How to Setup WordPress Website with CyberPanel and Vultr VPS

Signup for Vultr
Install Cyber Panel
Update Cyber Panel
Install WordPress
Setup DNS
Verify DNS is working
Issue SSL
Setup Email
Secure Cyberpanel

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Reserved for Updates & Changes

Important: At 10:24 in video select php version 7.3 or 7.4 or 8.0. I faced some error randomly when selected 8.1 during testing.

Error will be 403/404 error. In log it will shows as php suffix not permitted. To fix it you can go to manage website and change php version then in cyberpanel php (main option sidebar) select php version and restart. Wait few minutes your site should start working.

If still your issue is not fixed you will have to website section in cyberpanel and delete that website (all site related data will be deleted). Then re-create website with different version that selected earlier – create NS records as shown at 13:15 in video. Finally again install wordpress.

Table of Contents hide

1 Reserved for Updates & Changes

2 FAQ

2.1 Command to Get login password

3 Resources

4 How to Update CyberPanel

5 DNS records used by Cyberpanel

6 Related Tutorials

6.1 How to Setup Emails

6.2 How to Secure Cyberpanel

6.3 How to Setup Cyberpanel with Cloudflare

6.4 How to Take Server Snapshots in Vultr

6.5 How to Backup your WordPress Website

FAQ

Why emails not working?

Ask vultr support to open port 25. Make sure to not send mass marketing emails from vps use it only for transactional emails.

Why browser in not loading website after changing DNS?

Please clear your cache. Try with a different device like your mobile or browser for verification.

Command to Get login password

sudo cat .litespeed_password

Resources

Verify DNS records – https://lookmydns.com/

If you need help with glue records for other registrar please comment on youtube video.

Glue records – Will be updated. You can google how to set glue record for your domain registrar.

How to Update CyberPanel

To update cyberpanel use this command. Visit Cyberpanel website for more info.

sh <(curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/usmannasir/cyberpanel/stable/preUpgrade.sh || wget -O - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/usmannasir/cyberpanel/stable/preUpgrade.sh)

DNS records used by Cyberpanel

If you don’t want to use the glue records method for DNS records, you can manually add the following records for pointing your domain to server. Not all records are mandatory.

Note: If you are using glue records like ns1.yourdomain.com then you don’t need to manually add these records.

Type	Name	Value	Priority	Essential
A	@	server ipv4		Yes
CNAME	www	domain.com		Yes
A	mail	server ipv4
AAAA	@	server ipv6		Yes if using ipv6
CNAME	ftp	domain.com
MX	@	mail.domain.com	10
TXT	@	v=spf1 +a +mx +a:domain.com -all
TXT	_dmarc	v=DMARC1; p=none
TXT	_domainkey	t=y; o=~;
TXT	default._domainkey	find this in control panel (see note to find dkim)

Note: To find dkim go to Emails > DKIM manager > copy all data from public key section. See my old tutorial for reference https://youtu.be/bTTzYmIqeRg