Fixing Some CentOS Web Panel (CWP) Problems

Installation is easy. Configuration is harder.

In order to install CentOS 7 or 8, just follow the instructions below:
- CentOS Web Panel: How to install it on CentOS 7 or 8 Linux - Linux Shout

Some of the issues I encountered when configuring CWP.

Apache

Apache doesn't start after selecting the Nginx-Varnish-Apache option:

1. After making the above selection, you need to rebuild Apache within CWP.
2. Go to WebServerSettings, Apache Re-Build.
3. At bottom of page select Next.
4. Select Start Compiler in background.
5. Wait 10 or 15 minutes.
6. Done!

PHP

My PHP selector/switcher is not working. How do I get PHP version 7.4/8.0?

You have to install PHP manually. Here is how to do that:
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Firewall

If your firewall in CWP doesn't work then you may need to install Iptables. The following article explains how to do that. This is what I needed to get my firewall running:

Firewall Issues: How to Install Iptables on CentOS 7 (or 8) | Linuxize

Here is my solution:
yum install iptables
csf -x
csf -e

Once the firewall is working make sure you add your IP address to the firewall whitelist. Otherwise, you might get blocked permanently.

Websites

Why don't my websites work? Why isn't my mail working? These issues require setting up DNS records. I cover this in another article here.

When adding a new website you'll need to fix the user permissions:
Go to => User Accounts, Fix Permissions, Select User: Check all boxes.

Where is my website? When I added my second website I couldn't find it. I was handling the path incorrectly. On the Add Domain page:
Folder Path: /public_html
Add website to path => /public_html/mywebsite.com
You end up with this => /home/user_name/public_html/mywebsite.com

Firewall E-Mails

In order to suppress a firewall e-mail, you may want to install a text editor that is easy to use:

How to install text editor Micro: curl https://getmic.ro | bash
Usage: ./micro

Excessive Resource Usage: RPC

I kept getting e-mails about "Excessive Resource Usage: RPC." In order to shut this off, I white-listed the following way:

1. In file: /etc/csf/csf.pignore.
2. Add: exe:/usr/bin/rpcbind [Get this from the system e-mail as seen below.]
3. Add the line to the bottom of csf.pignore.

./micro /etc/csf/csf.pignore
ctrl-s = save
ctrl-q = quit

Imagick Problem

CWP install script (/scripts/install_Imagick) for PHP7.4 & Imagick 3.4.4 is below. For some reason I had to do each step manually. Note that the script below reflects my edits.

wget http://pecl.php.net/get/imagick-3.4.4.tgz
tar zxf imagick-3.4.4.tgz
cd imagick-3.4.4
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// ln -s /usr/local/include/ImageMagick-6 /usr/local/include/ImageMagick
ln -s /usr/include/ImageMagick-6 /usr/local/include/ImageMagick
./configure
make clean
make
make install
make test

1. I have to remove the symbolic link:
rm /usr/local/include/ImageMagick
2. Change directory of ImageMagick-6 based on its actual location.
3. Add "make install". This distributes everything to their appropriate directories.
4. php -v shows that ImageMagick and sodium are no longer issues.

Sodium Problem

pecl install libsodium

Driver Problem with Mautic install

yum install php-mysqli

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