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1. Status Code defines the HTTP status code resulting in redirection to the error page Redirect URL defines the web address of the error page presenting information about the error to the client Due to possible conflicts you cannot add a new custom error message with an error code that already exists but you can redefine the URL for the existing code To remove a custom error message from the list click next to it 4 Configure compilation settings in the Compilation and Debugging field To determine the programming language to be used as default in dynamic compilation files choose an entry from Page default language list 40 Setting Up And Maintaining Your Web Site To enable compiling retail binaries leave the Switch on debugging check box empty To enable compiling debug binaries select the Switch on debugging check box In this case the source code fragments containing error will be shown ina diagnostic page message Note When running applications in debug mode a memory and or performance overhead occurs It is recommended to use debugging when testing an application and to disable it before deploying the application into production scenario Configure encoding settings for ASP NET applications in the Globalization Settings section To set an adopted encoding of all incoming requests enter an encoding value into the Request encoding field default is utf 8 To set an adopted encoding of
2. To initiate the auto installation of files containing the scripts to the specified location select the Install check box If the files already exist there they will be rewritten 10 Set client session parameters in the Session Settings field To set up the default authentication mode for applications select an appropriate item from the Authentication mode list Windows authentication mode should be selected if any form of IIS authentication is used To set up time that a session can idle before it is abandoned enter appropriate number minutes into the Session timeout field 11 Click OK to apply all changes Note Parallels Plesk Panel supports separate configurations for different versions of the NET framework 1 1 x and 2 0 x Restoring Default ASP NET Configuration gt A 2 3 To restore the default ASP NET configuration Go to Home gt ASP NET Settings Click Set to Default Confirm the restoring and click OK Changing NET Framework Version for Your Domain To change the version of NET framework used by your domain Go to Home gt ASP NET Settings Click Change Version in the Tools group If this button is absent only one version of NET framework is available You can see the version number in the Framework Version field Select the required version number and click OK 44 Setting Up And Maintaining Your Web Site 4 Click OK to save changes Changing NET Framework Version for Virtual
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4. After logging in to the system you can start working with it as with regular Windows desktop Accessing The Server Using Remote Desktop Windows Hosting 155 To finish your Remote Desktop session Close the browser window with the remote desktop session This way the session you had will be detached from your desktop but it will keep running on the server so when you log in there next time you will see the remote desktop in the state you left it or Select Start gt Log off if you want to quit the session permanently all running sessions consume the server s resources CHAPTER 12 Using Help Desk For Requesting Assistance From Your Service Provider If your service provider offers a Help Desk solution integrated with the control panel then you can use it to report your problems to your provider s technical support staff Note If there is no Help Desk link in the navigation pane of your Panel then it means that Help Desk is not available In such a case you should use other means to contact your hosting service provider when you need assistance In this chapter Submitting a Problem Report to Your Service Provider ccceeeeeeeeeeeeees 156 Commenting and Closing Your Trouble Ticket ccccccccseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 157 Submitting a Problem Report to Your Service Provider gt To submit a new problem report to your service provider 1 Go to Help Desk gt Add New Ticket Not
5. Example You have an e mail address mail yourdomain com You have set up an alias for your domain name for example alias com If you want to receive mail to your mailbox mail yourdomain com when it is sent to mail alias com select the Mail check box Select the Web check box Otherwise the Web server will not serve the Web content to users coming to your site by typing the domain alias in their browsers If you use hosting services based on a Linux platform and you have Java applications installed on your site that you want to make accessible through the domain alias select the Java Web applications check box Click OK Modifying Properties of a Domain Alias gt To change the properties of an alias 1 2 Go to Home gt Domain Aliases gt alias name Change the properties and click OK Setting Up And Maintaining Your Web Site 77 gt To modify resource records in the DNS zone of a domain alias 1 Go to Home gt Domain Aliases gt alias name gt DNS Settings 2 Add edit or remove the resource records as required To add a resource record to the zone click Add New Record Specify the required values and click OK to write the values to the zone To modify a resource record under the Host column click a hyperlink corresponding to the record you need To remove a record select a check box corresponding to the record you wish to remove and click Remove To learn more about DNS resource
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7. gt To publish your site 1 Open your site in Dreamweaver 2 From the Site menu select the Put option or press Ctrl Shift U simultaneously Previewing Your Site Once you published your site to your web space you may want to make sure that it functions properly in the actual hosting environment You can preview your site through your favorite Web browser even if the information on your domain name has not yet propagated in the Domain Name System Note that Adobe Flash and CGI scripts will not work during preview Also site preview does not work for Web sites and Web pages that include absolute paths to other files like lt a href http domain tld image gif gt To preview your site on your Home page click Site Preview Configuring ASP NET Windows Hosting ASP NET is a flexible set of tools and web development technologies that allows you to employ a number of applications based on ASP NET framework Parallels Plesk Panel supports both 1 1 x and 2 0 x versions of the NET framework and allows configuring most of its settings In this section Configuring ASP NET for Your Domain eneen 39 Configuring ASP NET for Virtual Directories 41 Restoring Default ASP NET Configuration cccccececeeeeeceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 43 Changing NET Framework Version for Your Domain saesnec 43 Changing NET Framework Version for Virtual Directories 000eeeeeeeee 44 Setting Up And Maintaining Yo
8. Microsoft FrontPage deals with two kinds of Web sites disk based and server based In short a disk based site is a FrontPage Web site you create on your local hard disk and then later publish to a Web server A server based site is one you create and work with directly on a Web server without the extra step of publishing This section provides you with instructions on publishing only disk based web sites You can publish disk based web sites either through FTP or HTTP If your server is running FrontPage Server Extensions you would publish your site to an HTTP location For example http your domain com MyWebSite If your server supports FTP you would publish to an FTP location For example ftp ftp your domain com myFolder To find out which publishing method your server supports contact your hosting company or your IT department After publishing you can manage your site through FrontPage Server Extensions gt To access FrontPage Server Extensions management interface 1 Log in to Parallels Plesk Panel Setting Up And Maintaining Your Web Site 33 2 To manage a site which is not protected by SSL open the Web Site group title menu and click Frontpage Webadmin To manage an SSL enabled site open the Web Site group title menu and click Frontpage SSL Webadmin 3 Type your FrontPage administrator s login name and password and click OK For instructions on using FrontPage server extensions see online help Frontpa
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10. 2 3 4 oOo N a y To temporarily suspend execution of scheduled task On your Home page click Scheduled Tasks Select the system user account on whose behalf the task is executed Locate the task that you want to suspend and click the command name Clear the Switched on check box and click OK To resume execution of scheduled task On your Home page click Scheduled Tasks Select the system user account on whose behalf the task is executed Locate the task whose execution you want to resume and click the command name Select the Switched on check box and click OK Canceling a Task Oo N a y To cancel a task On your Home page click Scheduled Tasks Select the system user account on whose behalf the task is executed Select a check box to the left of the task that you want to cancel and click Remove Confirm removal and click OK CHAPTER 10 Monitoring Connections to Control Panel and FTP Services In this chapter Monitoring Connections to FTP Service 0 0 0 eeeeeeeeeeteteeeeeteteeeneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee 152 Monitoring Connections to Control Panel 0 0 0 0 eee eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee 153 Monitoring Connections to FTP Service Your Parallels Plesk Panel can show active FTP sessions only when any of the following FTP server programs is installed on the hosting server Microsoft FTP 7 0 Windows hosting Gene6 FTP Server Windows hosting Serv U FTP Server Windows
11. Directories In order to provide running ASP NET applications which use different NET framework versions within a domain Parallels Plesk Panel allows setting up the framework version per virtual web directory where the applications are deployed gt Tochoose the version of NET framework for a virtual web directory 1 Go to Home gt Virtual Directories 2 Enter the required web directory and click ASP NET Settings in the Tools group 3 Select the required NET framework version and adjust other settings as necessary 4 Click OK Setting PHP Version for a Domain Windows Hosting gt To set PHP version for a domain 1 Go to Home gt PHP Settings 2 Choose the required version of PHP and click OK Setting Up And Maintaining Your Web Site 45 Deploying Databases If your web server incorporates data processing applications or is designed to generate web pages dynamically you will likely need a database for storing and retrieving data You can either create a new database for your site or import the data from your previously backed up MySQL PostgreSQL or Microsoft SQL database In this section Creating or Importing a Database cccccccccceceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaeaneees 46 Creating a Database User Account cccccccccceneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaeeneeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaeees 47 Changing Password of a Database USED ccceeeeeceeeeeeeceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaeeaaeees 47 Removing a Dat
12. To do this click the Add New Attachment button select the check box corresponding to the file that you previously uploaded to the attachment storage and click OK To remove an attached file from the automatic reply select the corresponding check box and click Remove 5 Click OK 6 Click the Switch On icon in the Tools group Switching off Automatic Reply gt To switch off an automatic reply for a mailbox 1 Go to Home gt Mail Accounts gt e mail address gt Autoresponders 2 Click Switch Off The automatic reply is now switched off Its configuration is not deleted from the control panel so the next time you need to use this automatic reply repeat the above procedure clicking Switch On on the last step Using E mail Services 129 gt To delete an automatic reply configuration that you no longer need 1 Go to Home gt Mail Accounts gt e mail address gt Autoresponders 2 Select a check box corresponding to the configuration name and click Remove Confirm the removal and click OK Setting Up Site wide Preferences for Handling Mail to Nonexistent Users When somebody sends an e mail message to an e mail address that does not exist under your domain the mail server by default accepts mail processes it and when it finds out that there is no such a recipient under the domain it returns the mail back to sender with the this address no longer accepts mail notice You can choose to Continue returning
13. gt To set up an e mail address that will accept mail and forward it to another e mail address Go to Home gt Create Redirect Select an e mail address that you would like to turn into a mail forwarder or click Add New Mail Account to set up new e mail address Click Next gt gt The domain name is shown to the right of sign so you only need to type the name This can be for example your first name and last name separated by a dot a department name or any other text in Latin symbols The name should be short enough to remember It can comprise alphanumeric dash dot and underscore symbols Select the Redirect check box and type the destination e mail address to which you would like to forward e mail Click Finish Suspending and Unsuspending Mail Forwarders on y oOo N a y To suspend a mail forwarder Go to Home gt Mail Accounts gt e mail address gt Redirect Clear the Redirect check box Click OK To unsuspend a mail forwarder Go to Home gt Mail Accounts gt e mail address gt Redirect Select the Redirect check box Click OK Using E mail Services 125 Setting Up Mail Forwarding to Multiple E mail Addresses gt To set up an e mail address that will accept mail and forward it to multiple other e mail addresses Go to Home gt Mail Accounts gt e mail address gt Mail Group Click Add New Member You should add at least one e mail address befo
14. gt Virtual Directories to see the list of error documents for the root Web directory error documents located here are used for all domain Web pages If you want to customize error pages for a certain Web directory go to that directory 3 Click Error Documents tab and click the required error document in the list To use the default document provided by IIS for this error page select Default in the Type menu To use a custom HTML document already located in the error docs directory on a domain select File in the Type menu and specify the file name in the Location field 92 Setting Up And Maintaining Your Web Site To use a custom HTML document located in directory other than error docs on a domain select URL in the Type menu and enter the path to your document in the Location field The path should be relative to the virtual host root that is lt vhosts gt lt domain gt httpdocs For example you have created a file forbidden 403 1 html and saved it in the my_errors directory located in the httpdocs To use this file as an error document the following path should be entered in the Location filed my _errors forbidden 403 1 html Note You can use both FTP and File Manager to upload your custom error document to the server By default all error documents are stored in the vhosts your domain com error_ docs directory located in C InetPub by default 4 Once the Web server is restarted it will start using yo
15. 1 Go to Home gt Virtual Directories 2 Navigate to the required virtual directory and enter it 3 4 Select the required MIME type in the list Select the MIME Types tab Type the file name extension in the Extension field File name extention should begin with a dot or a wildcard to serve all files regardless of file name extension Specify the file content type in the Content field You can either select the appropriate value from the list or define a new content type To do this select Custom and enter the content type in the input box provided Click OK to save changes Removing MIME Types gt Toremove a MIME type for a virtual directory on your domain Pad 1 Go to Home gt Virtual Directories 2 Navigate to the required virtual directory and enter it 3 4 Select the check box corresponding to the MIME type you want to Select the MIME Types tab remove Click Remove Confirm removal and click OK Setting Up And Maintaining Your Web Site 85 Setting PHP Version for Virtual Directories To set PHP version for a virtual directory Go to Home gt Virtual Directories Click PHP Settings Choose the required version of PHP and click OK oN gt v Removing Virtual Directories gt Toremove an existing virtual directory 1 Go to Home gt Virtual Directories 2 Select the check box corresponding to the directory you wish to remove 3 Click Remove 4
16. Adding and Removing Hyperlink Buttons gt To adda custom hyperlink button to your Parallels Plesk Panel 1 Go to Home gt Custom Buttons and click Create Custom Button 2 Specify properties of the button Type the text that will show on your button in the Button label field Choose the location for your button To place it in the right frame of your Home page select the Domain Administration page value as the location To place it in the left frame navigation pane of your control panel select the Navigation pane value Specify the priority of the button Parallels Plesk Panel will arrange your custom buttons on the control panel in accordance with the priority you define the lower the number the higher is priority Buttons are placed in the left to right order 20 Customizing Your Control Panel To use an image for a button background type the path to its location or click Browse to browse for the desired file It is recommended that you use a 16x16 pixels GIF or JPEG image for a button to be placed in the navigation pane and 32x32 pixels GIF or JPEG image for buttons placed in the main frame Type the hyperlink of your choice to be attached to the button into the URL field Using the check boxes specify whether to include the data such as domain id and domain name to be transferred within the URL These data can be used for processing by external web applications In the Context help tip contents input
17. Confirm the removal and click OK 86 Setting Up And Maintaining Your Web Site Hosting Personal Web Pages on Your Web Server You can host on your Web server personal Web pages for individuals who do not need their own domain names This service is popular with educational institutions that host non commercial personal pages of their students and staff These pages usually have Web addresses like http your domain com username gt To accommodate a personal Web page on your server allocate a separate Web space and set up an FTP account for publishing 1 On your Home page click Web Users 2 Click Preferences 3 If you wish to allow execution of scripts embedded in personal web pages select the Allow the web users scripting check box 4 Click OK The settings you have defined at the step 3 are common for all personal Web pages you might host on your Web server Therefore you will not need to perform steps 2 to 4 next time you set up a Web space for a personal Web page 5 Click Add New Web User 6 Specify a user name and password that will be used for accessing the Web space through FTP and publishing the Web page You can use only lowercase alphanumeric hyphen and underscore symbols in user name The user name should begin with an alphabet character It cannot contain white spaces The password cannot contain quotation marks white space user s login name and should be between 5 and 14 characters in length 7 If y
18. Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 gt To set up Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 1 Open Microsoft Office Outlook 2 Go to Tools gt Account Settings 3 On the E mail tab click New 4 Leave the option Microsoft Exchange POP3 IMAP or HTTP selected Click Next Add New E mail Account Choose E mail Service Nig SAN x j e oe 5 Select the check box Manually configure server settings or additional server types Click Next 102 Using E mail Services Add New E mail Account ma xi Auto Account Setup F Your Names Add New E mail Account Choose E mail Service Using E mail Services 103 7 Specify the following Your name Your e mail address Account type If you want to keep copies of messages on the server select the IMAP option If you do not want to keep any messages on the server select the POP3 option Incoming mail server Type your domain name For example example com Outgoing mail server Type your domain name For example example com Username for logging in to the mailbox Specify your full e mail address Password for logging in to the mailbox Most likely this password coincides with the password you use for logging in to the Panel Add New E mail Account x Internet E mail Settings Each of these settings are required to get your e mail account working User Information Test Account Settings Your Name John Doe After filling out the in
19. New Application Specify the path to an application package you wish to install this can be an application package in WAR format saved on your computer s hard drive or click Browse to navigate to it then click OK Now the application is installed and the respective entry is added to the list of installed Java applications Home gt Web Applications gt Java Applications gt To access the web interface of a Java Web application do any of the following From your Home page go to Home gt Web Applications gt Java Applications and click a respective hyperlink in the Path column Type the URL in your browser For example http your domain com 9080 storefront To stop start or restart a Java Web application From your Home page go to Home gt Web Applications gt Java Applications tab A list of installed applications will open Locate an application on the list and use the icons in the right part of the list to perform the required operations To start an application click the icon 2i To stop an application click the icon B To restart an application click the icon 54 Setting Up And Maintaining Your Web Site To uninstall a Java Web application From your Home page go to Home gt Web Applications gt Java Applications Select a check box corresponding to the application that you no longer need Click Remove confirm the removal and click OK The application will be uninsta
20. Setting File and Directory Access Permissions Linux Hosting gt To review or change the permissions set for files and directories Go to Home gt File Manager The permissions are represented as three sets of symbols for example rwx rwx r The first set tells what the owner of the file or directory can do with it the second tells what the user group the file or directory belongs to can do with the file or directory the third set indicates what other users the rest of the world i e Internet users visiting a site can do with the file or directory R means the permission to read the file or directory W means the permission to write to the file or directory and X means the permission to execute the file or look inside the directory To modify permissions for a file or directory in the Permissions column click the respective hyperlink representing the set of permissions Modify the permissions as desired and click OK Setting File and Directory Access Permissions Windows Hosting Parallels Plesk Panel provides setting up file and folder access permissions including defining special permissions and permissions inheritance similarly to the way it is presented in Windows interface Note For security reasons permissions for Administrators SYSTEM and Parallels Plesk Panel Domain Administrator cannot be changed or removed In this section Setting and Changing Access Permissions for Groups and Users 5
21. Use DomainKeys spam protection system to sign outgoing e mail messages option If you use a Linux based hosting account then you can also use the spam protection based on greylisting Greylisting is a spam protection system which works as follows For every e mail message that comes to the server sender s and receiver s e mail addresses are recorded in a database When a message comes for the first time its sender and receiver addresses are not listed in the database yet and the server temporarily rejects the message with an SMTP error code If the mail is legitimate and the sending server is properly configured it will try sending e mail again and the message will be accepted If the message is sent by a spammer then mail sending will not be retried spammers usually send mail in bulk to thousands of recipients and do not bother with resending The greylisting protection system also takes into account the server wide and per user black and white lists of e mail senders e mail from the white listed senders is accepted without passing through the greylisting check and mail from the black listed senders is always rejected When the greylisting support components are installed on the server then greylisting is automatically switched on for all domains You can switch off and on greylisting protection for your domain through Parallels Plesk Panel at Home gt Mail group title menu gt Mail Settings gt Switch on greylisting spam protection fo
22. Web pages as they are being published on the Optimize HTML tab select the options you want To change the default options for publishing on the Publishing tab select the options you want 8 Click OK to connect to the remote site The Remote Web site view will show files that you have in your local and remote sites 9 Click the Publish Web site button in the lower right corner of the window Setting Up And Maintaining Your Web Site 35 Using Additional Microsoft FrontPage Accounts Windows Hosting If you are working on your web site together with someone else or host subdomains for other users you might want to create additional Microsoft FrontPage accounts In this section Creating Additional Microsoft FrontPage Accounts cccceeeeeeeeeeeeteeeeeeees 35 Changing Settings of Additional Microsoft FrontPage Accounts 000 35 Removing Additional Microsoft FrontPage Accounts ccccceceeeeeteeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 36 Creating Additional Microsoft FrontPage Accounts gt To create an additional Microsoft FrontPage account 1 On your Home page open the Web Site group title menu and click FrontPage Management 2 Click Add New FrontPage Account 3 Specify the login and password for this account 4 If you wish to limit the amount of disk space that can be used by this account clear the Unlimited check box and type the desired value in megabytes into the Hard disk quota box When the sp
