# aaPanel

Generated on 2 Sep 2025 from [the aaPanel catalog page](https://marketplace.digitalocean.com/apps/aapanel)

## What is aaPanel

### Free and Easy-to-use Web Hosting Control Panel

### Simple and smart visualization

It’s easy to operate, Simple and friendly interactive experience, One-click installation of LEMP/LAMP website environment

### Become a master of server management easily

aaPanel is a Free and Open source Hosting control panel, encapsulates common Linux commands into functional modules, It can be completed in a few clicks on the panel

### Visible safety

One-click inspection of 16 common server security risks, firewall, whether the default port is modified, etc. and provide solutions, integrate free Fail2ban and Nginx WAF

## Functions

- WP Toolkit
- Nginx WAF
- Apache WAF
- Website statistics
- Tamper-proof
- System hardening
- Disk analysis
- Fail2ban
- MySQL Manager
- Redis Manager
- PHPMyAdmin autologin
- Web-Based Terminal
- Docker Manager
- FTP Server
- Email Support
- File Manager
- Multiple PHP Manager
- One-click Backup and Restore
- Auto Backups
- Auto SSL
- Nginx,Apache,OpenLiteSpeed Support

  More…

## Software Included

*This Marketplace listing does not include a detailed software list.*

## Creating an App using the Control Panel

Click the **Deploy to DigitalOcean** button to create a Droplet based on this 1-Click App. If you aren’t logged in, this link will prompt you to log in with your DigitalOcean account.

[![Deploy to DO](https://www.deploytodo.com/do-btn-blue.svg)](https://cloud.digitalocean.com/droplets/new?image=aapanel)

## Creating an App using the API

In addition to creating a Droplet from the aaPanel 1-Click App using the control panel, you can also use the [DigitalOcean API](https://docs.digitalocean.com/reference/api). As an example, to create a 4GB aaPanel Droplet in the SFO2 region, you can use the following `curl` command. You need to either save your [API access token](https://docs.digitalocean.com/reference/api/create-personal-access-token/index.html.md) to an environment variable or substitute it in the command below.

```shell
curl -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
         -H 'Authorization: Bearer '$TOKEN'' -d \
        '{"name":"choose_a_name","region":"sfo2","size":"s-2vcpu-4gb","image":"aapanel"}' \
        "https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/droplets"
```

## Getting Started After Deploying aaPanel

Use View Console or SSH tool to log in as root user.

Use `sudo bt default` to view access aaPanel link and user password information

`sudo bt default`

E.g.: use.your.ip replaced with the IP of your server

- aaPanel Internet Address: [https://use.your.ip:7800/login](https://use.your.ip:7800/login)

Note: that the password is only displayed once. If you forget it, you can use `bt 5` to modify it.

aaPanel Management script

Please use root user or sudo permission to execute

aaPanel CLI

`bt`

![](https://www.vultr.com/marketplace-assets/aapanel-readme_image-390428d9-dccb-439e-bd10-a8d04bdbdb37-1722329232.png)

View access link

`bt default`

or

`bt 14`

Change aaPanel login password，e.g. 123456

`echo 123456 | bt 5`

Change aaPanel username，e.g. useraa

`echo useraa | bt 6`

Change port of aaPanel, e.g. 8881

`echo 8881 | bt 8`

Site Configuration location

`/www/server/panel/vhost`

Site default directory

`/www/wwwroot`

Check panel logs

`bt 22`

aaPanel Stop

`bt stop`

aaPanel Start

`bt start`

aaPanel Restart

`bt restart`

Community support: [https://www.aapanel.com/forum/](https://www.aapanel.com/forum)