minimum requirements<\/a> for new installations.<\/p>\n1<\/sup>To install cPanel & WHM on your server, run the following command:<\/p>\ncd\u00a0\/home\u00a0&& curl -o latest -L https:\/\/securedownloads.cpanel.net\/latest\u00a0&& sh latest<\/p>\n
\n- Navigate to WHM in your browser<\/li>\n
- Enter your WHM username in the\u00a0Username<\/em>\u00a0text box.<\/li>\n
- Enter your password in the\u00a0Password<\/em>\u00a0text box.<\/li>\n
- Click\u00a0Log in<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
Setup Server Contact Email Address<\/strong><\/p>\nTo set up the contact information for this server, perform the following steps:<\/p>\n
\n- In the\u00a0Server Contact Email Address<\/em>\u00a0text box, enter the email address at which you wish to receive notifications about this server (for example,user@example.com).<\/li>\n
- If you wish to receive email news updates from cPanel, select the\u00a0Subscribe to the cPanel mailing list<\/em>\u00a0checkbox.<\/li>\n
- If you wish to receive notifications as text messages, enter your cell phone or pager email address in the\u00a0Server Contact SMS Address<\/em>\u00a0text box (for example,\u00a0user@phonecompany.com\u00a0or\u00a08005551212@provider.com).<\/li>\n
- If you wish to receive notifications\u00a0as AIM messages, select the\u00a0Server Contact AIM Name<\/em>\u00a0checkbox.<\/li>\n
- If you wish to receive notifications as ICQ messages, select the\u00a0Server Contact ICQ Number<\/em>\u00a0checkbox.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
Set Hostname<\/strong><\/p>\nEnter your server’s\u00a0hostname\u00a0in the\u00a0This Server’s Hostname<\/em>\u00a0text box.<\/p>\nRemember: The\u00a0hostname\u00a0must\u00a0be a fully qualified domain name (FQDN). FQDNs are domain names that specify an exact location, from the top level user domain to the\u00a0root\u00a0domain, when you read them from right to left. This\u00a0hostname\u00a0must\u00a0use the\u00a0subdomain.domain.extension\u00a0format. For example, for the\u00a0server\u00a0account on the domain\u00a0example.com, enter\u00a0server.example.com\u00a0as the\u00a0hostname.<\/p>\n
Name server settings and assigning IP addresses<\/strong><\/p>\nYour server\u00a0must<\/strong>\u00a0have at least one IP address, which will function as the primary\u00a0IP address\u00a0of your server. If you do not have an\u00a0IP address, visitors cannot<\/strong>\u00a0access your server.<\/p>\nTo add IP addresses, perform the following steps:<\/p>\n
\n- In the\u00a0IP Address(es) to Add<\/em>\u00a0text box, enter your server’s IP addresses.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
Note:<\/p>\n
Use\u00a0CIDR\u00a0notation to add multiple IP addresses simultaneously. For more information, refer to the\u00a0Quick\u00a0CIDR\u00a0Reference Table<\/em>\u00a0to the right of the interface.<\/p>\n\n- In the\u00a0Subnet Mask<\/em>\u00a0text box, enter the appropriate subnet mask for your range of IP addresses.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
Note:<\/p>\n
This value defaults to\u00a0255.255.255.0.<\/p>\n
\n- Check to ensure that the displayed\u00a0Network\/Ethernet Device<\/em>\u00a0is correct (for example,\u00a0eth0<\/em>).<\/li>\n
- Click\u00a0Add IP(s)<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
Set Nameservers<\/strong><\/p>\nNameservers populate your server’s\u00a0DNS\u00a0information throughout the Internet to allow visitors to access websites on your server.<\/p>\n
\n- Select the nameserver software that you wish to use. You can choose\u00a0BIND<\/em>,\u00a0MyDNS<\/em>,\u00a0NSD,<\/em>\u00a0or\u00a0Disabled<\/em>. The option defaults to\u00a0BIND.\u00a0<\/em>The BIND\u00a0nameserver\u00a0software is adequate for most servers.<\/li>\n
- Choose the nameservers that domains on this server will use. To configure your nameservers properly, make certain to complete the following steps:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- Obtain two IP addresses from your datacenter. You\u00a0must<\/strong>\u00a0have one IP address for each nameserver.<\/li>\n
- Register your nameservers with the name registrar that you used to register your domain name.<\/li>\n
- Ask your data center to set up reverse DNS pointers.<\/li>\n
- Enter your nameservers in the\u00a0Nameserver 1<\/em>,\u00a0Nameserver 2<\/em>,\u00a0Nameserver 3<\/em>, and\u00a0Nameserver 4<\/em>\u00a0text boxes.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
