ISPConfig is a popular web hosting control panel for managing websites, email accounts, FTP accounts, and more. In this tutorial, we'll explain how to install ISPConfig on Windows 10.
Before we install ISPConfig, you need to ensure that the following requirements are met:
Follow the below steps to install ISPConfig on Windows 10:
ISPConfig is only supported on Linux distributions, so we need to install a Linux environment on our Windows machine. We will use WSL2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux) to install Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on Windows 10.
To install WSL2 and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, follow the steps given in Microsoft's official documentation.
After installing Ubuntu, open the terminal and run the following commands one by one to update all the packages on the system:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
We can now begin installing ISPConfig on our Ubuntu system.
Download the latest ISPConfig installation files from ispconfig.org. You can download the files using the following command in the terminal:
wget https://www.ispconfig.org/downloads/ISPConfig-3-stable.tar.gz
Extract the downloaded ISPConfig installation files using the following command:
tar -zxvf ISPConfig-3-stable.tar.gz
Now, navigate to the extracted ISPConfig folder and run the installation script using the following command:
cd ispconfig3_install/install
sudo ./install.sh
The installation process will begin, and you will be prompted to enter various configuration options throughout the process. Enter the desired values for each prompt and continue with the installation.
Once the installation is complete, you can access the ISPConfig web interface by entering the IP address of your server in a web browser.
After the installation of ISPConfig is complete, you need to configure it to manage your server. Follow the below steps to configure ISPConfig:
In this tutorial, you learned how to install ISPConfig on Windows 10 using WSL2 and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. After installation, you can configure ISPConfig to manage your server's websites, email accounts, FTP accounts, and more.
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