Confixx Manual - DNES HOSTING STORE
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1. Click here to see the current standard index page Resellers can alter their Index page templates at a later stage using a similar feature of their interface The changes will be effective for all Users assigned to this Reseller Users can overwrite the Index page file later by uploading their own Internet pages onto the server 6 4 Circular to all Resellers You can use Confixx to send standard e mails to all resellers Compose your e mail in the Text window below and enter the subject Send e mail to all resellers Ta Select on the next page Subject Important matice Text Good morning I would bo notiFjy you that sender s e mail address providerPprovider com Mame of sender Provider When you click Next a list of all the Resellers will appear Your m l wall be sent bo ai slatted recipiente Add or remove individual entries by choking on them while pressing Cins on your keybosrd Moro lt k eesh ru p Chin comi Shire lt chmelbmad rus aT G Sendto selected recipients If necessary you can remove certain Resellers from the list of recipients You can add or remove Resellers to from the list by clicking on them and pressing lt Ctrl gt on your keyboard After you ve made your selection click Send to selected recipients It may take a few minutes for the e mail to be sent to all addressees 6 5 Create Reseller Creating a Reseller involves four steps2. Change services Edit IP addresses Alter DNS settings and Change password For description of these features see section 5 6 Change reseller Toots A y Ls rl A Change reseler data Reseller res2 E E en To edit settings of a certain Reseller enter his her Confixx username in the Reseller field as shown on screenshot above and click the appropriate icon Make the necessary changes and click Save data Below the two main toolbars you can see a Manage reseller field set This feature first implemented in Confixx 3 1 allows to perform a number of individual and group Reseller management operations from a single view Manage reseler Puri U tua gt Circular W Delete Item s 1 Sof 10 total Pages Z gt gt Lat page tems per page 5 10 5 50 rest not specified 8 F O O us not specified g K O O z not specified 0 O O ress nok specified J E O x nok specified 0 El A Themis 1 5 of 10 total Pages 1 2 gt gt Las page items per page 5 10 25 50 By default this field set displays a full list of Resellers set up in the system You can specify the number of Resellers to be displayed per page It is possible to search Reseller list by Reseller s Confixx username Reseller s Company name and Reseller s name lastname if specified during the Reseller setup process The search results will be shown in the table below To return to full Reseller list click Show all
3. A y o pai gy MOC hard kmk ur mted hard bmk uriad hard brut urdrited hard im unimited hard imt 4 unimited hard bmk 7 urinate unidad hard lima unimibed hard imt 4 unimited Maimam F herd bim Cl umted masa L hard ime L urdented Tea hard imt urdieritecd madman C herd imt C urdmted nen herd bt V yr mted Maximum number of users The number of Users that the new Reseller may create can be limited Storage space A Reseller cannot assign Users more storage space than he s been assigned by Admin This means that he she can assign one of Users unlimited storage space only if he is provided with unlimited storage capacity by Admin Please note that 1 GB 1 024 MB Number of POP3 boxes POP3 box is a mailbox where e mail messages are stored For Linux POP3 boxes are users on the server without Shell access If this option is enabled for Reseller he she can activate this option for Users Number of e mail addresses E mail addresses are forwarders to either POP3 boxes or other existing e mail addresses If using POP3 boxes isn t authorized Reseller can allow Users to set up e mail addresses which forward to other exsiting e mail Autoresponders a Reseller can allow Users to set up autoresponders for individual e mail addresses For that reason we recommend to assign as many autoresponders as there are e mail addresses thus enabling to set up a separate autorespon
4. Define error files Users of this Reseller can use Confixx interface to set up error files for directories WebFTP an interface used to upload and download files from a web browser FTP users created by User can log onto this User section The Confixx interface for additional FTP users is restricted to password change and WebFTP provided that WebFTP is available WebMail an interface used to send and receive e mails via the web browser POP3 users can log onto the user section The Confixx interface for POP3 users is restricted to changing the password and to WebMail provided that WebMail is available WebMail yes O No Standard CGI scripts if you activate this option z Resellers will be able to copy standard CGI scripts into Standard Cal scripts ie Ya Yas O No Users CGI directories when creating Users The sa Yes O No Installation Manual describes how to set up standard CGI DNR ves No scripts on the server y Yes Q mo DNS Creates DNS entries automatically Beceup Mo s o DNR Registers domains automatically by generating a Backup amp updoad standard e mail to a domain registrar Spam filter if SpamAssassin is installed on your server your Resellers Users will have an effective spam filter If this feature is activated Reseller User can modify settings through WebMail per mailbox Backup is available as a service From a drop down list choose one of three options Choose No to
