Overview
The following guide will show you how to install SitePad on cPanel.
Requirements
- A server with cPanel
- If you have a firewall, then please allow access to download all packages from *.sitepad.com and *.softaculous.com
Note : Please allow access to the following domains to your firewall as these are the servers through which your website will be published.
- us.sitepad.com (IP: 192.198.80.4)
- eu.sitepad.com (IP: 91.121.54.72)
Installing SitePad
Note: Before starting the installation make sure ionCube Loaders are enabled. You may refer to the following guide Enable Ioncube cPanel. Please make sure that the Ioncube loader is selected for the backend copy of PHP. Now SSH to your server and enter following commands:
wget -N http://files.sitepad.com/install.sh
chmod 755 install.sh
./install.sh
Choose Editor Server
Note : This parameter is optional you you can skip this parameter to let SitePad choose the default server.
You can choose the region in which you want the editor for SitePad. To choose an editor server please pass the following parameter to the installer : –editor_url=https://us.sitepad.com
List of valid servers is available here : SitePad Servers
./install.sh --editor_url=https://us.sitepad.com
You can change this setting later from SitePad Admin panel -> Settings page
Re-branding
Note : This parameter is optional you you can skip this parameter to let SitePad use default values.
If you would like to re-brand SitePad you can pass the following parameters to the installer :
--brand_name=YOUR_BRAND (Only Alphanumeric characters without space are allowed)
--brand_logo=https://URL.TO.YOUR.LOGO.png (Only PNG image allowed. Dimensions : 100pxX100px)
--brand_url=https://BRAND.COM
So the install command will look like :
./install.sh --brand_name=YOUR_BRAND --brand_logo=https://URL.TO.YOUR.LOGO.png --brand_url=https://BRAND.COM
You can change this setting later from SitePad Admin panel -> Settings page