build a websiteWe often purchase VPS, but using a VPS alone is wasteful, so we can create several Shared Hosting accounts for others to share. Common panels like Baota Panel can also partition virtual hosts for others to use, but they don't allow users to log into the panel for self-management. Paid panels like cPanel are certainly not what amateur users want to purchase. Therefore, this article recommends this free virtual hosting management panel called VestaCP.
Introduction to VestaCP
VestaCP is an open-source virtual hosting Control Panel. Source code address: https://github.com/serghey-rodin/vesta. VestaCP can be installed on CentOS, Debian, and Ubuntu systems. It supports custom installation scripts and optional installation of nginx, apache, vsftpd, proftpd, exim, dovecot, spamassassin, clamav, named, iptables, fail2ban, softaculous, mysql, postgresql, etc. VestaCP supports Chinese. See the demo link below:
Download LinkVestaCP Installation Tutorial
Installing VestaCP is very simple. The default installation method is just three steps:
# 使用ssh连接上你的vps
ssh root@your.server
# 下载安装脚本
curl -O http://vestacp.com/pub/vst-install.sh
# 运行安装脚本
bash vst-install.sh
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Installation completion interface:
After VestaCP installation is complete, the backend login address and account/password information will be displayed. You can log in via a browser to manage virtual hosts and users. (The browser may prompt an SSL certificate error, which can be ignored.) If you want to customize the installation components, you can make your own selection at the bottom of the official installation page.
Official Website Address Switch to Chinese: After logging in, click your username in the top right corner, then select the language 'cn'.
VestaCP Integration with WHMCS for Automated Provisioning
WHMCS is a very popular financial system. Most VPS providers we purchase from online use WHMCS. You can refer to the previous article:
Build a hosting sales website using WHMCSVestaCP supports integration with WHMCS for automatic shared hosting provisioning. The official provides WHMCS interface files. The specific usage method is as follows:
cd /home/user/web/billing-site.ltd/public_html/modules/server
mkdir vesta
wget http://c.vestacp.com/0.9.8/rhel/whmcs-module.php -O vesta.php
The meaning of the above three commands is: switch to the 'server' folder in the WHMCS installation directory, create a 'vesta' folder, then download the whmcs-module.php file and rename it to vesta.php. Then go to
WHMCS Admin Dashboard-
System Settings-
Product Settings-
ServerAdd inside:
The server name can be arbitrary. Fill in the hostname and IP address with the server IP where you installed the Vesta Panel.
For the type below, select Vesta, then fill in your Vesta admin dashboard account and password.
After adding, click 'Login to Control Panel' in the server list to see if you can log in successfully, testing if the server settings are correct. If unsuccessful, check the account, password, and firewall permissions.
In the Vesta Panel backend, click User Plans, modify or add a plan content yourself, and remember the plan name.
Then return to the WHMCS admin dashboard, click
System Settings -
Product Settings -
Product Settings. Add a product group, then add a product.
In the product details, fill in the product name and product description. You can fill these in arbitrarily here.
The key pointis that in the interface settings here, the Package Name must match the plan name in your Vesta Panel backend to achieve integration and provisioning.
Once all configurations are completed, you can save the product and test purchasing a Shared Hosting service on the WHMCS frontend to see if it is automatically provisioned.
How to Uninstall the VestaCP Panel
Naibabijiknows that friends who have been working on integrating the Vesta Panel with WHMCS often encounter some issues after using it for a while. If there are no solutions on the official forum, most will give up. Therefore, you can use the following commands to uninstall the Vesta Panel. 1. Stop the services
service vesta stop
2. Remove Vesta software packages and libraries RHEL/CentOS:
yum remove vesta*
rm -f /etc/yum.repos.d/vesta.repo
Debian/Ubuntu:
apt-get remove vesta*
rm -f /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vesta.list
3. Delete the data directory
rm -rf /usr/local/vesta
Finally, delete the cron automatic tasks.
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Installation completion interface:
After VestaCP installation is complete, the backend login address and account/password information will be displayed. You can log in via a browser to manage virtual hosts and users. (The browser may prompt an SSL certificate error, which can be ignored.) If you want to customize the installation components, you can make your own selection at the bottom of the official installation page.Official Website Address Switch to Chinese: After logging in, click your username in the top right corner, then select the language 'cn'.
The server name can be arbitrary. Fill in the hostname and IP address with the server IP where you installed the Vesta Panel.
For the type below, select Vesta, then fill in your Vesta admin dashboard account and password.
After adding, click 'Login to Control Panel' in the server list to see if you can log in successfully, testing if the server settings are correct. If unsuccessful, check the account, password, and firewall permissions.
In the Vesta Panel backend, click User Plans, modify or add a plan content yourself, and remember the plan name.
Then return to the WHMCS admin dashboard, clickSystem Settings - Product Settings - Product Settings. Add a product group, then add a product.
In the product details, fill in the product name and product description. You can fill these in arbitrarily here.
The key pointis that in the interface settings here, the Package Name must match the plan name in your Vesta Panel backend to achieve integration and provisioning.
Once all configurations are completed, you can save the product and test purchasing a Shared Hosting service on the WHMCS frontend to see if it is automatically provisioned.
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