23. a license agreement Read the license agreement carefully and if you agree with it select the I agree check box and click Next gt gt Specify whether you wish to create a hyperlink to the application and place it in the control panel Specify the installation preferences and other information that may be required by the application the requirements may vary among applications Click Install If you have chosen to create a hyperlink button inside your Parallels Plesk Panel specify its properties Type the text that will show on your button in the Button label box 52 Setting Up And Maintaining Your Web Site Choose the location for your button To place it in the right frame of your Home page select the Domain Administration page value as the location To place it in the left frame navigation pane of your control panel select the Navigation pane value Specify the priority of the button Parallels Plesk Panel will arrange your custom buttons on the control panel in accordance with the priority you define the lower the number the higher is priority Buttons are placed in the left to right order To use an image for a button background type the path to its location or click Browse to browse for the desired file It is recommended that you use a 16x16 pixels GIF or JPEG image for a button to be placed in the navigation pane and 32x32 pixels GIF or JPEG image for buttons placed in the main frame Type t
24. address after processing Click OK To view the contents of a log file or download it to your computer Go to Home gt Log Manager A list of log files opens Do any of the following To specify the number of lines from the end of the log file that you would like to view type a number into the input box under the Preferences group Viewing Usage Statistics for Your Site 139 To view the contents of a log file click its file name To download a file to your computer click the icon T corresponding to the file you need To remove a processed log file from the server select a corresponding check box click Remove confirm removal and click OK CHAPTER 8 Backing Up And Restoring Your Data With the current version of backup and restore utilities installed with your control panel you can Back up your domain Web site The backup archive will include all data related to your account except for resource allotments and permissions to perform operations within the control panel domain web site and mail services including the contents of mailboxes Horde Turba address book contact lists anti spam and anti virus settings Schedule backups Restore your data from backup archives You can access your backup repository via your Home page Home gt Backup Manager In this chapter Configuring Control Panel for Using FTP Repository c cccceeeeceeesteeeeeeeees 140 Backing Up Yo r Doma erea 4 85 sta ce o oe
25. all such mail back to senders Bounce or Bounce with message option Forward all such mail to the specified e mail address Forward to address option Forward all such mail to another mail server with the specified IP address if you are on Windows based hosting Redirect to external mail server with IP address option Reject such mail without accepting it and without notifying senders Reject option This setting can decrease mail server load caused by a large amount of spam which is often sent to randomly generated user names However for spammers this can somewhat speed up scanning your mail server for valid e mail addresses To configure the site wide settings for handling mail to nonexistent users Go to Home gt Mail group title menu gt Mail Settings Select the required option and specify the information as required Click OK etme eer Tamed Introducing Changes to a Number of Mail Accounts at Once gt To introduce similar changes to a number of mail accounts at once 1 Go to Home gt Mail Accounts 130 Using E mail Services 2 Select the check boxes corresponding to the mail accounts whose settings you want to modify 3 Click Modify 4 Adjust the settings as necessary Select Switch on to enable the corresponding option for the selected mail accounts Select Switch off to disable the corresponding option for the selected mail accounts Leave Do not change selected if you do not want to
26. com 6 Specify the following settings Protocol of your incoming mail server If you want to keep copies of messages on the server select the IMAP option If you do not want to keep any messages on the server select the POP3 option Incoming mail server Specify your website s Internet address Outgoing mail server Specify your website s Internet address 106 Using E mail Services Internet Connection Wizard E mail Server Names re example com 7 Click Next 8 Specify the following Your account name Type your e mail address in the Account name box Your password Most likely this password coincides with the password you use for logging in to the Panel Remember password check box Leave it selected if you do not want to be prompted to enter password each time your e mail program connects to the mail server to check for new mail and click Next Using E mail Services 107 Internet Connection Wizard Internet Mail Logon mail example com 9 To complete setting up your e mail program click Finish 108 Using E mail Services Setting Up Mozilla Thunderbird The instructions provided in this section were verified against Mozilla Thunderbird 2 They might not work with earlier or later versions of Mozilla Thunderbird gt To set up Mozilla Thunderbird 1 Open Mozilla Thunderbird 2 Go to Tools gt Account Settings 3 Click Add Account The Account Wizard o
27. directory existing in your site for example private If the directory that you would like to protect has not yet been created specify the path and the directory name Parallels Plesk Panel will create it for you 4 Specify in what location also called document root your password protected directory resides or will reside available only for Linux hosting For example To protect the httpdocs private directory type private in the Directory name box and select the Non SSL check box To protect the httpsdocs private directory type private in the Directory name box and select the SSL check box To protect your CGI scripts stored in the cgi bin directory leave the value in the Directory name box and select the cgi bin check box Make sure there are no white spaces after the slash symbol otherwise a protected directory will be created with the name consisting of white spaces 5 In the Header Text box type a resource description or a welcoming message that your users will see when they visit your protected area 6 Click OK The directory you specified will be protected 7 To add authorized users click Add New User 8 Specify the login name and password that will be used for accessing the protected area The password should be from 5 to 14 symbols in length 9 Click OK 10 To add more authorized users for this protected resource repeat the steps 7 and 8 66 Setting Up And Maintaining Your Web S
28. do not want to purchase SSL certificates but still need to secure your site you can create a self signed certificate and install it on your web server This will provide data encryption however your customers browsers will show warning messages telling that your certificate is not issued by a recognized authority Thus using self signed certificates is not recommended as it will not instill confidence in customers and is likely to adversely affect your online sales gt To secure your site with a self signed SSL certificate 1 Go to Home gt SSL Certificates and click Add New Certificate 2 Specify the certificate properties Certificate name This will help you identify this certificate in the repository Encryption level Choose the encryption level of your SSL certificate We recommend that you choose a value more than 1024 bit Specify your location and organization name The values you enter should not exceed the length of 64 symbols Specify the domain name for which you wish to generate an SSL certificate This should be a fully qualified domain name Example www your domain com Enter the domain administrator s e mail address 3 Click Self Signed Your certificate will be generated and stored in the repository 4 Return to your Home page and click Web Hosting Settings Setting Up And Maintaining Your Web Site 61 5 Select the self signed SSL certificate from the Certificate drop down box If there
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30. for processing incoming web requests select an appropriate item from the Culture list To seta culture which must be used by default when processing searches for a locale dependent resource select an appropriate item from the UI Culture list Set a code access security trust level for ASP NET applications in the Code Access Security field CAS trust level is a security zone to which applications execution is assigned defining what server resources the applications will have access to Important When an assembly is assigned a trust level that is too low it does not function correctly For more information on the permissions levels see http msdn microsoft com library en us dnnetsec html THCMCh09 asp frame true c09618429 010 9 Setting Up And Maintaining Your Web Site 43 Enable the usage of the auxiliary scripts in the Script Library Settings field Specifying the script library settings is necessary if the validation web controls are used on your web site This option is available only for ASP NET 1 1 x If you need to use auxiliary scripts specifically scripts implementing objects for validating input data provide the settings for NET framework script library To do so enter the path beginning with the domain root directory preceded by the forward slash into the Path to Microsoft script library field or click the folder icon next to the Path to Microsoft script library field and browse for the required location
31. gt To define a site in Dreamweaver 1 2 3 From the Site menu choose New Site The Site Definition screen opens Click the Advanced tab In the Local Info category specify the following Site name This will show in Web browser s title bar Local root folder This is the folder on your computer where all of your site files are stored For example c My Site Default images folder Specify the folder where your site s graphic files are stored For example c My Site images HTTP address Specify your domain name For example http your domain com From the Category menu select the Remote Info item 5 From the Access menu select the FTP option Most likely your server supports publishing through FTP File Transfer Protocol commonly used for transferring files over the Internet Specify the following settings FTP host Type your FTP host name without the ftp prefix For example your domain com Host directory Specify the directory on the server where your site will reside In most cases this is httpdocs Login and password Specify the login name and password that your provider gave you Use passive FTP Select this option only if your computer is behind a firewall 38 Setting Up And Maintaining Your Web Site 7 To ensure that you specified the correct login and password and that Dreamweaver can connect to the server click the Test button 8 To save the settings click OK
32. httpsdocs directory and the content that should be accessible via plain HTTP to the httpdocs directory For your convenience you can choose to publish all content through a single location ht tpdocs directory To do this select the option Use a single directory for housing SSL and non SSL content If this subdomain will hold a part of your own Web site that you manage on your own leave the Use the FTP user account of the parent domain option selected If this subdomain will hold a separate web site that will belong to or will be managed by another person select the Create a separate user account for this subdomain option and specify the login name and password that will be used for accessing the web space through FTP and publishing web site content If you wish to limit the amount of disk space that can be occupied by web content under this subdomain type the desired value in megabytes into the Hard disk quota box When the specified limit is exceeded you will not be able to add files to the web space and editing existing files may corrupt them Specify the programming languages in which your web site is developed Otherwise your web site may not function properly For example if your web site is written mainly in ASP and uses some applications written in PHP such as those from the Application Vault select the ASP support and PHP support check boxes To complete the setup click OK It may take up to 48 hour
33. is no Certificate drop down box on the screen this means that you are on a shared hosting account therefore you need to upgrade your hosting package and purchase a dedicated IP address from your hosting provider 6 Select the SSL support check box and click OK Uninstalling a Certificate from Your Site gt To uninstall a certificate from your site and disable SSL protection 1 Make sure that the certificate you want to remove is not used at the moment a On your Home page click Web Hosting Settings b The Certificate drop down box indicates which SSL certificate is currently used c If the certificate that you want to remove is currently in use you should first release it by selecting another certificate in the Certificate drop down box and clicking OK 2 Remove the certificate from repository a To permanently remove the certificate from repository on your Home page click SSL Certificates b Select a check box corresponding to the certificate that you no longer need and click Remove Confirm removal and click OK 3 Disable SSL support if you no longer need it a On your Home page click Web Hosting Settings b Clear the SSL support check box and click OK Using SSL Certificate Shared By Another Domain Windows Hosting Only Shared SSL is a means of securing the access to your site with SSL Secure Sockets Layer without purchasing your own SSL certificate Web sites that employ shared SSL are in fact
34. name from the Group or user names list select the required Allow and Deny check boxes corresponding to permissions listed under Permissions for group user name To remove a permission entry for a group or user select the required name from the Group or user names list and click To make child objects of a folder inherit its permissions defined under Permissions for group user name select the Replace permission entries on all child objects with entries shown here that apply to child objects check box and select check boxes in the Apply onto list which correspond to objects you want to inherit the permissions Click OK Setting Access Permissions for Virtual Directories Access permissions can also be applied to virtual Web directories gt 1 2 3 To set access permissions for a virtual directory Go to Home gt Virtual Directories Navigate the web site structure and click the required directory Click Permissions in the Tools group and set access permissions for this virtual directory as described in the sections above Setting Up And Maintaining Your Web Site 71 Organizing Your Site Structure With Subdomains Subdomains are additional domain names that enable you to Organize logically the structure of your web site Host additional web sites or parts of your web site on the same server without the need to pay for registration of additional domain names An example of using subdomains You hav
35. one day Refresh This is how often the secondary name servers check with the primary name server to see if any changes have been made to the domain s zone file Parallels Plesk Panel sets the default value of three hours Retry This is the time a secondary server waits before retrying a failed zone transfer This time is typically less than the refresh interval Parallels Plesk Panel sets the default value of one hour Expire This is the time before a secondary server stops responding to queries after a lapsed refresh interval where the zone was not refreshed or updated Parallels Plesk Panel sets the default value of one week Minimum This is the time a secondary server should cache a negative response Parallels Plesk Panel sets the default value of three hours 3 Click OK Usage of serial number format recommended by IETF and RIPE is mandatory for many domains registered in some high level DNS zones mostly European ones If your domain is registered in one of these zones and your registrar refuses your SOA serial number using serial number format recommended by IETF and RIPE should resolve this issue Parallels Plesk Panel servers use UNIX timestamp syntax for configuring DNS zones UNIX timestamp is the number of seconds since January 1 1970 Unix Epoch The 32 bit timestamp will overflow by July 8 2038 RIPE recommends using YYYYMMDDNN format where YYYY is year four digits MM is month two digits DD is day o
36. records modification and other DNS related options refer to the Customizing DNS Zone Configuration for Your Domain and the Serving Your Site with External Domain Name Servers sections Removing a Domain Alias gt Toremove an alias from a domain 1 Go to Home gt Domain Aliases 2 Select a check box corresponding to the domain alias that you want to remove 3 Click Remove Confirm removal and click OK 78 Setting Up And Maintaining Your Web Site Using Virtual Directories Windows Hosting A virtual directory in Parallels Plesk Panel is a link to existing physical directory that is present on the server s hard disk Virtual directories can have a number of specific settings like custom ASP NET configuration access permissions URL password protection and so on Since any virtual directory can have its own settings including customized ASP NET configuration virtual directories are very useful in setting up your web applications especially those written in ASP NET For example if you have three web applications that use ASP NET version 1 1 and you need to install one web application that uses ASP NET version 2 0 you can create a virtual directory for the ASP NET 2 0 application configure ASP NET settings for this directory enabling version 2 0 only for this directory and successfully install the required application Virtual directories can also be used as aliases For example you have a web application installed on you
37. space for this site This is the so called hard quota that will not allow writing more files to the web space when the limit is reached At attempt to write files users will get the Out of disk space error Hard quotas should be enabled in the server s operating system so if you see the Hard disk quota is not supported notice to the right of the Hard disk quota field but would like to use the hard quotas contact your provider or the server administrator and ask to enable the hard quotas 22 Reviewing Your Hosting Package Shell access to server with FTP user s credentials available only for Linux hosting or Access to system available only for Windows hosting This allows you to upload securely web content to the server through a Secure Socket Shell connection however allowing shell access also poses a potential threat to the server security so we recommend that you do not allow shell access Leave the Forbidden option selected Microsoft FrontPage support Microsoft FrontPage is a popular web site authoring tool To enable users to publish and modify their sites through Microsoft FrontPage select the Microsoft FrontPage support and Microsoft FrontPage over SSL support check boxes set the Microsoft FrontPage authoring option to allowed and specify the FrontPage Administrator s login and password Services or support for programming and scripting languages supported by your hosting environment Specify which of the following pro
38. spam filter on the e mail messages that you have in your mailbox gt To improve accuracy of spam detection 1 Go to Home gt Mail Accounts gt e mail address gt Spam Filtering gt Training Note In Parallels Plesk Panel for Linux Unix platforms each message is accompanied by an icon in the left column which tells if a message is recognized as spam non spam O or not recognized at all If you have already trained your spam filter on a message and the results were recorded in the spam filters database an icon is shown in the right column 2 Train the spam filter Using E mail Services 121 In most cases you can tell if a message is spam by looking at its subject line and sender s name If they do not give you any clue try looking inside the message using your e mail program or webmail interface To mark a message as spam select the corresponding check box and click It s Spam To mark a message as not spam select the corresponding check box and click It s Not Spam To remove any information on a given message from the spam filter database select the corresponding check box and click Forget It 3 Once finished with training you can remove spam e mails from your mailbox using your e mail program or webmail interface Clearing Spam Filter s Database If you have accidentally made your spam filter learn a great number of spam e mails as non spam or vice versa your spam f
39. specify all values allowed for this field For example to run a task daily type in the Day of the Month text box To schedule the task to run every Nth period enter the combination N where N is the legal value for this field minute hour day month For example 15 in the Minute field schedules the task to start every 15 minutes 150 6 Scheduling Tasks You can type the contracted names of months and days of the week which are the first three letters Aug Jul Mon Sat etc However the contracted names cannot be separated with commas or used together with numbers Specify which command to run Type it into the Command input box For example if you want to run the backup creation task at the specified time and have the backup file sent to your e mail you need to specify the following command in the Command input box usr local psa admin sbin backupmng Click OK Scheduling a Task Windows Hosting gt To schedule a task for a domain 1 2 3 Go to Home gt Scheduled Tasks gt Schedule New Task Input a name for your task in the Description field In Scheduler notification specify whether the scheduler should notify you when it runs this task The following options are available Do not send do not notify you Send to the default e mail send the notification to your default e mail address Send to the e mail specify send the notification to the e mail specified in the correspondi
40. subject type it into the Add the following text to the beginning of subject of each message recognized as spam box If you do not want the spam filter to modify message subject leave this box blank If you want to include into the subject line the number of points that messages score type SCORE_ in this box Spam detection alert text If you want spam filter to include a text into e mail messages marked as spam type the text into this box Trusted languages and locales E mail messages written in the specified languages and with the defined character sets will pass the spam filter and will not be marked as spam 3 Click OK to save the settings 120 4 Using E mail Services If you do not want to receive e mail from specific domains or individual senders click the Black List tab and then add the respective entries to the spam filter s black list To add entries to the black list click Add Addresses If you have a list of entries stored in a file click Browse to specify it and then click OK Otherwise select the From List option and type the e mail addresses into the E mail addresses box Place each address in one row or separate addresses with a coma a colon or a white space You can use an asterisk as a substitute for a number of letters and question mark as a substitute for a single letter For example address spammers net user spammers net spammers net Specifying spammers net will block the entire ma
41. the encryption process are usually applied to a single domain name on a single IP address therefore each site that needs SSL protection must be hosted on a dedicated IP address An exception to this is subdomains which you can protect with a wildcard certificate Installing an SSL certificate on a Web server that hosts several web sites with different domain names on a single IP address shared or name based hosting is technically possible however it is not recommended the encryption will be provided but users will get warning messages on attempt to connect to the secure site To allow SSL encryption for Web sites select the SSL support check box Use a single directory for housing SSL and non SSL content available only for Linux hosting By default when users publish their sites through their FTP accounts they need to upload the web content that should be accessible via secure connections to the httpsdocs directory and the content that should be accessible via plain HTTP to the httpdocs directory For the convenience of publishing all content through a single location httpdocs directory select the Use a single directory for housing SSL and non SSL content check box FTP login and FTP password Specify the user name and password that will be used for publishing the site to the server through FTP Retype the password into the Confirm Password box Hard disk quota Specify the amount of disk space in megabytes allocated to the web
42. to remove consider setting up spam filter for your mailbox To do this Enable SpamAssassin spam filter on your hosting account if supported by your provider and Install spam filtering software of your choice to work with e mail program on your home or office computer In this section Switching On SpamAssassin Spam Filter 0 eeeeseeseeeseeesseeeeeeeeseeseeeees 119 Improving Accuracy of Spam Detection ceeeceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeneeeeeeeeeeeteeenaaees 120 Clearing Spam Filter s Database 2 2 c cscnesececenceenesceeeeneccnsesneeeneceaenens 121 Switching Off Spam Filter ccc ccceceeeeeeeeeeeeeneceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaeeeeeeeeeeeeeneteeeeeeeees 121 Using E mail Services 119 Switching On SpamAssassin Spam Filter gt To switch on spam filtering for a mailbox 1 Go to Home gt Mail Accounts gt e mail address gt Spam Filtering 2 Configure the following settings as desired Switch on SpamAssassin spam filtering Select this option to switch on spam protection The number of points a message must score to be considered spam This setting adjusts spam filter sensitivity SoamAssassin performs a number of different tests on contents and subject line of each message As a result each message scores a number of points The higher the number the more likely a message is spam For example a message containing the text string BUY VIAGRA AT LOW PRICE in Subjec
