How to use VestaCP panel?Install Post Office/Add Multiple Domains & File Management

VestaCPis a very simple, yet powerful and efficientLinuxWeb hosting control panel.

By default it will install nginx web server, PHP,Mysql, DNS servers and others that must run a full web serversoftware,all these areBuilding websitedoSEOnecessary condition.

VestaCP control panel can be installed on RHEL 5 and 6,CentOS 5和6，Ubuntu 12.04至14.04和Debian 7上。

VestaCP panels are also very popular among web developers and system administrators due to the wide range of supported operating systems.

Learn about VestaCP

VestaCP is a complete solution for one customer, customers can install the bundled free solution on their VPS or dedicated server.

Most free panels like Z-Panel are not up to date, most known security holes are still open, and VestaCP has active development on its product.

If you are new to server maintenance, you can also order support packages from them:

Installation conditions

You can install VestaCP on a server with at least 1GB of RAM (recommended), but it will also run smoothly on a 512MB RAM server.

But to install a virus scan tool, the panel default setting requires at least 3GB RAM.

However, users can override these settings and install virus scanning and other features on any server.

Install VestaCP, the following software will be installed

VestaCP installation preparation

Installing VestaCP is fairly straightforward, first make sure you're not running any default software on your server.

If so, use the appropriate command to remove those redundant software.

We recommend that you use a clean OS installation, as it saves you from many conflicts that might occur during installation (such as installing other control panels, etc.).

Example of command to uninstall LAMP on CentOS

Step 1:Delete MySQL server

To remove MySQL on the CentOS server, run the following command▼

yum remove mysql-client mysql-server mysql-common mysql-devel

Step 2:Remove MySQL library

yum remove mysql-libs

Step 3:Remove existing PHP installation

yum remove php php-common php-devel

Step 4:Remove the Apache service from the server

Please refer to this article ▼

Install VestaCP prompt: Following packages are already installed: httpd centos 7

If the Linux system installed on our VPS is CentOS 7, and the VPS provider provides a not very pure CentOS distribution, Apache (httpd in CentOS) is installed by default.In this way, when installing VestaCP, the following prompt will appear:  …

Example of command to uninstall LAMP on Ubuntu

You can run this one-line command to remove LAMP on an Ubuntu server ▼

`# sudo apt-get remove --purge apache2 php5 mysql-server-5.0 phpmyadmin`

• ▲ The above code will delete the currently installed LAMP

Start installing VestaCP

Connect to your VPS/server via SSH, this article uses Putty software for demonstration.

Step 1:Download the VestaCP installer

Use the following command to download the VestaCP installer▼

curl -O http://vestacp.com/pub/vst-install.sh

Step 2:Start the VestaCP installation

After a successful download, run this command to start the VestaCP installation ▼

bash vst-install.sh

Step 3:Confirm installation of VestaCP

The installer will ask for confirmation to install VestaCP, enter 'y' to continue ▼

Step 4:Enter email

Step 5:Enter the FQDN hostname

Step 6:record login information

After successful installation, VestaCP will display the following information▼

step 7:Set the language to Chinese

Log in to Vesta CP control panel via browser ▼

You will find that the default is English, you can click admin in the upper right corner to change it ▼

VestaCP adds multiple domains

In VestaCP control panel web service, you can add multiple new domain names ▼

In the advanced settings, you can choose whether to add an SSL certificate to the website, and support to automatically set the Let's Encrypt certificate for encryption ▼

• After waiting for about five minutes, you can enable https and view the SSL certificate you just applied for.

VestaCP add FTP account

At the bottom, you can add an FTP account to your website and enter your FTP account and password ▼

FTP client connection settings

When connecting using FTP client software, the following settings are available ▼

VestaCP add post office mailbox

First enter the post office management interface of VestaCP and add a new account ▼

Enter your email account and password, then you will receive emails SMTP, IMAP, etc. ▼

VestaCP's online mailbox, using the open source Roundcube to easily send and receive letters ▼

VestaCP File Manager

Step 1:After connecting to SFTP via SSH, go to the directory ▼

/usr/local/vesta/conf

Step 2:Edit the vesta.conf file,

• Add the following two lines of code at the end of the file▼

FILEMANAGER_KEY ='KuwangNetwork'
SFTPJAIL_KEY ='KuwangNetwork'

After saving, you can view the file manager in VestaCP navigation ▼

Google JS library problem

• The file manager uses Google's JS library, but Google's JS library may not be available in some areas of mainland China.

Solution:

Enter the catalog ▼

/usr/local/vesta/web/templates/file_manager

Please change the address in line 119 of the main.php file to ▼

code.jquery.com/jquery-1.11.1.min.js

Uninstall VestaCP

Step 1:Stop VestaCP service

service vesta stop

Step 2:Remove the installer for VESTA

CentOS system, please use the following command▼

yum remove vesta*
rm -f /etc/yum.repos.d/vesta.repo

Debian / Ubuntu system, use the following command▼

apt-get remove vesta*
rm -f /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vesta.list

Step 3: Delete data directory and scheduled tasks

rm -rf /usr/local/vesta

• Also, it's a good idea to delete the admin user and related scheduled tasks.

Conclusion

VestaCP is a very good and easy to install and use VPS control panel that can be used by everyone.

Also, there will never be any installation errors, it only takes about 4-7 minutes to install on our VPS.

Extended reading:

Installation and configuration Chinese tutorials that may not be available on the official website of VestaCP

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