Installing Softaculous in Plesk Linux

Overview

The following guide will show you how to install Softaculous on Plesk Linux.

Requirements

• A server with Plesk Linux
• If you have a firewall, then please allow access to all packages from *.softaculous.com

Note : Please allow access to the following domains to your firewall as these are the mirrors used to download the script packages.

• api.softaculous.com (IP : 216.18.221.243)
• s1.softaculous.com (IP : 108.61.84.171)
• s2.softaculous.com (IP : 23.29.77.179)
• s3.softaculous.com (IP : 142.4.49.46)
• s4.softaculous.com (IP : 188.138.10.177)

Installing Softaculous

Note: Before starting the installation make sure ionCube Loaders are enabled. Otherwise you will not be able to Install Softaculous. The ionCube Loaders can be downloaded from here. You can also check if ionCube is enabled with the following shell command :

root> php -m | grep -i ioncube

Note: Also make sure POSIX is enabled. Otherwise you will not be able to Install Softaculous. You can check if POSIX is enabled with the following shell command :

root> php -m | grep -i posix

Now SSH to your server and enter following commands:

wget -N http://files.softaculous.com/install.sh
chmod 755 install.sh
./install.sh

The Installer will start showing the Installation Processes and when done will indicate the same. NOTE: Scripts will be downloaded during this process. The Download Activity will also be shown on the screen.

Thats it the installation of Softaculous is completed!

You will see the following screen.

Quick Installation

If you wish to finish the installation quickly and then download the script packages in background use this method.

Note: Before starting the installation make sure ionCube Loaders are enabled. Softaculous Installer requires Ioncube. Now SSH to your server and enter following commands:

wget -N http://files.softaculous.com/install.sh
chmod 755 install.sh
./install.sh --quick