How To Install DirectAdmin on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install DirectAdmin on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. For those of you who didn’t know, DirectAdmin is a web hosting control panel providing a graphical interface and automation tools to simplify server and account management. Features include E-mail, FTP, DNS and web management, Statistics, Apache configuration, User and reseller management, and more.

This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you the step-by-step installation of the DirectAdmin control panel on Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal Fossa). You can follow the same instructions for Ubuntu 18.04, 16.04, and any other Debian-based distribution like Linux Mint.

Prerequisites

• A server running one of the following operating systems: Ubuntu 20.04, 18.04, and any other Debian-based distribution like Linux Mint.
• It’s recommended that you use a fresh OS install to prevent any potential issues
• A non-root sudo user or access to the root user. We recommend acting as a non-root sudo user, however, you can harm your system if you’re not careful when acting as the root.

Install DirectAdmin on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Focal Fossa

Step 1. First, make sure that all your system packages are up-to-date by running the following apt commands in the terminal.

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade

Step 2. Installing Required Dependency.

Now we install the required packages:

sudo apt install wget gcc g++ make flex bison openssl libssl-dev \
perl perl-base perl-modules libperl-dev libperl4-corelibs-perl \
libwww-perl libaio1 libaio-dev zlib1g zlib1g-dev libcap-dev cron \
bzip2 zip automake autoconf libtool cmake pkg-config python \
libdb-dev libsasl2-dev libncurses5 libncurses5-dev libsystemd-dev \
bind9 dnsutils quota patch logrotate rsyslog libc6-dev libexpat1-dev \
libcrypt-openssl-rsa-perl curl libnuma-dev libnuma1

Step 3. Installing DirectAdmin on Ubuntu 20.04.

Run the following command to download the DirectAdmin installation script from the official website and install it:

bash <(curl -Ss https://www.directadmin.com/setup.sh) auto

Step 4. Accessing DirectAdmin on Ubuntu.

DirectAdmin will be available on HTTPS port 80 by default. Open your favorite browser and navigate to http://your-domain.com/2222 or http://your-server-ip/2222. If you are using a firewall, please open port 2222 to enable access to the control panel.

Congratulations! You have successfully installed DirectAdmin. Thanks for using this tutorial for installing the DirectAdmin free web hosting control panel on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Focal Fossa system. For additional help or useful information, we recommend you check the official DirectAdmin website.