43. underscore symbols Specify a password that mailbox owner will use for accessing his or her mailbox Specify the settings related to the appearance of user s control panel if desired interface language theme skin the limit on number of characters that can appear on custom buttons placed into the control panel by the mailbox owner Leave the Allow multiple sessions check box selected to allow the mailbox owner to have several simultaneous sessions in the control panel Leave the Prevent users from working with the control panel until interface screens are completely loaded check box selected This will forbid users from submitting data or performing operations until the control panel is ready to accept them 100 Using E mail Services 7 Make sure that a check mark is present in the Mailbox check box 8 If required limit the amount of disk space that this mailbox and it s autoresponder attachment files can use To do this under Mailbox quota select the Enter size option and type the desired value in kilobytes 9 Click OK 10 To allow the mailbox owner configure and use spam filter and antivirus click Permissions select the respective check boxes and click OK Now the mailbox is created and a separate e mail administration panel has been set up in Parallels Plesk Panel To enter it the mailbox owner should visit the URL https your domain com 8443 type his or her e mail address into the Login box type the passwo
44. user 1 Go to Home gt Databases gt database name gt database user s name 2 Type a new password and click OK Removing a Database User Account gt To remove a database user account 1 Go to Home gt Databases gt database name 2 Select a check box corresponding to the user account that you want to remove 3 Click Remove Next confirm removing and click OK 48 Setting Up And Maintaining Your Web Site Removing a Database gt Toremove a database with its contents 1 On your Home page click Databases 2 Select a check box corresponding to the database that you wish to remove If the required check box appears grayed out this means that this database is used by a Web application and you can remove it only by uninstalling the respective application 3 Click Remove Confirm removal and click OK Accessing Data From External Databases Windows Hosting If you want to access data from an external database management system you should create ODBC connections through Parallels Plesk Panel In this section Creating ODBC Connections to External Databases seseeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 48 Changing Settings Of Existing ODBC Connections cccceeeeteeeeteeeeeeeees 49 Removing Connections to External Databases cccceeceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 49 Creating ODBC Connections to External Databases To let your Web applications use external databases for storing the data
45. you need to create connections to these external databases gt Tocreate an ODBC connection to an external database 1 On your Home page click ODBC Data Sources 2 Click Add New ODBC DSN 3 Specify the ODBC connection name and description in the corresponding fields 4 Select the required driver in the Driver field 5 Click OK Setting Up And Maintaining Your Web Site 49 6 Choose the appropriate options on the driver configuration screen Typically you should specify the path to the database user credentials and other connection options depending on the selected driver 7 Click Test to check whether the connection will function properly with provided settings Click Finish to complete the creation Changing Settings Of Existing ODBC Connections gt 1 2 3 4 To change settings of an existing ODBC connection On your Home page click ODBC Data Sources Click the required connection name in the list Change the settings as needed Click Test to check whether the connection will function properly with new settings Click Finish to save changes Removing Connections to External Databases To remove a redundant ODBC connection On your Home page click ODBC Data Sources Select the check box corresponding to a connection you want to remove Click Remove confirm the removal and click OK Configuring Data Source Names for Adobe ColdFusion Windows Hosting If you are using Adobe ColdF
46. you wish to download Select the location where you wish to save the backup file and click Save The backup file will be downloaded from the backup repository Removing Backup Files from Server gt 1 2 To remove a backup file from the control panel s backup repository Go to Home gt Backup Manager Select a check box corresponding to the backup file you wish to remove 3 Click Remove 4 Confirm removal and click OK Maintaining Database Backup Files Repository Windows Hosting Your database backup files are stored in your own database backup repository accessible by going to Home gt Backup Manager gt Database Backup Repository Each database has its own backup files repository To see backup files for a specific database select the required database from the Database menu By default the database backup repository shows backup files for all databases on a domain In the database backup repository you can Upload database backup files stored on another computer Download database backup files to another computer Remove redundant database backup files from database backup repository Backing Up And Restoring Your Data 147 Uploading Database Backup Files To Server gt To upload a backup file to backup repository 1 Go to Home gt Backup Manager gt Database Backup Repository and click Upload Backup File Select the database in which repository you want to upload the backup file to in the
47. 112 Using E mail Services Work Account 12 Verify that the information you entered is correct and click Finish 13 Click OK to close the Account Settings wizard Using E mail Services 113 Setting Up Apple Mail The instructions provided in this section were verified against Apple Mail 3 6 Leopard They might not work with earlier or later versions of Apple Mail gt To set up Apple Mail 1 Run Apple Mail If you run it for the first time and do not have any mail accounts configured in it skip the next step Apple Mail will take you directly to creating one 2 Open the Adding Mail Account wizard a Click Mail gt Preferences b Select the Accounts tab c Click the button at the bottom left corner 3 Enter the account information Your full name Your full e mail address The password you use to log in to the Panel Add Account You ll be guided through the necessary steps to set up an additional mail account To get started fill out the following information Full Name John Doe Email Address johnd example com A S 4 NO Cancel Go Back Continue 4 Click Continue 5 Fill in the following incoming mail server information Account Type select whether you want to use IMAP or POP protocol Selecting IMAP lets you keep messages on the server 114 Using E mail Services Incoming Mail Server type in the name of domain which serves your mail which fo
48. 136 Viewing Usage Statistics for Your Site Hiding and Unhiding Internal References from Your and Other Sites gt 1 2 3 4 To hide the internal references or references from other sites Go to Home gt Web Statistics gt Preferences Click Hide Entries In the Entry type drop down box leave the Referrer value selected In the Referrer field type the domain name from which you do not want the referrers shown in web statistics reports You can use the wildcard character to specify a part of domain name Click OK To unhide references Go to Home gt Web Statistics gt Preferences Select the check boxes corresponding to the entries you wish to unhide and click Remove Confirm the operation and click OK Grouping and Ungrouping References from Other Sites gt To group references from a specific site 1 Go to Home gt Web Statistics gt Preferences gt Grouped referrers tab gt Group Referrers Type the group name that you wish to be shown for all referrers on the specific site In the Referrer input box specify the site domain name from which all referrers should be grouped You can use the wildcard character to specify a part of domain name Click OK To ungroup references from a specific site Go to Home gt Web Statistics gt Preferences gt Grouped referrers tab All referrer group names will be presented in a list 2 3 Viewing Usage
49. 68 Removing Access Permissions from Groups and USEY S eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee 68 Setting Up Access Permissions Inheritance for Files and Folders 065 69 Setting Changing and Removing Special Access Permissions 0006 69 Setting Access Permissions for Virtual Directories ccceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 70 68 Setting Up And Maintaining Your Web Site Setting and Changing Access Permissions for Groups and Users gt 1 To set or change access permissions for a group or user Go to Home gt File Manager Click M corresponding to the required file or folder To change or remove permissions from a group or user click the required name in the Group or user names list To set permissions for a group or user which is not in the Group or user names list select the required user group name from the drop down box located above the list and click the user group appears in the list Select it To allow or deny permissions to a selected group user select the Allow or Deny check boxes corresponding to permissions listed under Permissions for user group name Note If check boxes in Allow and or Deny columns are shaded it means that the corresponding permissions are inherited from a parent folder To deny the permission which are inherited from a parent object as allowed select the required check boxes under Deny This will override inherited permissions for this fi
50. Account and click Connect To Global Account 2 Select Create new global account and provide the login and password for your global account 3 Click OK Your global account is active now so you can proceed with connecting other accounts to it Refer to the section Connecting Local Accounts to Your Global Account on page 15 for more information Setting Up a Global Account 15 Connecting Local Accounts To Your Global Account gt To connect a local Parallels Plesk Panel account to your global account 1 Log in to Parallels Plesk Panel under the local account you want to connect 2 Go to Global Account and click Connect To Global Account 3 Make sure that Use existing global account option is selected and provide the login and password for the global account you want to connect to 4 Click OK Repeat steps 1 4 for other local accounts as necessary gt Toconnect an account in another product with SSO support to your global account 1 Log in to software product with SSO support under the account you want to connect 2 Follow the instructions on connecting to a global account in respective software product documentation Make sure that you provide the credentials for the existing global account when you are asked to Repeat steps 1 2 for other accounts or products as necessary Note Different software products may use different names for the Global Account feature such as Federated Identity or Global Login R
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52. Database name menu 3 Click Browse and select the required backup file 5 Leave the Restore database backup immediately upon uploading check box selected if you want the database contents to be restored immediately after the backup file is uploaded Click OK The database backup file will be uploaded to the backup repository of the specified database Downloading Database Backup Files From Server To download a backup file from backup repository Go to Domains gt domain name gt Backup gt Database Backup Repository Select the database which backup files you want to browse in the Database menu Leave All domain databases selected if you want to browse backup files of all databases on a domain Click an icon bal corresponding to the database backup file you want to download Select the location where you want to save the backup file and click Save The backup file will be downloaded from the backup repository Removing Database Backup Files From Server To download a backup file from backup repository Go to Home gt Backup Manager gt Database Backup Repository Select the database which backup files you want to browse in the Database menu Leave All domain databases selected if you want to browse backup files of all databases on a domain 148 Backing Up And Restoring Your Data 3 Select a check box corresponding to the database backup file you wish to remove Click X Remove confirm
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54. Kaspersky Antivirus is used on the server then you can use the Scanning settings icon to adjust scanning settings To view the information about scanning settings click the Help shortcut in the navigation pane 3 Click OK Switching Off Anti virus Protection gt To switch off anti virus protection for a mailbox 1 Go to Home gt Mail Accounts gt e mail address gt Virus Protection 2 Select the Do not scan for viruses option and click OK Using E mail Services 123 Suspending and Unsuspending Mailboxes Oo N a y U N a y Vv To temporarily suspend e mail services for a mailbox Go to Home gt Mail Accounts gt e mail address gt Mailbox Clear the Mailbox check box Click OK To resume e mail services for a suspended mailbox Go to Home gt Mail Accounts gt e mail address gt Mailbox Select the Mailbox check box Click OK To temporarily suspend e mail services for all mailboxes in your domain Go to Home gt Mail Accounts Click Switch Off in the Tools group To resume e mail services for all mailboxes in your domain Go to Home gt Mail Accounts Click Switch On in the Tools group Removing Mailboxes To remove a mailbox Go to Home gt Mail Accounts Select a check box corresponding to the mailbox that you wish to remove Click Remove Confirm removal and click OK 124 Using E mail Services Setting Up Mail Forwarding to a Single E mail Address
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56. Parallels Plesk Panel Parallels Plesk Panel 9 3 Domain Administrator s Guide Revision 1 0 Parallels Copyright Notice ISBN N A Parallels 660 SW 39th Street Suite 205 Renton Washington 98057 USA Phone 1 425 282 6400 Fax 1 425 282 6444 Copyright 1999 2009 Parallels Inc All rights reserved Distribution of this work or derivative of this work in any form is prohibited unless prior written permission is obtained from the copyright holder Patented technology protected by U S Patents 7 328 225 7 325 017 7 293 033 7 099 948 7 076 633 Patents pending in the U S Product and service names mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners Contents Preface 7 Typographical Conventions c c ecccccceeccceeceeeeeeeceesceetenedeeeecnneeesennsdenenaceeeeneeedeesneneeeeeneaeeeeensaes 7 E GODAGCK 2 0 ieee ceasnrecneehiee itis sede nee ESAE TE A AAA A NESE N T EE E AN 8 Getting Started 9 Logging In to Parallels Plesk Panel aasensesesesssesssssssssnnesssnnessnrnessnnasstenneatananntnnnnsnnaadatnaneenannennnn 9 Becoming Familiar with Parallels Plesk Panel cccccceeceeeeeceeeeseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeseeeeeeeeeenaeeeeeeeaees 10 Changing Your Contact Information and Password ccceeseeeeeeeeeeeeeeneeeeeenaeeeeeeaeeeseenaeeeeeeaas 13 Setting Up a Global Account 14 Creating a Global ACCOUN errs ees canes a A ATA A Gage RR 14 Connecting Local Accounts To Your Globa
57. Ruby application is located If you do not have access to server shell ask your server administrator or hosting service provider to perform this step for you Create a file with name htaccess in the directory lt your_domain_name gt httpdocs lt your_application gt public open it with a text editor of your choice and add the following lines into the file AddHandler fcgid script fcgi Options FollowSymLinks ExecCGI RewriteEngine On RewriteBase lt your application gt Setting Up And Maintaining Your Web Site 55 RewriteRule index html QSA RewriteRule S 1 html QSA RewriteCond REQUEST F LENAME f RewriteRule S dispatch fcgi QSA L ErrorDocument 500 lt h2 gt Application error lt h2 gt Rails application failed to start properly 8 Save the file 9 Make sure that the proper path to the Ruby interpreter is specified in the file public dispatch fcgi issue the commands head n1 dispatch fcgi and which ruby The both commands must return identical values Now the Web application will be accessible at the following URL http your domain com your_application Using IIS Application Pool Windows Hosting IIS Application Pool contains all your web applications If your service provider has given you a dedicated IIS application pool it allows you to have a level of isolation between your web applications and web applications use
58. Site with External Domain Name Servers sseseeeeeeeeeees 96 Changing Web Hosting Type from Physical to Forwarding c ccccsseeeeee 97 28 Setting Up And Maintaining Your Web Site Creating and Publishing Your Site If your hosting plan includes the Web site creation and management service using Sitebuilder you can create and publish Web sites using Sitebuilder Or you can create your site content Web pages scripts and graphic files that compose your site on your home or office computer and then publish it to the server in any of the following ways Through FTP connection most common and easiest way Through control panel s file manager Through Secure Shell connection only for users of Linux and FreeBSD operating systems Through Adobe Dreamweaver or Microsoft FrontPage software only for users of Microsoft Windows operating systems In this section Creating and Publishing Web Sites Using Sitebuilder eeeseeeeeeeeees 28 Publishing a Site Through PIP c s c cc scdececsncceceeseccesecbecedcessesastentedsceceecenceeus 29 Publishing a Site Through Parallels Plesk Panel s File Manager 008 31 Publishing a Site Through SSH Connection eeeceeeeeeeeeee eee eeeeeneeeeeeeeeeeteees 32 Publishing a Site From Microsoft FrontPage Windows Hosting ee 32 Using Additional Microsoft FrontPage Accounts Windows Hosting 0 35 Ch
59. Specify the database name type and server for the database you are restoring Note You can specify a new database name but you must choose the correct database type for example if you are trying to restore a MySQL database choose MySQL database type 3 Select the Restore database from backup file check box 4 Specify the location of the database backup file You can upload a backup file from your local machine or specify a file located on the server 5 Provide the default username and password for the restored database 6 Click OK If you are restoring MS SQL database there is a possibility that some database users will be orphaned In order to provide the ability to access and use the database for these users you need to repair them Refer to Recovering Orphaned Database Users section for more information Recovering Orphaned Database Users If you are restoring an MS SQL database there is a possibility that some database users will be orphaned In order to provide the ability to access and use the database for these users you need to repair them gt 1 To check if a database has orphaned users Go to Home gt Databases gt database name If you see a warning saying that there are several orphaned users that should be repaired in order to function properly you have orphaned users who need to be repaired Backing Up And Restoring Your Data 145 gt To repair orphaned users 1 Go to Home gt Da
60. Statistics for Your Site 137 Select the check box corresponding to the required group name and click Remove Confirm the operation and click OK Hiding and Unhiding Direct Requests gt 1 2 3 4 To hide direct requests Go to Home gt Web Statistics gt Preferences Click Hide Entries In the Entry type drop down box select the Direct request value Click OK gt Tounhide direct requests _ Go to Home gt Web Statistics gt Preferences All hidden entries will be presented in a list Select the check box corresponding to the Direct request entry and click Remove Confirm the operation and click OK Automating Report Generation and Delivery by E mail gt 1 To receive detailed reports on your domain on a regular basis Go to Home gt Statistics group title menu gt My Web Site Report gt Layouts gt report type gt Report Delivery gt New Delivery Schedule To receive the report to your e mail address registered with the system select the the domain administrator value from the Deliver to drop down menu To receive the report to another e mail address select the e mail address specify option and type the e mail address Select the delivery interval from the Delivery frequency drop down menu You can have the report delivered each day each week or each month Click OK 138 Viewing Usage Statistics for Your Site To change the delivery schedule for a detail
61. abase User ACCOUNM ccccceeceeceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeneeeeeeees 47 FREMMO WING a Database srar rsi eketia iee seeks a uhat creed teen EET ceed 48 46 Setting Up And Maintaining Your Web Site Creating or Importing a Database gt 1 2 3 To create a new database on your hosting account On your Home page click Databases Click Add New Database Enter a name for the database We recommend that you choose a name that starts with a Latin alphabet symbol and comprises only alphanumeric and underscore symbols up to 64 symbols Select the database type that you are going to use MySQL PostgreSQL or Microsoft SQL Server 5 Select the database server of the selected type from the list Click OK 6 To set up database administrator s credentials click Add New Database 2 oS ao User Type a user name and a password that will be used for accessing the contents of the database Click OK To import an existing database On your Home page click Databases Click Add New Database Enter a name for the database We recommend that you choose a name that starts with a Latin alphabet symbol and comprises only alphanumeric and underscore symbols up to 64 symbols Select the database type that you are going to use MySQL PostgreSQL or Microsoft SQL Server Click OK To set up database administrator s credentials click Add New Database User Type a user name and a password that wi
62. al Time to backup file names Splitting of the backup file To create a multivolume backup select the respective check box and specify volume size in megabytes Location where to store the backup file Select the repository where you would like to store the backup file What data to back up You can back up only Web hosting settings or the Web hosting settings and all site content E mail notification on backup completion If you want to send an e mail notice on the backup completion type the required e mail address Suspend the Web site until backing up is finished If you do not want anybody to make any changes to the site content or settings during backing up select the corresponding check box Click Back Up The backup process will start and the progress will be shown under the Current Back Up Tasks tab You can use the Refresh button to update the information on the screen When backing up is finished the backup file will be saved to the repository you selected and will be accessible either from the FTP server or from the location Home gt Backup Manager Backing Up Databases Windows Hosting To back up a database Go to Home gt Databases Select a check box corresponding to the database you want to back up and click Back Up Specify the name of the backup file and click OK 142 4 Backing Up And Restoring Your Data If you want to download the resulting backup file click the file na
63. alics Used to emphasize the The system supports the so importance of a point to called wildcard character introduce a term or to search designate a command line placeholder which is to be replaced with a real name or value Monospace The names of style sheet The license file is called selectors files and directories license key and CSS fragments 8 Preface See What you type contrasted with Unix Linux on screen computer output cd root rpms php Windows gt cd smyfolder at 3 el On screen computer output in Unix Linux your command line sessions source code in XML C or 1s al files other programming languages total 14470 Windows gt ping localhost RSDILy meon ILA 250 ike bytes 32 time lt lms TTL 128 Feedback If you have found an error in this guide or if you have suggestions or ideas on how to improve this guide please send your feedback using the online form at http www parallels com en support usersdoc Please include in your report the guide s title chapter and section titles and the fragment of text in which you have found an error CHAPTER 1 Getting Started In this chapter Logging In to Parallels Plesk Panel 2 3 22ce heen ei ene eet 9 Becoming Familiar with Parallels Plesk Panel sssseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee 10 Changing Your Contact Information and Password eesecee 13 Logging In to Parallels Plesk Panel gt Tolog i
64. all responses enter an encoding value into the Response encoding field default is utf 8 To set an encoding which must be used by default for parsing of aspx asmx and asax files enter an encoding value into the File encoding field default is Windows 1252 To set a culture which must be used by default for processing incoming web requests select an appropriate item from the Culture list To set a culture which must be used by default when processing searches for a locale dependent resource select an appropriate item from the UI Culture list Set a code access security trust level for ASP NET applications in the Code Access Security field CAS trust level is a security zone to which applications execution is assigned defining what server resources the applications will have access to Important When an assembly is assigned a trust level that is too low it does not function correctly For more information on the permissions levels see http msdn microsoft com library en us dnnetsec html THCMCh09 asp frame true c09618429 010 Enable the usage of the auxiliary scripts in the Script Library Settings field Specifying the script library settings is necessary if the validation web controls are used on your web site This option is available only for ASP NET 1 1 x If you need to use auxiliary scripts specifically scripts implementing objects for validating input data provide the settings for NET framewor
