How to uninstall VestaCP (Vesta Control Panel)

You don’t want to use anymore Vesta? You can just uninstall it or you can reinstall the operating system.

To uninstall VestaCP on CentOS do:

1. Connect to your server via SSH as root

2. Stop the Vesta service with service vesta stop

service vesta stop 

3. Delete Vesta packages/software repository

[root@webcp ~]# yum remove vesta*
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package vesta.x86_64 0:0.9.8-17 will be erased
---> Package vesta-nginx.x86_64 0:0.9.8-17 will be erased
---> Package vesta-php.x86_64 0:0.9.8-17 will be erased
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

========================================================================================================================================================================
 Package                                    Arch                                  Version                                   Repository                             Size
========================================================================================================================================================================
Removing:
 vesta                                      x86_64                                0.9.8-17                                  @vesta                                 11 M
 vesta-nginx                                x86_64                                0.9.8-17                                  @vesta                                1.3 M
 vesta-php                                  x86_64                                0.9.8-17                                  @vesta                                 36 M

Transaction Summary
========================================================================================================================================================================
Remove  3 Packages

Installed size: 49 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading packages:
Running transaction check
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded
Running transaction
  Erasing    : vesta-0.9.8-17.x86_64                                                                                                                                1/3
  Erasing    : vesta-php-0.9.8-17.x86_64                                                                                                                            2/3
  Erasing    : vesta-nginx-0.9.8-17.x86_64                                                                                                                          3/3
  Verifying  : vesta-nginx-0.9.8-17.x86_64                                                                                                                          1/3
  Verifying  : vesta-php-0.9.8-17.x86_64                                                                                                                            2/3
  Verifying  : vesta-0.9.8-17.x86_64                                                                                                                                3/3

Removed:
  vesta.x86_64 0:0.9.8-17                             vesta-nginx.x86_64 0:0.9.8-17                             vesta-php.x86_64 0:0.9.8-17

Complete!

and

[root@webcp ~]# rm -f /etc/yum.repos.d/vesta.repo
[root@webcp ~]# 

4. You may also want to remove /usr/local/vesta folder

[root@webcp local]# rm -rf vesta
[root@webcp local]#

5. Now we have to remove the cron jobs for the user admin.
Let’s list first the cron jobs:

[root@webcp ~]# crontab -u admin -l
MAILTO=admin@plothost.com
CONTENT_TYPE="text/plain; charset=utf-8"
15 02 * * * sudo /usr/local/vesta/bin/v-update-sys-queue disk
10 00 * * * sudo /usr/local/vesta/bin/v-update-sys-queue traffic
30 03 * * * sudo /usr/local/vesta/bin/v-update-sys-queue webstats
*/5 * * * * sudo /usr/local/vesta/bin/v-update-sys-queue backup
10 05 * * * sudo /usr/local/vesta/bin/v-backup-users
20 00 * * * sudo /usr/local/vesta/bin/v-update-user-stats
*/5 * * * * sudo /usr/local/vesta/bin/v-update-sys-rrd
40 2 * * * sudo /usr/local/vesta/bin/v-update-sys-vesta-all
03 3 * * * sudo /usr/local/vesta/bin/v-update-letsencrypt-ssl
[root@webcp ~]#

 Remove the cron jobs via crontab -u admin -e. Save and exit.

[root@webcp ~]# crontab -u admin -e