Installing Softaculous in cPanel
Softaculous is a great Auto Installer having 150 great scripts and we are still adding more. Softaculous is ideal for Web Hosting companies and it could give a significant boost to your sales. These scripts cover most of the uses a customer could ever have.
Note: Before starting the installation make sure ionCube Loaders are enabled. For that go to WHM and click on Tweak Settings. Please make sure that the Ioncube loader is selected for the backend copy of PHP. Now SSH to your server and enter following commands:
cd /usr/local/cpanel/whostmgr/docroot/cgi
wget -N http://www.softaculous.com/ins/addon_softaculous.php
chmod 755 addon_softaculous.php
Now go to : WHM > Plugins (Add-Ons on older versions than 11) > Softaculous - Instant Installs
Installing Softaculous in Direct Admin
Note: Before starting the installation make sure ionCube Loaders are enabled. Otherwise you will not be able to Install Softaculous. The ionCube Loaders can be downloaded at the ionCube Downloads
Now SSH to your server and enter following commands:
cd /usr/local/directadmin/plugins
wget -N http://www.softaculous.com/da/install_softaculous.php
chmod 755 install_softaculous.php
/usr/local/bin/php /usr/local/directadmin/plugins/install_softaculous.php
The Installer will start showing the Installation Processes and when done will indicate the same. NOTE: Scripts will be downloaded during this process. The Download Activity will also be shown on the screen.
How to install Softaculous in WHM
1) In order to install Softaculous ensure ionCube Loaders are enabled.
If it is not enabled you can go to WHM >> Tweak Settings >>PHP >> Select ioncube from Loader to use for internal cPanel PHP
2) Now Login to the server as root.
3)Go to the directory /usr/local/cpanel/whostmgr/docroot/cgi
cd /usr/local/cpanel/whostmgr/docroot/cgi
4) Download Softaculous
wget -N http://www.softaculous.com/ins/addon_softaculous.php
5) Change the permissions to 755
chmod 755 addon_softaculous.php
That’s for the command line.
Now login to WHM
6) Go to WHM > Plugins> Softaculous – Instant Installs
