Installing SitePad in cPanel

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 https://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

Access SitePad

Now go to : WHM > Plugins (Add-Ons on older versions than 11) > SitePad Website Builder

The following webpage will open if the installation was successful:

Thats it the installation of SitePad is completed!

Dont use 3rd Party PHP

If you do not want SitePad to use 3rd Party PHP binary then you can simply pass a parameter and SitePad will use cPanel's default PHP binary.

wget -N https://files.sitepad.com/install.sh
chmod 755 install.sh
./install.sh --nocpphp