HOW TO INSTALL KLOXO-MR ON CENTOS VPS ~ IT System Administrator Tuts

Kloxo-MR is another alternative of free web hosting / server control panel that can be solution for you who don’t want to manually install webserver, MySQL and PHP. The software is basically a fork of original Kloxo CP by LXCenter. The MR part of Kloxo-MR is Mustafa Ramadhan, the one who did the fork, enhance and develop this truly modified version. I posted that Kloxo users should be more aware because it has recently got new exploit but then Mustafa Ramadhan claimed that Kloxo-MR is not vulnerable with the same exploit.

I was never use Kloxo (and Kloxo-MR) before not because it’s bad but Kloxo is too complete for a free web panel. It has a bunch of advanced features making new users a bit frustrated in using it for the very first time. But then I decide to write a tutorial about it and I choose Kloxo-MR.

WHY KLOXO-MR?

Did I explain it’s not too vulnerable already? Now it’s time to check its key features which I think too complete and best of all you can get it without paying a penny. Let’s check out:

Supported OS: Redhat / CentOS 5 and 6 (32bit and 64bit) or their variants
Billing Software: AWBS, WHMCS, HostBill, TheHostingTool, AccountLab Plus and Blesta (note: claim by billing’s author)
Web server: Nginx, Nginx-Proxy and Lighttpd-proxy; beside Httpd and Lighttpd (in progress: Varnish, Hiawatha, ATS and Httpd 2.4) *)
Php: Dual-php with php 5.3/5.4 as primary and php 5.2 as secondary (in progress: multiple-php) *)
PHP-type for Apache: php-fpm_worker/_event and fcgid_worker/_event; besidemod_php/_ruid2/_itk and suphp/_worker/_event
Mail server: qmail-toaster instead special qmail (in progress: change from courier-imap to dovecot as imap/pop3) *)
Database Server: MySQL or MariaDB
Database Manager: PHPMyAdmin; Adminer, MyWebSql and SqlBuddy as additional **)
Webmail: Afterlogic Webmail Lite, Telaen, Squirrelmail and Roundcube; Horde and T-Dah dropped
FTP server: Pure-ftpd
DNS Server: Bind and Djbdns; ready testing for Powerdns, MaraDNS and NSD *)
Addons: ClamAV, Spamassassin/Bogofilter/Spamdyke and RKHunter
Fixed many bugs of Kloxo Official (including security issues)
And many more!

PREREQUISITES

Some stuff you need before installing:

A VPS or Dedicated Server (DS) running CentOS. In this tutorial I use (recommended) CentOS 6 x86_64 minimal.
Ability to use SSH Client like Putty (or Terminal on Linux and Mac)
Basic knowledge of Linux command
About 30 minutes of your spare time
A cup of Coffee or Tea if you like.

HOW TO INSTALL

Step 1 – Login to your server as root:

Step 2 – To make sure all things are updated, run ym update command:

yum update -y

wait for the process to complete

Step 3 – Issue this command to install some necessary packages:

yum install yum-utils yum-priorities vim-minimal subversion curl zip unzip -y

Also this one:

yum install telnet wget -y

Step 4 – Make sure SELinux is disabled. You can check it with this command:

setenforce 0

sample output:

if not, you can disable it using this command:

echo 'SELINUX=disabled' > /etc/selinux/config

Step 5 – Now you can add repo URL of Kloxo-MR. Currently -during I write this post- there are two main version: v6.5.0 and v7.0.0. This guide will show you how to install Kloxo-MR v7.00. Start by changing directory to /tmp.

cd /tmp

then remove old .rpm if any:

rm -f mratwork*

Then download the repo file using wget:

wget https://github.com/mustafaramadhan/kloxo/raw/rpms/release/neutral/noarch/mratwork-release-0.0.1-1.noarch.rpm --no-check-certificate

rpm -ivh mratwork-release-0.0.1-1.noarch.rpm