WordPress is the most popular self-hosted content management system (CMS) today. Between native features and hundreds of third party plugins, WordPress can handle virtually anything from digital portfolios to small business management suites.
CyberPanel offers a paid plugin to install WordPress on CyberPanel and manage settings within the dashboard. However, the CyberPanel WordPress installer is free and included with the base application.
Below we’re going to cover multiple ways to deploy WordPress on a CyberPanel VPS for free and other ways to manage your websites.
This is the fastest option for installing WordPress on a CyberPanel server. This quick-installation method also installs the LiteSpeed Cache WordPress plugin for integration with CyberPanel’s web server configuration.
Specify the feature package, CyberPanel user to manage the site, domain (without “www”), email account
Choose the latest PHP version unless you know an important plugin for your needs requires an older version.
Enable additional features as desired such as SSL certificate creation if configured on your server.
Select Create Website at the bottom. This may take a few minutes.
On the left, select Websites > List Websites.
Select Manage on the right-side of the website domain.
At the bottom, select WP + LSCache.
Set the site title, admin username, password, and email account.
Leave the path as is unless you want to install the site in a subdirectory within the user home directory.
Select Install Now.
WordPress CyberPanel Integration
The generated database name and user will be a combination of alphanumeric characters. You can modify the database data, user password, and user access from CyberPanel and natively installed phpMyAdmin.
To confirm which database belongs to which WordPress site:
From CyberPanel, select Databases > phpMyAdmin.
Select a database on the left-side with over a dozen alphanumeric characters.
Select the wp_options table.
Check the “siteurl” and “home” rows to determine which WordPress site manages that database.
Browse for and select the WordPress tar.gz file you downloaded.
Select Upload.
Exit the pop-up window from the upper-right corner.
Right-click on the tar.gz file and select Extract.
The extraction file path doesn’t matter since you’ll need to move the files from the created directory. Select Extract.
Double-click on the wordpress directory.
At the top, click Select All and Move.
The “Move to” file path should state “/home/YOURDOMAIN/public_html” with no slash at the end.
Select Back at the top.
The public_html directory should now list all WordPress files. Delete the empty wordpress directory and tar.gz file. If the wordpress directory isn’t removed, you’ll need to use SSH or FTP until the bug is resolved by CyberPanel developers.
You’re almost done. Now you just need to finish the WordPress setup wizard.
Visit your WordPress domain in a web browser.
The first page may show the WordPress logo and available languages. Select your primary language and continue.You may start at this page which lists the info you’ll need to continue. Continue.
Type the database name, database user, and database user password. This data is available in CyberPanel Databases > List Databases. Select Submit.
Run the installation.
Add a site title, admin username, password, and email account. Discourage search engines from indexing the site if this isn’t meant to be a public site. Install WordPress.
The success page will show your admin user. Log in.
User credentials will be emailed to you.
Get Started with WordPress
Here are some recommended WordPress plugins to get you started:
LiteSpeed Cache for integration with your CyberPanel web server
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