How to setup CentOS: Bare Install
Hello,
Today I will be showing you folks how to do a Bare CentOS install for use in installing a custom Apache, PHP and MySQL setup (or maybe even changing out CentOS for nginx or lighttpd, which will be covered in some later tutorials.)
Please note that I am showing this as a how-to guide and data may be permanently deleted from your hard drive, please use caution when selecting options. If you are unsure on something Google it or leave a comment and I will help you ASAP.
The first step is to download the CentOS image, since you will be doing a base image you can use the NetInstall DVD (32-bit or 64-bit [Please note these must be burned to a CD-Rom to be used with a proper ISO program]) and also note this tutorial was created using the DVD, but the NetInstall process is similar.
Ok once you have the ISO image above burned to a disk, you'll want to pop it into the PC your going to use's CD/DVD drive and reboot the PC, make sure that the CD/DVD Drive is set to boot before the hard drive otherwise it might not boot from the CD/DVD Drive (on some computers, you can press ESC for a boot loader menu and select the drive manually.) Once you get that far, you'll get the following screen.
How to install cPanel/WHM on CentOS.
Hello Folks,
Today we will be starting with the basics, how to install cPanel/WHM on CentOS. I will be using CentOS 5.5 64-bit as my base OS; this will be the same for RedHat and for 32-bit also.
First we need to start with a fresh install of CentOS, you don't need to install anything like Apache, MySQL, etc as the cPanel installer will take care of it all for us.
When reading this tutorial, I am going to assuming you know the basics of a shell (aka using SSH as some would say, if your running Windows I recommend PuTTy).
Ok, the first step is to make sure you are logged into your shell, the screen should look something similar to below.
Once we are both there, the next command will be to make the 'cpinstall' folder in your /home directory, you can do that by running the code below.