Important Post Installation Step
Make sure that you open the ports 7778 and 7777 in the firewall. Otherwise you won’t be able to connect to lxadmin.

Lxadmin installation consists of downloading either the lxadmin-install-master.sh or lxadmin-install-slave.sh from download.lxlabs.com and executing them as root. They will download all the required files and do the complete installation on their own.

# wget http://download.lxlabs.com/download/lxadmin/production/lxadmin-install-master.sh
# sh ./lxadmin-install-master.sh

You will presented with a question/menu from yum/up2date, on which you can press <Enter>
Lxadmin will install:

1. Web server:
   
    * apache
   
    * pure-ftp
   
    * awstats

2. Mail server:
   
    * qmail
   
    * courier (imap pop)
   
    * webmail
   
    * httpd (for webmail)

3. Nameserver:
   
    * bind
   
    * bind-chroot

4. Database Server:
   
    * mysql-server
   
    * postgresql

Once lxadmin is installed, you can connect to ‘http://your-hostname:7778‘, and you will be presented with a login screen - the password would be ‘admin‘. Once you login, Lxadmin will explicitly force you to change the password to something other than ‘admin’.

If you want to have a cluster, you have to run ‘lxadmin-install-slave.sh‘ in all the servers that you intend to make as slaves. Once ‘lxadmin-install-slave.sh‘ is completed, you can add the server from the ‘add server’ page in the master’s server page. From then on, you can manage every aspect of the server through our intuitive graphical interface.

Upgrading lxadmin is as easy as click of button. The ‘update home’ page will show you the latest version of lxadmin available, and the ‘release notes’ listing will tell you the changes that happened since your version, in a very clear format - the bug fix/security fix/feature additions all will be displayed in different colors and clearly identifiable in the listing. This wil help you in making a decision about how critical is the upgradation of lxadmin, and how soon it should be updated. The release notes will also contain any special information the user should know after the upgradation is done. All this makes sure that your ‘managing the server’ days are over, and you can entirely focus your time more productively on your business.