Guide Install WordPress on CyberPanel With LiteSpeed Cache (Free Way, WP-CLI)

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Install WordPress on CyberPanel With LiteSpeed Cache (Free Way, WP-CLI)

WordPress on OpenLiteSpeed with the LiteSpeed Cache plugin is one of the fastest setups you can run on a small VPS, and the main reason many people pick CyberPanel.

Watch it: Part 6 of the CyberPanel course, WordPress with LiteSpeed Cache

This is Part 6 of 10 in our free CyberPanel Full Course. The written steps below go into more detail.

One surprise first: on our CyberPanel 3.0 server, the WordPress menu didn't open an installer. It opened the WordPress Manager pricing page (staging, backups, auto login and one-click install are sold as an add-on). You don't need it. This guide does the same job for free, in about five minutes, with WP-CLI, the official WordPress command line tool. We did every step below on our test site cyber.adminslab.com.

What you need

A website in CyberPanel with working SSL. See creating a website in CyberPanel.
SSH access as root.
PHP 8.3 is a good choice for WordPress today.

Step 1: Create the database
Open Databases & FTP > Create Database. Pick the website, type a short name and user, and click Generate for a strong password:
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CyberPanel adds a prefix to both names. On our site it became

Code:

cyber_wp

for the database and

Code:

cyber_wp

for the user. Click Use This Password, copy the password somewhere safe (a password manager), then Create Database. More about this page in our databases and phpMyAdmin guide.

Step 2: Install WP-CLI (once per server)
WP-CLI wasn't installed on our fresh CyberPanel server (

Code:

wp: command not found

). Install it:

Code:

curl -sLo /usr/local/bin/wp https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wp-cli/builds/gh-pages/phar/wp-cli.phar
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/wp
wp --version --allow-root

We got

Code:

WP-CLI 2.12.0

.

Step 3: Download WordPress as the site user
Run WordPress commands as the website's own Linux user, never as root, so every file gets the right owner. Find the user name:

Code:

ls -la /home/cyber.adminslab.com/public_html

Ours is

Code:

cyber2602

. Then remove CyberPanel's placeholder page and download WordPress:

Code:

cd /home/cyber.adminslab.com/public_html
rm -f index.html
sudo -u cyber2602 wp core download

Removing

Code:

index.html

matters: if it stays, visitors keep seeing the placeholder instead of WordPress.

Step 4: Create wp-config.php and install
Type the database password without it landing in your shell history:

Code:

read -s -p "DB password: " P; echo
sudo -u cyber2602 wp config create --dbname=cyber_wp --dbuser=cyber_wp --dbpass="$P" --dbhost=localhost

Then install WordPress. Choose your own admin user name (not "admin") and a strong password:

Code:

read -s -p "WP admin password: " A; echo
sudo -u cyber2602 wp core install --url=https://cyber.adminslab.com --title="My Site" \
  --admin_user=youradmin [email protected] --admin_password="$A" --skip-email

You should see

Code:

Success: WordPress installed successfully.

Use the https address in

Code:

--url

so WordPress doesn't start on http.

Step 5: Install LiteSpeed Cache

Code:

sudo -u cyber2602 wp plugin install litespeed-cache --activate

The plugin writes its rules into

Code:

.htaccess

. Now the step most guides skip: OpenLiteSpeed only reads .htaccess changes after a restart. On our server the cache did nothing until we ran:

Code:

systemctl restart lsws

Step 6: Check the cache really works
Request the home page twice and look at the

Code:

x-litespeed-cache

header:

Code:

for i in 1 2; do curl -s -o /dev/null -D - https://cyber.adminslab.com/ | grep -i x-litespeed-cache:; done

Here is the whole check on our server: WordPress 7.1.3, LiteSpeed Cache 7.9.2 active, first request a miss, second a hit:
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miss then hit: the cache is working.
No header at all: restart lsws (Step 5) and try again. Logged-in visitors and POST requests are never cached, so test with curl or a private window.

After the install

Log in at
Code:
https://yourdomain.com/wp-admin/
. LiteSpeed Cache adds its own LiteSpeed Cache menu; the defaults are fine to start with.
Forgot the admin password? Set a new one from SSH:
Code:
sudo -u cyber2602 wp user update youradmin --prompt=user_pass
Keep WordPress updated:
Code:
sudo -u cyber2602 wp core update && sudo -u cyber2602 wp plugin update --all
Upload limit too small for themes or imports? See changing PHP settings in CyberPanel.
Missing imagick in Site Health? See installing PHP extensions.

Common problems

"Error establishing a database connection": wrong database name, user or password in wp-config.php (remember the prefix), or MariaDB stopped: check the services.
Still seeing the CyberPanel placeholder:
Code:
index.html
is still in public_html.
Plugin or theme install asks for FTP details: files are owned by root. Fix with
Code:
chown -R cyber2602:cyber2602 /home/cyber.adminslab.com/public_html/*
(your own user name).
Redirect loop behind Cloudflare: set Cloudflare's SSL mode to Full (strict), not Flexible.

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Tested on CyberPanel 3.0 (build 8, OpenLiteSpeed edition) on Ubuntu 24.04, October 2026. Menu names can change slightly between versions.

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