Sentora comes with the following services installed out of the box:

• Apache HTTPd
• PHP
• MySQL/MariaDB
• ProFTPd
• Postfix
• Dovecot

It comes with a lot of handy features such as:

• Quota management
• Multi-client environment
• Custom Themes
• API integration
• Language translation packs
  and many more…

1. Login to your server via SSH

Login to your Ubuntu server via SSH as user root

ssh root@IP_Address -p Port_Number

2. Update the installed packages

and make sure that all installed packages are updated by running the following command

apt-get update && apt-get upgrade

3. Download Sentora installation script

Download the Sentora installation script to your server

wget http://sentora.org/install

4. Make the script executable

Once downloaded, make the script executable

chmod +x install

4. Run the script

and run the script to start Sentora’s installation

./install

Please note that there can be no other services such as Apache, Nginx, MySQL, PHP, FTP and mail server, etc… installed on your Ubuntu VPS prior to installing Sentora. If you already have some of these service installed, you will have to remove them in order to start the Sentora installation.

In our case, MySQL server is already installed on the VPS:

Welcome to the Official Sentora Installer 1.0.3  #
##################################################

Checking that minimal requirements are ok
Detected : Ubuntu  14.04  x86_64
Ok.
It appears that package mysql-server is already installed. This installer
is designed to install and configure Sentora on a clean OS installation only!

Please re-install your OS before attempting to install using this script.

5. Remove MySQL

So we have to remove it

apt-get remove mysql-server
apt-get purge mysql-server

6. Execute the installation script again

and execute the installation script again to start up the installer

./install

You will be prompted to select your geographic area and then the city or region the server timezone should be set in. After that you will have to enter your domain and IP address to access your control panel. You should use a subdomain to access the control panel, for example: sentora.yourdomain.com

After everything is successfully installed, you will get the following output:

########################################################
Congratulations Sentora has now been installed on your
server. Please review the log file left in /root/ for
any errors encountered during installation.

Login to Sentora at http://http://sentora.yourdomain.com
Sentora Username  : admin
Sentora Password  : YOURPASSWORD

MySQL Root Password      : ROOTPASSWORD
MySQL Postfix Password   : POSTFIXPASSWORD
MySQL ProFTPd Password   : PROFTPDPASSWORD
MySQL Roundcube Password : ROUNDCUBEPASSWORD
(theses passwords are saved in /root/passwords.txt)
########################################################

7. Access Sentora control panel via web browser

Once the installation is completed, open you favorite web browser and point it to http://sentora.yourdomain.com to access Sentora control panel.

For more information on how to install, configure and use Sentora control panel, please visit the official documentation.

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Let’s start with the installation.

Make sure your server Ubuntu OS packages are fully up-to-date:

apt-get update 
apt-get upgrade

Install the required packages:

sudo apt-get install ca-certificates wget nano dbconfig-common sqlite3 postfix dovecot-imapd dovecot-lmtpd dovecot-pop3d dovecot-sqlite

Download the latest version of Sentora installation script and run it:

bash <(curl -L -Ss https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sentora/sentora-installers/master/sentora_install.sh)

• Select the geographic area in which you live so that time zone rules can be set correctly and click ‘Ok’.
• Select the city or region corresponding to your time zone.
• Enter the sub-domain you want to access Sentora panel: (for example: sentora.yourdomain.com)
• Enter (or confirm) the public IP for this server.
• All is ok. Do you want to install Sentora now (y/n)? y

Wait a few minutes for the installation to complete.

########################################################
Congratulations Sentora has now been installed on your
server. Please review the log file left in /root/ for
any errors encountered during installation.

Login to Sentora at http://sentora.yourdomain.com
Sentora Username  : zadmin
Sentora Password  : eXBisXF546rVJg

MySQL Root Password      : YC2bTRFU6otwKf
MySQL Postfix Password   : SYY4psDHHpNuYm
MySQL ProFTPd Password   : xjfxmOBfaIEq0H
MySQL Roundcube Password : lNoV7zFw0mjiA6
(theses passwords are saved in /root/passwords.txt)
########################################################

Restart your server now to complete the install (y/n)? n

Install the postfix-mysql package using the following command:

apt-get install postfix-mysql

Also, set the postfix daemon directory using:

postconf -e "daemon_directory=/usr/lib/postfix"

Restart the server:

shutdown -r now

That is it. The Sentora installation is now complete.

Log in to Sentora control panel at http://sentora.yourdomain.com and start using it.

Listed below are some basic usage scenarios:

• Start BIND

To start BIND (named service),  go to Admin >> Module Admin >> DNS Config >> Services >> Start Service >> click ‘GO’.

• Add a new domain:

Go to Domain >> Create a new domain >> enter your domain name

Home directory:     Create a new home directory and click ‘Create’.

• Add a new email account:

Go to Mail >> Mailboxes >> Create a new mailbox >> Email Address >> enter your email address and password and click ‘Create’.

If you receive an error message like this one:

The selected domain was not valid

Edit the /etc/sentora/panel/modules/mailboxes/code/controller.ext.php file and change:

if(!self::IsValidDomain($domain))

to:

if(self::IsValidDomain($domain))

• Configure the FTP module:

Go to Admin >> Module Admin >> FTP config >> Configure your FTP Settings

FTP Config File: /etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf

Click ‘Save Changes’.

• Create a new FTP account with full access to yourdomain.com directory.

Go to File >> FTP Accounts >> Current FTP accounts >> enter username and password

Access type >> Full access

Home directory >> Use Domain directory /yourdomain.com

Click ‘Create’.

• Create a new MySQL database

Go to Database >> MySQL database >> Create a new MySQL database , enter your new database name and click ‘Create’.

Of course, you don’t have to do any of this if you use one of our Software Installation Services, in which case you can simply ask our expert Linux admins to install Sentora for you. They are available 24×7 and will take care of your request immediately.

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