Setting up WHM on Rocky 9 VPS

First I'll set up host name that matches my domain name:

hostnamectl set-hostname server01.pokeboost.net

Next I'll disable my firewall on my server as its required for WHM and cPanel installations.

Below appears that there is no firewall service on my vps so i can skip this. Later i will add a firewall.

[root@my-vps ~]# systemctl status firewalld.service
Unit firewalld.service could not be found.

Next i'll disable SELinux:

vi /etc/selinux/conf - Changed SELINUXTYPE=disabled

reboot

Next i will install Perl

yum install perl -y

Now we can finally download and install the software

cd /home && curl -o latest -L
https://securedownloads.cpanel.net/latest && sh latest

Make sure that you have curl before running that command as you can see i didn't have it.

yum install curl -y

After installation it should have a link to click, Following the link from the terminal.

( I got a timed out when i visited the link because my VPS didn't have a firewall but my provider Ionos has a cloud panel where you have to open the ports up. So i added 2087 and 2082 port in my firewall policy:

yum install curl -y

After installation it should have a link to click, Following the link from the terminal.

( I got a timed out when i visited the link because my VPS didn't have a firewall but my provider Ionos has a cloud panel where you have to open the ports up. So i added 2087 port in my firewall policy:

Then i logged in with my Linux server root credentials: root and root password.

Now we have successfully installed WHM cPanel on rocky Linux 9.

DNS / Hostnames:

Add A record to my server: I use the same hostname as i named my server.

Now i will add my default ionos name servers to my WHM account. Here is ionos default nameservers that i will add

Set the name servers and configure records.

You have completed installing and configuing DNS to work with your new WHM.