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Information / Re: CWP centos7 to CWP Almalinux 9 Migration Planned

« Last post by overseer on November 30, 2025, 05:02:24 PM »

I have been with CWP for 5 years after previously being with cPanel/WHM for the previous 15 years. I like CWP and to me it has the right blend of features and functionality, without being bogged down with feature-itis as cPanel has become very cluttered, not to mention VERY expen$ive. I don't mind the slower pace of development, as it keeps things stable & alive. I'm in it for the long haul and should be set till the end of the decade when I will re-assess the landscape at that time.

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Information / Re: CWP centos7 to CWP Almalinux 9 Migration Planned

« Last post by lowconquer on November 30, 2025, 04:14:46 PM »

Was just informed CWP will not support AL9 any time soon, and does NOT even support MariaDB 10.11 in a rude message from Igor...

Hello community, please excuse my Google Translate-assisted English.
I have several servers with paid licenses.
I like this admin panel, but what Starburst reported has me worried about the future of this project.
It might just be my impression, but I feel that the development of this admin panel is progressing very slowly. I would love to hear an honest response from the developers of this great project.
I am willing to contribute financially if the slow progress is due to financial reasons.

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Information / Re: CWP centos7 to CWP Almalinux 9 Migration Planned

« Last post by overseer on November 30, 2025, 11:57:45 AM »

I have done a manual migration from CentOS 7 to AlmaLinux 8 -- a manual migration to AL9 should be similar. Essentially, you do a DB dump of ALL DB, on the receiving server manually create the matching accounts (you don't need to setup any add-on domains or subdomains). Then you rsync over /home and /var/vmail (and possibly any folders you want such as named, csf and nginx vhost confs). Then you restore all the DB in one go -- this will bring in the root_cwp DB that has domains & subdomains. The roundcube DB will have all the settings for webmail, and the postfix DB will have all the account hashes. Overall not too painful.

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Updates / Re: AL 9.6, I have info about 240 updates

« Last post by Andrew C on November 30, 2025, 10:41:02 AM »

Hello,

I’ve been following the ongoing discussion about CWP’s lack of support for AlmaLinux 9.x, 10.x, and the newer MariaDB releases. This has affected me as well, especially since many open-source projects now require MariaDB 10.x or 11.x at minimum. Without support for these versions, CWP becomes increasingly limiting for modern deployments.

What are the technical reasons preventing CWP from supporting AlmaLinux 9.x/10.x and the newer MariaDB versions?
Also, why have the developers not provided an official statement or roadmap on the forum regarding these issues?

On a related note, CyberPanel looks like an interesting alternative — has anyone here tried it?

Thanks

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Information / Re: CWP centos7 to CWP Almalinux 9 Migration Planned

« Last post by Gokalex on November 30, 2025, 08:28:02 AM »

I guess we need to read the warning on the tin:
https://control-webpanel.com/installation-instructions#step2

The best option in 2024 is still the AlmaLinux 8.
AlmaLinux 9 has some missing features and PHP versions are limited to PHP 7.4 or higher.  *EL9 is in beta stage

Yeah i did see that, but since we are almost in 2026 i was hoping for AL9 to be out of beta... Guess not...

Since from what i understand some of you are actually running AL9, is the migration the only broken thing?

Can you "manually" migrate an account by transfering a backup and restoring it?

Or do you need to do a "full manual" restore? (copy files, db, recreate settings, etc)

(I have some account that have like 200ftp accounts inside, so i would prefer not having to manually recreate those things)

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Addons / Re: Starting Symfony Development on CWP – Composer Questions

« Last post by overseer on November 30, 2025, 02:39:32 AM »

I am running Composer under CWP, no issues (one project with some Symphony components) -- this is to manage Drupal installations. I installed Composer as root, but it is not recommended to run it as root, so each user runs it under their account to manage their project (which lives under /home/username/public_html -- or in the case of Drupal: /home/username/public_html/web).

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Installation / Re: Install issues

« Last post by overseer on November 30, 2025, 02:25:30 AM »

That is just an official position in order to be supportable. But many of us are running MariaDB 10.11 or 11.x without problem. Just know you're on your own -- self-supported.

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Information / Re: CWP centos7 to CWP Almalinux 9 Migration Planned

« Last post by Starburst on November 30, 2025, 12:06:54 AM »

What is funny, is everything was working before the upgrade to AL 9.7.

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Updates / Re: AL 9.6, I have info about 240 updates

« Last post by Starburst on November 30, 2025, 12:05:19 AM »

Lately it has been.

CyberPanel has been working hard on the next generation of it's panel to run on AL10 with PHP 8.5

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Installation / Re: Install issues

« Last post by Jack_C on November 29, 2025, 10:28:22 PM »

DO NOT UPGRADE TO MARIADB 10.11

WAS JUST TOLD BY IGOR/CWP THAT IT IS NOT SUPPORTED BY CWP...

Only the version installed with their installer is supported by CWP if you need help...

It was a little late or I was much faster than needed.... I became an impatient person

PS
Is it some way to roll back to "factory" settings I mean CWP MariaDB or is it just new installation