How to Install CPanel in VMWare ESXi 5.1 Guest OS

This is a simple tutorial on How to install CPanel in VMWare ESXi 5.1 Guest OS. Firstly, you should make sure that you can access the world from the VM, and you can access your VM from outside. Your VM should have a public static IP Address. You can found the article on how to give a public static IP Address to you VMware VM here.
Here are some simple steps to Install CPanel on a fresh installed CentOS 6.3.
Connect to your VM: SSH to you VM or use Putty for wondows.
Run yum update.
yum -y update
Remove yum groups, make sure these group not installed.
- FTP Server
- GNOME Desktop Environment
- KDE (K Desktop Environment)
- Mail Server
- Mono
- Web Server
- X Window System
Run this command to check:
yum grouplist
If there is any of those groups is installed. Remove it, run this command:
yum groupremove "groupname" "groupname"
Disable SeLinux:
vi /etc/selinux/config
SELINUX=disabled
Disable Firewall IPtables. Run these two command
chkconfig iptables off service iptables stop
Installing CPannel.
cd /home
wget -N http://httpupdate.cpanel.net/latest
sh latest
Installation will run automatically. After the installation finished successfully. Open your newly installed CPanel in browser IP:2087. I.g.
73.123.123.2:2087
Done.
December 21st, 2012 at 5:04 pm
nice gan, thanks infonya, lagi kebingungan nih nginstal cPanel nya