How to install Ajenti Control Panel on CentOS 8

Introduction

Ajenti is a web-based control panel for managing systems (like Webmin, cPanel). in addition to, It has a very beautiful and user-friendly interface. For personal use, Ajenti is freely available for under AGPLv3. For commercial use, you have to pay for a small amount regularly.

Installing

Automatic Installation

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ajenti/ajenti/master/scripts/install.sh | sudo bash -s -

output:

[root@unixcop ~]# curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ajenti/ajenti/master/scripts/install.sh | sudo bash -s -
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100  4854  100  4854    0     0   5657      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--  5657
:: OS: rhel
:: Distro: centos
:: Installing prerequisites
Last metadata expiration check: 16:51:20 ago on Mon 26 Jul 2021 04:53:07 PM EET.
Package epel-release-8-11.el8.noarch is already installed.
Dependencies resolved.
Nothing to do.
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Last metadata expiration check: 16:51:22 ago on Mon 26 Jul 2021 04:53:07 PM EET.
Package gcc-8.4.1-1.el8.x86_64 is already installed.
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Package python3-pip-9.0.3-19.el8.noarch is already installed.
Package python3-pillow-5.1.1-12.el8_2.x86_64 is already installed.
Package python3-augeas-0.5.0-12.el8.noarch is already installed.
Package python3-dbus-1.2.4-15.el8.x86_64 is already installed.
Package openssl-devel-1:1.1.1g-15.el8_3.x86_64 is already installed.
Package chrony-3.5-2.el8.x86_64 is already installed.
Package redhat-lsb-core-4.1-47.el8.x86_64 is already installed.
Dependencies resolved.
Nothing to do.
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:: Upgrading PIP

Manual Installation

Native dependencies: Debian/Ubuntu

So Enable Universe repository (Ubuntu only):

sudo add-apt-repository universe

sudo apt-get install build-essential python3-pip python3-dev python3-lxml libssl-dev python3-dbus python3-augeas python3-apt ntpdate

Native dependencies: RHEL/CentOS

Enable EPEL repository:

sudo dnf install epel-release

sudo dnf install -y gcc python3-devel python3-pip python3-pillow python3-augeas python3-dbus chrony openssl-devel redhat-lsb-core

Install Ajenti 2

Upgrade PIP:

sudo pip3 install setuptools pip wheel -U

Minimal install:

sudo pip3 install ajenti-panel ajenti.plugin.core ajenti.plugin.dashboard ajenti.plugin.settings ajenti.plugin.plugins

With all plugins:

sudo pip3 install ajenti-panel ajenti.plugin.ace ajenti.plugin.augeas ajenti.plugin.auth-users ajenti.plugin.core ajenti.plugin.dashboard ajenti.plugin.datetime ajenti.plugin.filemanager ajenti.plugin.filesystem ajenti.plugin.network ajenti.plugin.notepad ajenti.plugin.packages ajenti.plugin.passwd ajenti.plugin.plugins ajenti.plugin.power ajenti.plugin.services ajenti.plugin.settings ajenti.plugin.terminal

So After installing packages, Ilet’s open port 8000, which is used for accessing Ajenti web control panel. Simply use following command to allow access on port.

firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-port=8000/tcp
firewall-cmd --reload

Access Ajenti Control Panel

In addition to, Ajenti default works on port 8000 with secure HTTP (HTTPS). So Now access the server by using server IP (http://ip:8000) or domain-name (http://domainname.com:8000) on port 8080. Also You will most likely receive a warning message indicating that there is an issue with the server’s certificate. There is no problem because Ajenti is using a self-signed certificate. we just need to accept it and proceed.

  http://your_ip:8000/

  Username: root
  Password: adminPassword

Ajenti Login Screen

Ajenti Dashboard

Conclusion

So, in this article we helped you to install Ajenti control panel on CentOS8, Redhat, and Fedora systems.This article has been tested with CentOS 8 only.