65. and directories that should be accessible via HTTP protocol to the httpdocs directory and files directories that should be transferred securely over SSL protocol to the httpsdocs directory Place your CGI scripts into the cgi bin directory To create a new directory within your current location click Add New Directory To create new files in the required directory click Add New File in the File creation section specify the file name select the Use html template check box if you want file manager to insert some basic html tags to the new file and click OK A page will open allowing you to enter the content or html formatted source of a new file After you are done click OK To upload a file from the local machine click Add New File specify the path to its location in the File source box or use the Browse button to locate the file and click OK To edit a Web page in the built in visual editor available only to users of Microsoft Internet Explorer click When editing an HTML file Plesk opens internal WYSIWYG editor by default If you want to edit the source code of the HTML file click HTML To return back to WYSIWYG mode click Design To edit the source code of a file click L To view the file click To rename a file or directory click j Type in a new name and click OK To copy or move a file or directory to another location select the required file or directory using the appropriate check box and cl
66. anging Microsoft FrontPage Settings Windows Hosting 0ceeeee 36 Publishing a Site From Adobe Dreamweaver ececeeeeeeeeaeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaas 37 Creating and Publishing Web Sites Using Sitebuilder To start creating a Web site using Sitebuilder On your Home page click Edit in Sitebuilder The Sitebuilder wizard opens Select the Create your site option and click Next at the bottom of the screen For further instructions on creating or editing your site refer to the online Sitebuilder Wizard user s guide at http download1 parallels com SiteBuilder 4 5 0 doc user en_US html index htm Setting Up And Maintaining Your Web Site 29 Publishing a Site Through FTP gt Toupload your site through FTP 1 Connect to the server with an FTP client program using FTP account credentials your provider gave you The FTP address should be ftp your domain name com where your domain name com is your site s Internet address Enable the passive mode if you are behind a firewall 2 Upload files and directories that should be accessible through HTTP protocol to the httpdocs directory and files directories that should be transferred securely over SSL protocol to the httpsdocs directory 3 Place your CGI scripts into the cgi bin directory 4 Close your FTP session In this section Changing Your FTP Account Credentials 00 ceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee 29 Using Additiona
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68. atistical program are removed from the server gt To find out how many people visited a site from what countries and what pages of the site they viewed Go to Home gt Web Statistics View the statistics for the web pages or files downloaded from or uploaded to specific areas of your site To view the statistics for web pages transferred from your site over hypertext transfer protocol HTTP click Web Stats To view the statistics for web pages transferred from your site over secure hypertext transfer protocol HTTPS click Web Stats SSL To view statistics for files transferred over file transfer protocol FTP click FTP Stats To view statistics for files transferred via anonymous FTP click Anon FTP Stats To view the bandwidth usage by months click Traffic History To view the bandwidth usage by FTP Web and mail services in this domain click Traffic Note If you use Webalizer statistical package on your account you can customize the graphical reports shown by Webalizer For instructions refer to the Adjusting Preferences for Web Statistics Presentation by Webalizer section Alternately you can view the Web statistics for a site by visiting the following URL https your domain com plesk stat webstat When prompted for username and password specify the credentials for your FTP account 134 Viewing Usage Statistics for Your Site Common operations on reports To get more details sele
69. b server generates and displays a standard HTML page with an error message If you wish to create your own error pages and use them on your web server select the Custom error documents check box Additional write modify permissions available only for Windows hosting This option is required if Web applications under a domain will be using a file based database like Jet located in the root of httpdocs or httpsdocs folders Please note that selecting this option might seriously compromise the Web site security Use dedicated IIS application pool available only for Windows hosting This option enables the use of dedicated IIS application pool for Web applications on a domain Using dedicated IIS application pool dramatically improves the stability of domain Web applications due to worker process isolation mode This mode gives each Web site hosted on the server the possibility to allocate a separate process pool for execution of its Web applications This way malfunction in one application will not cause stopping of all the others This is especially useful when you are using shared hosting package Reviewing Your Hosting Package 23 3 Click OK In this chapter Viewing the Resource Allotments for Your ACCOUNL eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeetaeees 23 Viewing the Permissions for Operations You Can Perform through the Control Panel Si adie ssid titra altace E manner 25 Viewing the Resource Allotments for Your Account gt To v
70. cate of the Master SSL Domain disabling shared SSL use 1 Click Shared SSL on your Home page 2 Clear the Switch on shared SSL check box 3 Click OK Setting Up And Maintaining Your Web Site 63 Restricting Bandwidth Usage for Sites To avoid excessive usage of bandwidth which can lead to resources overage you can limit bandwidth usage for a site oN gt v To limit the bandwidth for a site Go to Home gt Bandwidth Limiting Select the Switch on bandwidth limiting check box Specify the maximum speed measured in KB per second that a domain can share between all its connections in the Maximum bandwidth usage KB S field Click OK Restricting the Amount of Simultaneous Connections to Sites To avoid Denial Of Service attacks and to prevent excessive usage of bandwidth you can set a limit of maximum number of simultaneous Web connections your domain can have oN gt v To limit the maximum number of simultaneous connections to a Web site Go to Home gt Bandwidth Limiting Select the Switch on connections limiting check box Specify the maximum number of simultaneous connections in the Connections limited to field Click OK 64 Setting Up And Maintaining Your Web Site Protecting Sites From Bandwidth Stealing Windows Hosting Hotlinking also called file leeching remote linking direct linking bandwidth stealing or bandwidth banditism is a term used for describing a situation whe
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72. ce that can be occupied by uploaded files clear the Unlimited check box corresponding to the Limit disk space in the incoming directory option and specify the amount in kilobytes This is the hard quota the users will not be able to add more files to the directory when the limit is reached To limit the number of simultaneous connections to the anonymous FTP server clear the Unlimited check box corresponding to the Limit number of simultaneous connections option and specify the number of allowed connections To limit the bandwidth for anonymous FTP connections clear the Unlimited check box corresponding to the Limit download bandwidth for this virtual FTP domain option and enter the maximum bandwidth in kilobytes per second 10 Click OK gt To modify settings for anonymous FTP server or switch it off 1 On your Home page click Anonymous FTP Setting Up And Maintaining Your Web Site 89 2 Adjust the settings as required and click OK or click the Switch Off icon in the Tools group to switch off the anonymous FTP service Customizing Web Server Error Messages Linux Hosting When visitors coming to your site request pages that the web server cannot find the web server generates and displays a standard HTML page with an error message The standard error messages may inform of problems but they do not usually say how to resolve them or how to get the lost visitor on his way and they also look dull You may
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74. change the corresponding option 5 Click OK Maintaining Mailing Lists If you wish to deliver offers and promotions to your customers run a newsletter or inform visitors of your site of recent updates you should set up a mailing list on your site and subscribe your users to it or invite them to subscribe themselves Mailing list is a convenient way to reach a number of readers at once it contains a list of e mail addresses which are combined under a single e mail address to which you post your information or a newsletter In this section Setting Up a Mailing List eee cccccceeeeeeeeeeeeneeeeeeeeeeeeeeseaaaaeeeeeeeeeeeeesaaaeeeeeees 130 Subscribing and Unsubscribing Users eee eenen 131 Posting to Your Mailing List sac2 2 fcc sone aces case tee dstaes ac pate aber seeds decndecebedstacsacnsteces 132 Removing Mailing Lists ececheretcnccantccreiencdensiea iecieretetenslietcenterdendeaduccreuetecenddeaucciies 132 Setting Up a Mailing List gt To setup a mailing list 1 Go to Home gt Mailing lists 2 Click the Switch On icon in the Tools group to start up the mailing list service 3 Click Add New Mailing List 4 Specify the desired name for the mailing list Using E mail Services 131 This can be for example a department name a topic of the mailing list or any other text in Latin symbols The name should be short enough to remember It can comprise alphanumeric dash dot and underscore
75. cility also referred to as autoresponder Aside from vacation notices organizations can use automatic replies to notify customers that their orders or technical support requests were received and will soon be processed Automatic replies can include prewritten messages in plain text or HTML format and they can contain attached files as well gt To set up automatic reply for a mailbox 1 Go to Home gt Mail Accounts gt e mail address gt Autoresponders 2 If you are not going to attach any files to the automatic reply proceed to the step 5 To attach a file to the automatic reply a b c Click the Attachment Files icon in the Tools group Click Browse to locate the file and once selected click Send File The file will be added to the attachment files storage and you will be able to attach this file to a number of different automatic replies Once finished click Up Level and proceed to the next step 3 Click the Add New Autoresponder icon in the Tools group 4 Configure the automatic reply a Type a name for this automatic reply into the Autoresponder name box For example Vacation notice If you want your incoming mail to be forwarded to another e mail address while you are away specify an e mail address in the Upon automatic response forward the original message to the specified e mail box If you want this automatic reply to be sent in reply to any incoming e mail message in the Condi
76. ck Remove Monitoring Connections to Control Panel gt To find out who of your customers is logged in to the control panel at the moment 1 Go to Home gt Active Sessions All sessions including yours will be presented and the following details will be displayed Type A type of control panel user who established the session 2 for domain or Web site owner 2 for mailbox owner Login The login name the user is logged in as IP address The IP address from which the control panel is accessed Logon time The date and time when the user logged in to the control panel Idle time The time that user was not doing anything in the control panel while being logged in 2 To refresh the list of user sessions click Refresh 3 To end a user session select the respective check box and click Remove then confirm removal and click OK CHAPTER 11 Accessing The Server Using Remote Desktop Windows Hosting he remote desktop RDP access feature allows you to remotely login to the Parallels Plesk Panel server and interact with it via standard Microsoft Windows desktop interface gt To access the server via Remote Desktop interface 1 2 Go to Home gt Remote Desktop Set up screen resolution for the session in the Screen resolution for terminal session menu Note Higher resolutions are more taxing for your connection decreasing the interaction speed and spending more bandwidth Choose the connection method acc
77. ct and accurate as it will be used to generate your private key Click Buy SSL Certificate Your private key and certificate signing request will be generated do not delete them MyPlesk com login page will open in a new browser window Register or login to an existing MyPlesk com account and you will be taken step by step through the certificate purchase procedure 5 Choose the type of certificate that you wish to purchase 6 Click Proceed to Buy and order the certificate 9 In the Approver E Mail drop down box please select the correct Approver e mail The approver e mail is an e mail address that can confirm that certificate for specific domain name was requested by an authorized person Once your certificate request is processed you will be sent a confirmation e mail After you confirm the SSL certificate will be sent to your e mail When you receive your SSL certificate save it on your local machine or network Return to the SSL Certificates repository Home gt SSL Certificates 10 Click Browse and navigate to the location of the saved certificate 11 Select the saved certificate and then click Send File This will upload and install the certificate against the corresponding private key 12 Return to your Home page and click Web Hosting Settings Setting Up And Maintaining Your Web Site 59 13 Select the SSL certificate that you wish to install from the Certificate drop down box If t
78. ct the Full Report option from the Report drop down menu To adjust the amount of information presented in a report click Customize and then modify an existing report template to do this click a report template name or create a new report template to do this click Add New Layout Next specify how much information you want in each section of the report select None if you do not want any information select Summary if you want a concise overview or select Full if you need a detailed report Select the Use as default report check box and click OK To delete a custom report layout select the check box corresponding to the report layout name and click Remove To print the report click Print A report will open in a separate browser window Select the File gt Print option from the browser s menu to print the report To send the report by e mail type the recipient s e mail address into the input box located to the right of the Report group and click Send by E mail If you are the recipient then you do not need to specify an e mail address the system assumes by default that you are the report recipient and specifies your e mail address registered with your control panel account To have the reports automatically generated and delivered by e mail on a daily weekly or monthly basis click Report Delivery and follow the instructions supplied in the Automating Report Generation and Delivery by E mail section In this chapter Ad
79. d by other domain owners that host their web sites on the same server Because each application pool runs independently errors in one application pool will not affect the applications running in other application pools By default the application pool is enabled To stop all applications running in the application pool click IIS Application Pool on your Home page and click Stop To start all applications in the application pool click IIS Application Pool on your Home page and click Start To restart all applications running in the application pool click IIS Application Pool on your Home page and click Recycle This can be handy if some applications are known to have memory leaks or become unstable after working for a long time In this section Setting Up IIS Application POol cccccccecccceceeccceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaeeaeeeeeeeeeeeeaaeanees 56 Disabling IIS Application POol ccccccccceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaeaneeeeeeeeeeeaaas 56 56 Setting Up And Maintaining Your Web Site Setting Up IIS Application Pool Oo N a y 4 To enable IIS application pool for a domain Click IIS Application Pool on your Home page Click Switch On To limit the amount of CPU resources that your application pool can use select the Switch on CPU monitoring check box and provide a number in percents in the Maximum CPU use field Click OK Once you enable the application pool all your web application
80. d by your domain MySQL databases quota and Microsoft SQL databases quota available only for Windows hosting Displays the maximum disk space amount in megabytes that MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server databases used by your domain can occupy Maximum number of ODBC connections available only for Windows hosting Displays the total number of ODBC connections that can be used by your domain Maximum number of ColdFusion DSN connections available only for Windows hosting Displays the total number of ColdFusion DSN connections that can be used by your domain Maximum number of Java applications Displays the maximum number of Java applications or applets that you can install in a domain Maximum number of shared SSL links available only for Windows hosting Displays the total number of shared SSL links that can be used on your domain Validity period Shows the term for a hosting account At the end of the term your domain web site will be suspended its Web FTP and mail services will no longer be accessible to the Internet users and you will not be able to log in to the control panel Click OK Reviewing Your Hosting Package 25 Viewing the Permissions for Operations You Can Perform through the Control Panel gt To view the permissions for operations you can perform through your control panel 1 Go to Home gt Domain Administrator Access 2 The permissions are listed in the Permissions group Physical hosting
81. d web site through your Parallels Plesk Panel interface When the Publish site with SiteBuilder option is selected a site will be created in SiteBuilder All publishing parameters will be set in the paths predefined for subdomain with Physical hosting subdomains SUBDOMAINNAME httpdocs sitebuilder for subdomain with Subdomain on subfolder httpdocs SUBDOMAINNAME 9 If you want to enable Microsoft FrontPage support select the appropriate check box Enable or disable Remote Microsoft FrontPage authoring by selecting the appropriate option 10 Specify the programming languages support in the Services group by selecting the required languages Use select all or clear all to select or clear all of the languages available If the ASP NET support is disabled on the domain for which you are creating subdomain it is also unavailable on Subdomain on subfolder In case the ASP NET support is enabled on the domain the ASP NET is available for subdomain created on a subfolder 11 To allow you to view the information on the number of people visited the site and the pages of the site they viewed select a module in Web statistics drop down menu and select the accessible via password protected directory plesk stat webstat check box if required This will install the selected statistical software module which will generate reports and place them into the password protected directory The subdomain administrator will then be able to access Web statist
82. e GoBack Ce 116 Using E mail Services 10 Click Continue Apple Mail displays overall description of the mail account that is going to be created 11 Select the Take account online check box and click Create Account Summary Account Description johnd example com Full Name John Doe Email Address johnd example com User Name johnd example com Incoming Mail Server example com SSL off Outgoing Mail Server example com SSL off M Take account online Coni See Using E mail Services 117 Protecting Mailboxes From Spam To protect your mailbox from undesirable correspondence do not publish your e mail address on Internet forums and switch on the server side spam filter provided by the SpamAssassin software Also ask your provider to switch on protection from spam and phishing based on DomainKeys DomainKeys is based on sender authentication When an e mail claims to originate from a certain domain DomainKeys provides a mechanism by which the recipient system can credibly determine that the e mail did in fact originate from a person or system authorized to send e mail for that domain If the sender verification fails the recipient system discards such e mail messages Verification of incoming mail can be switched on only by your provider however if server policy allows you can switch on signing of e mail messages that are sent from your domain Home gt Mail group title menu gt Mail Settings gt
83. e If there is no Help Desk link in the navigation pane of your Panel then it means that Help Desk is not available In such a case you should use other means to contact your hosting service provider when you need assistance 2 Type the ticket subject select the category the issue is related to and type in the problem description 3 Click OK The ticket is now submitted to the system and sent to your provider You will be notified by e mail when the issue is resolved Using Help Desk For Requesting Assistance From Your Service Provider 157 Commenting and Closing Your Trouble Ticket Oo N a y To post a new comment or to close a ticket Click the Help Desk shortcut in the navigation pane Locate the ticket you need and click its subject or identification number To close reopen or post a comment to the ticket select the operation you would like to perform from the Ticket Event drop down box and type a new comment into the New Comment input field if required Click OK to submit
84. e Publish Web site button in the lower right corner of the window 34 Setting Up And Maintaining Your Web Site Publishing Sites From Microsoft FrontPage Through HTTP gt To publish files through HTTP on a server that supports FrontPage Server Extensions 1 Open your FrontPage program 2 Open a FrontPage Web site open File menu and select the Open Site item 3 Go to Remote Web site view click the Web Site tab and then the Remote Web Site button at the bottom of the window 4 Click the Remote Web Site Properties button in the upper right corner of the window 5 On the Remote Web Site tab under Remote Web server type click FrontPage or SharePoint Services 6 In the Remote Web site location box type the Internet address including the protocol of the remote Web site that you want to publish folders and files to for example http www your domain com or click Browse to locate the site 7 Do any of the following To use Secure Sockets Layer SSL for establishing a secure communications channel to prevent the interception of critical information click Encryption connection required SSL To use SSL connections on your Web server the server must be configured with a security certificate from a recognized certificate authority If the server does not support SSL clear this check box Otherwise you will not be able to publish folders and files to the remote Web site To remove specific types of code from
85. e a web site your product com dedicated to promoting your software product For publishing user s guides tutorials and list of frequently asked questions you can organize the subdomain userdocs so that your users will be able to access online user documentation directly by visiting the domain name userdocs your product com In this section Setting Up Subdomains Linux Hosting c ceceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeteeeeeeees 72 Setting Up Subdomains Windows Hosting cccccceeceseceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeneeeeeeees 73 Removing Subdomains s sssssssttttttttttttttt lave Cadehatesadldaeecadedaeetaetiavefadeheeeree 75 72 Setting Up And Maintaining Your Web Site Setting Up Subdomains Linux Hosting gt To set up a subdomain 1 2 3 On your Home page click Subdomains Click Add New Subdomain Type the subdomain name as desired This can be for example a topic of your site organization department or any other combination of letters numbers and hyphens up to 63 characters in length The subdomain name must begin with an alphabet character Subdomain names are case insensitive If this subdomain will require secure transactions select the SSL support check box Then the SSL certificate installed under the parent domain will be used for encrypting transactions By default when you publish the site you need to upload the web content that should be accessible via secure connections to the
86. e required if your Web applications are using a file based database like Jet located in the root of httpdocs or httpsdocs folders Home page management Shows whether you can customize and manage your Home page Ability to select a database server Shows whether you can select a database server of each type for creating your databases not only use the default database server Click OK CHAPTER 5 Setting Up And Maintaining Your Web Site Once you have registered your domain name constructed your Web site and purchased a hosting package from your hosting service provider you can Publish your site to your web space on the provider s server Deploy databases and applications that your web server will be using Secure data transfer with Secure Sockets Layer encryption and restrict access to web server resources with password protection In this chapter Creating and Publishing Your Site ieee 28 PreviewinG GUI SING E 2 0 accreted ars cea tae a accede ee ee acai s se accm aia aaa ngs 38 Configuring ASP NET Windows Hosting cccceceeeeeeeeeeceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeneeeeeeeees 38 Setting PHP Version for a Domain Windows Hosting cccceeceeeseeeeeeeeees 44 Deploying Dalabases 2 20 2 cee oe do ek 45 Accessing Data From External Databases Windows Hosting 0 48 Configuring Data Source Names for Adobe ColdFusion Windows Hosting 49 Installing Applications cccccc
