How to Install CloudPanel on Ubuntu 18.04 | 20.04

In this article, we are going to shows that how to Install CloudPanel on Ubuntu 18.04 | 20.04.

CloudPanel is an opensource and PHP based server management control panel that is built for manage hosted services including Linux services, Cron jobs, email, domain, FTP services, User management, Cloud platforms support and many others.

It is designed to be fast, easy to use and customizable. with the help of it you can get free and open-source software, management panel, Nginx support and many more.

CloudPanel is only designed and built for Debian. it doesn’t fully support Ubuntu operating system but the help of steps below you can easily get it in Ubuntu.

Install CloudPanel on Ubuntu 18.04 | 20.04

Simply follow below steps to Install CloudPanel on Ubuntu 18.04 | 20.04:

Step 1 : Prerequisites

Before installing the CloudPanel, you will need to update Ubuntu and install some required packages in your Ubuntu machine. To install them, run the commands below:

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt install curl wget sudo

Step 2 : Install Postfix Mail Transport Agent

Run the command below to install Postfix on Ubuntu:

sudo apt install gnupg apt-transport-https 
sudo apt install postfix

When you run the above, it will prompt to select the Postfix configuration settings. You need to Choose Internet Site as show below:

               ┌──────┤ Postfix Configuration ├───────┐
               │ General type of mail configuration:  │ 
               │                                      │ 
               │       No configuration               │ 
               │       Internet Site                  │ 
               │       Internet with smarthost        │ 
               │       Satellite system               │ 
               │       Local only                     │ 
               │                                      │ 
               │                                      │ 
               │       <Ok>           <Cancel>        │ 
               │                                      │ 
               └──────────────────────────────────────┘ 

After select the Postfix configuration settings, you will prompted again to enter your mail server. For as an example, here we are using mail.example.com as mail server. You can replace it with your mail server.

Step : 3 Install Other required repositories

Add Node.js repository

Run the commands below to add Node.js repository:

curl -s https://deb.nodesource.com/gpgkey/nodesource.gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -

curl -sS https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/pubkey.gpg | sudo apt-key add -

echo 'deb https://deb.nodesource.com/node_14.x focal main' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nodesource.list

echo 'deb https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/ stable main' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/yarn.list

Add PHP repository

Run the commands below to add PHP repository:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
sudo apt-get update

Add Percona repository

Run the commands below to add Percona repository:

wget https://repo.percona.com/apt/percona-release_latest.$(lsb_release -sc)_all.deb
sudo apt install ./percona-release_latest.$(lsb_release -sc)_all.deb
sudo percona-release setup ps57

Step 4 : Install CloudPanel Dependencies

Now you will need to install some dependencies to support CloudPanel. To install them, run the commands below:

cd /tmp
wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/s/startpar/startpar_0.64-3_amd64.deb
wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/s/sysvinit/sysvinit-utils_2.96-6_amd64.deb
wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/l/lsb/lsb-base_11.1.0_all.deb
wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/i/insserv/insserv_1.21.0-1_amd64.deb
wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/s/sysvinit/sysv-rc_2.96-6_all.deb
wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/r/rcconf/rcconf_3.2+nmu1_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i *.deb

Step 5 : Install CloudPanel

To install CloudPanel in your Ubuntu, first you will need to add the CloudPanel’s Debian Buster repository to Ubuntu by using below command:

echo "deb https://d17k9fuiwb52nc.cloudfront.net/ buster main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/packages.cloudpanel.io.list
sudo curl -Lks https://d17k9fuiwb52nc.cloudfront.net/key.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt update

Now run the command below to download cloudpanel package:

wget https://github.com/cloudpanel-io/cloudpanel-ce/releases/download/v1.0.5/cloudpanel.deb

Next, install the CloudPanel by runnig command below:

sudo apt install ./cloudpanel.deb

When you run the command above, it will prompt to create a root user password. Set your root user password and confirm it.

If you face any error during the installation, then you can fix failed installation by running below command:

sudo apt install -f

Step 6 : Access CloudPanel Dashboard

To access CloudPanel dashboard, open your web browser and browser to the below URL:

https://localhost:8443

OR

https://[YourServerIP]:8443

That’s all

If you face any error and issue in above steps , please use comment box below to report.