What software is installed on my Linux Virtual Private Server (VPS)?
The contents of your Virtual Private Linux server depends the Linux distribution you are using. Below is an overview of the packages deployed with your server, prior to optional control panel installation. Control panels such as cPanel, Simple Control Panel and Parallels Plesk Panel will alter the packages deployed.
Virtual servers with Parallels Plesk Panel installed will have different configurations. For more information, see the SWSOFT Parallels Plesk Panel datasheet at http://www.parallels.com/r/pdfs/Datasheets/plesk.pdf.
Virtual servers with cPanel installed will have different configurations. For more information, see the cPanel datasheet at http://www.cpanel.net/products/cpwhm/cpanel11/cpanel11-ds.pdf.
All servers are deployed with yum and any vendor supplied package may be added to your system by typing:
where packagename is the name of the package you would like to install.
The Linux rpm command can be used to list the packages that exist on your Linux Virtual Private Server (VPS). Its syntax is the following:
| Fedora 14 Software | ||
| Operating System | Linux Fedora 14 | |
| OS Kernel | Linux kernel 2.6.32 - 2.6.35 | |
| Remote Access Services | OpenSSH 5.5p1 | |
| Email Services | Sendmail 8.14.4 | |
| Development Languages/Environments | GCC (C, C++, Objc, GCJ) 4.5.1 Perl 5.12.3 PHP 5.3.6 |
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| Database and Directory Services | MySQL 5.1.56 | |
| DNS Services | BIND 9.7.3 | |
| Web Servers and Components | Apache 2.2.17 Mod_ssl 2.2.17 Mod_perl 2.0.4 |
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CentOS 6 |
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| Operating System | Linux CentOS 6 | |
| OS Kernel | Linux kernel 2.6.18 - 2.6.32 | |
| Remote Access Services | OpenSSH 5.3p1 | |
| Email Services | Sendmail 8.14.4 | |
| Development Languages/Environments | GCC 4.4.6 - 4.4.7 Perl 5.10.1 PHP 5.3.3 |
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| Database and Directory Services | MySQL 5.1.61 - 5.1.67 | |
| DNS Services | BIND 9.7.3 - 9.8.2 | |
| Web Servers and Components | Apache 2.2.15 Mod_ssl 2.2.15 Mod_perl 2.0.4 Mod_python not installed (3.3.1 available from EPEL) |
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CentOS 5 |
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| Operating System | Linux CentOS 5 | |
| OS Kernel | Linux kernel 2.6 - 2.6.18 | |
| Remote Access Services | OpenSSH 4.3p2 | |
| Email Services | Sendmail 8.13.8 | |
| Development Languages/Environments | GCC (C, C++, Objc, GCJ) 4.11 - 4.1.2 Perl 5.8.8 PHP 5.1.6 |
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| Database and Directory Services | MySQL 5.0.22 - 5.0.77 | |
| DNS Services | BIND 9.3.3 - 9.3.6 | |
| Web Servers and Components | Apache 2.2.3 Mod_ssl 2.2.3 Mod_perl 2.0.2cmd - 2.0.4 Mod_python 3.1 -3.2.8 |
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Servers with Simple Control Panel Sites with Simple Control Panel installed will have different configurations. Below is a list of the default configuration: | ||
| Apache 2.0 | ||
| PHP 4.3(FC2 / RHEL4 / CentOS4) / 5.0 (FC4) | ||
| MySQL 3.23 (FC2) / 4.1 (FC4 / RHEL4 / CentOS4) | ||
| PostgreSQL 7.4 (FC2 / RHEL4 / CentOS4) / 8.0 (FC4) | ||
| phpMyAdmin 2.9 - 2.11.9 | ||
| phpPgAdmin 4.0 - 4.2.2 | ||
| Tomcat 5.5 - 5.5.28 | ||
| SpamAssassin 3.0 3.3.2 | ||
| SquirrelMail 1.4 - 1.4.21 | ||
| Webalizer 2.0 - 2.21_2 | ||
NOTE: For information about which PHP libraries are installed on your Virtual Private Server (VPS) see Which PHP libraries are installed by default on my Virtual Private Server (VPS).
