DirectAdmin is a proprietary web-based control panel that you can install on your server which offers a variety of system administration features. In this web hosting tutorial, we are going to install DirectAdmin on a CentOS server.
How to Install DirectAdmin Panel on CentOS
Step 1: Make sure that you are logged in under your root user and that you have purchased a DirectAdmin license from their official site.
Step 2: Update your server using the following commands so that it has the latest packages:
yum update
Step 3: Install the packages that DirectAdmin needs on CentOS 6 to run properly. You can do that by executing the following command
yum install wget gcc gcc-c++ flex bison make bind bind-libs bind-utils openssl openssl-devel perl quota libaio libcom_err-devel libcurl-devel gd zlib-devel zip unzip libcap-devel cronie bzip2 cyrus-sasl-devel perl-ExtUtils-Embed autoconf automake libtool which patch mailx db4-devel
If you are running CentOS 7, run the following commands:
yum install psmisc net-tools systemd-devel libdb-devel perl-DBI
Step 4: Download the DirectAdmin installation script through wget. If you don’t have wget yet, then you can install it via the command
yum install wget wget http://www.directadmin.com/setup.sh chmod 755 setup.sh
To run the installation script, simply enter the command:
./setup.sh
Step 5: After that, it asks for the license key: Enter_Your_License_Key, and press Enter
Note: Keep all credentials in your records which provide in Putty
Step 6: Follow the instructions on the screen to complete the DirectAdmin installation. You can access DirectAdmin once it’s finished installing with your web browser by navigating to http://server_ip:2222.