Archive for the tag 'DirectAdmin Support'

SBDavid
May 15th, 2009

Updating DirectAdmin Manually

Updating DirectAdmin Manually

If you need to update your copy of DirectAdmin manually, you can do so by running the following commands:

cd /usr/local/directadmin
wget -O update.tar.gz https://www.directadmin.com/cgi-bin/daupdate?uid=123\&lid=1234
tar xvzf update.tar.gz
./directadmin p
cd scripts
./update.sh
service directadmin restart

Where 123 and 1234 are your Client ID and License ID, respectively. Note that if you are running FreeBSD, you might need to add a \ before the ? character in the wget line. If there are errrors extracting the update.tar.gz file, then run:

head -n 1 update.tar.gz

to search for an error.

SBDavid
May 12th, 2009

DirectAdmin Installation

DirectAdmin Installation

Control panel for web hosting companies running Red Hat 7.x, 8.x, 9.x, Red Hat Enterprise and FreeBSD.

Requirements

- Clean OS install
- At least one external IP address (NAT/LAN-based systems will NOT work)
- SSH installed, gcc and g++ installed
- Client account at https://www.directadmin.com/clients

Installation!

You *have* to add “AllowUsers username” to /etc/ssh/sshd_config before you log out from root or you’ll lose root on the server forever, and you’ll have to format.

Login as root and download the setup.sh file

# wget http://www.directadmin.com/setup.sh

Use “fetch” instead of “wget” on FreeBSD systems.

Change permissions on the setup.sh file

# chmod 755 setup.sh

Run the setup script!

# ./setup.sh

You will be prompted for a client ID number, license ID number, and hostname.

Important: The hostname should not be the same as the primary domain name. e.g. example.com is not a good hostname, where server.example.com is. Having the same host/main domain name will cause e-mail and FTP problems. Also, please make sure the hostname resolves once you setup DNS.

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