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First steps with pre-installed applications	Find out how to deploy pre-installed applications on your Public Cloud instances	2021-09-07

Objective

OVHcloud offers Public Cloud customers pre-installed application images for quick and easy deployment of applications with few clicks only.

This guide will provide the first steps for each and every pre-installed application image on our Public Cloud platform.

Requirements

A Public Cloud instance in your OVHcloud account

Instructions

Common steps

Install your chosen pre-installed application

Using the OVHcloud Control Panel / API or the OpenStack Horizon / API, install your chosen application on your Public Cloud instance.

Application login details

Once the instance has been installed with your chosen pre-installed application, you can retrieve your login details via the OVHcloud API only.

Log in to the API console here.
Then go to here.

API call

[!api]

@api {v1} /cloud POST /cloud/project/{serviceName}/instance/{instanceId}/applicationAccess

Parameters

serviceName

This is your cloud project ID

instanceId

This is the UUID of your instance

Let's Encrypt SSL

This section only applies to WordPress, Drupal, Joomla! and PrestaShop installations. It will not work for other installations.

You must create or edit two A records in the OVHcloud Control Panel which point to the IP address of your server. For example if your domain name is "personaldomain.ovh" then you need to create A records for:

personaldomain.ovh
www.personaldomain.ovh

If your domain is registered with OVHcloud you can follow this guide.
If your domain is registered with another company you will need to contact them for assistance to set up your A records.

You may need to wait 24 hours before the two records propagate fully. You can always check it with mxtoolbox. If the IP for your domain is showing on mxtoolbox the same as your server's IP address then you can proceed to the next step.
SSH into your server with the CentOS user and execute the following commands to install Certbot.

Warning

Replace personaldomain.ovh in the commands with your own domain name.

sudo -i
dnf install -y epel-release
dnf install -y certbot python3-certbot-apache mod_ssl
echo "ServerName personaldomain.ovh;" >> /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
systemctl restart httpd

Generate your SSL using Certbot (follow the on screen instructions)

certbot certonly -d personaldomain.ovh --webroot

When asked about "Input the webroot", you need to enter something like "/var/www/wordpress". If you are installing Joomla!, you need to replace "wordpress" with "joomla".

Now you need to get certbot to also place it into the ssl.conf file. To trigger this, enter:

certbot -d personaldomain.ovh --apache

When prompted, answer the first prompt with "1" and also the second prompt with "1".

You should get the following output if your SSL has been generated:

IMPORTANT NOTES:
 - Congratulations! Your certificate and chain have been saved at:
   /etc/letsencrypt/live/personaldomain.ovh/fullchain.pem
   Your key file has been saved at:
   /etc/letsencrypt/live/personaldomain.ovh/privkey.pem
   Your cert will expire on 2020-11-12. To obtain a new or tweaked
   version of this certificate in the future, simply run certbot again
   with the "certonly" option. To non-interactively renew *all* of
   your certificates, run "certbot renew"

cPanel

This section will explain the first steps specifically for the cPanel pre-installed image. Steps marked with * will have FAQ at the end of the steps.

Get your one time login URL following these steps.
Click on the URL that is returned by the API.

[!primary]

If the link has expired already, please SSH into the instance using the CentOS user and execute the "whmlogin" command to generate a new one or just reinstall the instance.

Read and accept the terms of cPanel.
Provide your email and nameservers you wish to set on the server *.
Set your root password which you will use the next time you log in to WHM *.

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