DirectAdmin Installation

Last modified: August 1, 2020
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Installation Instructions for DirectAdmin are available at http://www.directadmin.com/installguide.html

Login
as root and download the setup.sh file

# wget http://www.directadmin.com/setup.sh

Hint:
Use “fetch” instead of “wget” on FreeBSD systems.

 

Change
permissions on the setup.sh file

 

# chmod 755 setup.sh

Run
the setup script!

 

# ./setup.sh

You
will be prompted for a client ID number, license ID number, and
hostname.  

 

Important:
The hostname should not be the same as the primary domain name.
e.g. gary.com is not a good hostname, where server.gary.com is.
Having the same host/main domain name will cause e-mail and FTP
problems.  Also, please make sure the hostname resolves once you
setup DNS.

 

That’s
it!  Please see below if you are installing on a VPS, or wanting to
setup DirectAdmin for secure (https://) control panel access.

 

Special notice for VPS/VDS installs:

After the install, add:ethernet_dev=devicename

for example, on many vps systems it will be:
ethernet_dev=venet0:0

other systems where the IP is not the base IP on the device, you’d need to simply set the correct number:
ethernet_dev=eth0:1

or other systems with the IP on a different device, it might be:
ethernet_dev=eth1

type:
/sbin/ifconfig
to see which device your IP is in.


to /usr/local/directadmin/conf/directadmin.conf.

Replace devicename with the FULL
devicename reported by ifconfig. If your VDS/VPS system emulates eth0,
then you may skip this step.

 

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