How To Install Ajenti Control Panel on Ubuntu & Debian

Ajenti is a web-based control panel for managing systems (like Webmin, cPanel). It has a very beautiful and user-friendly interface. For personal use, Ajenti is freely available for under AGPLv3. For commercial use, you have to pay for a small amount regularly.

This article will help you to install the Ajenti control panel on Ubuntu and Debian systems. This article has been tested with Debian 10 (Buster) only.

Step 1 – Add Repository

Ajenti provides its own repository for installing its packages. Use one of the following commands to add Ajenti apt repository based on your operating system.

On Debian – Ajenti requires Debian 8 or later.

wget http://repo.ajenti.org/debian/key -O- | sudo apt-key add -
echo "deb http://repo.ajenti.org/debian main main debian" >> /etc/apt/sources.list

On Ubuntu – Ajenti requires ubuntu 16.04 or later. Previous releases might work with Python upgraded

wget http://repo.ajenti.org/debian/key -O- | sudo apt-key add -
sudo echo "deb http://repo.ajenti.org/ng/debian main main ubuntu" >> /etc/apt/sources.list

Step 2: Install Ajenti Control Panel

After adding required repository in our system, Let’s install Ajenti control panel using following command.

sudo apt update
sudo apt install ajenti

Step 3 – Access Ajenti Control Panel

Ajenti default works on port 8000 with secure HTTP (HTTPS). You will most likely receive a warning message indicating that there is an issue with the server’s certificate. There is no problem because Ajenti is using a self signed certificate. we just need to accept it and proceed.

  https://svr2.tecadmin.net:8000/

  Username: root
  Password: admin

Ajenti Login Screen –

Ajenti Dashboard –

Step 4 – Manage Ajenti Service

Ajenti provides init service to Start/Stop/Restart Ajenti service. Use one of the following commands as per requirements

sudo systemctl start ajenti.service
sudo systemctl stop ajenti.service
sudo systemctl restart ajenti.service
sudo systemctl status ajenti.service