5. The first column from the left shows current Reseller status locked unlocked To change Reseller status click on the status icon check the applicable box Yes or No in the window that will appear and click Next see below When the Reseller is locked neither he she nor his her users can access the Confixx interface When they try to login in the system a special Confixx Locked page 1s displayed Do you realy want to lock reseler resD C yes C No GA Mart By clicking on Reseller username the Reseller column of the Manage reseller table you are transferred to this Reseller s interface where you can view this Reseller s Users and personal details and edit his settings using his interface features By clicking the Change icon you get into the Change reseller window of the Admin interface The Company column displays Resellers Company names if specified during the Reseller setup process The Users column shows the number of Users assigned to the Reseller Items in both columns are not clickable Use tick boxes on the right to perform group operations To delete a group of Resellers tick them in the list and click Delete To check all Resellers at once tick the upper box To send a standard e mail Circular to a group of Resellers tick those Resellers in the list and click Circular Input the content into the Text field enter the Subject and click Next to send
6. to commit your changes to the system Change personal data edit personal information for this Reseller 2 Change password 2 Delete reseller O Lockjurlock reseller Edit IP addresses Here you can assign new IP addresses remove IP 15 addresses or set a new standard IP Change password Delete Reseller Resellers can be deleted only if they no longer have any Users assigned to them If you want to delete a Reseller with Users assigned you must either delete these Users or re assign them to a different Reseller To delete the Reseller s users you must log onto the reseller section using this Reseller s username and delete Users as described in Reseller manual Lock unlock Resellers Locked resellers cannot access their Confixx interface The Users of the locked Reseller are locked as well They cannot access the Confixx interface their web pages are not displayed and FTP access isn t possible either They cannot access their e mail accounts but all incoming mail is received and stored Once Reseller is unlocked his Users will be able to use all features again Users locked personally by Reseller remain locked after the Reseller has been unlocked by Admin The Admin can still log onto the Confixx interface of a locked Reseller and of Reseller s locked Users 6 7 User Assignment Users are created by Reseller only Therefore Users always belong to a Rseller A Reseller that has created a User has control
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8. web pe usr wend 2 web rect Items 1 2 of 2 total 7 Settings Before creating your first Reseller in Confixx you should configure basic system settings using the Settings menu Refer to this section when you need to edit Confixx settings as well Ideally you should set Confixx parameters only once directly after installing Confixx on your server 7 1 Databases If phpMyAdmin is installed on your server you can specify the URL using which phpMyAdmin can be accessed and whether this URL will be displayed in the User section 16 Specify the PHP MyAdmin path in My SQL window To make this information available to Users check Yes and click Apply settings If you don t wand Users to have access to this feature leave Yes checkbox blank Database settings photiyAdmin path phpmyadmin Do you want bo link phpMyAdmin path bo the user section Yes CET 7 2 IP Addresses Confixx Administrator can add new IP addresses to Confixx IP addresses amp IP addresses C P seach WS stom a e temis 1 2 of 2 total 10 1 197 36 rest webi Ci 10 1 197 37 rest webs a items 1 2 of 2 total You will see a list of all IP addresses currently present in Confixx showing which Resellers Users these addresses have been assigned to You can delete one or several addresses from the list by ticking them and clicking Delete If an IP address is assigned to a User it cannot be removed from the li
9. provide this service to his her Users If a service has been activated the Reseller can activate or deactivate this service 11 for his her Users xK Cherie gt el da Create reseller External MySQL access When this function is activated the Reseller can provide Users external access to their My SQL databases Services FTP Activate FTP to provide Users FTP access This function must also be activated for creating additional FTP users External MySQL access sy Wes O No PHP When PHP is activated files ending with php php3 and FTP Bum O is phtml can be used PHP ves O mo PHP upong ves mw PHP upload If this feature is enabled a temporary folder CGI Perl O ve no Cphptmp is created in the User s home directory If this feature is Module mod_pruthor O vs no activated for a User at a later time the temporary folder must be A created and authorized appropriately chmod 777 5 5 ves No aan ves No CGI Perl If this feature is disabled a CGIBIN directory is not CoRFusion ves No created For security reasons you should only activate CGI Perl if FrontPage support G ves O no the Apache web server is running with SuEXEC If SuEXEC is not hal O ve Mo available all CGI programs will be running under the Apache user gt gt i r and the web server group Each program running under the Apache Tes 12 No user has access to all user directories and also to system fil
10. Step 1 General Setting Maximum values and Limits For each feature Admin can specify a maximum value Use whole numbers only If you enter a 0 value for a function it won t be available to the Reseller and his Users To assign unlimited value to a feature check the unlimited box Fields marked with are required You can set hard limits to ensure that Resellers don t exceed the specified maximum values To do so check the Hard limit box against the appropriate feature Hard limits can be set for all features except Traffic If hard limit is not checked the Reseller can exceed the maximum value specified for a feature This will be reflected in his Reseller stats If some feature is limited for a Reseller the summary amount of this service for his Users must not exceed the specified limit E g if a Reseller is assigned 200 GB of storage space the total storage space available to his Users must not 10 exceed 200 GB When a Reseller attempts to assign more space Confixx will display an error message You can define maximum values limits to the following parameters Lirreks required fields Number of users Storage space Humber of POPS mal boxes Number of e mai addresses Number of e mail autoresponders Number of FTP users Traffic Number of domains Creatable sub domarrs Wildcard sub domalns 0 Ar domar 0 Cron job Main bests 0 MySQL Ditobares addresses MACETA Hee AAA Mon
