LiteSpeed

LiteSpeed: It is a proprietary web server software. It is the fourth most popular web server, and is estimated to be used by 10% of websites.

  1. Before installing any software, it is important to ensure that the system is up to date:

sudo apt update
  1. and upgrade:

sudo apt upgrade
  1. By default, OpenLiteSpeed is available in the Debian 11 base repository. So, you must run the following command to add the OpenLiteSpeed repository to your Debian system:

wget -O - https://repo.litespeed.sh | sudo bash
  1. Again, we update the packages and install OpenLiteSpeed:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install openlitespeed
  1. The default password for OpenLiteSpeed is 123456. We will change the password to something more secure with the following command:

sudo /usr/local/lsws/admin/misc/admpass.sh
  1. We configure the firewall to allow connections through ports 8088 and 7080. We then add the rules in the port forwarding:

sudo ufw allow 8088/tcp
sudo ufw allow 7080/tcp
sudo ufw reload
  1. Port forwarding rules:

  1. Once we have completed the previous step we can connect. We will put in the search engine of our browser localhost:7081 we provide our login credentials and we will have access to everything.

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