CyberPanel

Web Hosting Control Panel that uses OpenLiteSpeed as the underlying Web Server.

Features & Services

• Different User Access Levels (via ACLs).
• Auto SSL.
• FTP Server.
• Light-weight DNS Server (PowerDNS).
• phpMyAdmin to manage DBs (MariaDB).
• Email Support (SnappyMail).
• File Manager.
• PHP Managment.
• Firewall (FirewallD & ConfigServer Firewall Integration).
• One-click Backups and Restores.

Extra Features & Services

Supported PHP Versions

• PHP 8.1
• PHP 8.0
• PHP 7.4
• PHP 7.3
• PHP 7.2

Installation Instructions

sh <(curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/josephgodwinkimani/cyberpanel/main/install.sh || wget -O - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/josephgodwinkimani/cyberpanel/main/install.sh)

Upgrading CyberPanel

sh <(curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/josephgodwinkimani/cyberpanel/main/preUpgrade.sh || wget -O - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/josephgodwinkimani/cyberpanel/main/preUpgrade.sh)

Add additional logs for CrowdSec

nano /etc/crowdsec/acquis.yaml

Add at the end:

...
#https://doc.crowdsec.net/docs/data_sources/file
source: file
filenames:
 - /home/cyberpanel/error-logs.txt
 - /usr/local/lsws/logs/error.log
 - /usr/local/lsws/logs/access.log #useless
 - /var/log/maillog
 - /var/log/messages
 - /var/log/mysql/error.log #https://community.cyberpanel.net/t/how-to-check-database-logs/37979/2
labels:
 type: syslog

You can also acquire logs from journalctl files e.g.

...
source: journalctl
journalctl_filter:
 - "_SYSTEMD_UNIT=ssh.service"
labels:
  type: journald

Enroll your CrowdSec instance on https://app.crowdsec.net/

$ sudo cscli console enroll 1234567890abcdef1234567890

Setup rclone backups

1. Go to https://SERVER_URL/backup/backupDestinations add local path as /home/backup

2. Go to https://SERVER_URL/backup/scheduleBackup and select destination as backup

3. Add backup frequency (daily, weekly) and backup retention (0 = unlimited)

4. A cronjob will run every day to copy these backups to remote backup

You can drop in a sql backup script, edit it and add it to /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root to run once everyday to backup all your databases to a remote location(s).

How this fork keeps up with main repo

1. Changes are released on stable branch of main repo

2. After 14 days if there no reported issues all changes from main repo are adopted for testing

3. A proper update is released here for use

How to protect your CyberPanel server:

• Configure your Firewall
• Secure SSH by disabling root access
• Setup Backups for your client’s data
• Install Imunify360
• Setup Custom ACL for your users disallowing specific services per account

Resources

• Getting started after Installation
• How to Set Up DNS configurations for CyberPanel
• How to install any PHP modules using PEAR Package Manager
• How to remove port 8090
• Setting up Fully qualified domain name for SnappyMail
• How to install SSL certificate from external sources
• How to change website domain or subdomain
• How to Reset the Litespeed Admin Credentials
• Setting up NodeJS for your apps
• Change MariaDB log configuration for your own purposes
• How to allow your SnappyMail users to change their mailbox passwords
• Script to Install Ioncube in PHP 7.2 - 8.1
• How to clean PHP Sessions
• Use RCLONE to backup all mariaDB databases
• Cannot Delete a Website/ Remove remnants from a deleted Website
• Imunify ERROR: Can’t connect to agent. Check php part of application
• How to fix 503 Service Unavailable error
• How to deploy DNSSEC with PowerDNS
• How to Migrate from Cloudways to Vultr with CyberPanel Hosting
• How to Install WordPress Website on CyberPanel with DigitalOcean Cloud Hosting, Domain Name, Cloudflare CDN, Free SSL & Email for $5 Month
• How to Add a Second IP address for your Websites
• How to Add GeoLite2 to MailWatch
• How to Set up a Cronjob for a PHP file