11. custom menu do the following Insert the menu name the Text field see the screenshot above then select Reseller or User from the User type dropdown menu and click Add Depending on your choice you will create a menu in the User or Reseller interface correspondingly You will see a new entry in the menu list below First click the Edit icon for this menu On the new page that will appear enter the content to be displayed in the Overview section HTML is allowed Click Save to save your content and get back to the menu list Click on the Change link for the chosen menu in your case it will read 0 menu items to create menu items In the new window that appears specify item name and insert a URL in the Link field You can use the username tag which is substituted with resN or webN in the Reseller and User interfaces accordingly 8 Stats The stats section provides you full information on your Resellers activity and on the traffic they produce 8 1 Session list Here you can see all system users currently logged into the Confixx control panel The table also displays the current IP address the time of login and shows the last time the user was active Session bet Item s 1 2 of 2 total admi 10 1 196 1 LOGAS 16 14 06 10 02 06 16 15 04 admin nes 10 1 19f 2 itaas 14 10 53 LOGS gt 1628039 Itemis 1 2 of 2 total Only currently active sessions
12. menu Overview z Lii i ti In the Overview you can also find information on your current Confixx settings see below General information You are logged in as administrator Server name beta comPixsru Standard domain bets confixx wu Humber of reselers 10 Humber of users 10 Humber of domains 20 Number of sub domains 5 Humber of wildcards o MySQL databases 2 Cron jobs 0 Maling lists l Hational domains i Server time 09 40 12 Licence status Wal At the bottom of the page you can see a list of last planned and or executed server scripts The last SCHEDULED run column shows which scripts have been scheduled and when whereas last ACTUAL run shows successfully executed scripts Some scripts are executed on regular basis by default e g the Update script and therefore have no last SCHEDULED run Conficx scripts execution times Event last SCHEDULED run last ACTUAL run next ron Update script 28 09 13 09 Z8 09 13 11 Web server reload 6 09 13 09 26 09 13 09 26 09 13 11 E mail alases 6 09 13 09 26 09 13 22 6 09 13 15 Determine used storage space 28 09 12 52 04110 04 00 Measure web braffic 28 09 12 52 04 10 02 00 Measure FTP traffic 5 09 12 52 04 10 03 00 Confixx scripts are Update script The main system script which analyzes Reseller User configuration files and commits necessary changes into the system The Update script creates and deletes Rese
13. over the entire User s data services and domains A User can be deleted only by the Reseller that created the User account or to which the User is assigned Once a User has been assigned to a different Reseller that Reseller gains full control over this User User assignment plays an important role in measuring traffic Total Reseller traffic includes the traffic of all Users assigned to a Reseller If a user is moved from one Reseller to another the traffic of that User will be allocated to the new Reseller starting from the moment of transfer User s traffic generated prior to transfer is not reflected in the new Reseller s stats it is displayed in the previous Reseller s stats Please note that locked Resellers are not displayed in the list you must unlock the Reseller first When re assigning Users you can choose one of the following options Assign all Users to another Reseller this method moves all Users from a source Reseller to target Reseller Move individual Users this method moves individual Users to another Reseller 6 8 MySQL In this overview of the databases that have been set up you can clear individual Reseller databases for access from external servers To provide Reseller external MySQL access change his status to Activated by clicking on the MySQL icon in the left column MySQL databases P Search Show all tens 1 2 of 2 total Si Hegle mage n 0 Lu anc ie um vebi
14. period during which the script will be executed It is recommended to execute this script at night Hint if you want the script to be executed only once per day e g at 3 a m set the time period to 3 a m 4 a m and set the interval value Once per to at least 60 minutes If you specify a shorter interval the script may be executed several times during the specified time period 7 6 Quota If Quota is installed you can specify a storage limit for POP3 accounts in this section Enter the 0 value if you don t wish to set any limits 7 7 httpd Special You can use this feature to write additional lines to the virtual host entries of the oleo Apache configuration file for individual domains Users for all Users of a certain httpd additional encries For Reseller or for all domains on the server change a domain The changes will not be applied to the Apache configuration file immediately They ext t change a user m won t take effect until the Apache web server has been restarted C change a reseler change all resellers Warning please verify that the Apache web server functions properly after restart change DNS template 7 8 DNS Template You can create a template for Nameserver entries which will be used by all ssdmanss 65400 IN A fp Resellers who haven t created their own templates F dcmanFE S400 IN A EEES ffdomeant 66100 IN ME 10 When creating a template you can use Confixx
