then move them to a data center. Remember, if you acquire your license directly from cPanel, Inc - you can modify the IP address on your license by going to your cPanel Store account and in the Manage Services menu, select Manage Licenses. Next to each license, you will see a link to "Transfer" the license to a new IP address. This is how you move a license to a new IP address.

    Note, this is only intended to be used on relatively rare occasion. Do not attempt to use this to try to use a dynamic IP address, our licensing system will detect this and it wont like it.

    If you acquire your license from one of our resellers, contact them for their procedures for transferring a license to a new IP address.
     
    #16 cPanelDavidG, Apr 25, 2008
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    I have a static IP but it's then Connected to a NAT so its probably easier to just wait until I get to the DC since my Internal network doesn't use Publicly Visible IP's

    On the Upside I've gotten as far as getting my RAID1 array built and Centos installed.

    Just getting to compiling my Kernel (I like to Run a Monolithic kernel with the Grsec patch)
     
    #17 dragon2611, Apr 25, 2008
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    mm1250 Well-Known Member

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    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 .
     
    #18 mm1250, Apr 25, 2008
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    Thanks for the Info although I'm not sure If I can be bothered to unpack the server again :p

    I've got plenty of time onsite and I've already got SSH setup so Should have no problem doing it there.

    Also i'm not going to cancel my old server untill I'm happy that the new one is up and running and everything is stable so if I do get a technical hitch setting up cpanel/whm I have plenty of time available to fix it. ;)
     
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