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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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Adding Webmin to a fresh CentOS 7 Box

As a quick refresh from an earlier post, I’m going to use a new CentOS image with Webmin as the control panel of choice.

Happily, the only thing that’s changed in the documentation is the way the gpg key is imported – documentation is here: https://doxfer.webmin.com/Webmin/Installation

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

# Update all base packages
sudo yum -y update
# Install nano (my preferred text editor)
sudo yum -y install nano
# Edit the /etc/yum.repos.d/webmin.repo file
sudo nano /etc/yum.repos.d/webmin.repo
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Setting up a CentOS 7 local development VM with LAMP (Linux, Apache, MariaDB/MySQL, PHP+PHPMyAdmin)

I’m going to build a local VM with the following requirements:
1) It can host PHP/SQL-based websites
2) It has PHPMyAdmin to help administer any SQL databases
3) It matches available builds from popular providers (i.e. you can provision it in a similar way on Azure or AWS, but with a public domain name)
4) It only has a single account (this is not recommended for public systems)
5) I can access the web root using SFTP

As I already have several CentOS builds that have always been pre-setup with CPanel (and because CentOS is free), I’ve decided to do this build from scratch and without a control panel. I’m not going to be configuring options like multiple user accounts, so things will be fairly simple.

I’ll do it in steps (and test each time) to make sure everything’s working correctly. You could install everything all at once, but that would make it much harder to troubleshoot if an element didn’t work.

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CentOS 7 Linux Minimal Install – ifconfig: command not found (let’s use ip instead)

As someone who doesn’t closely follow what’s happening with Linux tools, I recently tried a minimal CentOS 7 install, and found out by chance that a command I use a lot on Windows has been deprecated in a number of Linux releases.

Not having run into this before, my first thought was to see if it was in the core repos.

yum provides ifconfig

ifconfig is part of the net-tools package

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