15. tags specified in the Variables ei list Click Save to confirm input Fdomain 15400 IN NS FELER edomsin 86400 IN NS Efre2sF Please select an action 7 9 DNS special DNS entry for change a domain Using this function you can create or edit DNS entries for domains or Resellers Select the appropriate action change a domain or change a reseller and click Next Follow wizard 2 change a reseller steps to complete the chosen action O Next 7 10 Standard Domain In this section you can change the main server domain name Please do not make any changes unless you know exactly what you are doing and unless you re sure these changes are truly necessary 20 tandad domain Standard doai bata confiar mu Apply new standard domain bo existing users Loo F vas Disable Standard domai C fas Standard IP 10 1 197 35 7 11 Shared SSL Confixx enables secure Internet transactions via Confixx hosted web pages through using a common SSL certificate The SSL Service can be activated for a Reseller who in turn allows or restricts this service for Users This SSL certificate is not from an official authority and won t be recognized by the web browser as being valid for the login URL which results in warning messages The Shared SSL window shows the status of the default SSL certificate status of the shared 55L certificate This certificate will be used for all User s domains which are ticked to be Th
16. 367 2 gt Lofipage tems per page 5 10 0 ae Gi Set quota for POPS user web ps of user web to 512018 Ci Set quota for POPS user webDpS of user webd to 512008 Ci Set quota for POPS user web p4 of user web0 to S120KB Gi Set quota for POPS user webOp1 of user web to 5120K6 D Set quota for POPS user webOp2 of user web0 to 51208 09 26 05 13 21 59 09 26 05 13 21 58 09 26 05 13 21 58 09 26 05 13 21 59 O3 26 05 A3 al 9O Update Soript Update Soript Update Sorpe Update Soript Update Sorpt lt r a zz a l s Item s 1 S of 125 total Pages 1234567 gt Lastpage 5 5 Versions Jtems per page 5 10 20 0 100 200 This feature provides full information on Confixx versions and their release dates Click on the version name number to get detailed information including URLs for download from Confixx website Personal information 5 6 Personal details This feature provides a table for input of your personal details Required fields are marked with Label Input Gender Male e First name Joba Last name Doe Version 3 0 7 pro 3 0 6 pro 3 0 5 pro 3 0 4 pro Release date 5 20 2005 4 11 2005 2124 2005 1 17 2005 11 11 2004 9 1 2004 7 10 2004 5 31 2004 4 12 2004 Company After you ve finished inputting information click Apply to save your data Addres
17. D search LA show al Delete Ikends 1 2 of 2 total bett C O 10 1 197 O Tkern s 1 2 of 2 total Example 10 1 197 accept Accept checked u deny Accept unchecked In this case access from the whole IP range except for 10 1 197 will be denied E g IP address 10 1 197 112 will be able log into the control panel access from 80 70 60 50 will be denied To switch between accept and deny for an existing rule click on the corresponding accept deny icon in the list The status will be changed immediately but will not apply to all active sessions Confixx provides a search function for existing rules To search for a rule enter the IP address IP mask and click Search 7 4 Domain Blacklist You can restrict using certain domain names including those available in the system or those you wish to enter manually in the HTTPD configuration file To do this enter a domain name and click OK Blacklisted domains can no longer be set up by Resellers To make a domain name available to Resellers tick the appropriate tick box in the list and click Delete to remove the domain from blacklist 18 E Domain blacklist Add new domain to the black iist ponn 167 Teens 1 1 of 1 total beta confi ru C Teris 1 1 of 1 total 7 5 Update Intervals Here you can determine how often the following system scripts should be invoked Update intervals Lipdate intervals
18. Event Once per Tine period Execute now Confio Main 2 minutes O Web server reload E minutes O E mad alases 6 mirute s O Determine used storage space 120 minute z from 04 wlos O Measure web traffic 120 minute s from O2 woje m O Measure FTP traffic 1120 minute s from 03 w to 04 w O Check For new wersion lis fener O Do you want to reload the web server immediately after new user has been created 7 Confixx Main Specifiy the time interval for Main Confixx script execution Main Confixx script is responsible for critical system modifications and calls up other scripts when needed Web server reload Specify the minimum interval between reloads This value should not be too small as the web server is not available for a short period of time during reload E mail aliases To prevent a long waiting period after setting up e mail addresses set the Once per parameter to a smaller value The Virtusertable will be rewritten only when necessary Determine used storage space This script determines storage space used by Users You can define a time period during which the script will be executed It is recommended to execute this script at night Measure web traffic Measures traffic generated by webpage retrievals You can define a time period during which the script will be executed It 1s recommended to execute this script at night 19 Measure FTP traffic Measures traffic generated by FTP Define a time
19. are expanded by clicking on the main menu item e g General as shown below Professional 4 Confixx Easy Confixx Easy is a special feature which allows to instantly switch between the Admin Reseller and User interfaces Using Confixx Easy you can edit Reseller domains mailboxes and other settings without having to relogin in the system This feature is also useful 1f you intend to use Confixx for managing your own websites and do not wish to create reseller accounts In this case your web pages will be put into the home directory of the default User web0 who is administrated by Reseller res0 This User has the same password as your Admin Contos Easy ha Domains Zor ries To get into the Reseller interface of resO click Domains in the Confixx Easy menu To get back into the Admin interface click on the Back to admin link Conti Easy Series Back to admin To get into the User interface of web0 click Services in the Confixx Easy menu In User interface you can create e mail addresses FTP accounts and edit settings as described in User manual The FTP account of web0 has the same password as Admin 5 General 5 1 Overview By clicking Overview in each Confixx menu you can see a toolbar of major features available in this menu These toolbar controls correspond to menu items and are provided for quick navigation Below you can see the toolbar for the General
