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WHM/cPanel is a very popular and reliable control panel for web hosting services. The WHM/cPanel is rich with features and very powerful GUI to manage web hosting services.

To Install WHM/cPanel on CentOS linux distros

Step 1: The first step for the installation is to setup the hostname for the server. The following command sets up the hostname for the server

# hostnamectl set-hostname WHM.example.com

Step 2: Ensure you have Perl installed on your server. The following command install Perl on the server

# yum install perl

Step 3: The next step is to install CURL command. The following command installs CURL on the server

# yum install curl

Step 4: The next step is to download the latest installer script to the home directory. The following command downloads the script from cPanel website

# curl –o latest –L https://securedownloads.cpanel.net/latest

Step 5: The following command installs the auto installer script

# sh latest

Once the installation is completed, you would be able to access the WHM panel with the following URL

http://<ServerIP>:2087

If you have setup the A record on your DNS server, you can access the WHM panel using the following URL

http://cpanel.example.com:2087

The credentials to login to the panel is same as the root credentials to the CentOS server

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