How to install Softaculous on VPS or dedicated server with cPanel/WHM

Installation via cPanel/WHM

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:

SuPHP Settings

These settings need to be changed if you have suPHP enabled on your server. It tells Softaculous to set the correct permissions for writable files and folders.

Go to settings, edit the CHMOD Files to 0644 and CHMOD Directories to 0755 (shown in the figure) and click edit settings.

Command Line Installation 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

That’s it! The installation of Softaculous is completed without having to visit WHM.