20. database Once your Confixx license has been unlocked the key and serial number your license information will appear in the Licensing information field set The Valid until field shows when your license will expire Immediately after registration the field Status will show Verifying license The status will be updated when the confixx_counterscript pl is executed please refer to Installation manual for further details To refresh this page click on Licensing information The license will work as soon as the Status field shows Valid The following events will make your Confixx license invalid License expiration Changing primary IP address of the server ethO simply re register your Confixx in this case Changing primary nic hardware ethO contact your support partner for Confixx in this case 6 Resellers Only Resellers can create Users When creating a Reseller you determine which privileges this Reseller will have inlcluding limits and services available to this Reseller and to his Users accordingly For example you can set a maximum number of end users and limits for storage space of traffic 6 1 Overview As in General menu the Tools bar of the Overview section provides shortcuts to major menu features The Change reseller data toolbar below provides quick access to major features which concern editing Reseller information These tools include Change personal data
21. der for each e mail address Number of additional FTP users FTP users are users who have a home directory on the web server within the User s home directory and don t have shell access Resellers can allow users to create such additional FTP accounts and can also limit a number of accounts to be created Traffic If traffic limit defined in this section is exceeded Admin will be alerted accordingly Creatable subdomains End users can create subdomains and have them point to a certain folder within their home directory The subdomains will function only if User s domains are specified as wildcard domains domain tld on the name server Number of wildcard subdomains In this section specify the number of wildcard subdomains the Reseller is authorized to assign to Users Number of domains With domains Users can create web pages with URLs looking the same as their e mail addresses e g johnsmith provider com Note for domains JavaScript is used Number of cronjobs With cronhobs Users can automatically run scripts at scheduled time A cronjob corresponds to an entry in the file etc crontab Number of mailing lists Majordomo mailing lists which can be created by Users MySQL databases under normal conditions one database per User should be sufficient Defining services The following services can be activated or deactivated for Reseller If a service has been deactivated the Reseller cannot
22. disable the backup service If you choose Yes Users of this Reseller will be able to make backups and store them in their home directories If you choose Backup and upload you will enable Users to automatically upload their backups on FTP After setting necessary limits and services for reseller click Next to proceed to Step 2 Step 2 Personal data Required fields are marked with Three additional fields are available which you can label and fill out with any additional information you want You can leave password fields blank in this case Confixx will generate a standard 8 character password 13 Crea a iy Create reseller First name Last name S Company Address E mail address 3 Customer ID Definable elds Timp Display this information in the reseller section yes No Only completed fields will be displayed Leave password fields ernpty bo generate random password New password Re enter password Click Next to proceed to Step 3 or click Back if you wish to edit settings specified in the Limits and Services view Step 3 IP addresses design This step defines a standard IP for a Reseller All Reseller s Users will be created under this standard IP unless they have been assigned their own exclusive IP addresses Choose from the list which IP addresses will be available to Reseller You can make multiple selections by clicking on the IP and
23. e in the E mail setup window you only need to specify Sender s name e mail address and click Send New reseller has been created Feseler resid Parpword shAvwhPal Send e mail bo new reseller To resdibprovader com Subject Your registration has been completed Taxt Dear Sir A Your have been registered as a Reseller for BestHosting com Please use the Following authorisation details to login bo yur control panel Reseller resio Password shivhPal Sincerely tl Sender s e mail address Name of sender If you haven t set up a standard template you can compose an individual e mail in the provided Text window enter a subject and fill in the Sender information mentioned above 6 6 Change Reseller It may be necessary on occasion to change Reseller privileges for example for resellers who need more storage space for their Users To edit Reseller data please enter the username of the Reseller in the field Reseller To see all Resellers click Show reseller list Wa li Select an action for a rese er After entering the Reseller s username select an operation you want to Reseller perform The following operations are available O Change personal data O Change services C Edt IP addresses Change services When you select this option and click Next you O aber DNS will see a list of services currently available to Reseller Having made the necessary changes click Save data