87. ecified limit is exceeded the account owner will not be able to add files to his or her Web space 5 Click OK to finish the creation of an additional Microsoft FrontPage account Changing Settings of Additional Microsoft FrontPage Accounts gt To change settings for an additional Microsoft FrontPage account 1 On your Home page open the Web Site group title menu and click FrontPage Management 2 Click the required account in the list 3 Specify new login and password for this account 4 Adjust the limit on the amount of disk space that can be used by this account by specifying the new limit in the Hard disk quota box 36 Setting Up And Maintaining Your Web Site When the specified limit is exceeded the account owner will not be able to add files to his or her Web space 5 Click OK to save changes Removing Additional Microsoft FrontPage Accounts gt Toremove an additional Microsoft FrontPage account 1 On your Home page open the Web Site group title menu and click FrontPage Management 2 Select the check box corresponding to the account you want to remove 3 Click Remove 4 Confirm the removal and click OK Changing Microsoft FrontPage Settings Windows Hosting If you want Microsoft FrontPage to use its own IIS Index Server to build the full text index of your Web site gt To make Microsoft FrontPage use its own IIS Index Server 1 On your Home page open the Web Site group title menu and cl
88. ed domain web site report Go to Home gt Statistics group title menu gt My Web Site Report gt Layouts gt report type gt Report Delivery Under the Frequency column click a hyperlink corresponding to the delivery schedule you would like to change Adjust the settings as required and click OK To stop receiving the account status reports Go to Home gt Statistics group title menu gt My Web Site Report gt Layouts gt report type gt Report Delivery Select a check box corresponding to the delivery schedule and click Remove Confirm removal and click OK Viewing Log Files and Configuring Recycling of Log Files All connections to the Web server and requests for files that were not found on the server are registered in log files These log files are analyzed by the statistical utilities running on the server which then present graphical reports on demand You may want to download these log files to your computer for processing by third party statistical utilities or view their contents for web server debugging purposes gt D AY To prevent these log files from growing too large you should enable automatic cleanup and recycling of log files Go to Home gt Log Manager gt Log Rotation and click Switch On in the Tools group Specify when to recycle log files and how many instances of each log file to store on the server Also specify whether they should be compressed and sent to an e mail
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90. efer to respective software product documentation for more information After you have connected all required accounts to your global account you can log in under your global account all the time in any product where you have a local account connected to your global account You will be shown the list of local accounts connected to your global account every time you log in under it so you can choose which account you would like to use now You can switch to another account any time you want Refer to the section Switching Between Accounts for more information 16 Setting Up a Global Account Switching Between Accounts gt To switch to another account 1 Click Switch User in the upper right corner 2 Select the account you want to switch to Choose the required local account from the list of accounts connected to your global account or Select Specify credentials for another account and provide login and password for a local account not connected to your global account or to another global account You can also specify the language for your control panel from the Interface language menu If you had previously specified the interface language for that account and saved it in its interface preferences leave the Default value selected 3 Click OK Changing Global Account Password gt To change password of your global account 1 Log in to Parallels Plesk Panel under your global account or any local account connected to i
91. er For a CNAME record you will need to first enter the alias domain name for which you wish to create the CNAME record You then need to enter the domain name within which you want the alias to reside Any domain name can be entered It does not need to reside on the same server For a PTR record you will first enter the IP address mask for which you wish to define the pointer Then enter the appropriate domain name for this IP to be translated to For a TXT record you will be able to enter an arbitrary text string which could be a description or an SPF record 4 Click OK to submit the data Note When you are finished with modifying DNS records of the DNS zone confirm the changes by clicking the Apply button on the DNS zone screen DNS Settings Unconfirmed changes will not be saved 94 Setting Up And Maintaining Your Web Site Modifying Resource Records gt To modify the properties of a resource record 1 Go to Home gt DNS Settings in the Web Site group 2 Click the hyperlink in the Host column corresponding to the resource record you want to modify 3 Modify the record as required and click OK gt To modify entries in the Start of Authority SOA record for a domain 1 Go to Home gt DNS Settings in the Web Site group gt SOA Record 2 Specify the desired values TTL This is the amount of time that other DNS servers should store the record in a cache Parallels Plesk Panel sets the default value of
92. es should not have the Execute permission check box selected in their preferences so that applications do not have the ability of unauthorized running of programs in the parent paths Allow application execution in MTA multi threaded apartment mode select this check box to allow the application execution in multi threaded apartment MTA mode Otherwise the application will run in a single threaded apartment STA mode Using STA each application pool is executed in a dedicated process With MTA several concurrent application pools are executed in one thread which can increase performance in some cases Use default documents select this check box to allow the use of default documents for the current web directory The default document is sent when users access the directory on the Web without a specific file name for example using http www parallels com as opposed to http www parallels com index html If this check box is cleared and the Directory browsing check box is selected the Web server returns a folder listing If this check box is cleared and the Directory browsing check box is cleared as well the Web server returns an Access Forbidden error message Default documents search order specifies the order in which IIS searches for the default document sending user the first available file it finds If no match is found IIS behaves as in the cases when the default content page is disabled 82 Setting Up And Maintaini
93. et in the Parallels Plesk Panel If an object or settings from the backup file are present in the Parallels Plesk Panel then the object or settings from the backup file replace the corresponding object or settings that are present in the Parallels Plesk Panel If an object or settings are present in the Parallels Plesk Panel but are missing from the backup file then the object or settings currently present in the Parallels Plesk Panel are not changed Restoring Databases gt If the database already exists and you only need to restore its contents 1 Go to Home gt Databases gt database name gt Database Backup Repository select the required backup file from the list and click Restore 144 Backing Up And Restoring Your Data If you do not have the backup file on your server you can upload the backup file to the server repository from your local machine Refer to Uploading Database Backup Files To Server section for more information Confirm the restoration by selecting the corresponding check box and click OK If you are restoring MS SQL database there is a possibility that some database users will be orphaned In order to provide the ability to access and use the database for these users you need to repair them Refer to Recovering Orphaned Database Users section for more information If the database does not exist and you need to recreate it from scratch Go to Home gt Databases and click Add New Database
94. f month two digits and NN is version per day two digits The YYYYMMDDNN format won t overflow until the year 4294 gt 3 Setting Up And Maintaining Your Web Site 95 To change the Start of Authority SOA serial number format to YYYYMMDDNN for a domain Go to Home gt DNS Settings in the Web Site group gt SOA Record Select the Use serial number format recommended by IETF and RIPE check box Note See the sample of SOA serial number generated with the selected format If the resulting number is less than the current zone number the modification may cause temporary malfunction of DNS for this domain Zone updates may be invisible to Internet users for some time Click OK Removing Resource Records oOo N a y To remove a resource record from the zone Go to Home gt DNS Settings in the Web Site group Select a check box corresponding to the record you wish to remove Click Remove Confirm removal and click OK Note When you are finished with modifying DNS records of the DNS zone confirm the changes by clicking the Apply button on the DNS zone screen DNS Settings Unconfirmed changes will not be saved Restoring the Original Zone Configuration gt To restore the original zone configuration in accordance with the configuration preset defined by your provider Go to Home gt DNS Settings in the Web Site group In the IP address drop down box select the IP address to be used for
95. field type in the help tip that will be displayed when you hover the mouse pointer over the button Select the Open URL in the control panel check box if you wish the destination URL to be opened in the control panel s right frame otherwise leave this check box unchecked to open the URL in a separate browser window f you wish to make this button visible to the mailbox users with access to control panel select the Visible to all sub logins check box 3 Click OK to complete creation gt Toremove a hyperlink button from your Parallels Plesk Panel 1 Go to Home gt Custom Buttons 2 Select a check box corresponding to the button that you want to remove and click Remove CHAPTER 4 Reviewing Your Hosting Package gt To review or select the hosting features available for your account if your provider delegated the permission to manage the hosting options for your account 1 On your Home page click Web Hosting Settings 2 View or change your hosting options IP Address Your domain can be hosted on either exclusive IP address or shared IP address Choose an address from your service provider s IP addresses pool Certificate Shows the information about an SSL certificate used by your site SSL support Secure Sockets Layer encryption is generally used for protecting transfer of sensitive data during online transactions on e commerce Web sites that run on dedicated IP addresses SSL certificates that participate in
96. formation on this screen we recommend you test your account by clicking the E mail Address mail example com button below Requires network connection Server Information Test Account Settings Account Type POPS Incoming mail server example com Outgoing mail server SMTP fexample com Logon Information User Name mail example com Password Ti ek A kak a V Remember password Require logon using Secure Password Authentication SPA More Settings lt Back Cancel 8 Click Next 9 Click Finish 104 Using E mail Services Setting Up Microsoft Outlook Express 6 The instructions provided in this section were verified against Microsoft Outlook Express 6 They might not work with earlier or later versions of Microsoft Outlook Express gt To set up Microsoft Outlook Express 1 Open Microsoft Outlook Express 2 Go to Tools gt Accounts 3 4 Click the Add button and select the Mail item Enter your name as you want it to appear in any messages you send and click Next Internet Connection Wizard x Your Name When you send e mail your name will appear in the From field of the outgoing message Type your name as you would like itto appear Display name John Doe For example John Smith lt Bach Cancel 5 Type your e mail address and click Next Using E mail Services 105 Internet Connection Wizard Internet E mail Address mail example
97. g Shows whether you can create and manage FTP accounts Scheduler management Shows whether you can schedule tasks in the system Scheduled tasks can be used for running scripts or utilities on schedule DNS zone management Shows whether you can manage the DNS zone of your domain Java applications management Shows whether you can install Java applications and applets on your Web site through the control panel 26 Reviewing Your Hosting Package Web statistics management Shows whether you can manage Web statistics for this site Mailing lists management Shows whether you can use mailing lists provided by the GNU Mailman software Spam filter management Shows whether you can use spam filter provided by the SpamAssassin software Antivirus management Shows whether you can use server side antivirus protection for filtering incoming and outgoing mail Backup and restore functions Shows whether you can use the control panel s facilities to backup and restore your site Scheduled and on demand backups are supported Ability to use Sitebuilder Shows whether you can use Sitebuilder for creating and editing your site IIS application pool management available only for Windows hosting Shows whether you can manage your IIS application pool Additional write modify permissions management available only for Windows hosting Shows whether you can manage additional write modify permissions for your site These permissions ar
98. ge Webadmin gt Help or visit Microsoft Web site In this section Publishing Sites From Microsoft FrontPage Through FTP ccccceeeeeeeeees 33 Publishing Sites From Microsoft FrontPage Through HTTP nsss 34 Publishing Sites From Microsoft FrontPage Through FTP If you are publishing from a computer at work ask your IT department help desk or network administrator if you are allowed to publish with FTP beyond a firewall Also ask if you need to install special software that allows you to publish beyond the firewall gt To publish files through FTP 1 Open Microsoft FrontPage 2 Open a Microsoft FrontPage Web site open File menu and select the Open Site item 3 Go to Remote Web site view click the Web Site tab and then the Remote Web Site button at the bottom of the window 4 Set up your Remote Web Site Properties Click the Remote Web Site Properties button in the upper right corner of the window Select FTP as the remote Web server In the Remote Web site location box type your host name e g ftp ftp your domain com Inthe FTP directory box type your FTP directory if your hosting company provided one Leave it blank if they did not specify one Select the Use Passive FTP check box if your computer or network is protected by a firewall 5 Click OK to connect to the remote site The Remote Web site view will show files that you have in your local and remote sites 6 Click th
99. ginal resource records for the zone will be restored If you host a web site on this server and rely entirely on other machines to perform the Domain Name Service for your site there are two external name servers a primary and a secondary switch off the control panel s DNS service for each site served by external name servers gt To switch off the control panel s DNS service for a site served by an external name server Go to Home gt DNS Settings in the Web Site group Click Switch Off the DNS Service Turning the DNS service off for the zone will refresh the screen so that only a list of name servers remains Note The listed name server records have no effect on the system They are only presented on the screen as clickable links to give you a chance to validate the configuration of the zone maintained on the external authoritative name servers Setting Up And Maintaining Your Web Site 97 gt To validate the configuration of a zone maintained on authoritative name servers Go to Home gt DNS Settings in the Web Site group Add the entries pointing to the appropriate name servers that are authoritative for the zone to the list of DNS records click Add Record specify a name server and click OK Repeat this for each name server you would like to test 3 The records will appear in the list Click on the records that you have just created Parallels Plesk Panel will retrieve the zone file from a re
100. gramming and scripting languages should be interpreted executed or otherwise processed by the web server Active Server Pages ASP Server Side Includes SSI PHP hypertext preprocessor PHP Common Gateway Interface CGI Fast Common Gateway Interface FastCGI Perl Python ColdFusion and Miva scripting required for running Miva e commerce solutions Web statistics To allow you to view the information on the number of people visited your site and the pages of the site they viewed select the required program from Web statistics menu AWStats is recommended and select the accessible via password protected directory plesk stat webstat check box This will install the statistics program which will generate reports and place them into the password protected directory You will then be able to access Web statistics at the URL https your domain com plesk stat webstat using your FTP account login and password Note When you switch from one statistics program to another all reports created by the previously used statistics program are deleted and new reports are created in accordance with the information read from log files kept on the server This means that if you configured the system at Log Manager gt Log Rotation so as to keep log files only for the last month then Web statistics will be available only for the last month Custom error documents When visitors coming to your site request pages that the web server cannot find the we
101. he hyperlink to be attached to the button into the URL box Using the check boxes specify whether to include the data such as domain id and domain name to be transferred within the URL These data can be used for processing by external web applications In the Context help tip contents input field type in the help tip that will be displayed when you hover the mouse pointer over the button Select the Open URL in the control panel check box if you wish the destination URL to be opened in the control panel s right frame otherwise leave this check box unchecked to open the URL in a separate browser window If you wish to make this button visible to the e mail users whom you granted access to control panel select the Visible to all sub logins check box Click OK to complete creation Now the application is installed and you can insert a link to this application into the web pages of your site for example on your Home page Otherwise you and your users will have to access this application by typing its URL which can be long enough to remember To access the Web interface of an application do any of the following Type the URL in your browser For example http your domain com forum Go to Home gt Web Applications and click an icon corresponding to the application If you chose to add a hyperlink button to your Parallels Plesk Panel during installation of an application then on your Home page click the respective but
102. he required directory and enter it Click ASP NET Settings ASP NET applications which use databases This option is available only for ASP NET 2 0 x When you open the ASP NET configuration page for the first time sample connection parameters with common constructions are displayed You can then delete them and specify your own strings To add a string enter the required data into the Name and Connection Parameters input fields and click next to them To remove a string click next to it Set up custom error messages that will be returned by ASP NET applications in the Custom Error Settings field To set the custom error messages mode select an appropriate option from the Custom error mode menu On custom error messages are enabled Off custom error messages are disabled and detailed errors are to be shown RemoteOnly custom error messages are displayed only to remote clients and ASP NET errors are shown to the local host To add a new custom error message which will be applied unless the Off mode was selected enter the values in the Status Code and Redirect URL fields and click 42 Setting Up And Maintaining Your Web Site Status Code defines the HTTP status code resulting in redirection to the error page Redirect URL defines the web address of the error page presenting information about the error to the client Due to possible conflicts you cannot add a new custom error message
103. here is no Certificate drop down box on the screen this means that you are on a shared hosting account therefore you need to upgrade your hosting package and purchase a dedicated IP address from your hosting provider 14 Select the SSL support check box and click OK Obtaining and Installing SSL Certificates from Other Certification Authorities gt To secure your site with an SSL certificate from other certificate authorities 1 Go to Home gt SSL Certificates and click Add SSL Certificate 2 Specify the certificate properties Certificate name This will help you identify this certificate in the repository Encryption level Choose the encryption level of your SSL certificate We recommend that you choose a value more than 1024 bit Specify your location and organization name The values you enter should not exceed the length of 64 symbols Specify the domain name for which you wish to purchase an SSL certificate This should be a fully qualified domain name Example www your domain com Enter the domain administrator s e mail address 3 Make sure that all the provided information is correct and accurate as it will be used to generate your private key Click Request Your private key and certificate signing request will be generated and stored in the repository 4 In the list of certificates click the name of the certificate you need A page showing the certificate properties opens 5 Locate the CSR sect
104. hosting ProFTPd Linux UNIX hosting gt To find out who is connected to your server via FTP in what directories they currently are and what files they are uploading to or downloading from the server 1 Go to Home gt Active Sessions 2 Click the FTP Sessions tab All sessions including yours will be presented and the following details will be displayed Type The type of user who established the session 2 for users not registered with the control panel 8 for anonymous FTP users 3 for domain or web site administrators TB for subdomain administrators 8 for web users owners of personal web pages without individual domain names Status The current status of FTP connection FTP user login The login name used for access to FTP account Domain name The domain the FTP user is currently connected to Monitoring Connections to Control Panel and FTP Services 153 Current location The directory the FTP user is currently at File name The file name being operated on Speed Transfer speed in kilobytes Progress The file transfer operation progress in percentage IP address The IP address from which the FTP account is accessed Logon time The time lapsed since the moment user logged in Idle time The time that user was not doing anything while being connected to the server through FTP 3 To refresh the list of FTP sessions click Refresh 4 To end a session select the respective check box and cli
105. ick FrontPage Management 2 Click Preferences 3 Select Use the IIS Index Server check box and click OK If you use FrontPage forms that submit information by e mail on your site you may want to specify the following preferences SMTP mail server that will be used for sending mail By default SMTP server specified in the domain s DNS zone is used for sending mail If no SMTP server is specified in the zone then FrontPage uses the mail service running on the server where the domain site is hosted Sender s e mail address By default domain owner s e mail address is used If the domain owner s e mail address is not specified in domain owner s profile then FrontPage uses the e mail address of the client to whom the domain belongs If the client s e mail address is not specified in the client s profile then the server administrator s e mail address is used Setting Up And Maintaining Your Web Site 37 To change the preferences On your Home page open the Web Site group title menu and click FrontPage Management 2 Click Preferences 3 Under Mail Settings specify the SMTP server and the e mail address you want to use and then click OK Publishing a Site From Adobe Dreamweaver Before publishing a site from Dreamweaver you need to define the site properties that is you need to tell Dreamweaver where your site files are located on your computer and to specify the server to which you want to publish the site
106. ick Copy Move Specify the destination for the file or directory to be copied or renamed to then click Copy to copy or Move to move it 32 Setting Up And Maintaining Your Web Site To update the file or directory creation date click Change timestamp The time stamp will be updated with the current local time To remove a file or directory select the corresponding check box and click Remove Confirm removal and click OK When you upload Web content through File Manager or FTP your control panel automatically sets the appropriate access permissions for files and directories If you need to change the permissions for files and directories refer to the sections Setting File and Directory Access Permissions Linux hosting see page 67 Setting File and Directory Access Permissions Windows hosting see page 67 Publishing a Site Through SSH Connection If your are using a Linux or FreeBSD operating system on your local computer and have access to server shell use the scp command to copy files and directories to the server scp your file name login remoteserver com path to copy files and scp r your directory name login remoteserver com path to copy entire directories After publishing you will be able to work with files and directories on your account using SSH terminal web application integrated in your Parallels Plesk Panel Home gt SSH Terminal Publishing a Site From Microsoft FrontPage Windows Hosting
