If you want to change the License key for your LiteSpeed webserver, you can do the following.
cd /usr/local/lsws/conf mv serial.no serial.no.old mv license.key license.key.old
Create file
vi serial.no
Inside the file, paste your LiteSpeed webserver license key.
Restart LiteSpeed
/usr/local/lsws/bin/lshttpd -r /usr/local/lsws/bin/lswsctrl restart
Verify LiteSpeed License with command
/usr/local/lsws/bin/lshttpd -V
See LiteSpeed
LiteSpeed is a high performance web server. Unlike most other web servers, this is a paid software, so you will need to purchase a license or get trail key before you can use it.
To install LiteSpeed, download latest version of the software from
https://www.litespeedtech.com/products/litespeed-web-server/download
At this time of writing this post, latest version of LiteSpeed is 5.4.7
cd /usr/local/src wget https://www.litespeedtech.com/packages/5.0/lsws-5.4.7-ent-x86_64-linux.tar.gz tar -xvf lsws-5.4.7-ent-x86_64-linux.tar.gz cd lsws-5.4.7 ./install.sh
Before you can run the install.sh script, you need to copy your license key to this folder. It will ask you few questions. Once installed, admin interface will be available on URL
http://your-server-ip-here:7080
To install Zend OpCache on OpenLiteSpeed Server, run
apt install -y lsphp73-opcache
Now restart PHP with command
killall -9 lsphp
Zend OpCache GUI shows stats for OpCache. This is for monitoring purpose only.
You can download it from
https://github.com/amnuts/opcache-gui
All you need to do is download the files, exact it, upload it to your web site. It will show nice graphs with cache statistics.
To install LiteSpeed Web Server on Cpanel Server, run
wget https://www.litespeedtech.com/packages/cpanel/lsws_whm_autoinstaller.sh chmod a+x lsws_whm_autoinstaller.sh ./lsws_whm_autoinstaller.sh TRIAL
This will instal 15 day TRAIl version of the LiteSpeed Web Server. Once you purchased license, you will be able to update license key in WHM.
LiteSpeed Web Server installed on folder
/usr/src/lsws
To restart LiteSpeed, run
systemctl restart lsws
Once LiteSpeed installed, you need to switch to LiteSpeed by running
/usr/local/lsws/admin/misc/cp_switch_ws.sh lsws
You can also do this in WHM.
You can login to web interface at
https://IPADDR:7080/login.php
You will need admin password to login here, to set admin password, run
/usr/local/lsws/admin/misc/admpass.sh
CloudLinux provides high performance PHP module lsapi. It is a replacement for suphp available on cpanel servers. lsapi module is a based on LiteSpeed Technologies API for PHP.
To enable lsapi in CloudLinux Cpanel Server, go to
WHM > EasyApache 4Provision profile
CloudLinux + All PHP Options + OpCache + mod_lsapiClick “Provision” and wait until the software is updated.
Now you need to set lsapi as default PHP handler. To do this, go to
WHM > MultiPHP Manager
Click on “PHP Handlers”.
On Next page, you can set handler for each PHP versions.
You can set PHP handler to lsapi gloabally using following command
/usr/bin/switch_mod_lsapi --enable-global
Once you run it, all PHP version handlers will get chanegd to lsapi.
If you check PHP info, you will see Server API listed as LiteSpeed.
Back to lsapi
OpenLiteSpeed ia an Open Source version of LiteSpeed Web Server.
To install OpenLiteSpeed, add repository by running
wget -O - http://rpms.litespeedtech.com/debian/enable_lst_debain_repo.sh | bash
Now you have openlitespeed packages available on your server. Here is packages available on a Debian 9 server.
To install OpenLiteSpeed, run
apt install -y openlitespeed
OpenLiteSpeed will be installed in folder
/usr/local/lsws
You can start/stop OpenLiteSpeed using command
root@ok:~# /usr/local/lsws/bin/lswsctrl
$Usage: /usr/local/lsws/bin/lswsctrl {start|stop|restart|reload|condrestrt|try-restart|status|help}
start - start web server
stop - stop web server
restart - gracefully restart web server with zero down time
reload - same as restart
condrestart - gracefully restart web server if server is running
try-restart - same as condrestart
status - show service status
help - this screen
root@ok:~#
Once installed, you will be able to login to WebAdmin at
https://YOUR_SERVER_IP_ADDR:7080 User = admin Pass = 123456
You can change default admin passord by going to
Admin > WebAdmin Settings > General > Users
Click on edit icon right side of user “admin”.
You can also change OpenLiteSpeed Admin password by running following command as user root
/usr/local/lsws/admin/misc/admpass.sh
CyberPanel is a hosting control panel. CyberPanel uses OpenLiteSpeed, an open-source version of LiteSpeed Web server.
CyberPanel with OpenLitespeed is Free to use.
To install CyberPanel, run
yum install -y wget
wget https://cyberpanel.net/install.sh
bash install.shIt asks you the number of MySQL instances. I selected option 1
On next screen, it ask you to select MariaDB version. MariaDB is a MySQL drop in replacement, it work exactly like MySQL. Once install completed, installer displays login user name and password.
You wil be able to login to CyberPanel at
https://SERVER_IP:8090
Panel username: admin
Panel password: 1234567See LiteSpeed
LiteSpeed is a high performance web server.
Login to the admin interface at
https://IP_ADDR:7080/
To check the version, run
# /usr/local/lsws/bin/lshttpd -v LiteSpeed/5.3 Enterprise #
To check the license, run
# /usr/local/lsws/bin/lshttpd -V [OK] Leased license key 1 will expire in 11 days! 2018-09-26 19:32:39.183054 [NOTICE] Memory size is: 65633856KB. 2018-09-26 19:32:39.622593 [NOTICE] [OK] Updated license key has been created at /usr/local/lsws/conf/license.key. #
To see status, run
# /usr/local/lsws/bin/lswsctrl status litespeed is running with PID 19512. #
Restart litespeed
/usr/local/lsws/bin/lswsctrl restart
Reset admin password
/usr/local/lsws/admin/misc/admpass.sh