24. e shared SSL certificate is active accessed via https Reseller can define its own certificates if he she has an exclusive IP In this case all domains that are pointed to this IP would use this certificate for https connections In case your existing SSL certificate becomes invalid you need to contact a certification authority to acquire a new one To register the new certificate in Confixx use the Change SSL certificate field set Choose Private key and certificate from the drop down menu and click Next input your private key and certificate numbers into the appropriate data fields and click Save to store them in Confixx Change the shared SSL certificate 7 12 Customizable menus Using this feature you can create your own custom menus in Reseller and User interfaces Menus can contain items pointing to various sections of Reseller or User interfaces or to external objects such as e mail addresses or URLs Add Text User type Customizable menus Delete Themis 1 2 of 2 botal METIA reseler 7 3 menu temis My provides reseler ES menu kemls Item s 1 2 of 2 total OO Custom menus will appear in the same design as the rest of Confixx interface and will change accordingly if a new skin is applied The first item of the custom menu will always be named Overview You can add custom text to this item This text will be shown in the interface if the User clicks on this menu item 21 To create a
25. es and sa 5 ves Mo folders on your web server Thus 1t 1s possible for User to read the Directory listing ves No home directories of all other users via a simple Perl script Websicer State 5 Wes O No Python disables or activates files with the postfix py You have to PI protected directories J f j distinguish normal cgiscripts written in Python and scripts that are im l pa vaz Mo paid ves No to be run by mod_python More information can be found at WebFTP ves No http www modpython org Weorles ves No qee SSI if the Reseller deactivates SSI for a User then files ending with shtm shtml and sht cannot be used Wap wml files can be used 1f this feature has been activated DirectoryListing 1f this feature has been activated Users can specify whether to display the content of their home directories in case their Index files Home pages are not available If this feature has been deactivated for Reseller DirectoryListing cannot be provided to Users FrontPage support if this feature has been activated for a Reseller he can install the FrontPage extension for his Users FrontPage can only be assigned to Users whose functions Password protection and Error files have been deactivated Shell access If Reseller activates Shell access for Users they can log onto the Linux shell using the main user e g wwwl Shell access should be assigned only in exceptional ca
26. ller User accounts applies new system settings etc Web server reload This script restarts the web server when necessary E mail aliases Rewrites Virtusertable when necessary Determine used storage space this script monitors storage space occupied by Resellers Users Measure web traffic measures traffic generated by webpage retrievals Measure FTP traffic measures traffic generated by FTP transfers 5 2 Change Password In this section you can change your Admin username and password also used to login to the Admin Reseller and User interfaces The password must contain not less than 6 and not more than 12 characters Change password Username admin Old password New password Re enber password 6 Change password To change your password first enter your current password Now enter your new password twice and confirm by clicking Change Password If you want to change username only leave password fields blank 5 3 Language Design In this section you can select the language and design of your interface Choose the applicable language and design scheme from the drop down lists This language and design will be used for newly created Resellers Users by default Resellers and Users can select their own language and design 1f necessary Users can select language only When you set up a new Reseller you can select an individual design scheme for him her In Confixx 3 1 it is possible to use old skins from C
27. onfixx 2 0 These skins can be recognized by the Confixx 2 0 prefix Tick the Use old skins box to activate these skins in the Design drop down list To add remove old skins from the list check uncheck the box and click Change Please note that by selecting an old skin you change not only the design scheme but the menu structure as well Language Design Language English Design Modern Blue Color Scheme Lise old skins Ww Change 5 4 Messages Server messages are generated by the update script You can use this page to list the different error messages in chronological order There are the following types of server messages in Confixx e Errors If errors occur the update script cancels execution to prevent damage to the system It is important to detect the cause of errors and fix them as Confixx will not function properly otherwise e Warnings Warnings refer to less severe errors which may occur for example if directories could not be deleted You should try to correct the problem described in the warning manually and if necessary remove the cause of the problem e Notices Notices are displayed when Resellers log on off and when Reseller accounts are created or deleted In Confixx 3 1 it is possible to sort messages by type Errors Warnings Notices All and to define the number of messages to be displayed per page Messages Type Notices w P Show Item s 1 5 of 125 total Pages 1234
