How To Install Vesta on Ubuntu 18.04 / Debian 9

Hi folks!. In this blog post, we will discuss the installation of Vesta Control Panel on Ubuntu 18.04 / Debian 9. Vesta (VestaCP) is a powerful open source control panel for managing websites, emails, MySQL databases, DNS, FTP users and much more. It is an alternative to commercial hosting control panels such as CPanel & Plesk.

Install Vesta on Ubuntu 18.04 / Debian 9

Vesta Development team provides an installer script that automates setting up of Vesta hosting control panel on Ubuntu / Debian and RHEL based Linux distributions.

Login to your Ubuntu/Debian system and ensure the system is updated.

sudo apt update && sudo apt -y upgrade

Reboot after upgrade

[ -f /var/run/reboot-required ] && sudo reboot -f

Once your system is up, install curl

sudo apt -y install curl

Download Vesta installer.

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

Run install with sudo if you’re logged in as standard user.

$ sudo bash ./vst-install.sh 
 --2019-03-16 07:06:33--  http://vestacp.com/pub/vst-install-debian.sh
Resolving vestacp.com (vestacp.com)… 104.236.66.100
Connecting to vestacp.com (vestacp.com)|104.236.66.100|:80… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 200 OK
Length: 48816 (48K) [text/plain]
Saving to: 'vst-install-debian.sh'
....

Below is a list of default packages installed.

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                                  Vesta Control Panel



Following software will be installed on your system:
   - Nginx Web Server
   - Apache Web Server (as backend)
   - Bind DNS Server
   - Exim mail server
   - Dovecot POP3/IMAP Server
   - MySQL Database Server
   - Vsftpd FTP Server
   - Softaculous Plugin
   - Iptables Firewall + Fail2Ban


Would you like to continue [y/n]: y

Press “y” key to start the installation and provide admin email address and server hostname.

Please enter admin email address: [email protected]
Please enter FQDN hostname [deb9]: hosting.example.com
Installation backup directory: /root/vst_install_backups/1552720254
Installation will take about 15 minutes …

A successful installation should look similar to below.

Thank you for using Softaculous
sudo: unable to resolve host hosting.example.com
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Congratulations, you have just successfully installed Vesta Control Panel

    https://192.168.121.170:8083
    username: admin
    password: z67WJUfh3r

We hope that you enjoy your installation of Vesta. Please feel free to contact us anytime if you have any questions.
Thank you.

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Sincerely yours
vestacp.com team

Access Vesta Admin dashboard on https://[ServerIP_or_hostname]:8083

Login with the username and password shown on screen after installation.

You can obtain Softaculous license which is a commercial script library for automating the installation of commercial and open source web applications on a website.

There you go!. You have Vesta installed on Ubuntu 18.04 / Debian 9 where you can add sites, manage databases, email, crons, dns e.t.c. Refer to Vesta Documentation for more info.

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