Froxlor is a free, open-source server management panel that simplifies the management of web hosting services. It is designed for Linux systems and can be easily installed on MXLinux. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the steps of installing Froxlor on MXLinux latest.
Before we start installing Froxlor, it is always a good practice to update the system packages and repositories to ensure that we have the latest version.
To do this, we will use the following command in the terminal:
sudo apt-get update
Froxlor requires a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) stack to be preinstalled on the server. In case you haven't installed the LAMP stack on your MXLinux system, you can do it by executing the following commands:
sudo apt-get install apache2 mariadb-server mariadb-client php php-fpm libapache2-mod-php php-mysql
To ensure that Apache, MySQL and PHP are running and responsive, we can use the following command:
sudo systemctl status apache2 mysql php-fpm
Next, we will download the latest version of Froxlor from the official website. We can use the following command to download the package:
wget https://files.froxlor.org/releases/froxlor-latest.tar.gz
Once downloaded, we will extract the package contents using the following command:
sudo tar -xf froxlor-latest.tar.gz -C /var/www/
Froxlor requires a database to store its settings and data. We will create a new database and user for Froxlor using the following commands:
sudo mysql
CREATE DATABASE froxlor;
CREATE USER 'froxlor'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON froxlor.* TO 'froxlor'@'localhost' WITH GRANT OPTION;
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
exit;
Now we will configure Apache web server to serve the Froxlor web GUI. We will create a new virtual host configuration file for the domain froxlor.example.com (replace example.com with your domain name) using the following command:
sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/froxlor.conf
Add the following lines in the file:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName froxlor.example.com
ServerAlias www.froxlor.example.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/froxlor
<Directory /var/www/froxlor>
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/froxlor_error.log
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/froxlor_access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
Save and close the file. Then, enable the virtual host configuration file by running the following command:
sudo a2ensite froxlor.conf
After that, we will restart the Apache service by running the following command:
sudo systemctl restart apache2
Now everything is set up, and we can navigate to the Froxlor web GUI using the domain name or server's IP address.
Open a web browser and enter Froxlor's domain name or IP address in the URL bar. You should see the Froxlor login screen.
Enter the admin username and password you want to use to manage Froxlor and its services. The installation wizard will guide you through the remaining steps to complete the Froxlor installation.
That's it! Froxlor is now installed and ready to manage your server services.
In this tutorial, we have seen how to install Froxlor on MXLinux latest, one of the popular web hosting control panels. Froxlor offers advanced features and server management capabilities to hosting providers, web developers, and administrators.
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