28. ore domains on the server Reseller may create and manage Users Admin is responsible for server settings and creates Resellers User Reseller and Admin each have their own Confixx web interface This manual describes the Admin interface 2 Confixx administrator privileges general notes Confixx Admin can access all three interfaces using his Admin password To login as Admin use your Admin authorization details To login as one of your Resellers use this Reseller s Confixx username you must learn it first and your Admin password All Reseller usernames are organized according to a pattern res number e g resl res2 res3 etc To login as one of the Users use this User s Confixx username the pattern for Users is web1 web2 web25 etc and your Admin password After logging on you can access the entire Reseller User interfaces browse through personal settings and information excluding protected User sections such as FTP and POP3 accounts By default Confixx Admin is provided with his own Reseller resO and User account web0 These you can access by a corresponding username and Admin password or alternatively by means of ConfixxEasy feature described below in section 4 To access the Webalizer stats enter your Admin username and Admin password 3 Sections of the Admin interface The Confixx navigation pane is divided into four main menus General Reseller Settings and Stats Menus
29. pressing lt Ctrl gt If you given Reseller access to the DNS you must specify a domain name FQDN in Primary nameserver and Secondary nameserver fields Create reseller Label Input IP addresses 10 1 197 39 Make rriultiple selections by pressing the lt ctrl gt kes and a mouse button Which DP address should be used as standard IP For Standard server IP the reseler Primary nameserver beta confixx ru 10 1 197 35 Secondary nameserver APA PE 10 1 197 2 Design Modern Blue Color Scheme we Step 4 Access details 14 In this window you will see the username and password of the new Reseller Reseller usernames have the following for mat res number res1 res2 res25 etc Password is either entered manually during the Reseller setup process or is generated automatically Please save these data and make them known to the new Reseller Should you forget the newly created Reseller s password there are no ways to recover 1t Use one of the two options to change Reseller password Log on to his Reseller interface using your Admin password and the Reseller s username Choose Change password in the General menu Enter your admin password in Old password field and confirm input Change Reseller password using the menu item Reseller gt Change reseller in the admin section of Confixx Send e mail If you have already created a confirmation e mail templat
30. s Chy Zip Country A Telephone E E mail address johndoe provider cam Customer ID O Definable fields Input 5 Licensing information It is necessary to register your Confixx If your license is invalid or has expired the Confixx interface will still be usable 6 without any restrictions but no changes will be committed to the system As soon as you obtain a valid license or unlock your existing license all prior changes will be committed to the system For Confixx registration your local computer must be connected to the internet For your server this isn t necessary When you click Licensing information a special Licensing section opens To register Confixx choose Unlock license in the General menu below Click Next to connect to Confixx registration server Lindock icense Cornic server Please click on Next gt gt bo contact the registration server After vour license key has been created you will get back to save the license key IF you want bo register manually please use the following server ID Corti Easy 7633121030399620323937332d09 139313323 3332367 wD Beck to admin Fill out the Serial number and Activation key fields with your license data and click Next You will see your license key generated by Confixx registration server Click Next to transfer this information to your Confixx server Click Next again to store this data in the
31. s are to be set to 777 First copy the files test pl and db txt to for example root confixx cgi html cgibin Set any privileges for files that do not contain any variables accordingly that is hmod TIF PEDOE CONEXAX ACGA NEMI peor On dbs EXE Make the following entry to the file aendern cgibin test pLi o5 24
32. ses as this involves a substantial security risk for your server Though user directories cannot be viewed Users can call up system programs and browse system files This might be enough to crash your server or generate high traffic Scp SFTP With this feature activated an alternative restricted shell will be used instead of the default shell The restricted shell doesn t allow to execute files remotely Users can only transfer files encrypted via scp or sftp SSL If this feature is activated Users of this Reseller will be able to perform secure online transactions from their web pages via https If the Reseller has exclusive IPs he ll be able to register private certificates for these IPs ColdFusion deactivated activates files with postfix cf Webalizer stats If Webalizer which must be installed on your server first is activated for User Confixx generates the Webalizer configuration file and creates a personal folder in the webalizer folder of Confixx web directory where this User can access his stats This folder is protected by a password stored in the htaccess file If Users change their passwords for their main users they can choose whether the passwords for their stats 12 should be changed as well Using your Admin password and username you can access Resellers Users stats as well PW protected directories Users of the Reseller can use Confixx interface to protect their directories with a password
33. st To remove this IP address you have to replace this address with another one in this User s domain settings This should be done in cooperation with this User s Reseller To add new addresses click Add IP addresses You will see a list of available IP addresses the ones which haven t been registered in Confixx Tick those you wish to add and click Apply selection To update your IP information e g after you ve added new addresses use the Update IP list button Select TP addresses JP let last updated 09 26 05 13 21 59 IP address Selection LO 197 10 1 197 39 O 6D Apply selection The next time the update script is started any IP addresses available in the system will be re evaluated by the system 17 program ifconfig 7 3 IP restrictions Confixx Administrator can restrict or grant access to the Confixx control panel for certain IP addresses In Confixx this is done by creating rules for IPs If you wish to allow access from a certain IP range of IPs enter this IP or IP mask e g 212 123 332 into the IP address field tick the Accept box and click Add To restrict access do the same but leave the Accept box unchecked The rule will work immediately but does not apply to all active sessions Please make sure that at least one IP address range is still accepted otherwise you won t be able to login Add rei IP IP address 7 Accept IP restrictions
