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cPanel Add-ons and Auto Installers Guide

cPanel provides interfaces for managing common operations like PGP keys, cron jobs, mail, FTP, and mailing lists. Additional paid and free add-ons exist like Auto Installers that automate the installation of web applications. These add-ons need to be enabled by the server administrator in WHM before users can access them. WHM also separately manages and automatically upgrades packages like Apache, PHP, MySQL, and Exim to keep them compatible but makes installing newer versions and verifying packages more difficult.

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cPanel Add-ons and Auto Installers Guide

cPanel provides interfaces for managing common operations like PGP keys, cron jobs, mail, FTP, and mailing lists. Additional paid and free add-ons exist like Auto Installers that automate the installation of web applications. These add-ons need to be enabled by the server administrator in WHM before users can access them. WHM also separately manages and automatically upgrades packages like Apache, PHP, MySQL, and Exim to keep them compatible but makes installing newer versions and verifying packages more difficult.

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Add-ons[edit]

To the client, cPanel provides front-ends for a number of common operations, including the
management of PGP keys, crontab tasks, mail and FTP accounts, and mailing lists.
Several add-ons exist,[12] some for an additional fee, the most notable being Auto Installers
like Installatron, Fantastico, Softaculous, and WHMSonic (SHOUTcast/radio Control Panel Add-on).
Auto Installers are a bundle of scripts which automate the installation (and update of) web
applications such as WordPress, SMF, phpBB, Drupal, Joomla!, Tiki Wiki CMS
Groupware, Geeklog, Moodle, [Link], MagicSpam WHMCS, and ZamFoo. Fantastico is a
popular Auto Installer but is losing market fast because of lack of updates (see [13]) and fewer number
of scripts. There are free versions of the auto installers, however, they are very limited on the script
the provide, and often leave out the most popular scripts like WordPress. The add-ons need to be
enabled by the server administrator in WHM to be accessible to the cPanel user.
WHM manages some software packages separately from the underlying operating system, applying
upgrades to Apache, PHP, MySQL, Exim, FTP, and related software packages automatically. This
ensures that these packages are kept up-to-date and compatible with WHM, but makes it more
difficult to install newer versions of these packages. It also makes it difficult to verify that the
packages have not been tampered with since the operating system's package management
verification system cannot be used to do so.[14]

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