Installing DirectAdmin on a Cloud Server: Step-by-Step Guide

In recent years, DirectAdmin has grown into one of the leading control panels, known for its reliability and cost-effectiveness. At KnownHost, we provide a range of DirectAdmin licenses tailored for unmanaged servers.

This guide will walk you through installing DirectAdmin on your server.

Prerequisites #

• Get a DirectAdmin licence from a vendor. You may check with the Truehost Support team for help.
• Root SSH access to you server.
• Please note that the panel is installed on a Clean Operating System

Supporting Operating Systems

Installation #

• You will now log in to your server via SSH using the root account then run the following command to install the panel.
• In the command, you will replace Provided license key should go here with your actual license key.

bash <(curl -fsSL https://download.directadmin.com/setup.sh) 'Provided license key should go here'

• Note that the above command need be run on root shell. If you have a sudo user and you run it using the word sudo, it will not work. First escalate to root terminal using the command below then run the installation script

sudo su -

• Once installed you can get your panel login details using any of the command below;

setup.sh

cat /usr/local/directadmin/conf/setup.txt

cat /usr/local/directadmin/scripts/setup.txt

Accessing the Control Panel #

• Once the panel has been installed, you can access it using this link below;

http://server.ip.address:2222