How to Install OpenLiteSpeed

OpenLiteSpeed is the Open Source edition of LiteSpeed Web Server Enterprise and contains all of the essential features, including HTTP/3 support. OLS provides enormous scalability, and an accelerated hosting platform for WordPress. This One-Click gives you OpenLiteSpeed, PHP, MySQL Server, WordPress, LiteSpeed Cache, and other useful applications.

Installing OpenLiteSpeed

First run the Repo installation command,

wget -O - http://rpms.litespeedtech.com/debian/enable_lst_debain_repo.sh | bash

Next install OpenLiteSpeed,

apt-get install openlitespeed

Next we install the PHP 7.3 packages,

apt-get install lsphp73

Start OpenLiteSpeed

/usr/local/lsws/bin/lswsctrl start

Login to the OpenLiteSpeed Admin Panel

To login to the OpenLiteSpeed Admin Panel, Replace "VPS-IP-Address" with your VPS IP,

https://VPS-IP-Address:7080

Login with the default user & password,

Username: admin
Password: 123456

If the panel doesn’t load stop UFW, try stopping UFW

service ufw stop

Configure OpenLiteSpeed

Visit the "Listeners" category,

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Here, click View button beside "Default".

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Here, Click Edit icon on the right and change the port from 8080 to 80.

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Click Save and then perform a Graceful restart.

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Configuring PHP

Switch to the "Server Configuration" Section and click on the "External App" tab. Here, you will find LiteSpeed SAPI app named lsphp. Click the edit button,

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Under "Environment:" set the following,

PHP_LSAPI_MAX_REQUESTS=500
PHP_LSAPI_MAX_REQUESTS=500

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Here, set the "Command" as,

/usr/local/lsws/lsphp73/bin/lsphp

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Click Save and then perform a Graceful restart.

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Verify if PHP is working

To verify if PHP is working visit the URL,

http://VPS-IP-Address/phpinfo.php

You’ll find a similar screen,

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If you see a similar screen, then PHP is all is good and working fine!

Stopping OpenLiteSpeed

If you wish to stop OpenLiteSpeed, use the following command,

/usr/local/lsws/bin/lswsctrl stop