Installer checks fail for RHEL on AWS

[jeromeza]

Due to the way RHEL licensing works on AWS the cPanel installer fails.

Is there any way to get it to work with the AWS licensing model?

I don't want to use CentOS or the official cPanel Linux AMI provided - as we need to use RHEL for compliance purposes.

Thanks!

# cd /home && curl -o latest -L https://securedownloads.cpanel.net/latest && sh latest

2019-04-10 08:25:58 1630 (ERROR): The server is not registered with a known Red Hat base channel.
2019-04-10 08:25:58 1631 (ERROR): $> /usr/bin/yum repolist enabled
2019-04-10 08:25:58 1632 (ERROR): Loaded plugins: amazon-id, rhui-lb, search-disabled-repos
repo id                                          repo name                status
rhui-REGION-client-config-server-7/x86_64        Red Hat Update Infrastru     2
rhui-REGION-rhel-server-releases/7Server/x86_64  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 23934
rhui-REGION-rhel-server-rh-common/7Server/x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux   235
repolist: 24171

Removing /root/installer.lock.

 

[cPanelMichael]

Hello @jeromeza,

We don't officially offer a cPanel & WHM AMI on AWS for RHEL at this time. While unsupported, you can perform the following steps to install cPanel & WHM on RHEL using AWS:

1. As the root user, create the /root/cpanel_profile/cpanel.config file.
2. As the root user, use a command line text editor such as vi to add the following line to the /root/cpanel_profile/cpanel.config file:

mysql-version=5.6

3. As the root user, execute the following command to install the pango package:

yum -y install pango

4. Disable NetworkManager using the instructions documented here.

5. As the root user, execute the following command to enable the 'Optional' repos for RHEL:

yum-config-manager --enable rhui-REGION-rhel-server-extras rhui-REGION-rhel-server-optional

6. As the root user, execute the following command to start the cPanel installation:

cd /home && curl -o latest -L https://securedownloads.cpanel.net/latest && sh latest

Let me know if you encounter any issues with these steps.

Thank you.