Note:<\/strong><\/p>\nYou\u00a0must<\/strong>\u00a0enter at least two nameservers. Additional nameservers prevent downtime if your first two nameservers experience problems.<\/p>\nAdd A Entries for Nameservers & Hostname (A entries are records on your server that resolve domain names to their IP addresses).<\/p>\n
To add A entries, perform the following steps:<\/p>\n
\n- Select the\u00a0Add “A Entries” for all Nameservers<\/em><\/li>\n
- Enter the IP addresses for each of your nameservers in the text box that corresponds to that nameserver.<\/li>\n
- Select the\u00a0Add “A Entries” for Hostname<\/em>checkbox if you wish to add an\u00a0A entry\u00a0for your server’s\u00a0hostname.<\/li>\n
- If you selected the\u00a0Add “A Entries” for Hostname<\/em>checkbox, enter the\u00a0IP address\u00a0for your server in the\u00a0IP for Entry<\/em>\u00a0text box.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
Set Services<\/strong><\/p>\nThis allows you to configure the services that you and your clients use on the server.<\/p>\n
To use the default settings, Use Default Settings<\/em>\u00a0at the top of the interface (FTP, Mail and cPHulk Brute Force Protection configuration).<\/p>\nInitial Quota Setup<\/strong><\/p>\nThis is the final stage of the\u00a0Initial Setup<\/em>\u00a0process. This allows you to select whether you wish to track disk usage on your server.<\/p>\n\n- Servers that use the XFS\u00ae filesystem and run CentOS 7, CloudLinux\u2122 7, or Red Hat\u00ae Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7 require additional actions for quotas to function properly:\n
\n- WHM Interface<\/strong>\u2014 After you enable quotas in WHM’s\u00a0Initial Setup Wizard<\/em>\u00a0interface and the system performs the necessary configuration changes, a button appears in the top right corner of the WHM interface.\u00a0You\u00a0must<\/strong>\u00a0click this button to reboot the system.\u00a0After the system reboots, a quota scan runs in the background to complete the process.<\/li>\n
- Command Line<\/strong>\u2014 Run the\u00a0\/scripts\/fixquotas\u00a0script and then reboot the server.<\/li>\n
- Manually via the Command Line<\/strong>\u2014 For instructions on how to perform the\u00a0\/scripts\/fixquotas\u00a0script’s actions manually,\u00a0the Red Hat XFS\u00a0and\u00a0XFS Quota Management\u00a0documentation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
If you have enabled\u00a0Quota System Administration<\/em>\u00a0notifications, the system sends notifications when it is ready to reboot\u00a0and<\/strong>\u00a0when the quota scan finishes and quotas are functional.<\/p>\n\n- CloudLinux 7 updates may break quotas. For this reason, after each CloudLinux 7 update, you\u00a0must<\/strong>run the\u00a0\/scripts\/fixquotas\u00a0script and then reboot the server.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
How to Update cPanel & WHM<\/strong><\/p>\nThe\u00a0\/usr\/local\/cpanel\/scripts\/upcp\u00a0script updates most of the cPanel & WHM services on your cPanel & WHM system. You can run this script in two ways:<\/p>\n
\n- Use WHM’s\u00a0Upgrade to Latest Version\u00a0<\/em>interface (Home >> cPanel >> Upgrade to Latest Version<\/em>).<\/li>\n
- On the command line, run the\u00a0\/usr\/local\/cpanel\/scripts\/upcp\u00a0script as the\u00a0root\u00a0user.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
This script also calls the following scripts within the\u00a0\/usr\/local\/cpanel\/scripts\/\u00a0directory to update most of the software on your system:<\/p>\n
Reset the Root Password<\/strong><\/p>\nUse a secure password. A secure password is\u00a0not\u00a0a dictionary word, and it contains uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, and symbols.<\/p>\n
To change the\u00a0root\u00a0user’s password, perform the following steps:<\/p>\n
\n- Enter and confirm the new password in the appropriate text boxes.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
Notes:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n- The system grades the password that you enter on a scale of 100 points.\u00a00\u00a0indicates a weak password, while\u00a0100\u00a0indicates a very secure password.<\/li>\n
- Some web hosts require a minimum password strength. A green password\u00a0Strength<\/em>meter indicates that the password is equal to or greater than the required password strength.<\/li>\n
- Click\u00a0Password Generator\u00a0<\/em>to generate a strong password. For more information, read the\u00a0Password Generator – x3<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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