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Installing LiteSpeed Web Server with CustomBuild 2.0

Starting with CustomBuild 2.0 RC7, DirectAdmin's CustomBuild 2.0 supports integration with LiteSpeed Web Server. This wiki will guide you through the steps to installing LSWS on a server using DirectAdmin with CustomBuild 2.0.

This wiki assumes that you already have a working server using DirectAdmin (version 1.45.2 and up), CustomBuild 2.0, and Apache.

Using the command line, LSWS can be installed with the following commands:

cd /usr/local/directadmin/custombuild
./build update
./build set webserver litespeed
./build set php1_mode lsphp
./build litespeed
./build php n

The commands above install LSWS with a trial license and build PHP for LSWS.

Now that LSWS is installed, follow the steps in the wiki on activating licenses to switch from the trial license to a purchased license.

Notes:

  • CustomBuild 2.0 will always install the latest version of LSWS.
  • If you have an existing installation of LSWS, you will still need to run the above commands to see LSWS in CustomBuild and DirectAdmin's Service Manager.
  • If you do not have an existing installation of LSWS, CustomBuild will assign you a username and password for the LSWS WebAdmin console. The username is “admin”, the password will be randomly generated. The password appears at the end of the install:

The CustomBuild Plugin is a GUI addition to CustomBuild. Use the following steps to install LSWS through the CustomBuild Plugin:

1. Edit Options

In the Edit Options tab, change the php1_mode setting to “lsphp”.

Then change the webserver setting to “litespeed”.

2. Build Software

Then go to the Build Software tab. First, build LSWS.

Note: If you do not have an existing installation of LSWS, CustomBuild will assign you a username and password for the LSWS WebAdmin console. The username is “admin”, the password will be randomly generated. The password appears at the end of the install:

Then build PHP.

3. Check that LSWS is running

You can then go into DirectAdmin's Service Manager to check that LSWS is running.

Notes:

  • CustomBuild 2.0 will always install the latest version of LSWS.
  • If you have an existing installation of LSWS, you will still need to follow the steps above to see LSWS in CustomBuild and DirectAdmin's Service Manager.

Now that CustomBuild 2.0 has LSWS integration, some of the LiteSpeed DirectAdmin Plugin's functions are now redundant. We will be updating the Plugin to include only functionality not covered by CustomBuild 2.0.

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  • Last modified: 2015/07/30 20:07
  • by Michael Alegre