Saturday, January 31, 2015

How to Install zPanel on CentOS 6 VPS

Hi, this tutorial will guide you to successfully install and setup zPanel CP on Centos 6 VPS. This is basically not normally what I prefer but so many requests ask me to post such tutorial. Well, many of those requests are asking about cPanel/WHM and Kloxo installation but however I prefer zPanel (also called zPanelx). Why? First because it is free and secondly it is more user-friendly. If you’re going to ask me about Kloxo vs zPanel and which is better, so my answer is simple. If you want a free Control Panel for your VPS that is very easy to use and user friendly, then go to zPanel. But if you want more complex and advanced panel, then go to Kloxo because you may be also able to use Nginx with it.

Preparation

This guide is done on a cloud vps running CentOS 6.4 64-bit. This will also work on any CentOS 6 32-bit or 64-bit but for better compatibility make sure you use at least CentOS 6.3.
Also, although zPanel is very lightweight panel in regard of resource usage (compared to cPanel/WHM), but it is strongly recommended to have at least 512MB of RAM if you wish to use -any- control panel with your VPS.