Adding CentOS Web Panel to a fresh CentOS 7 box

Revisiting an earlier post on configuring a LAMP server, and on a recent post on installing Webmin, this time I’m dropping CentOS Web Panel (CWP) onto a new CentOS 7 box.

So, on a fresh CentOS 7 1901-01 box on AWS, let’s begin.

# Set the hostname correctly before we start off, otherwise CWP will pick up the wrong name
hostname sub.host.com
# Update existing packages
sudo yum -y update
# Install wget and nano (as I like nano and wget is needed for the CWP install)
sudo yum -y install wget nano
# Reboot the box to sort out any updates requiring reboot
sudo reboot
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