How to install Aapanel on Ubuntu on AWS

With Aapanel, installing and managing a web server in Ubuntu becomes effortless. Setting up a web server can be a complex and time-consuming task, especially for beginners. In this blog post, we will guide you through the step-by-step process of installing Aapanel on Ubuntu, empowering you to streamline your web server management experience

What is Aapanel

Aapanel is modern, lightweight webserver management panel. It will satisfy all your needs and make your tasks about server settings management are easy. This panel may contains popular LAMP/LEMP software stacks, database service, FTP, built-in filemanager etc. Also you may “expand” panel functionality via extensions store.

Before installation

Before start Aapanel installation, please ensure that you have:

• Server with at least 2Gb RAM and 20Gb disk space;

• Actual operation system (Ubuntu 20.04 LTS in this example);

• Permissions of “root” user or “wheel” group membership;

• Domain “pointed” to your server.

Setup procedure

To install Aapanel just follow further doings plan:

• Login to the server via SSH as “root” user and update current system;

apt-get update; apt upgrade -yor
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt upgrade -y

root update and upgrade

• Reboot the server to avoid outdated software using;

• Install wget package to may acquire installation script further;

apt install wget -y

install wget in Ubuntu

• Downloaad and run installation script:

cd /tmp && wget http://www.aapanel.com/script/install-ubuntu_6.0_en.sh
chmod +x install-ubuntu_6.0_en.sh 
./install-ubuntu_6.0_en.sh aapanel

install aapanel in Ubuntu

• Process may take a time, be patient. When install finished, you will see access credestials. Keep it safely;

install aapanel complete

• Authorize in the panel via web-browser, panel will offer to you choose one of pre-installed software bundle. You can choose it or “fill” the panel manually later;

install required packages in aapanel