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Installing Sentora
Before installing Sentora...
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Supported OS:
The Sentora installer officially supports the following operating systems:

• CentOS 6
• CentOS 7
• Ubuntu 12.04
• Ubuntu 14.04.

Unsupported OS:
Some distributions derived from the supported operating systems may work. You are free to use Sentora on unsupported systems at your own risk. Sentora's development team will offer no support to unsupported distributions

Pre-installation check:
The installer is designed to be as simple as possible. It will verify that all mandatory requirements are meet :

• We recommend a minimal distribution installation.
• There can be no other server management panel installed prior to installing Sentora.
• There can be no other web services (Examples: Nginx, MySQL, Apache, PHP, FTP Server, Mail Server, etc.) installed prior to installing Sentora.

Additional Requirements:

• You MUST have a domain name registered and a SUB-DOMAIN pointing to your server's IP,

The main domain will be used to setup email service (like [email protected])
The sub-domain will be dedicated to access to Sentora panel.
Note:
You may use a free domain or alternatively purchase one from GoDaddy.com.
You can run a limited functionality version of Sentora without DNS. Read more

• You MUST have opened and forwarded the required ports in your modem or router, and on the server firewall.

Once ALL of the above conditions are met you may begin installing Sentora on your server.
Also see Installation configuration

If any of the above terms or concepts seem unfamiliar then we recommend that you put some time aside to read up more on web servers and web hosting BEFORE you attempt to install Sentora.
Following the tutorials will assist you with the entire process of installing Sentora. However if you run into an error not documented here: Please visit the forum.


ADDITIONAL REQUIRED READING/UPDATES:
Emergency patches
From time to time we find security loopholes in Sentora. We fix them and release emergency patches. You need to install these.
Read more

Install (all supported OS)
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IMPORTANT!:

• Your server must comply with our Pre-installation Check. Read more
• You MUST have setup DNS for the sub-domain that will be assigned to Sentora panel PRIOR to install.

Once logged in SSH console as root, use this command lineYou MUST use root! Not sudo!)

bash <(curl -L -Ss http://sentora.org/install)

If you have issues with curl you can try to copy and paste this command (for CentOS):

yum install wget -y && cd /tmp && wget sentora.org/install && bash install

Alternatively you can do it manually:
1) Login to your server as root user:

sudo -i

2) Ensure you are in your home directory:

cd

3) download the installer

wget sentora.org/install

If you get a certificate error from github try one of the two lines below

wget --no-check-certificate sentora.org/install
wget http://sentora.org/install

4) Make the installer executable

chmod +x install

5) Run the installer

sudo ./install

6) Follow the on screen instructions during the installation.
(See also Installation configuration)
7) Return to user level ( or reboot server )

exit

Post install:
All passwords are saved in file /root/passwords.txt
From time to time we find security loopholes in Sentora. We fix them and release emergency patches. You need to install these.
Read more