107. ick OK To unsubscribe users from mailing list Go to Home gt Mailing lists gt mailing list name Select a check box to the left of the user s e mail address 132 Using E mail Services 3 Click Remove Confirm removal and click OK Posting to Your Mailing List To post a newsletter issue or other information to the mailing list send it by e mail to the mailing list s e mail address All subscribed users will receive it Removing Mailing Lists gt Toremove a mailing list from site 1 Go to Home gt Mailing lists 2 Select a check box corresponding to the mailing list that you wish to remove 3 Click Remove Confirm removal and click OK CHAPTER 7 Viewing Usage Statistics for Your Site gt Tochoose the statistical program you want Webalizer or AWStats 1 2 3 On your Home page click Web Hosting Settings Select the statistical package you need from the Web statistics menu AWStats is recommended and select the accessible via password protected directory plesk stat webstat check box This will install the statistical software of your choice which will generate reports and place them into the password protected directory You will then be able to access Web statistics at the URL https your domain com plesk stat webstat using your FTP account login and password Click OK Note When you switch from one statistical program to another all reports generated by the previously used st
108. ics at the URL https subdomain domain com plesk stat webstat using their FTP account login and password Note If you change the FTP credentials web statistics access credentials do not change The original login and password specified upon the subdomain creation should always be used for accessing password protected web statistics directory 12 Select the Additional write modify permissions option if this subdomain s web applications will use a file based database like Jet located in the root of httpdocs or httpsdocs folders Please note that selecting this option might seriously compromise the web site security 13 To complete the setup click OK It may take up to 48 hours for the information on new subdomain to spread in the Domain Name System and become available to the Internet users To publish web content to the subdomain s web space follow the instruction presented in the Creating and Publishing Your Site see page 28 section To preview the web content published under the subdomain on your Home page click Subdomains and then click the icon corresponding to the subdomain name Setting Up And Maintaining Your Web Site 75 Removing Subdomains gt Toremove a subdomain with its web content 1 On your Home page click Subdomains 2 Select a check box corresponding to the subdomain name that you wish to remove 3 Click Remove Confirm removal and click OK The subdomain configuration and its web content will be
109. iew the amounts of resources your Web site and e mail accounts can consume 1 Go to Home gt Resource Usage 2 The resource allotments are listed as follows Disk space The total amount of disk space allocated to your hosting account This amount is measured in megabytes It includes disk space occupied by all files related to this domain Web site Web site contents databases applications mailboxes log files and backup files Maximum amount of traffic Displays the amount of data in megabytes that can be transferred from your Web site during a month Maximum number of subdomains The number of subdomains that can be hosted under your domain Maximum number of domain aliases The number of additional alternative domain names that you can use for your site Maximum number of Web users Shows the number of personal web pages that you can host for other users under your domain This service is mostly used in educational institutions that host non commercial personal pages of their students and staff These pages usually have web addresses like http your domain com username If the Allow the Web users scripting check box is selected execution of scripts embedded in personal web pages is allowed See the Hosting Personal Web Pages on Your Web Server section for details Maximum number of additional Microsoft FrontPage accounts available only for Windows hosting Displays the maximum number of additional Microsoft FrontPage accou
110. il domain spammers net To save the entries you added click OK then confirm adding and click OK again To remove entries from the black list under the Black List tab select the entries and click Remove Confirm removal and click OK If you want to be sure that you will not miss e mail from specific senders click the White List tab and then add e mail addresses or entire domains to the spam filter s white list To add entries to the white list click Add Addresses If you have a list of entries stored in a file click Browse to specify it and then click OK Otherwise select the From List option and type the e mail addresses into the E mail addresses box Place each address in one row or separate addresses with a coma a colon or a white space You can use an asterisk as a substitute for a number of letters and question mark as a substitute for a single letter For example address mycompany com user mycompany com mycompany com Specifying mycompany com will add to the white list all e mail addresses that are under the mycompany com mail domain To save the entries you added click OK then confirm adding and click OK again To remove entries from the white list under the White List tab select the entries and click Remove Confirm removal and click OK 6 Once finished with setting up the spam filter click OK Improving Accuracy of Spam Detection You can improve accuracy of spam detection by training the
111. ilter will likely produce incorrect results In this case clear the spam filter s database and then repeat training To clear spam filter s database Click the Training tab gt 1 Go to Home gt Mail Accounts gt e mail address gt Spam Filtering 2 3 Click the Clear button Switching Off Spam Filter gt To switch off spam filtering for a mailbox 1 Go to Home gt Mail Accounts gt e mail address gt Spam Filtering 2 Clear the Switch on SpamAssassin spam filtering check box and click OK 122 Using E mail Services Protecting Mailboxes From Viruses To defend your system from viruses do not open suspicious e mail attachments enable anti virus protection on the server side if this service is provided by your hosting company and be sure to have a firewall and anti virus software installed on your personal computer Also keep your operating system up to date and timely install security hotfixes and patches In this section Switching On Anti virus Protection ices ce totesiesrretor teeesiernatir date onweeetinneeee 122 Switching Off Anti virus Protection ceeeceeeeeceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeneeeeeeeeeeeeesenneeeeeeees 122 Switching On Anti virus Protection gt To switch on anti virus protection for a mailbox 1 Go to Home gt Mail Accounts gt e mail address gt Virus Protection 2 Choose the desired mail scanning mode You can switch on scanning for incoming mail outgoing mail or both Note If
112. information about visits of the virtual directory Create application select this check box to make the Web directory an IIS Application The directory becomes logically independent from the rest of the Web site Execute permissions select the appropriate program execution level allowed for the virtual directory None allow access only to static files such as HTML or image files Scripts only allow running scripts only not executables Scripts and Executables remove all restrictions so that all file types can be executed 80 Setting Up And Maintaining Your Web Site DLN gt y ASP Settings set specific settings for ASP based Web applications If you are using ASP based applications that cannot operate correctly under data transfer restrictions currently set by IIS clear the Defined by parent directory check box corresponding to the field you want to change and type in the required number If you want to enable debugging of ASP applications on the server side clear the corresponding Defined by parent directory check box and select the Enable ASP server side script debugging check box f you want to enable debugging of ASP applications on the client side clear the corresponding Defined by parent directory check box and select the Enable ASP client side script debugging check box Note that if you are trying to change ASP Settings for the root Web directory the default check box names will be Defined b
113. ion on the page and copy the text that starts with the line BEGIN CERTIFICATE REQUEST and ends with the line END 6 Visit the Web site of the certification authority from which you want to purchase an SSL certificate and follow the links on their site to start a certificate ordering procedure When you are prompted to specify CSR text paste the data from the clipboard into the online form and click Continue The certification authority will create an SSL certificate in accordance with the information you supplied 60 Setting Up And Maintaining Your Web Site 7 When you receive your SSL certificate save it on your local machine or network 8 Return to the SSL Certificates repository Home gt SSL Certificates 9 Click Browse in the middle of the page and navigate to the location of the saved certificate 10 Select it and then click Send File This will upload and install the certificate against the corresponding private key 11 Return to your Home page and click Web Hosting Settings 12 Select the SSL certificate that you wish to install from the Certificate drop down box If there is no Certificate drop down box on the screen this means that you are on a shared hosting account therefore you need to upgrade your hosting package and purchase a dedicated IP address from your hosting provider 13 Select the SSL support check box and click OK Creating and Installing Free Self signed SSL Certificate If you
114. ists fic ccu sae ces ciees ins ante tadac ieee a bceacask a aneacaceacs 130 Using E mail Services 99 Creating Mailboxes If you wish to have an e mail address associated with your site like yourname your domain com you should create a mailbox gt To create your mailbox associated with your site 1 2 3 4 5 Go to Home gt Create Mail Account Your domain name is shown to the right of sign so you only need to specify the desired name for the mailbox This can be for example your first name and last name separated by a dot a department name or any other text in Latin symbols The name should be short enough to remember It can comprise alphanumeric dash dot and underscore symbols Specify a password that you will use for accessing your mailbox Make sure that a check mark is present in the Mailbox check box Click OK Now your mailbox is created on the provider s server and you can set up your favorite e mail program so as to receive and send e mail messages through your new mailbox gt To create mailboxes for other users 1 2 Go to Home gt Create Mail Account Your domain name is shown to the right of sign so you only need to specify the desired name for the mailbox This can be for example user s first name and last name separated by a dot a department name or any other text in Latin symbols The name should be short enough to remember It can comprise alphanumeric dash dot and
115. ite Adding and Removing Authorized Users gt 1 2 3 To add an authorized user of a protected directory Go to Home gt Password Protected Directories gt directory name Click Add New User Specify the login name and password that will be used for accessing the protected area The password should be from 5 to 14 symbols in length Click OK To change password for an authorized user of a protected directory Go to Home gt Password Protected Directories gt directory name A list of authorized users will open Click on the user s name Specify the new password and re type it for confirmation Click OK To revoke a permission to access the protected directory from a user Go to Home gt Password Protected Directories gt directory name A list of authorized users will open Select a check box corresponding to the user s name Click Remove Confirm the operation and click OK Unprotecting a Resource gt To remove password protection and make the resource available to the public Go to Home gt Password Protected Directories A list of password protected directories will open Select a check box corresponding to the name of the directory from which you want to remove protection Click Remove Setting Up And Maintaining Your Web Site 67 The protection will be removed and the contents of the directory will be accessible to the public without restrictions
116. justing Preferences for Web Statistics Presentation by Webalizer 134 Automating Report Generation and Delivery by E mail 137 Viewing Log Files and Configuring Recycling of Log FileS eeeeeeeeeeeees 138 Adjusting Preferences for Web Statistics Presentation by Webalizer By default statistical utility counts and reports the requests for web pages and other files made from your own site by your web pages So when a user s browser requests from your site a single web page that contains references to other files such as scripts cascading style sheets media files and the like the statistical utility reports these references to files as if they were visits to your web page Thus with the default settings your usage statistics is inaccurate You may want to Hide these internal references and references from other sites Group references from a number of sites so as to show them as if they originated from a single location Hide direct requests Direct requests are sent to your web server when users access your site by typing the URL in their browsers Viewing Usage Statistics for Your Site 135 In this section Hiding and Unhiding Internal References from Your and Other Sites 136 Grouping and Ungrouping References from Other Sites esseeeeeeeeee 136 Hiding and Unhiding Direct Requests cccceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 137
117. k script library To do so enter the path beginning with the domain root directory preceded by the forward slash into the Path to Microsoft script library field or click the folder icon next to the Path to Microsoft script library field and browse for the required location To initiate the auto installation of files containing the scripts to the specified location select the Install check box If the files already exist there they will be rewritten 8 Set client session parameters in the Session Settings field Setting Up And Maintaining Your Web Site 41 To set up the default authentication mode for applications select an appropriate item from the Authentication mode list Windows authentication mode should be selected if any form of IIS authentication is used To set up time that a session can idle before it is abandoned enter appropriate number minutes into the Session timeout field 9 Click OK to apply all changes Note Parallels Plesk Panel supports separate configurations for different versions of the NET framework 1 1 x and 2 0 x Configuring ASP NET for Virtual Directories To improve the performance of ASP NET based web applications Parallels Plesk Panel allows using individual settings of NET framework per virtual directory gt To configure ASP NET for a virtual directory 1 2 3 4 Set up the strings that determine database connection data for Go to Home gt Virtual Directories Browse to t
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119. l FTP Accounts Windows Hosting eseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeenees 29 Changing Your FTP Account Credentials To change the user name and password for accessing your FTP account On your Home page click Web Hosting Settings Specify the new FTP login name and password Click OK on a y Using Additional FTP Accounts Windows Hosting If you are working on your web site together with someone else or host subdomains for other users you might want to create additional FTP accounts In this section Creating Additional FTP Accounts Windows Hosting cccceccceeeeteteeeeeees 30 Changing Settings of Additional FTP Accounts ssseseeeseeeeeseeeeeeeeeees 30 Removing Additional FTP Accounts cccccecceeeceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 31 30 Setting Up And Maintaining Your Web Site Creating Additional FTP Accounts Windows Hosting gt 1 2 3 4 To create a new additional FTP account Go to Home gt FTP Accounts On the FTP Accounts tab click Create FTP Account Specify the FTP account name in the appropriate field Specify the Home directory by clicking and select the directory required Alternatively you can specify the path in the input field Type the new password into the New password and Confirm password boxes Specify what FTP user can do with files and folders and how much disk space on the server he or she can occupy To li
120. le folder To allow the permission which are inherited from a parent object as denied clear the Allow inheritable permissions from the parent to propagate to this object and all child objects Include these with entries explicitly defined here check box this removes the inherited permissions Then select the required check boxes under Allow and Deny Click OK Removing Access Permissions from Groups and Users gt To remove access permissions from a group or user 1 2 3 Go to Home gt File Manager Click M corresponding to the required file or folder Select the required name in the Group or user names list and click next to it Note The icons appear unavailable for entries with permissions inherited from a parent object Select the required entry Setting Up And Maintaining Your Web Site 69 Clear the Allow inheritable permissions from the parent to propagate to this object and all child objects Include these with entries explicitly defined here check box Select the entry again and click Click OK Setting Up Access Permissions Inheritance for Files and Folders gt 1 2 3 To set up access permissions inheritance for files and folders Go to Home gt File Manager Click an icon M corresponding to the required file or folder To make the file folder inherit permissions from a parent folder if it does not select the Allow inheritable permissions from the parent to propagate to
121. lications Read permission select this check box to allow users to read files or directories and their associated properties Write permission select this check box to allow users to upload files and their associated properties to the virtual directory or to change content in a write enabled file Write access is allowed only if browser supports the PUT feature of the HTTP 1 1 protocol Directory browsing select this check box to allow users to see a hypertext listing of the files and subdirectories in the virtual directory Log visits select this check box if you want to store the information about visits of the virtual directory Create application select this check box to make the web directory an IIS Application The directory becomes logically independent from the rest of the web site Execute permissions select the appropriate program execution level allowed for the virtual directory None allow access only to static files such as HTML or image files Scripts only allow running scripts only not executables Scripts and Executables remove all restrictions so that all file types can be executed Allow to use parent paths select this check box to allow using double period in the pathname when referring to a folder above the current web directory This makes users able to move up the folder tree without knowing the folder name or the whereabouts in the hierarchy If the option is selected parent path directori
122. lick OK An e mail address registered on your server can also be added to the subscription list using the procedure for adding an external e mail address see above gt 3 4 To remove an e mail address registered on your server from the list of mail accounts that receive forwarded e mail correspondence Go to Home gt Mail Accounts gt e mail address gt Groups Select the required multiple e mail forwarder in the Member of the following mail groups list Click lt lt Remove Click OK An e mail address registered on your server can also be removed from the subscription list using the procedure for removing an external e mail address see above Switching off Mail Forwarding to Multiple E mail Addresses gt To disable the e mail forwarding to several e mail addresses 1 2 Go to Home gt Mail Accounts gt e mail address gt Mail Group Click Switch Off Removing Mail Forwarders gt Toremove a mail forwarder aps On your Home page click Mail Accounts Using E mail Services 127 2 Select a check box corresponding to the mail forwarder that you wish to remove 3 Click Remove Confirm removal and click OK Setting Up Automatic Reply If you are going on vacation and will not be able to check your mail for a while you may want to leave a vacation notice that will be automatically sent to your correspondents once they send e mail to your address This is done with automatic reply fa
123. ll be used for accessing the contents of the database Click OK Click the DB WebAdmin icon in the Tools group An interface to phpMyAdmin phpPgAdmin or ASPEnterpriseManager database management tool will open in a separate browser window If you have a MySQL database a Click Query window in the left frame click the Import files tab b Select the text file that contains the data and click Go Setting Up And Maintaining Your Web Site 47 c Click the Insert data from a text file link If you have a MS SQL database a Click the name of your database in the left frame b Click Query the magnifying glass button c Copy the text of your script into the text area and click Run Query To manage your databases and their contents use your favorite MySQL PostgreSQL or Microsoft SQL Server client or the Web based database management tool accessible from Parallels Plesk Panel Home gt Databases gt database name gt DB WebAdmin Creating a Database User Account If you collaborate with other people on managing a Web site and wish to give them access to the database you should create separate user accounts for them gt To create a database user account 1 Go to Home gt Databases gt database name and click Add New Database User 2 Type a user name and a password that will be used for accessing the contents of the database Click OK Changing Password of a Database User gt To change password for a database
124. lled and its databases removed from the server Installing Ruby Web Applications Linux Hosting You can install on your site custom Web applications developed in the Ruby programming language gt To install on your site an application written in Ruby 1 2 3 Go to Domains gt domain name gt Web Hosting Settings Select the CGI and FastCGI check boxes and click OK Connect to your FTP account change to the httpdocs directory and create a subdirectory where the application files will reside Let s call this directory lt your_application gt for illustration purposes Upload the application files to the httpdocs lt your_ application gt directory Locate the readme file in the application directory Follow the instructions from this file to install the application Note that installation of additional Ruby modules or operating system components may be required In such a case contact your hosting service provider or server administrator for assistance Log in to the server shell over SSH and issue the command cd lt path_to virtual _hosts gt lt your domain name gt httpdocs my lt your application lt your appli cacion gt realy ln s lt your_application gt real public lt your_ application gt where lt path_to_virtual_hosts gt is the path to the directory with virtual host configuration files lt your_domain_name gt is the name of your domain and lt your_application gt is the directory where your
125. llows the sign in your e mail address User Name enter your full e mail address Password leave it auto completed Apple Mail takes it from the previous step Incoming Mail Server Account Type IMAP 4 Description optional Incoming Mail Server example com User Name johnd example com GoBack Continue 6 Click Continue 7 Optional Specify the incoming mail security options a Select the Use Secure Sockets Layer SSL check box b Select the authentication method Keep the default method if you are not sure which to select Apple Mail displays this setup screen only if a mail server bundled with the Panel supports SSL for the selected account type POP or IMAP Using E mail Services 115 Incoming Mail Security m Use Secure Sockets Layer SSL Authentication Password HA GoBack Ceon 8 Click Continue 9 Fill in the following outgoing mail server information Outgoing Mail Server type in the name of domain which serves your mail which follows the sign in your e mail address Use only this server selected Use Authentication selected User Name enter your full e mail address Password leave it auto completed Apple Mail takes it from the previous step Outgoing Mail Server Description optional Outgoing Mail Server example com m Use only this server m Use Authentication User Name johnd example com Password eeeses
126. main com 8443 Press ENTER Parallels Plesk Panel login screen will open 3 Click the Forgot your password link 5 Type your domain name into the Login box and type your e mail address registered in the system into the E mail box Click OK Your password will be sent to your e mail address CHAPTER 2 Setting Up a Global Account Global Account is a single sign on SSO technology feature that allows you to log in to different Parallels products using a single global login and password If you have several accounts in Parallels Plesk Panel you can connect them all to a global account and switch between these accounts without entering a password every time You can also connect all your accounts in other Parallels products to your global account and switch between them without providing credentials In this chapter Creating a Global ACCOUNT sses i nrt a e ackahaneden dues ana 14 Connecting Local Accounts To Your Global ACCOUN eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 15 Switching Between Accounts 4 40 sine aye Ae eee 16 Changing Global Account Password nenene 16 Disconnecting Local Accounts From Global Account 16 Creating a Global Account After you create a global account and connect local accounts to it you will be able to choose from any account connected to your global account when logging in under your global account gt To create a global account 1 Log in to Parallels Plesk Panel go to Global
127. management Shows whether you can fully control hosting account for your Web site If it says No then you can only change FTP password for accessing your Web space Hosting performance management Shows whether you can limit bandwidth usage and number of connections to your Web site FTP password management Shows whether you are allowed to change your credentials for access to Web space through FTP Management of access to server over SSH available only for Linux hosting or Management of access to server over Remote Desktop available only for Windows hosting Shows whether you can access the server through Secure Shell for Linux hosting or Remote Desktop for Windows hosting protocols Hard disk quota assignment Shows whether you can set up the hard quota on disk space allocated to your site Subdomains management Shows whether you can set up modify and remove subdomains in your domain Domain aliases management Shows whether you can set up additional alternative domain names for your Web site Log rotation management Shows whether you can adjust the cleanup and recycling of processed log files for your site Anonymous FTP management Shows whether you can have an FTP directory where all users could download and upload files without the need to enter login and password A Web site should reside on a dedicated IP address in order to use anonymous FTP service FTP accounts management available only for Windows based hostin
