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How to install and setup DirectAdmin on CentOS 8 VPS.

DirectAdmin is one of the best alternatives of cPanel control panel due to its user friendly interface.

This article will show you how to install DirectAdmin on CentOS VPS. Please check DirectAdmin installation requirements first.

Easy steps of DirectAdmin (DA) installation for success are as follows:
Make sure your domain is running with the IP address (nameservers) before installation.

Step One

Login to your VPS root using SSH or KVM.

Step Two

Disable SELinux. This will disable the firewall.

setenforce 0
sed -i ‘s/enforcing/disabled/g’ /etc/selinux/config

Step Three

Run the pre-install commands before starting the install

yum install wget gcc gcc-c++ flex bison make bind bind-libs bind-utils openssl openssl-devel perl quota libaio \
libcom_err-devel libcurl-devel gd zlib-devel zip unzip libcap-devel cronie bzip2 cyrus-sasl-devel perl-ExtUtils-Embed \
autoconf automake libtool which patch mailx bzip2-devel lsof glibc-headers kernel-devel expat-devel \
psmisc net-tools systemd-devel libdb-devel perl-DBI perl-libwww-perl xfsprogs rsyslog logrotate crontabs file kernel-headers

This will ask you to confirm. Write “Y” and press enter.

Step Four

Download the DirectAdmin setup.sh file.

wget https://www.directadmin.com/setup.sh

Step Five

Change permissions of the downloaded setup.sh file to 755

chmod 755 setup.sh

Step Six

Run the script. It automatically installs everything for you, including the CSF firewall.

./setup.sh auto

The auto method will be best for most people. It can also be called as ‘./setup.sh’ without “auto” options, which requires input but allows for customization.

Important: The hostname must be a sub-domain without http, www. For example, server.hostbriz.com

System Security Tips

Follow this link https://help.directadmin.com/item.php?id=247

Enable SELinux

To enable SELinux, follow the instructions below ,

  1. Open the file /etc/selinux/config (You may use winSCP)
  2. Change option SELINUX from disabled to enforcing
  3. Restart the machine
  4. That’s all!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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How to add domains to whmcs without registration

To add a domain without a product and bill and without registration or transfer, follow the steps below:

  1. Go to Client Summary page, click the “Add New Order” link in the “Products/Services” panel
  2. Set order status “Active”
  3. Uncheck “Order Confirmation” “Generate Invoice” “Send Email”
  4. Leave “Product/Service” as it is (if you don’t want to add hosting)
  5. Set Registration Type “Registration” from radio button.
  6. Enter the domain name you want to add.
  7. Then click on “Submit Order”.
  8. After that, go to the domain tab of the client and edit domain registration and expiry information manually.

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Popup once per visitor until clear cache/cookies

HTML: Add the following markup to the page where you want to show Popup.

<div id="my-welcome-message">
    <h1>Don't Miss IT!</h1>
    <script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><!-- r-dev-bdhostit --><ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display: block;" data-ad-client="ca-pub-5794296284274241" data-ad-slot="9118652613" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script>
</div>

CSS (pop-style.css)

<!--popup-->
<style>
.popup-signup #mc_embed_signup {
	margin: 0px !important;
	max-width: 600px !important;
	border: 1px solid #ccc !important;
}
</style>

JS (jquery.firstVisitPopup.min.js)

!function(e){"use strict";e.fn.firstVisitPopup=function(t){var i,o=e("body"),n=e(this),c=function(e,t){var i=new Date,o="expires=";i.setTime(i.getTime()+31536e6),o+=i.toGMTString(),document.cookie=e+"="+t+"; "+o+"; path=/"},p=function(e){var t=document.cookie.split(";"),i=0,o="";for(i=0;i<t.length;i++){for(o=t[i];" "===o.charAt(0);)o=o.substring(1,o.length);if(0===o.indexOf(e+"="))return o.substring(e.length+1,o.length)}return!1},f=function(){i.show(),n.show()},r=function(){i.hide(),n.hide(),c("fvpp"+t.cookieName,"true")};o.append('<div id="fvpp-blackout"></div>'),n.append('<a id="fvpp-close">&#10006;</a>'),i=e("#fvpp-blackout"),p("fvpp"+t.cookieName)?r():f(),e(t.showAgainSelector).on("click",f),o.on("click","#fvpp-blackout, #fvpp-close",r)}}(jQuery);

 

JSON (package.json)

{
	"name": "FirstVisitPopup",
	"version": "1.1",
	"title": "First Visit Popup",
	"author": {
		"name": "Chris Cook",
		"url": "http://chris-cook.co.uk"
	},
	"licenses": [
		{
			"type": "MIT",
			"url": "MIT-LICENSE.txt"
		},
		{
			"type": "GPLv2",
			"url": "GPL-LICENSE.txt"
		}
	],
	"dependencies": {
		"jquery": "1"
	},
	"description": "Shows a message to the user on their first visit to your page.",
	"keywords": [
		"popup",
		"help",
		"message"
	],
	"homepage": "http://chris-cook.co.uk",
	"maintainers": [
		{
			"name": "Chris Cook",
			"url": "http://chris-cook.co.uk"
		}
	],
	"files": [
		"demo.html",
		"jquery.firstVisitPopup.js",
		"jquery.firstVisitPopup.min.js",
		"readme.md"
	]
}

 

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Digitalocean commandline

Reboot a server from the command line, run:

sudo shutdown -r now

Restart Apache, run:

sudo shutdown -r now

FTP to wordpress (var/www)

sudo chown -R www-data /var/www/html

WordPress “Could not create directory”

chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www

Install phpMyAdmin on Ubuntu with preinstalled WordPress (https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-and-secure-phpmyadmin-on-ubuntu-14-04)

sudo apt update
sudo apt install phpmyadmin php-mbstring php-gettext
sudo phpenmod mbstring
sudo systemctl restart apache2
sudo ln -s /usr/share/phpmyadmin /var/www/html

Note: The last line is for URL https://your-ip-or-domain/phpmyadmin/