Openlitespeed Installation: Directadmin

Openlitespeed is the open source webserver provided by LiteSpeed Web Server Enterprise. It’s frequently used only for individual sites that don’t change often. This is because OpenLiteSpeed requires a restart to load any new .htaccess file. So if you often see ‘OpenLiteSpeed is functioning normally‘ error after creating new domain/subdomain etc, restarting the ‘Litespeed’ service via ‘Dashboard >> Show Services’ will solve the issue. In spite of above, you will get tons of following features:

• Optimized commercial mod_security engine
• Apache-compatible rewrite rules
• High concurrent connection capacity and unlimited worker processes
• Built-in page caching
• WordPress Brute Force Attacks Protection and Anti-DDoS connection
• Cache Plugin Support for CMS like WordPress, Joomla etc
• Node JS, Python/Django, Ruby/Rails app server support

 

Now, we will discuss about the Openlitespeed Installation in Directadmin:

1. Login as ‘root’ (ssh root@ip_address) to server via Putty or Xshell and change current directory to ‘Custom Build’

# cd /usr/local/directadmin/custombuild

2. Then run update and change the webserver from apache to openlitespeed

# ./build update

# ./build set webserver openlitespeed

3. Now, we’ve to disable the ‘mod_ruid2’. Using mod_ruid2 with Litespeed can cause permissions-related issues

#./build set mod_ruid2 no

4. For Litespeed, php_mode must be set to lsphp. This should be done for all php mode

# ./build set php1_mode lsphp
# ./build set php2_mode lsphp
# ./build set php3_mode lsphp
# ./build set php4_mode lsphp

5. Now we can install/build the openlitespeed

# ./build openlitespeed

Once installation is done, you will get login details of the console. URL will be like https://ip_address:7080/login.php.You can now easily tweak the webserver settings.

6. Recompiling the PHP to use LiteSpeed is the last and final step. This process will take bit time

# ./build php n
# ./build rewrite_confs

To verify everything went perfectly, you can see the Dashboard >> Show Services, where ‘Litespeed’ is showing ‘running’ (instead of httpd).

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