WHM is used for linux web hosting environment.

Step 1: Setup Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

• Select Services >> Networking >> VPC (VPC Dashboard)
• Now click on Start VPC Wizard button.
• Select VPC with a Single Public Subnet
• Input your CIDR and Public Subnet

Step 2: Create EC2 Instance

Now go to EC2 instances section of AWS console and start creating new instance of your choice using following steps.

• Select an Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
• Select an Instance Type
• Configure Instance Details
• Add Storage of your preferred size
• Tag your Instance Name

Step 3: Create Elastic IP

Basically Elastic IP are public ip which is required to access instance from public network. To allocate a new elastic ip go to:

• Go to VPC DashBoard
• Select Option Elastic IPs
• Click button Allocate New Address
• Now click “Yes, Allocate” to confirm

Step 4: Bind Elastic IP with Instance

• Go to EC2 Dashboard
• Select Elastic IPs link under “NETWORK and SECURITY” Section in sidebar
• Select your elastic ip and Click “Associate Address”
• Select You newly created instance and click Associate

Step 5: Login to server and update

•    Login to Server as root user using ssh keypair

ssh -i server.pem root@107.120.40.78

Update all packages on your system using following commands:

Ubuntu and Debian Systems: 
$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

Redhat and CentOS Systems: 
# yum update

Reboot instance:

reboot

Step 6: Setup hostname

hostname cpanel.example.com

For Ubuntu and Debian systems edit /etc/hostname and enter hostname there

cpanel.example.com

Now edit /etc/hosts for binding hostname with local system ip.

10.0.0.100  cpanel.example.com

Step 7: Install cPanel and WHM

# cd /home
# yum install wget
# wget -N http://httpupdate.cpanel.net/latest
# sh latest

Step 8: Open ports in security group

Now open all inbound ports in AWS security group used in instance or open specific ports for inbound network listed in following article.

Step 9: Access cPanel and WHM

Congratulation’s your WHM & cPanel setup has been completed successfully. You can access WHM and cPanel using following urls.

• WHM : http://cpanel.example.com:2086
• WHM with SSL : http://cpanel.example.com:2087
• cPanel : http://cpanel.example.com:2082
• cPanel with SSL : http://cpanel.example.com:2083

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