Setting up Softaculous

Softaculous is a great Auto Installer having 259 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. We have covered a wide array of Categories so that everyone could find the required script one would need to power their Web Site.

For more information please see the official website: http://www.softaculous.com/

If you did not purchase a Softaculous license but would like to have it added, please submit a ticket to our Billing department at https://support.avahost.net/

Softaculous Setup

The following guide will show you how to install Softaculous on cPanel.

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 The following webpage will open if the installation was successful:

Now, just wait for the scripts to get downloaded. The download status is shown in the iFRAME.

Note: Please refresh the page after the scripts are downloaded to use the Softaculous link in WHM.

suPHP Settings

If you have suEXEC or suPHP enabled on your server, please read the suPHP Settings page for configuring Softaculous.

Thats it the installation of Softaculous is completed!

 

Command Line Install Option

You can run the following commands to install Softaculous on cPanel without having to visit cPanel/WHM :

cd /usr/local/cpanel/whostmgr/docroot/cgi 
wget -N http://www.softaculous.com/ins/addon_softaculous.php
chmod 755 addon_softaculous.php
/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/bin/php /usr/local/cpanel/whostmgr/docroot/cgi/addon_softaculous.php

Thats it the installation of Softaculous is completed without having to visit WHM.

 

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