Froxlor Hosting Control Panel

This is a repackaged open source software product wherein additional charges apply for cloudimg support services.

Froxlor is a widely used open source server administration and web hosting control panel. It gives hosting providers, agencies, and IT teams a single web interface for managing customers, domains, web space, FTP accounts, email, databases, DNS, per-domain PHP settings, and TLS certificates on their own server, instead of hand editing configuration files. This image delivers Froxlor 2.3 fully installed, configured, and security hardened, so you have a working control panel within minutes of launch.

Setting Froxlor up by hand means installing a web server, PHP and its extensions, and a database engine, then running a browser based setup wizard and hardening the result. That wizard is also the single biggest risk in a shared or public image, because whoever reaches it first can claim the administrator account. This image removes that risk entirely. The captured image contains no Froxlor installation and no administrator account at all, and the web server is held closed by a systemd condition until first boot has finished. On the first boot of your instance, a one shot service performs the installation using Froxlor's own unattended installer, generates a fresh administrator password and fresh database passwords unique to that instance, writes them to a root only file, and only then opens the web server. No two deployments share a password, and there is never a window in which the setup wizard is unclaimed.

Application stack: Froxlor 2.3.10, the current stable release, shipped unmodified from the official release tarball, with Apache 2.4, PHP 8.3 running under PHP FPM with every extension Froxlor requires, and MariaDB. A systemd timer runs the Froxlor master cron every five minutes so panel changes are applied to the system configuration. Froxlor generated virtual hosts are written to a dedicated directory, and the panel runs on its own dedicated PHP FPM pool, keeping them separate from the panel's own configuration so a cron run can never lock you out of your control panel.

Browse to the instance address, sign in with the credentials from the root only file, and start creating customers, domains, mailboxes, FTP accounts, and databases. Froxlor accepts requests on whatever hostname or IP address you reach it on, so you can point DNS at the instance whenever you are ready.

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