Easy Hosting Control Panel or simply EHCP is a free and open source hosting control panel written in PHP. With EHCP you can host unlimited number of websites, create and manage email accounts, MySQL databases, FTP accounts and more. In this article we will guide you through the steps of installing the Easy Hosting control panel on an Ubuntu 14.04 virtual server

Easy Hosting Control Panel comes with large number of features like all other paid hosting control panels:

• PHP based, completely free and open source, easily modifiable and customizable, lot of templates
• Create unlimited reseller accounts, user acconts, domains, FTP accounts, email accounts and MySQL databases”
• Domains, sub-domains, FTP, MySQL, DNS, email etc. management
• Password protected domains
• Email forwarding, auto-reply, catch-all emails
• Website statistics (webalizer)
• web-FTP (net2ftp)

A list of all features is available at their official website.

Let’s start with the installation procedure. Log in to your Ubuntu server as user root, run a screen session and update the system packages:

screen -U -S ehcp
sudo apt-get update 
sudo apt-get upgrade

Most of the scripts used by the automatic installer are written in PHP, so you need to install PHP in order to use the EHCP’s auto installer script.

apt-get install php5 php5-mcrypt php5-mysql php5-curl php5-gd libapache2-mod-php5

Download EHCP’s archive from their official website to a directory on your virtual server:

cd /opt
wget www.ehcp.net/ehcp_latest.tgz

Unpack the downloaded tarball archive using the following command:

tar -zxvf ehcp_latest.tgz

Please note, Easy Hosting control panel can only be automatically installed on Debian based Linux operating systems such as Ubuntu and Debian, so this automatic installer script will not work on non-Debian based operating systems like CentOS, Scientific Linux, openSUSE and Fedora.
Change the current working directory to ehcp and run the installation script:

cd ehcp
./install.sh

STAGE 1
=====================================================================

--------------------EHCP PRE-INSTALLER 0.35.3 -------------------------
-----Easy Hosting Control Panel for Ubuntu, Debian and alikes--------
-------------------------www.ehcp.net--------------------------------
---------------------------------------------------------------------

At this point, press Enter. Once the installation script is executed, the pre-installer begins and series of operations will be performed. It may take up to one hour for the installation to complete. The latest versions of all important packages and services like Apache web server, MySQL database, Postfix mail server, RoundCube, phpMyAdmin, etc. will be automatically installed. During the installation you will be prompted to enter several information such as your server hostname and IP address, then you have to set the MySQL ‘root’ user password, create a new admin account, etc. You should read and follow all the instructions carefully.
Once all steps are completed, you can access EHCP – Easy hosting control panel at http://yourIPaddress and start managing your Ubuntu server, user accounts, MySQL databases and so on.

Of course you don’t have to do any of this if you use one of our Linux virtual server hosting services, in which case you can simply ask our expert Linux admins to install EHCP – Easy hosting control panel for you. They are available 24×7 and will take care of your request immediately.

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