Installation Requirements
Before installing Softaculous make sure that ionCube Loaders are enabled. In order to install Softaculous on a VPS or a dedicated server with cPanel, you will need to perform the steps listed below:
1. Log into your WHM (as a root user).
2. Go to Server Configuration (1), click Tweak Settings (2) and navigate to the PHP tab (3). Select ioncube(4) for cPanel PHP Loader:
3. Click on the Save button below
4. If you have a firewall, access to download packages from *.softaculous.com should be allowed. The following domains should be whitelisted in your firewall as these are the mirrors used to download the script packages:
- api.softaculous.com (IP : 192.198.80.3)
- s1.softaculous.com (IP : 158.69.6.246)
- s2.softaculous.com (IP : 192.200.108.99)
- s3.softaculous.com (IP : 178.32.158.97)
- s4.softaculous.com (IP : 138.201.24.83)
- s7.softaculous.com (IP : 167.114.200.240)
Installing Softaculous
1. Log into your server via SSH and run the following commands one by one:
wget -N https://files.softaculous.com/install.sh
2. Once the installation file is downloaded, proceed with the following commands:
chmod 755 install.sh
./install.sh
3. Wait until the Softaculous installation is completed. The following congratulation message should appear in your command line:
4. Now go back to your WHM, navigate to the Plugins menu and click on the Softaculous – Instant Installs menu:
The following page will open if the installation is successful.