cPanel & WHM: The Hosting Platform of Choice
cPanel | v66Linux/Unix, Amazon Linux 7 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Undocumented
Lovely idea to create an image in the marketplace and then not keep the documentation needed online.
Fix this link please
https://documentation.cpanel.net/display/ALD/WebHost+Manager+-+WHM+User+Guide
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Trial Product
After reading all the reviews, and following what they said about the ports, changing the password (which is only to login to whm, not cpanel), going to the correct port number to access WHM, I still was having issues with simply setting up cpanel.
It asks you for information about the hostname, resolvers, ip addresses of servers that will be used on cpanel, nameservers, a records (if you wish), all without describing where you would find these things. Some things were obvious, others were not. It was a very confusing setup.
And to top things off, after I entered all the information I thought was correct, it said it was a trial product, and if I wanted to purchase a one year subscription, it would cost around 500$!
And this may be my fault, but I really searched through the options once I was into the whm control panel, but there was nowhere I could find to change the cpanel login information.
Here's the installation instructions from cpanel.
https://documentation.cpanel.net/display/ALD/Initial+Setup+Wizard
Difficult
It is very difficult to setup the WHM on EC2, you click the bottom and expecting everything start working... Mehhh nooo It doesnt work that way. after create 3 different services, I gave up.
No instructions...
Not only are there no instructions -- I ran the cPanel update script from command line and... it's been updating for close to an hour. I killed the instance and moved on.
Difficult to Set Up without Documentation
The default security group that is default for this AMI doesn't open up the ports for you to access WHM and cPanel. As a new user to cPanel and WHM, this was a difficult task to set up since I have no idea what it needs. Here is a link to the ports that you need to open in order to access certain things, https://documentation.cpanel.net/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=7536715#HowtoConfigureYourFirewallforcPanel&WHM%27sServices-Ports. I added ports 2083 and 2087 for access to cPanel SSL and WHM SSL(2082 and 2086 seem to not work as it's probably disabled). To log into WHM, you have to SSH into the server and edit your /etc/ssh/sshd_config and enable PermitRootLogin and set PasswordAuthentication to Yes. Restart sshd service and set your root password to log into WHM with the root account. Needs more set up documentation...
No specific instructions given
I have installed the instance but now what??
Link is broken. Even the other link takes you to the official page of cpanel with no specific instructions for setting up server.
no instructions other than link to cpanel general instructions
hit install button and then what?
what are the next steps?
It creates a new instance what are you supposed to do next