How to Install a Specific Version of cPanel & WHM

Introduction

For some servers, you may require the installation of a specific version of cPanel & WHM. Although this is not recommended, as we want for your server to run the most up-to-date version of cPanel, this is still possible.

This will also enable you to install the "EDGE" experimental build of cPanel on a new system.

We only recommend installing the versions of cPanel that are available in a release tier as listed on our update servers.

Procedure

To install a specific version of cPanel & WHM, you must create the following file before installing cPanel:

/etc/cpupdate.conf

Here is the file format for the contents of this file:

CPANEL=release
RPMUP=daily
SARULESUP=daily
STAGING_DIR=/usr/local/cpanel
UPDATES=daily

You will need to edit the line "CPANEL" and replace the value with your targeted version. For example:

CPANEL=lts

You can specify any available tier or version above 94. Attempting to specify 92 or lower will fail. More information is available in our documentation:

The cPanel & WHM Update Configuration File - cpupdate.conf | cPanel Docs

To confirm the available tiered versions of cPanel, you can check with this command:

curl -s http://httpupdate.cpanel.net/cpanelsync/TIERS | grep ^[c-s]