AAPanel: Free and Open source Hosting Control Panel

AaPanel, a simple but powerful control panel, can manage the webserver through a web-based GUI (Graphical User Interface). AaPanel provides the one-click function such as one-click install LNMP/LAMP developing environment and software.

Let it install on CentOS 7 on the Google Cloud Platform. If you don't know how to install CentOS on GCP then go from here.

Steps to Install aaPanel

1. Connect to your Linux server via SSH and update all the currently installed software to the latest version. I already have CentOS7 installed on my GCP console. So click on the SSH to connect with the cent OS terminal.

Type the following commands to update and upgrade all the currently installed software to the latest version

[technoscsoln@centos7 ~]$ sudo su

[root@centos7 technoscsoln]# yum update -y

2. Now download and install the latest version of aaPanel. Open the official website of aaPanel and click on free install. You have to copy the link and paste it into the SSH terminal.

[root@centos7 technoscsoln]#yum install -y wget && wget -O install.sh http://www.aapanel.com/script/install_6.0_en.sh && bash install.sh

3. It will take time. After completion, it will show aaPanel internet address, user name, and password.

4. To access aaPanel, you have to set Firewall Rules for Port no 8888. So click on three dots on VM instance and click on view network details and click on the firewall.

5. Click on Create Firewall Rule. 

• Give a proper name and a proper description.
• Set the target to a specified service account.
• Set target service account to compute engine default service account.
• Set source IP range to 0.0.0.0/0.
• Set the second source filter to none.
• Check the box for TCP and give the required port number is 8888.

6. By default, aaPanel uses a self-signed SSL certificate, so your web browser will warn you that the connection is not secure. You can accept the self-signed SSL certificate and proceed to the log-in screen.

• Here provide the username and password.

7. In the aaPanel dashboard, you can see some basic information about your system. After a few minutes, you see a new pop-up appear. This is a one-click install of all useful software, click as per your choice.

This may take a couple of minutes to complete. After completion let’s check, what can we do with it? The modules and services that you can manage through aaPanel are listed on the left panel.

8. The setting is most useful for security purposes. Here you can modify the username password and port number just click modify.

9. In the website section, you can manage your website. Click Add Site to add a new website.