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Steps to Install SitePad in cPanel

SitePad is a user-friendly website builder that makes creating websites simple without any requirement of technical skills required. It offers a smooth drag-and-drop experience where you can design beautiful websites without worrying about complex coding.

Inside your cPanel hosting panel, SitePad integrates easily. You can build and manage websites directly through their cPanel accounts. This means you do not have to jump between multiple platforms. Also, you have everything you need to build and maintain your website inside your hosting control panel itself.

In this guide, I will show you how you can install SitePad in your cPanel server properly. Let us begin step by step.

Basic Requirements Before You Start

Before the installation, you must make sure that your server has cPanel installed properly. A fresh or already running cPanel server will work fine.

With any kind of firewall security on your server, you will need to allow downloads from a few important domains. Otherwise, SitePad installation will not complete properly.

Also, you must allow full access to all packages coming from these domains:

  • *.sitepad.com
  • *.softaculous.com

Important Note:

When you publish your website later, SitePad will need to connect with these publishing servers. So you must also allow these IP addresses in your firewall:

  • us.sitepad.com (IP: 192.198.80.4)
  • eu.sitepad.com (IP: 91.121.54.72)

Do not miss this step; otherwise, publishing your website will cause problems later on.

Step 1: Check that IonCube Loaders are active before installation. SitePad will not work without it.

Also, you need to make sure that IonCube is enabled for the backend PHP copy that your server uses. You can refer to our article on how to enable IonCube, or you can follow the standard cPanel documentation for help.

Once you confirm IonCube is active, you are ready for the next step.

Step 2: Log in to Your Server and Run Installation Commands

Now, log in using SSH access. You can use any SSH client like PuTTY for this. Then, run the following set of commands one by one (You must run these commands exactly as shown to avoid any errors.) –

wget -N http://files.sitepad.com/install.sh
chmod 755 install.sh
./install.sh
  • The first command will download the SitePad installer script.
  • The second command will give permission to run the script.
  • The third command will actually start installing SitePad on your server.

Step 3: (Optional) Choose Your Editor Server

SitePad can connect to a specific editor server near your location for faster performance. You can manually set it during installation. Otherwise, SitePad will automatically select the default server for you.

For example, if you want to use the US server, you need to modify the installation command like this:

./install.sh --editor_url=https://us.sitepad.com

Later, if you want to change this editor server, you can always do it from inside the SitePad Admin Panel under the Settings option.

Step 4: (Optional) Rebrand SitePad for Your Hosting Business

SitePad can show your own brand name and logo instead of SitePad’s default branding. You can do this rebranding at the time of installation, or you can always do the rebranding later from the SitePad Admin Panel settings.-

You can pass these additional parameters in your install command:

  • –brand_name=YOURBRANDNAME
  • –brand_logo=https://YOURLOGOURL.png
  • –brand_url=https://YOURBRAND.COM

So your command will look like this:

./install.sh --brand_name=YOURBRANDNAME --brand_logo=https://YOURLOGOURL.png --brand_url=https://YOURBRAND.COM

Make sure that:

  • The brand name should not have any spaces or special characters.
  • The brand logo should be a PNG image of 100px X 100px dimensions.

Step 5: Accessing SitePad Inside cPanel Accessing SitePad Inside cPanel

After the installation, you can now find SitePad inside your WHM panel.

Go to Plugins (or Add-ons if you are using an older version), and click on SitePad Website Builder.

Then, the SitePad webpage will open inside your panel. If you reach this page without any error, then your installation is complete and successful!

How to Force SitePad to Use cPanel’s PHP Binary

By default, SitePad may sometimes use a third-party PHP binary. You may want to make sure it only uses the PHP that comes with your cPanel. For that, you can add an extra parameter during installation.
Use these commands:

wget -N http://files.sitepad.com/install.sh
chmod 755 install.sh
./install.sh --nocpphp

This way, you make sure SitePad does not create any PHP conflicts with your server setup.

Once installed, you will find SitePad right inside your WHM panel, ready to help you or your clients build amazing websites.

June 18, 2025