Openlitespeed Linode has a highly extensible nature that smoothens and accelerates the hosting performance of the platform. Bobcares answers all of your questions on Linode no matter the size, as part of our Linode Support Service.

 Openlitespeed and Linode

It is the Open Source version of LiteSpeed Web Server Enterprise that includes all of the necessary capabilities, including HTTP/3 compatibility. OLS has tremendous scalability. It acts as a plugin in the case of Linode.

After the Provisioning of the  Linode, it may take 2 to 5 minutes for the OpenLiteSpeed plugin to complete the installation process. Make sure that the Linode options are active to satisfy the requirements for the plugin to work smoothly.

Openlightspeed Linode configuration

Find the IPv4 address of the Linode:

1. To get a list of all of the Linodes, click the Linodes link in the sidebar.
2. Locate and choose the Linode that went under generation while deploying the app.
3. Go to the Networking tab.
4. In the IPv4 table, the Address column will display the IPv4 address.

Configure the server using a domain name. After that, assign it to the WordPress site if necessary. That is, an A record connected with the Linode’s IP address must be created. Review the DNS Manager tutorial to understand how to configure DNS records in the Cloud Manager. Finally, using a local terminal, connect to the server as root:

ssh root@ipaddress

An output similar to the following appears  for the openlitespeed Linode:

Output

Linux localhost 4.19.0-13-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.160-2 (2020-11-28) x86_64

Welcome to One-Click OpenLiteSpeed WordPress Server.
To keep this server secure, the firewall is enabled.
All ports are BLOCKED except 22 (SSH), 80 (HTTP) and 443 (HTTPS).

WordPress One-Click Quickstart guide:
* https://docs.litespeedtech.com/cloud/images/wordpress/

It will appear in a web browser as follows:

* The new WordPress site: http://192.46.208.62
* The phpMyAdmin: http://192.46.208.62/phpmyadmin

After this the output  confirming the openlitespeed Linode will continue as shown below:

On the server:
* The default web root is located at /var/www/html
* You can get the MySQL root password and MySQL WordPress user password with command: sudo cat .db_password
* You can get the Web Admin admin password with the following command: sudo cat .litespeed_password
* The WordPress Cache plugin, LSCache, is located at /var/www/html/wp-content/plugins/litespeed-cache
* The phpMyAdmin is located at /var/www/phpmyadmin
* A script will run that will allow you to add a domain to the web server and implement SSL.

System Status:
Load : 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
CPU : 0.440664%
RAM : 169/1995MB (8.47%)
Disk : 2/49GB (5%)

Output

The programs included with the Debian GNU/Linux system are free software; the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright.

The openlitespeed Linode configuration output will continue as shown below:

Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by applicable law.
To visit your apps by domain instead of IP, please enter a valid domain.
If you don't have one yet, you may cancel this process by pressing CTRL+C and continuing to SSH.
This prompt will open again the next time you log in, and will continue to do so until you finish the setup. Make sure the domain's DNS record has been properly pointed to this server.
Enter the root domain only, then the system will add both the root domain and the www domain for you.
Your domain: example.com
The domain you put is: example.com
Please verify it is correct. [y/N] y

Domain has been added into OpenLiteSpeed listener.

The output will be as shown above. Note go through all of the aspects of the output to have more accessibility and management of the process. After this process In lieu of example.com, type the root domain name. If the domain is already pointed to the server, use the Let’s Encrypt SSL. To add Let’s Encrypt SSL, enter y and the email address.

A message with the Certificate has been successfully installed….. will display.

Do you wish to force HTTPS rewrite rule for this domain? [y/N]

Enter y and the HTTPS rules are enforced. This is the final step in the openlitespeed Linode process.

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Conclusion

To conclude, openlitespeed Linode for easy hosting management and accessibility in the process. It is an easy and highly efficient tool that acts as a wordpress hosting platform.