Installation Guides

• cPanel & WHM version 11.38
• cPanel DNSONLY

Installing cPanel & WHM

To install cPanel & WHM, follow these 6 steps:

• Step 1: Learn important facts about installation.
• Step 2: View system requirements for cPanel & WHM 11.38 installation.
• Step 3: Choose an operating system.
• Step 4: Install your operating system.
• Step 5: Configure your operating system.
• Step 6: Install cPanel & WHM (or cPanel DNSONLY).

• Troubleshooting a Recent Installation — Read this document if you encounter problems installing cPanel & WHM.

Configuring your server before installing cPanel & WHM (optional)

• Advanced Options: Pre-Installation Guide — How to configure cPanel & WHM before installation.
• Configuring Apache Pre-Installation — How to configure Apache before installing cPanel & WHM.

Additional software

• Installing or Updating PostgreSQL on Your cPanel & WHM Server — Installing and updating PostgreSQL is not a difficult process. Follow the steps listed here in order to ensure that everything is properly configured.
• Installing Ruby — This document explains the Ruby's system requirements and how to install Ruby in a cPanel environment.
• The rpm.versions System — cPanel manages the RPMs it builds and ships with its own package management system. We refer to this as the rpm.versions system.

Note: As of cPanel 11.32, fresh installations of MySQL 5.0 and later will configure MySQL to use the InnoDB file per-table setting (innodb_file_per_table).

cPanel & WHM Versioning and End of Life Policies

• Operating System End of Life Policy for cPanel & WHM — This document describes how cPanel, Inc. determines when to end support for a specific operating system. This information is useful for determining which operating system you wish to install, and whether to keep it updated.
• cPanel & WHM Versions and the Release Process — This document details how we release and increment versions of cPanel & WHM.
• About cPanel & WHM Long-Term Support — This document describes the cPanel & WHM Long-Term Support initiative.
• Upgrade and Downgrade Blocks — This document details some configuration options that may prevent you from switching between major release versions of cPanel & WHM versions.