How to install cPanel / WHM

To install cPanel / WHM on your server, you would need to connect to SSH. Windows users can download Putty directly from and use Putty to connect to their server trough the popular SSH protocol.

When you are connected as root, you need to run the following commands.

Important: Make sure that the server is a clean install of CentOS, no other scripts, software or any modifications should have been done.

  1. Run the following command wget to download the cPanel installer
  2. When the download is complete, run the installer by typing sh latest
This will now install cPanel / WHM, when the installer is done you can visit and login with the username root and the same password you connected to SSH with.


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