Your best bet is to install ISPconfig (or any other control panel) first, before doing any configuration. Once you install a control panel, you must use it to configure your system, and it will either destroy any configuration previously done or leave it in an awkward state.
So, short answer: Rebuild your Linode, install ISPconfig, and then set up what you need using ISPconfig's documentation and not Linode's documentation. (Or don't install ISPconfig.)
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