Kloxo-MR is another alternative of free web hosting / server control panel that can be solution for you who don’t want to manually setup their webserver. The software is basically a fork of original Kloxo CP by LXCenter (formerly known as Lxadmin). The MR part of Kloxo-MR is Mustafa Ramadhan, the one who did the fork, enhanced and developed this truly modified version.

Kloxo-MR is the only freely available alternative of WHM / cPanel that provide every feature that cPanel can offer. Kloxo-MR provides option to easily switch between web servers and different programs.

Features

  • OS: Redhat/CentOS 5 and 6 (32bit and 64bit) or their variants
  • Billing: AWBS, WHMCS, HostBill, TheHostingTool, AccountLab Plus, Blesta and BoxBilling (note: claim by billing’s author)
  • Web server: Nginx, Nginx-Proxy and Lighttpd-proxy, Hiawatha, Hiawatha-proxy and Httpd 24, beside Httpd and Lighttpd; also Dual and Multiple Web server *)
  • Webcache server: Squid, Varnish, Hiawatha and ATS *)
  • Php: Dual-php with php 5.3/5.4 as primary and php 5.2 as secondary; multiple-php *)
  • PHP-type for Apache: php-fpm_worker/_event and fcgid_worker/_event; beside mod_php/_ruid2/_itk and suphp/_worker/_event
  • Mail server: qmail-toaster instead special qmail (in progress: change from courier-imap to dovecot as imap/pop3) *)
  • Database: MySQL or MariaDB
  • Database Manager: PHPMyAdmin; Adminer, MyWebSql and SqlBuddy as additional **)
  • Webmail: Afterlogic Webmail Lite, Telaen, Squirrelmail, Roundcube and Rainloop; Horde and T-Dah dropped
  • FTP server: Pure-ftpd
  • DNS Server: Bind and Djbdns; add Powerdns, MaraDNS, NSD, myDNS and Yadifa *)
  • Addons: ClamAV, Spamassassin/Bogofilter/Spamdyke, RKHunter and MalDetect
  • Fixed many bugs of Kloxo Official (including security issues)
  • And many more!

Prerequisites

Some stuff you need before installing:

  1. A VPS or Dedicated Server (DS) running CentOS. In this tutorial I use (recommended) CentOS 6 x86_64 minimal.
  2. Ability to use SSH Client like Putty (or Terminal on Linux and Mac).
  3. Basic knowledge of Linux command.
  4. About 30 minutes of your spare time.
  5. A cup of Coffee or Tea if you like.

How to Install

Step 1 – Login to your server as root:

Step 2 – To make sure all things are updated, run ym update command:

wait for the process to complete.

Step 3 – Issue this command to install some necessary packages:



Also this one:



Step 4 – Make sure SELinux is disabled. You can check it with this command:

if not, you can disable it using this command:



Step 5 – Now you can add repo URL of Kloxo-MR. Currently -during I write this post- there are two main version: v6.5.0 and v7.0.0. This guide will show you how to install Kloxo-MR v7.00. Start by changing directory to /tmp.



Then remove old .rpm if any:


Then download the repo file using wget:

then go back to upper directory:

Step 6 – Now issue these series of command before we proceed to the install process:

Step 7 – Now begin the install process with this command:

Step 8 – Now the last magic command to issue is:

That will install everything so the process will be a little bit longer than any previous command above so sit tight and wait till it finished.

Congratulations you have successfully installed Kloxo-MR 7.

Step 9 – Now open up your favorite web browser and login to Kloxo-MR admin page for the very first time:

https://1ip-address:7777 – secure ssl connection, or..
http://1ip-address:7778 – normal one.

Default username is admin and password is admin.