After you setup your centos droplet, you can do these steps. Make sure your hostname is a FQDN.
1. Change Root Password
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passwd root |
2. Update Server
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yum update |
3. Add user
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adduser whmadmin passwd whmadmin usermod -aG wheel whmadmin mkdir /home/whmadmin/.ssh sudo cp -rf /root/.ssh/* /home/whmadmin/.ssh/ chown -R whmadmin:whmadmin /home/whmadmin/.ssh |
4. Modify SSH Settings
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yum install nano nano -w /etc/ssh/sshd_config PermitRootLogin no PasswordAuthentication no Port 2222 systemctl reload sshd |
5. Disable SELinux
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nano -w /etc/selinux/config SELINUX=disabled reboot sestatus |
6. Setup a SWAP file
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sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile count=4096 bs=1MiB sudo chmod 600 /swapfile sudo mkswap /swapfile sudo swapon /swapfile sudo sh -c 'echo "/swapfile none swap sw 0 0" >> /etc/fstab' #verify cat /etc/fstab #should look like /swapfile none swap sw 0 0 |
7. Install PERL
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sudo yum install perl |
8. Install screen and wget
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sudo yum install screen wget screen |
9. Install Cpanel
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wget -N http://httpupdate.cpanel.net/latest sudo sh latest |
Once it is complete, you can access WHM from your hostname, or droplet IP on port 2087