How to Install Sentora on Arch Linux

Sentora is an open-source web hosting control panel that can be used to manage web hosting services on your server. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the installation of the Sentora Control Panel on Arch Linux.

Prerequisites

Before installing Sentora on Arch Linux, you need to ensure that your server meets the following requirements:

• A fresh installation of Arch Linux
• Root access to your server
• LAMP stack (Apache, MySQL, PHP) installed and configured on your server.

Step 1 - Update System Packages

First of all, we need to update the Arch Linux system packages to the latest version. To do that, run the following command:

sudo pacman -Syu

Step 2 - Install Sentora

Once your system is up-to-date, you can proceed with the installation of Sentora. There are two ways to install Sentora on Arch Linux: from the AUR (Arch User Repository) or from the source code.

Install From AUR

To install Sentora from AUR, you need to use a package manager. In this tutorial, we will use Yay. Yay stands for Yet Another Yogurt, which is a command-line AUR helper.

1. First, install Yay using the following command:

sudo pacman -S yay

2. Once installed, use the following command to install Sentora:

yay -S sentora

3. After the installation is complete, start Sentora service using the following command:

sudo systemctl start sentora

4. To check the status of the Sentora service, run the following command:

sudo systemctl status sentora

Install From Source Code

To install Sentora from source code, you need to follow these steps:

1. Download the Sentora installer from the official website at http://sentora.org/.

2. Extract the installer to a directory of your choice, for example, /usr/src/sentora.

sudo mkdir /usr/src/sentora
sudo tar -zxvf sentora_install_latest.tar.gz -C /usr/src/sentora/ --strip-components=1

3. Change your working directory to the extracted folder.

cd /usr/src/sentora/

4. Run the installation script as a root user.

sudo ./sentora-install.sh

5. Follow the installation wizard, and provide the required information such as IP address, domain name, and MySQL root password.

6. After the installation is complete, start Sentora service using the following command:

sudo systemctl start sentora

7. To check the status of the Sentora service, run the following command:

sudo systemctl status sentora

Step 3 - Access Sentora Control Panel

After the installation is complete, you can access the Sentora control panel by opening your web browser and visiting the following URL:

http://your_ip_address/

Replace your_ip_address with the IP address of your server.

You can log in to your Sentora control panel as admin by using the username 'zadmin' and the password you set during the installation.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we showed you how to install Sentora on Arch Linux. Now you can start managing your web hosting services using the Sentora control panel.

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