128. me on the next page after the backup process was finished Specify the location where you want to save the file and click Save Click OK To back up all databases on your domain Go to Home gt Backup Manager gt Database Backup Repository make sure that All domain repositories is selected in the Database field and click Back Up Specify the name of the backup file and click OK If you want to download the resulting backup file click the file name on the next page after the backup process was finished Specify the location where you want to save the file and click Save Click OK Scheduling Backups gt To schedule backup of your domain Web site 1 2 3 Go to Home gt Backup Manager Click Scheduled Backup Settings Select the Activate this backup task check box and specify the following When and how often to run the backup Backup file name Splitting of the backup file To create a multivolume backup select the respective check box and specify volume size in megabytes Note that volume size cannot exceed 4095 megabytes Location where to store the backup file Select the repository where you would like to store the backup file Maximum number of backup files stored in the repository Type a number if you want to recycle backup files When this limit is reached the oldest backup files are removed E mail notification on backing up errors If you want to send an e mail notice when some
129. mit the amount of disk space clear the Unlimited check box next to the Hard disk quota box and type the amount of disk space in megabytes To allow the FTP user to view the contents of the home directory and download files from it select the Read permission check box To allow the FTP user to create view rename and delete directories in the home directory select the Write permission check box If you do not grant any permissions a connection to the FTP account will be made but the contents of the home directory will not be shown to the user Click OK A new FTP account will be added Changing Settings of Additional FTP Accounts gt 1 2 3 To change the properties of an additional FTP account Go to Home gt FTP Accounts On the FTP Accounts tab click the required FTP account name in the list Specify the changes as required and click OK Setting Up And Maintaining Your Web Site 31 Removing Additional FTP Accounts To remove an additional FTP account Go to Home gt FTP Accounts On the FTP Accounts tab select the check box corresponding to the FTP account name you want to remove and click Remove Confirm removal and click OK The FTP account will be removed Publishing a Site Through Parallels Plesk Panel s File Manager gt To upload files through control panel s file manager 1 2 On your Home page click File Manager Create and upload files and directories Place the files
130. mote name server and check the resource records to make sure that domain s resources are properly resolved The results will be interpreted and displayed on the screen Changing Web Hosting Type from Physical to Forwarding If you hosted a site on the server with virtual or physical hosting account and now you need only domain forwarding service for that site because it has been moved to another server you should reconfigure the hosting account Before changing hosting configuration for a site that was previously on a physical hosting account make sure that you have a local copy of your site because all files and directories related to a site are removed from the server when hosting type is changed gt To reconfigure a hosting account 1 2 Go to Home gt Web Site group title menu gt Change Hosting Type Select the Forwarding option and then select the type of forwarding Frame forwarding or Standard forwarding With standard forwarding a user is redirected to the site and the actual site s URL is shown in the user s browser so the user always knows that he or she is redirected to another URL With frame forwarding a user is redirected to the site without knowing that the site actually resides at another location therefore Frame forwarding should be preferred Specify the destination URL the current Web site address that you would like this domain to point to Click OK CHAPTER 6 Using E mail Services Y
131. n a Web page of one domain owner is directly linking to images or other multimedia files on the Web pages of another domain owner usually using an lt IMG gt tag If your domains are hotlinked you may face the problem of excessive bandwidth usage gt To protect a domain from hotlinking 1 Go to Home gt Hotlink Protection 2 Click Switch On to enable the protection from hotlinking 3 Specify the extensions of files you wish to be protected from hotlinking for example jog bmp and so on in the Protected files extensions field When listing several file extensions separate them with spaces 4 Click OK Restricting Access to Web Server s Resources With Password Protection If you have directories in your site that only authorized users should see restrict access to these directories with password protection In this section Protecting a RESOUICE a Sai a A a ee Ree aa aa aa aaa R inaa aeaa 65 Adding and Removing Authorized Users ccccccceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 66 Unprotecting a RESOURCE rinena renni at an E aedved aed ad dee eee dee 66 Setting Up And Maintaining Your Web Site 65 Protecting a Resource gt To password protect a directory in your site and to specify authorized users 1 On your Home page click Password Protected Directories 2 Click Add New Directory 3 Specify the path to the directory that you wish to password protect in the Directory name box This can be any
132. n to your Parallels Plesk Panel 1 Open your web browser and in the address bar type the URL where your Parallels Plesk Panel is located for example https your domain com 8443 Press ENTER Parallels Plesk Panel login screen will open Type the login name and password your provider gave you into the Login and Password boxes respectively Your login name would be your domain name If you log in for the first time select the language for your control panel from the Interface language drop down box If you had previously specified the interface language and saved it in your interface preferences leave the User default value selected Click Login 10 Getting Started Becoming Familiar with Parallels Plesk Panel When you log in to the Parallels Plesk Panel it shows your Home page with shortcuts to the operations you frequently perform Parallels testexample com My account Discover Parallel Parallels Ei plesk Panel Main Menu Welcome test example com amp Favorites a Visited Pages Domain test example com Disk space Traffic PP address 10 57 129 129 98 2 MB free of 100 0 MB 150 0 MB free of 150 0 ME Mail a Web Site v a 3 Mail Accounts Create Mail Create Redirect id Web Hosting w Subdomains D Account gl ke Settings Create Mailing Lists 2 Virus Protection Domain Aliases g 3 OF Autoresponder A B Qq w Spam Filtering E7 Open Webmail p Web Users Site Preview Files a Applicatio
133. nditions on the current resource metainformation header field data and thus prevent the requested method from being applied to a resource other than the one intended 414 Request URI Too Long The server is refusing to service the request because the Request URI is longer than the server is willing to interpret This rare condition is only likely to occur when a client has improperly converted a POST request to a GET request with long query information when the client has descended into a URI black hole of redirection e g a redirected URI prefix that points to a suffix of itself or when the server is under attack by a client attempting to exploit security holes present in some servers using fixed length buffers for reading or manipulating the Request URI 90 Setting Up And Maintaining Your Web Site 415 Unsupported Media Type The server is refusing to service the request because the entity of the request is in a format not supported by the requested resource for the requested method 500 Internal Server Error Could not retrieve the HTML document because of server configuration problems 501 Not Implemented The server does not support the functionality required to fulfill the request This is the appropriate response when the server does not recognize the request method and is not capable of supporting it for any resource 502 Bad Gateway The server while acting as a gateway or proxy received an invalid response from the upst
134. new virtual directory Click Create Virtual Directory Note To create a physical directory instead of virtual directory click Create Directory specify the name of the directory and click OK Specify the required parameters Name specify the virtual directory name Path specify the virtual directory path Select the Create physical directory with the same name as virtual directory check box to automatically create a physical directory with the same name as the virtual directory you are creating Clear the Create physical directory with the same name as virtual directory check box and specify the path in the field to select the physical directory that already exists Script source access select this check box to allow users to access source code if either Read or Write permissions are set Source code includes scripts in ASP applications Read permission select this check box to allow users to read files or directories and their associated properties Write permission select this check box to allow users to upload files and their associated properties to the virtual directory or to change content in a write enabled file Write access is allowed only if browser supports the PUT feature of the HTTP 1 1 protocol Directory browsing select this check box to allow users to see a hypertext listing of the files and subdirectories in the virtual directory Log visits select this check box if you want to store the
135. ng Your Web Site 2 N gt y Allow anonymous access select this check box if you want to make the directory public so that web users could access it without authentication Require SSL select this check box to enable SSL only access to the folder ASP Settings set specific settings for ASP based web applications If you are using ASP based applications that cannot operate correctly under data transfer restrictions currently set by IIS clear the Defined by parent directory check box corresponding to the field you want to change and type in the required number If you want to enable debugging of ASP applications on the server side clear the corresponding Defined by parent directory check box and select the Enable ASP server side script debugging check box If you want to enable debugging of ASP applications on the client side clear the corresponding Defined by parent directory check box and select the Enable ASP client side script debugging check box Note that if you are trying to change ASP Settings for the root web directory the default check box names will be Defined by IIS instead of Defined by parent directory Click OK to save changes To change access permissions for a virtual directory Go to Domains gt domain name gt Virtual Directories Click the amp icon corresponding to the directory you wish to open and change the access permissions for this directory and all its files Refer to the Se
136. ng field After selecting this option you need to input the required e mail in the field on the right Specify which command to run Type it into the Path to executable file input box If you need to run the command with certain options type them in the Arguments field For example if you want to run the statistics calculation task to count disc space and see more detailed information for the example com and example net domains you need to specify the following path in the Path to executable file input box C Program Files Parallels Plesk admin bin statistics exe and the following options in the Arguments field disk usag process domains example com example net verbose f you want to run your own php script using the task scheduler you need to specify the following path in the Path to executable file input box C Program Files x86 Parallels Plesk Additional PleskPHP5 php exe and specify the script location in the Arguments field Scheduling Tasks 151 C Inetpub vhosts mydomain tld httpdocs myscript php Select the appropriate priority in the Task priority field Task priority can be set to Low Normal or High Specify when to run your command by selecting the appropriate check boxes in the Hours Days of Month Months or Days of Week fields Click OK to schedule the task or click Run Now to schedule the task and immediately run it Suspending and Resuming Execution of Tasks gt 1
137. ns amp Services a File Manager 3 Web Applications Tools from Databases xe aj z1 Ss MyPlesk Com 4 Password Backup Manager Java Applications Register Domain Protected Re e Directories Additional Tools a Statistics a Scheduled Tasks SSL Certificates Active Sessions amp Web Statistics al Resource Usage Traffic Usage 2 Bandwidth Custom Buttons Log Manager Limiting B Help amp Support Domain Administration a Help Desk Domain WwW Personal Data Change Password Administrator Help Access we Interface D Preferences The top banner area provides access to the following functions My account This is where you can select a language and theme for your control panel and change your contact information Switch user This is where you can switch between user accounts This shortcut is shown only when single sign on technology is enabled on the server Log out This is where you close your session when you have finished working with control panel The navigation pane on the left provides access to the following sets of functions Home This is where you start working with the control panel Most of the operations you might need to perform are accessible from this area Mail This is where you perform operations on e mail accounts You can accomplish the following tasks from this area of the control panel Set up and manage mailboxes Set up mailing lists automatic responses mail forwarders A
138. nts you can create on your domain Maximum number of FTP accounts available only for Windows based hosting Displays the maximum number of FTP accounts you can create on your domain Maximum number of mailboxes Shows the number of mailboxes that can be hosted in your domain 24 Reviewing Your Hosting Package Maximum number of mail redirects Shows the number of mail forwarders that can be used in your domain Maximum number of mail groups Shows the maximum number of mail groups that can be used in your domain Maximum number of mail autoresponders Displays the number of automatic responses that can be set up in your domain Maximum number of mailing lists Shows the number of mailing lists that you can run in a domain The mailing lists are served by the GNU Mailman software which may or may not be installed on the server If it is not installed and you would like to use it ask your service provider to install it Mailbox quota Displays the amount of disk space in kilobytes that is allocated for storing e mail messages and autoresponder attachment files to each mailbox in your domain Maximum number of databases available only for Linux hosting Displays the number of databases that can be hosted in your domain Maximum number of MySQL databases and Maximum number of Microsoft SQL server databases available only for Windows hosting Displays the maximum number of MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server databases that can be use
139. omodo GeoTrust Inc and GoDaddy In this section Obtaining and Installing SSL Certificates from Comodo GeoTrust Inc or GoDaddy EE EAEE A PETE Mound enc delat eee A gate es ene acl as 58 Obtaining and Installing SSL Certificates from Other Certification Authorities 59 Creating and Installing Free Self signed SSL Certificate c eee 60 Uninstalling a Certificate from Your Site cc ccccccceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 61 Using SSL Certificate Shared By Another Domain Windows Hosting Only 61 58 Setting Up And Maintaining Your Web Site Obtaining and Installing SSL Certificates from Comodo GeoTrust Inc or GoDaddy gt To purchase an SSL certificate through MyPleskCom online store and secure your site Go to Home gt SSL Certificates and click Add SSL Certificate Specify the certificate properties Certificate name This will help you identify this certificate in the repository Encryption level Choose the encryption level of your SSL certificate We recommend that you choose a value more than 1024 bit Specify your location and organization name The values you enter should not exceed the length of 64 symbols Specify the domain name for which you wish to purchase an SSL certificate This should be a fully qualified domain name Example www your domain com Enter the domain administrator s e mail address Make sure that all the provided information is corre
140. ording to your browser Microsoft RDP ActiveX recommended to use with Internet Explorer browser since it may not work with other browsers When you use this method for the first time your browser will automatically install the required ActiveX component if Internet Explorer security settings permit this If your browser displays security alerts try to temporarily lower security measures in the browser options properoJavaRDP recommended to use with Netscape Mozilla or Firefox browsers since it may not work with Internet Explorer Only 8 0 and higher versions of Opera are supported This component requires Java Runtime Environment JRE to be installed on your system If you do not have JRE you can download it from http java sun com j2se 1 5 0 download jsp version 1 4 and higher and install it before using the remote desktop feature Note You don t need to install JDK Java Development Kit in order for the RDP feature to work If you use Internet Explorer or Mozilla you should open the Terminal Services Configuration console in the Microsoft Windows Start gt Administrative Tasks and set the Licensing option to Per user on the Server Settings screen Click OK A new window will open with an area where your interaction with the server s desktop will take place Log in to the system By default Parallels Plesk Panel uses the domain s FTP Microsoft FrontPage login You can supply any valid login and password
141. ou can use a number of different e mail services with a single e mail account For example you can have an e mail address that will accept mail as any standard mailbox forward to a number of recipients and send an automatic response to the original message sender In this chapter Creating MailDOX S ccccccceeecceeeeeceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaeaaaeeeeeeeeeesaaaaaeeeeeeeeeseeaaeaeees 99 Accessing Your Mailerin a oy a a a aaea ia outs 100 Protecting Mailboxes From Spaim ccecceceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaeeeeeeeeeeeeeenaas 117 Protecting Mailboxes From Viruses 0 ccceeeeeeeceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaas 122 Suspending and Unsuspending Mailboxes cccceeeeceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaeeeeees 123 Removing Mailboxes oc ofcccoeccccccencecetccdccedecetcenvncdeceneeucnsecceuenccesenstecuuncchdaneeecneecuee 123 Setting Up Mail Forwarding to a Single E mail Address cece eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee 124 Setting Up Mail Forwarding to Multiple E mail Addresses 0 0 seseeeeee 125 Removing Mail POnwarde rss 3cr hg iicecets eee ctatccdene ereterestente cn tie uecutateen dete ueivie 126 Setting Up Automatic Reply ieirik nsii iat ietis amiane nine eE 127 Switching off Automatic Reply n e 128 Setting Up Site wide Preferences for Handling Mail to Nonexistent Users 129 Introducing Changes to a Number of Mail Accounts at Once ccccceeeeees 129 Maintaining Mailing L
142. ou wish to limit the amount of disk space that can be occupied by the Web page content clear the Unlimited check box and type the desired value in megabytes into the Hard disk quota box When the specified limit is exceeded the Web page owner will not be able to add files to his or her Web space 8 Specify the programming languages that should be supported for the Web page For example if the Web page is written in PHP select the PHP support check box 9 Click OK Now you can tell your user the FTP account credentials so that he or she can publish their Web page Setting Up And Maintaining Your Web Site 87 In this section Changing FTP Password for a Web Page OWne cccceeeeeeeeeeeetnneeeeeeees 87 Allocating More Disk Space to the Web Page OWNne 0 eee eceeeeeeeeeenneeeeees 87 Removing Web Page Owner s ACCOUNS eeeeeeeeccceeeeeeeeeeeeeaeeeeeeeeeetenesaaaaes 87 Changing FTP Password for a Web Page Owner To change FTP password for a web page owner Go to Home gt Web Users gt user name Type the new password into the New password and Confirm password boxes Click OK Allocating More Disk Space to the Web Page Owner Oo N a y To allocate more disk space to the web page owner Go to Home gt Web Users gt user name Type the amount of disk space in megabytes into the Hard disk quota box Click OK Removing Web Page Owner s Account Oo N a vy To rem
143. ove a web page owner s account together with his or her web page On your Home page click Web Users Select a check box to the right of the user name you wish to remove Click Remove Confirm removal and click OK 88 Setting Up And Maintaining Your Web Site Setting Up Anonymous FTP Access to the Server If you host your site on a dedicated IP address you can set up a directory within the site where other users will be able to anonymously download or upload files through FTP Once anonymous FTP is enabled the users will be able to log in to the ftp ftp your domain com with the anonymous login name and any password gt Toallow anonymous FTP access 1 2 3 On your Home page click Anonymous FTP To activate anonymous FTP service click Switch On To set up a welcoming message to be displayed when users log in to FTP site select the Display login message check box and type the message text in the input field as desired Note that not all FTP clients display welcoming messages To allow visitors to upload files to the incoming directory select the Allow uploading to incoming directory check box To allow users to create subdirectories in the incoming directory select the Allow creation of directories in the incoming directory check box To allow downloading files from the incoming directory select the Allow downloading from the incoming directory check box To limit the amount of disk spa
144. pens 4 Leave the Email account option selected and click Next Account Wizard x New Account Setup In order to receive messages you first need to set up a Mail or Newsgroup account This Wizard will collect the information necessary to set up a Mail or Newsgroup account IF you do not know the information requested please contact your System Administrator or Internet Service Provider Select the type of account you would like to set up RSS News amp Blogs Gmail C Newsgroup account ces 5 Specify the following Your name as you want it to appear in any messages you send Your e mail address Using E mail Services 109 Account Wizard masene oo 6 Click Next 7 Specify the following Protocol of your incoming mail server If you want to keep copies of messages on the server select the IMAP option If you do not want to keep any messages on the server select the POP3 option Incoming server address Specify your website s Internet address Outgoing server address Specify your website s Internet address 110 Using E mail Services Account Wizard eame SS example sek t gt cna 8 Click Next 9 In the Incoming User Name box specify your full e mail address Using E mail Services 111 Account Wizard x maiwenn 10 Click Next 11 Enter the name by which you would like to refer to this account for example Work Account and click Next
145. pplications This is where you can view and install applications on your Web site Getting Started 11 Settings This is where you specify settings for the Web site hosting service and Web statistics Global Account This shortcut appears in your Parallels Plesk Panel when the single sign on capabilities are switched on on the hosting server Single sign on technology allows you to log in to different Parallels products using a single global login name and password This shortcut is used for changing the global login settings Help Desk This is the help desk system integrated with your control panel If you see this shortcut in the navigation pane then it is likely that your provider uses it so you can use it to report your problems to provider s technical support staff If this link is not shown in your Panel then it means that your provider does not use the built in Help Desk In such a case you should use other means to contact your provider when you need assistance Help Provides context sensitive help To see information about a tool or an item on the page hover the cursor over an item without clicking it and a small hover box appears with supplementary information regarding the item being hovered over e VirugProtection Configure virus protection for a mail account If your hosting plan includes the Web site creation and management service using Parallels Plesk Sitebuilder the following shortcuts are also sho
146. r all mail accounts under this domain option When you need to publish your e mail address you may want to create a disposable e mail address e mail alias for your primary e mail address and publish it instead All messages sent to the e mail alias will come into your mailbox Once you start getting spam remove that alias and create another one If you have a mailbox at another domain or mail server you may want to set up a disposable e mail forwarder In this section Setting Up Additional Disposable E mail Addresses for Your Mailbox E mail Aliases Aa Te a eT ee a Tee OTT TCO eee ere eT Tere 118 118 Using E mail Services Setting Up Additional Disposable E mail Addresses for Your Mailbox E mail Aliases gt To set up an e mail alias for a mailbox 1 Go to Home gt Mail Accounts gt e mail address gt Add New Mail Alias 2 Type a desired name and click OK The messages addressed to your additional e mail address e mail alias will get to your mailbox You can see the list of currently used mail aliases by clicking Show Aliases in the list of mail accounts under the domain gt Toremove an e mail alias from a mailbox 1 Go to Home gt Mail Accounts gt e mail address 2 Select the check box corresponding to the alias that you wish to remove and click Remove Confirm the removal and click OK Setting Up Spam Filter If you receive undesirable correspondence to an e mail address that you cannot or do not want
