{"id":11234,"date":"2025-01-23T07:17:09","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T07:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trustedhosting.in\/blog\/?p=11234"},"modified":"2026-04-14T12:28:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T12:28:45","slug":"how-create-your-first-directadmin-serve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/how-create-your-first-directadmin-serve\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Create your First DirectAdmin Server"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-11493 size-full\" title=\"How to Create your First DirectAdmin Server\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/ChatGPT-Image-Apr-14-2026-05_57_40-PM.png\" alt=\"How to Create your First DirectAdmin Server\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/ChatGPT-Image-Apr-14-2026-05_57_40-PM.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/ChatGPT-Image-Apr-14-2026-05_57_40-PM-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/ChatGPT-Image-Apr-14-2026-05_57_40-PM-1024x683.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/ChatGPT-Image-Apr-14-2026-05_57_40-PM-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\" \/><\/p>\n<h1><\/h1>\n<h1>How to Create your First DirectAdmin Server<\/h1>\n<div class=\"instructions screensteps-textblock\" tabindex=\"0\">\n<div id=\"text-content_8f4eaf16-b92c-4a3d-9d80-16ddfa61b187\" class=\"text-block-content\">\n<p>Before you can sell and provision hosting accounts, you must add at least one server to your WHMCS installation. The steps below create a DirectAdmin server in WHMCS.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"step step-depth-1\" data-step-uuid=\"efb5ca2c-c808-4071-a0b6-719541a86af9\">\n<h2 id=\"creating-a-directadmin-server\" tabindex=\"0\">Creating a DirectAdmin Server<\/h2>\n<div class=\"instructions screensteps-textblock\" tabindex=\"0\">\n<div id=\"text-content_ff84f3fe-49c7-40e3-ba65-ebd8e05bfea8\" class=\"text-block-content\">\n<p>To add your server to WHMCS:<\/p>\n<p>1. In to the DirectAdmin Administrator panel go to\u00a0<strong>Account Manager &gt; Create Reseller<\/strong>\u00a0and create a new reseller user.<\/p>\n<p>2. Log in to the WHMCS Admin Area.<\/p>\n<p>3. Go to\u00a0<strong>Configuration &gt; System Settings &gt; Servers\u00a0<\/strong>(<strong>Setup &gt; Products\/Services &gt; Servers\u00a0<\/strong>in WHMCS 7.10 and earlier).<\/p>\n<p>4. Click\u00a0<strong>Add New Server.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>5. Select\u00a0<em>DirectAdmin\u00a0<\/em>for\u00a0<strong>Module<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>6. Enter the server hostname or IP address and the DirectAdmin reseller username and password or login key.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"instructions screensteps-textblock screensteps-wrapper--tip screensteps-wrapper\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"status\" aria-label=\"tip\">\n<div id=\"text-content_fb4f163b-db4b-4291-a04d-2af1f9a1257d\" class=\"text-block-content\">\n<blockquote><p>For help with these details, contact your hosting provider or system administrator.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"instructions screensteps-textblock\" tabindex=\"0\">\n<div id=\"text-content_21ce1b3d-9434-458c-b402-835271125227\" class=\"text-block-content\">\n<p>7. Click\u00a0<strong>Test Connection\u00a0<\/strong>to ensure that WHMCS is able to communicate. A success message will appear.<\/p>\n<p>8. Click\u00a0<strong>Save Changes.\u00a0<\/strong>The\u00a0<strong>Servers\u00a0<\/strong>interface will appear, displaying the newly-added server in the list.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11235\" src=\"https:\/\/www.trustedhosting.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/0e1cc3eb-22c5-45bb-a2a0-587b82a74535.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"594\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/0e1cc3eb-22c5-45bb-a2a0-587b82a74535.png 594w, https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/0e1cc3eb-22c5-45bb-a2a0-587b82a74535-300x84.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to Create your First DirectAdmin Server Before you can sell and provision hosting accounts, you must add at least&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-whmcs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11234"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11494,"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11234\/revisions\/11494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}