InterWorx-CP Installation Overview

InterWorx-CP is a complex system and works on a variety of platforms. The clean installation of such a system on many platforms is unfortunately not simple and this overview will try to give you an idea of how installing InterWorx-CP on your system will affect it.

InterWorx-CP will take care of most basic tasks on your system. InterWorx-CP sets up logical defaults for those things which are usually left to a system administrator. InterWorx-CP is also very system admin friendly in that you can easily edit files on the system without confusing InterWorx-CP. For most tasks you will be able to use InterWorx-CP without ever logging into your server via the shell. You may choose however to perform some tasks on the system via SSH and this is fine as well.

InterWorx-CP installs all of the base services (mail, dns, web, ftp) to make your server manageable via InterWorx-CP. The current list of installed packages can always be found on the updates.interworx.com RPM repository, located at http://updates.interworx.com/iworx/RPMS/. The repository is indexed by distribution and the README will explain the distribution -> mapping. Finally, all of our supplemental software packages are also available as SRPMS for your perusal and modification. They are located at http://updates.interworx.com/iworx/SRPMS/ Getting the Install Script

Installation is most easliy done on a “clean” system. By clean we mean one that is newly installed with a supported operating system and that has had no special configuration or other tweaking. Most servers that were previously production boxes or previously housed websites cannot be converted to use InterWorx-CP without a reinstall. This also goes for servers that previously ran a competitor’s control panel system, a fresh install is normally needed as well.

The process for installation is very easy after your core operating system is setup. Just follow the script install instructions and you can have a running system in as little as 15 minutes!

The process for installation is the same for a cluststed setup. You must install InterWorx-CP on each server in the cluster. The only special requirement for a cluster install is that all servers reside on the same physical network segment.