34. ters It is possible to filter out Users who have exceeded their Reseller s limits e g storage space or traffic and display their stats in a separate view Liter skaly Al reselers Show exceeding only J Seach A Show al Pages lg gt gt Lost page Items per page 5 10 0 50 100 00 Temis 1 5 of 10 total 7 E O KB 1 92 MB 0 96 MA web 1 I KE 0 kB 36 KB me 0 T KE 0 kB 24 KB wb 0 T O KB 0 KB 24 KB O mt oo o o o 0 a Item s 1 5 of 10 total Pages 1 2 gt gt Lostooge Items per page 5 10 20 50 100 200 8 3 Traffic This graphical overview displays the summary traffic generated by Resellers and their assigned Users Separate stats are provided for traffic generated by FTP accounts and by web pages retrieval Q Traffic Traffic for all reselers This displays braffic For all the resellers and their users measured by Confor on this server This includes bralfic For prewioushy deleted resellers and pers Trorofer detads for October 2005 Day FIP Web Total Total OB ORB Tranche ammar for all months Month FTP Web Tatal ARME EB 1 2 MB 1 92 MB A ren 13 kB Total KB 1 93 MB A By clicking on the appropriate month you can see daily traffic reports for this month Confixx stores web traffic stats for three preceding months and FTP transfer summary for twelve preceding months Confixx also shows traffic generated prior to the last time the traffic monitoring script was executed You can view mon
35. the circular 6 2 E mail Setup E m dl template Subject Text Sender s e mail address Hame of senda Uo App Once a Reseller has been created you can send him her a registration e mail containing his her credentials login and password and other relevant information For this purpose you can create a specialized e mail template in the E mail setup window above Modify the fields Subject Text E mail Address and Name of Sender as needed You can use tags specified in the provided variables list Tags will be automatically replaced with the appropriate content during the e mail generation process 6 3 Index Setup When creating a Reseller Confixx generates a default Index page Home page for this Reseller and stores it in this Reseller s home directory You can create your own Index page template using the Index setup feature Specify the filename and content of your Index page in HTML in the provided fields below and click Save Besides HTML tags you can use the user tag as described below Include the Following variables in your bext EEUE E Username of mew User Standard index page HTML code of the standard page ehtros eheads titles fust beta confixy ru lt jttle gt lt head gt lt body bgcolor whita gt lt paHier entstehen die Internet Seten des Conti Benutzers lt b gt Fuser clb auf beta configs uc ip gt lt body gt lt html gt Fie name index homl
36. thly and daily traffic reports 9 Standard CGI Scripts 9 1 Copying the scripts The program directory of Confixx contains the folder cg1 e g root confixx cg1 This folder contains the file aendern and the folder html When creating a User the content of the folder html can be installed into the HTML directory of 23 the User if this has been set in the web interface For example copy the CGI scripts to the directory cgibin in the folder html If the CGI programs contain HTML files or images you can copy them directly to the html directory or create corresponding subdirectories File privileges are assigned when copying into a User s home directory The user of the end User becomes the owner of the files 9 2 Setting variables in the scripts In the file aendern enter the files in which variables are replaced by corresponding values that vary from end user to end user When specifying files assume the directory cgi html in the program directory in Confixx as your root directory You can enter the following variables in the scripts user domain When copying the CGI program the variable user is then replaced by the username of the User e g web1 and the variable domain is replaced by a User s domain For example In the script test pl there must be an absolute path to a file in which the data can be saved This second file is to be named db txt privilege
37. will be shown in this list If the user is logged out or if there s been no activity from this user for more than 30 minutes his session is closed 8 2 Reseller stats This list reflects activity of all Resellers set up in Confixx If a Reseller has exceeded his maximum set up during the Reseller creation process the appropriate field in the table is highlighted in color Confixx calculates monthly traffic stats for each Reseller and provides separate calculation of web and FTP traffic Detailed stats on each Reseller can be viewed by clicking on Reseller s username The detailed overview of a Reseller provides information on all services assigned to this Reseller and all exceeded limits You can also view a graphic representation of this Reseller s monthly traffic by clicking on Comprehensive overview Reca chats Search CI Show all hers 1 5 of 10 tota Pages 12 22 lat coge letra per page 5 10 5 50 QO o NT i mi OKB ORB i OKE i o i um 0KB O KB l kE l Q I O m E GE i OKE i i cx KE KS i OKE 0 l temis I 5 of 10 total Pages 2 gt gt Last paje Rens per paga 5 10 25 50 8 2 User stats Confixx Administrator can also run a query on User stats You can view these stats by User and by service The service overview displays pertinent information on all Users receiving the service You can specify a number of users to be displayed per page and sort the information according to various parame
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