147. r domain example com in the physical folder my data web apps forum To access this web application users need to type example com my data web apps forun which is hard to remember and too long to type You can create virtual directory forum in the root of your virtual host and link this virtual directory to my data web apps forum so users who want to access the web application have to type example com forum which is much shorter and easier to remember gt To open a virtual directory in your browser 1 Go to Home gt Virtual Directories 2 Click the icon corresponding to the directory you wish to open In this section Creating Virtual DireCtorieS cccccceceeeeeeeeeeceeaaeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaeeaeeeeeeeeseeaaeaaeees 79 Changing Virtual Directory Settings cececcccceeeeeeeeeeeeeceeeeeeeeeeeesensaeaaeeeeees 80 Adding and Removing MIME Type wscitectcccetesscccncectccectietecseceetecscsentenenceeteceseeencs 82 Setting PHP Version for Virtual DireCctorieS esseseseesseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 85 Removing Virtual Directories cccccesicesscesicsnscestcasncetzcerscettceseceterenceatcnetecetacenneatteedec 85 Setting Up And Maintaining Your Web Site 79 Creating Virtual Directories gt To create a new virtual directory on a domain 1 2 Go to Home gt Virtual Directories You are in your Web site root now Navigate to the directory in which you want to create a
148. r the required directory select it and click OK Leave the Create physical directory for subdomain check box selected to create a corresponding physical directory with the same name as the subdomain If you are creating subdomain with physical hosting specify the FTP user account for it f this subdomain will hold a part of your own Web site that you manage on your own leave the Use the FTP user account of the main domain option selected f this subdomain will hold a separate web site that will belong to or will be managed by another person select the Create a separate user account for this subdomain option and specify the login name and password that will be used for accessing the web space through FTP and publishing web site content Specify the hard disc quota in the appropriate field in megabytes or leave the Unlimited check box selected When the specified limit is exceeded you will not be able to add files to the web space and editing existing files may corrupt them If you wish to limit the amount of disk space that can be occupied by web content under this subdomain type the desired value in megabytes into the Hard disk quota box When the specified limit is exceeded you will not be able to add files to the web space and editing existing files may corrupt them 74 Setting Up And Maintaining Your Web Site 8 Leave the Publish site with SiteBuilder check box selected to be able to access SiteBuilder and buil
149. rd for the mailbox into the Password box and then click Login Accessing Your Mail There are two ways to access a mailbox for sending and receiving e mail messages Set up and use an e mail client program on your computer Use a Web browser to connect to the webmail interface gt To enable access to the webmail interface 1 Go to Home gt Mail group title menu gt Mail Settings 2 From the Webmail menu select the webmail program that you want to use 3 Click OK Note Activation and deactivation of webmail for your domain involves modifications in DNS zone therefore there is actually a certain delay present when activating and deactivating webmail due to the speed of DNS registration mechanisms gt To access webmail In a Web browser visit the URL webmail example com where example com is the Internet address of your website When prompted specify your full e mail address as the username for example mail example com and specify the password that you use for logging in to the Panel In this section Setting Up Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 cccccccceeeeteeeeeeeteeeeeeeeeeeeeenneeeeeeees 101 Setting Up Microsoft Outlook Express 6 eeseeseeseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 104 Setting Up Mozilla Thunderbird eneen ennenen 108 Setting Up Apple Mail cccccccccceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaeeaeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaseeeeeeeeeeeaaeaneees 113 Using E mail Services 101 Setting Up
150. re enabling mail forwarding to several e mail addresses Enter the desired external e mail address into the E mail input box or select one or more of the listed mail accounts using check boxes Click OK Click Switch On In this section Adding and Removing Recipient Addresses eeceeeeceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 125 Switching off Mail Forwarding to Multiple E mail Addresses seeeeeeee 126 Adding and Removing Recipient Addresses gt To add an external e mail address to the list of mail accounts that receive kh OO N forwarded e mail correspondence Go to Home gt Mail Accounts gt e mail address gt Mail Group Click Add New Member Enter the desired external e mail address into the E mail input field Click OK To remove an external e mail address from the list of mail accounts that receive forwarded e mail correspondence Go to Home gt Mail Accounts gt e mail address gt Mail Group Select the check box corresponding to the mail account you wish to remove from the list Click Remove Confirm removal and click OK 126 Using E mail Services 3 4 To add an e mail address registered on the server to the list of mail accounts that receive forwarded e mail correspondence Go to Home gt Mail Accounts gt e mail address gt Groups Select the required multiple e mail forwarder in the Available mail groups list Click Add gt gt C
151. ream server it accessed in attempting to fulfill the request To configure Parallels Plesk Panel s Web server to show your custom error pages Switch on support for custom error documents through Parallels Plesk Panel On your Home page click Web Hosting Settings select the Custom error documents check box and click OK Connect to your FTP account on the Parallels Plesk Panel server and go to the error docs directory Edit or replace the respective files Be sure to preserve the correct file names 400 Bad File Request bad_ request html 401 Unauthorized unauthorized html 403 Forbidden Access denied forbidden html 404 Not Found not found html 405 Method Not Allowed method_not allowed html 406 Not Acceptable not _acceptable html 407 Proxy Authentication Required proxy authentication required html 412 Precondition Failed precondition failed html 414 Request URI Too Long request uri_too long html 415 Unsupported Media Type unsupported media type html 500 Internal Server Error internal server error html 501 Not Implemented not implemented html 502 Bad Gateway bad _gateway html Wait for a few hours till your Web server is restarted After that the Web server will start using your error documents Setting Up And Maintaining Your Web Site 91 Customizing Web Server Error Messages Windows Hosting When visitors coming to a site request pages
152. record type and specify the appropriate data For an A record you will need to enter the domain name for which you wish to create an A record If you are simply defining an A record for your domain then you should leave the available field empty If you are defining an A record for a name server then you will need to input the appropriate entry for the given name server ie ns1 Then you need to enter the appropriate IP address to which to associate the domain name For a NS record you will need to enter the domain name for which you wish to create the NS record If you are defining an NS record for your domain then you will leave the available field blank Then enter the appropriate name server name in the field provided You will need to enter the complete name i e ns1 mynameserver com For a MX record you will need to enter the domain for which you are creating the MX record For your domain you would simply leave the available field blank You will then need to enter your mail exchanger this is the name of the mail server If you are running a remote mail server named mail myhostname com then you would simply enter mail myhostname com into the field provided You will then need to set the priority for the mail exchanger Select the priority using the drop down box 0 is the highest and 50 is the lowest Keep in mind you would also need to add the appropriate A record and or CNAME if applicable for the remote mail exchange serv
153. rectory level Globally defined MIME types are inherited by all the domains and virtual directories while ones defined on the domain or virtual directory level are used only for the area where they are defined Otherwise if the web server receives request for a file with unregistered MIME type it returns the 404 3 Not Found error In this section Adding MIME Types ariere ereinda aieiaiei i iadenin aiani leet 83 Changing MIME FY POS ais sareen eos ioes raise tees patted aino aas oiiaao Pioen 84 Removing MIME Types irssssesernienesertrokevernstkisett carenetacstaces rareaetacmnesethearenetacmmecerts 84 Adding MIME Types To add a new MIME type for a virtual directory on your domain Go to Home gt Virtual Directories Select the MIME Types tab Click Add MIME Type Type the file name extension in the Extension field File name extention should begin with a dot or a wildcard to serve all files regardless of file name extension gt 1 2 Navigate to the required virtual directory and enter it 3 4 Specify the file content type in the Content field You can either select the appropriate value from the list or define a new content type To do this select Custom and enter the content type in the input box provided 5 Click OK to finish the creation 84 Setting Up And Maintaining Your Web Site Changing MIME Types gt To edit an existing MIME type for a virtual directory on your domain
154. removal and click OK CHAPTER 9 Scheduling Tasks If you need to run scripts on your site at specific time use the task scheduler on your provider s server to make the system automatically run the scripts for you In this chapter scheduling a Task Linux Hosting secs of rusese ss daaetrd tone rnactuiles oterhe ea tiene 149 Scheduling a Task Windows Hosting ccceeeeeeeeeeeeeeneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeenneeeeeeees 150 Suspending and Resuming Execution of Tasks 151 CaAniCBlIlG a Tas Kg atetsca thn caves E va diet E aeie aia als aiee ae ae aae dated 151 Scheduling a Task Linux Hosting gt To schedule a task 1 2 On your Home page click Scheduled Tasks Select the system user account on whose behalf the task will be executed 3 Click Schedule New Task Specify when to run your command Minute enter the value from 0 to 59 Hour enter the value from 0 to 23 Day of the Month enter the value from 1 to 31 Month enter the value from 1 to 12 or select the month from a drop down box Day of the Week enter the value from 0 to 6 0 for Sunday or select the day of the week from a drop down box You can schedule the time using the UNIX crontab entry format In this format you can enter several values separated by commas Two numbers separated by a hyphen mean an inclusive range For example to run a task on the 4th 5th 6th and 20th of a month type 4 6 20 insert an asterisk to
155. removed from the server Setting Up Additional Domain Names for a Site Domain Aliases If you have registered with a domain name registrar several domain names that you would like to point to the same Web site that you host on this server you should set up domain aliases as described in this chapter In this section Setting Up a Domain Alias sits ciri eor Meee ae Mee 76 Modifying Properties of a Domain Alias ccccceeecieeeeeneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeneeeeeeeeeeteee 76 Removing a Domain Alias ccccccececeeeeeeeceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 77 76 Setting Up And Maintaining Your Web Site Setting Up a Domain Alias gt To set up a domain alias 1 2 3 On your Home page click Domain Aliases Click Add Domain Alias Type the desired domain alias name for example alias com Domain aliases can comprise letters digits and hyphens Each part of the domain alias between dots should not be longer than 63 symbols Select the Synchronize DNS zone with the primary domain check box if you want the domain alias to use the same DNS zone resource records as in primary domain With this setting any subsequent changes in resource records of the primary domain s zone will be applied to the DNS zone of this domain alias Select the Mail check box if you want e mail directed at the e mail addresses under the domain alias to be redirected to the e mail addresses under your original domain name
156. required driver for this data source in the Driver menu Click Next gt gt Choose the appropriate options on the driver configuration screen Typically you should specify the path to the database user credentials and other connection options depending on the selected driver Refer to Adobe ColdFusion documentation for more information on the driver configuration options Click OK Setting Up And Maintaining Your Web Site 51 Removing a Data Source Name To remove a redundant ColdFusion DSN connection On your Home page click ColdFusion DSN Select the check box corresponding to a DSN connection you want to remove Click Remove confirm the removal and click OK Installing Applications To enhance your Web site with valuable features such as guest books forums hit counters photo galleries and e commerce solutions you can install the respective applications from control panel s application vault Home gt Web Applications The number and variety of available applications depend on your provider s policy and your hosting plan gt To install an application on your site T On your Home page click Web Applications A list of applications installed on your site will be displayed Click Add New Application In the left menu select a category to which the application you need belongs Select the required application in the list and then click Install 5 Some applications will display
157. restoring the zone specify whether a www alias is required for the domain and click the Default button The zone configuration will be recreated To restore the default Start of Authority SOA serial number format UNIX timestamp for a domain Go to Home gt DNS Settings in the Web Site group gt SOA Record Clear the Use serial number format recommended by IETF and RIPE check box 96 Setting Up And Maintaining Your Web Site 3 Note See the sample of SOA serial number generated with the selected format If the resulting number is less than the current zone number the modification may cause temporary malfunction of DNS for this domain Zone updates may be invisible to Internet users for some time Click OK Serving Your Site with External Domain Name Servers If you host a Web site on this server and have a standalone DNS server acting as a primary master name server for your site you may want to set up your control panel s DNS server to function as a secondary slave name server gt 1 2 3 To make the control panel s DNS server act as a secondary name server Go to Home gt DNS Settings in the Web Site group Click Switch DNS Service Mode Click Add Record specify the IP address of the primary master DNS server and click OK To make the control panel s DNS server act as a primary for a zone Go to Home gt DNS Settings in the Web Site group Click Switch DNS Service Mode The ori
158. s for the information on new subdomain to spread in the Domain Name System and become available to the Internet users To publish web content to the subdomain s web space follow the instruction presented in the Creating and Publishing Your Site see page 28 section Setting Up And Maintaining Your Web Site 73 Setting Up Subdomains Windows Hosting gt To setup a subdomain 1 2 3 Click Subdomains on your Home page Click Add New Subdomain Select the required Hosting type and click OK Select Physical hosting to create a virtual host for the domain Select Subdomain on subfolder to create a virtual subdomain Subdomain on subfolder will use physical structure of the domain The creation of a separate FTP user account will not be possible the FTP user account of the domain will be used Type the subdomain name as required This can be for example a topic of a site organization department or any other combination of letters numbers and hyphens up to 63 characters in length To add the WWW prefix select the appropriate check box The subdomain name must begin with an alphabet character Subdomain names are case insensitive If you are creating subdomain on subfolder specify the physical location for the subdomain files in the Site home directory field Clear the Create physical directory for subdomain check box and specify the existing directory to the right of httpdocs field You can click I to browse fo
159. s will be using it Disabling IIS Application Pool on a y To disable IIS application pool for a domain Click IIS Application Pool on your Home page Click Switch Off Click OK Setting Up And Maintaining Your Web Site 57 Securing Online Transactions on Your Site With SSL Encryption If you are running an e commerce business you need to secure transactions between your customers and your site To prevent the valuable data such as credit card numbers and other personally identifiable information from stealing you should use the Secure Sockets Layer protocol which encrypts all data and transfers them securely over the SSL connection And even if someone intercepts the data for malicious intent they will not be able to decrypt and use them To implement the Secure Sockets Layer protocol on your web server you should purchase an SSL certificate from a reputable certificate vendor these vendors are called Certificate Authorities and then install this certificate on your site To enable SSL protection you must host your site on a dedicated IP address which is not shared among other web sites There are numerous certificate authorities to choose from When considering one pay attention to reputation and credibility of the CA Knowing how long they have been in business and how many customers they have will help you make the right choice Your Parallels Plesk Panel provides facilities for purchasing SSL certificates from C
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161. symbols Specify the password that will be used for administering the mailing list 6 Specify the mailing list administrator s e mail 7 Leave the Notify administrator of the mailing list creation check box selected 2 You will receive instructions on using and managing the mailing list at the administrator s e mail you specified Keep that message for your records Click OK To configure the mailing list Go to Home gt Mailing lists Click the icon J next to the desired mailing lists e mail address A login screen opens Type the list administrator s password and click Let mein Alternately you can access the mailing list configuration the following way on Linux hosting In your Web browser enter the following URL http lists your domain com mailman admin listname where your domain com is your domain name and listname is the name of the mailing list that is the left part of the mailing lists e mail address before the sign A login screen opens Type the list administrator s password and click Let me in To post a newsletter issue or other information to the mailing list send it by e mail to the mailing list s e mail address All subscribed users will receive it Subscribing and Unsubscribing Users gt 1 2 3 v To subscribe users to mailing list Go to Home gt Mailing lists gt mailing list name and click Add New Member Specify user s e mail address Cl
162. t 2 Go to Global Account and click Change Password 3 Enter your old and new passwords and click OK Disconnecting Local Accounts From Global Account gt To disconnect a local account from your global account 1 Log in to Parallels Plesk Panel under the local account you want to disconnect Setting Up a Global Account 17 2 Go to Global Account and click Disconnect From Global Account 3 Confirm the disconnection and click OK Repeat steps 1 3 for other local accounts as necessary CHAPTER 3 Customizing Your Control Panel In this chapter Customizing Your Home Page ennenen 18 Setting Interface Language and Skin for Your Control Panel 0000e 19 Adding and Removing Hyperlink Buttons 0 2 0 cccecceeceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 19 Customizing Your Home Page gt To add or remove items from the Home page 1 Go to Home gt Domains gt Domain group title menu gt Customize Home page 2 Specify what domain information and statistics should be shown on the Home page by selecting the corresponding items check boxes 3 Specify what actions should be shown on the Home page The Selected actions lists show the tasks for which shortcuts are already placed on the Home page The Available actions lists show the tasks for which you do not yet have shortcuts on your Home page To add a shortcut to the Home page select the required tasks in the Available actions list and click Add g
163. t gt To remove a shortcut from the Home page select the task that you do not need in the Selected actions list and click lt lt Remove 4 Specify what actions should be shown in the drop down menus on the Home page by selecting the corresponding check boxes 5 Click OK gt To add shortcuts to control panel screens to the Favorites menu on the Home page 1 Navigate to the control panel screen you need 2 In the Favorites menu select Add to Favorites gt To edit shortcut descriptions in the Favorites menu on the Home page 1 On your Home page open the Favorites menu Customizing Your Control Panel 19 2 Place the mouse pointer over the shortcut you need and click Edit favorite s name 3 Type the shortcut title and description and click Save gt Toremove shortcuts from the Favorites menu 1 On the Home page open the Favorites menu 2 Place the mouse pointer over the shortcut you want to remove and click Remove from favorites Setting Interface Language and Skin for Your Control Panel gt To select an interface language and theme skin for your control panel 1 On your Home page click Interface Preferences 2 Select the desired interface language and skin from the respective menus Parallels Plesk Panel s interface has been translated to a number of languages so if you do not see your own language in the list ask your provider to install the respective language pack 3 Click OK
164. t line and message body scores 8 3 points By default the filter sensitivity is set so that all messages that score 7 or more points are classified as spam f you receive lots of spam messages with the current setting to make filter more sensitive try setting a lesser value in the The score that a message must receive to qualify as spam box for example 6 lf you are missing your e mails because your spam filter thinks they are junk try reducing filter sensitivity by setting a higher value in the The score that a message must receive to qualify as spam box Note To further improve spam filter accuracy you may want to train your spam filter on e mail messages you receive see the instructions on improving accuracy of spam detection in the following section What to do with spam mail If you are sure that your spam filter is accurate you may want to set the filter to automatically delete all incoming messages recognized as spam To do this select the Delete option If you wish to filter mail with the software on your local computer select the Mark as spam and store in mailbox option and then specify how spam filter should mark the messages recognized as spam X Spam Flag YES and X Spam Status Yes headers are added to the message source by default and if you want the spam filter will also include a specific text string to the beginning of Subject line To include a desired combination of symbols or words to the message
165. tabases gt database name and click the Repair button corresponding to the orphaned user you want to repair 2 Provide a password for this user and click Repair If a user is supposed to be a system user without a password run repair with empty password field 3 Repeat steps 1 2 as necessary to repair all orphaned users Maintaining Your Backup Files Repository This section provides instructions on Uploading backup files stored on another computer Downloading backup files to another computer Removing redundant backup files from the backup repository In this section Uploading Backup Files to Server ccccccccceccccceeeeeeeeeeececeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeess 145 Downloading Backup Files from Server ccccceeecseeeeceeeeeeeeeeeeeeennneeeeeeeeeeenee 146 Removing Backup Files from Server cei sicccecociete cnt ncerees etede knee cere ence ee 146 Uploading Backup Files to Server gt To upload a backup file to the control panel s backup repository Go to Home gt Backup Manager Click Upload Files to Server Repository Click Browse and select the required backup file Click OK The backup file will be uploaded to the backup repository oy ioe ti 146 Backing Up And Restoring Your Data Downloading Backup Files from Server gt 1 2 3 To download a backup file from the control panel s backup repository Go to Home gt Backup Manager Click an icon bal corresponding to the backup file
166. that the Web server cannot find the Web server generates and displays a standard HTML page with an error message The standard error messages may inform of problems but they do not usually say how to resolve them or how to get the lost visitor on his way and they also look dull You may want to create your own error pages and use them on your Web server The following error messages are the ones customized most often 400 Bad File Request Usually means the syntax used in the URL is incorrect e g uppercase letter should be lowercase letter wrong punctuation marks 401 Unauthorized Server is looking for some encryption key from the client and is not getting it Also wrong password may have been entered 403 Forbidden Access denied Similar to 401 a special permission is needed to access the site a password and or username if it is a registration issue 404 Not Found Server cannot find the requested file File has either been moved or deleted or the wrong URL or document name was entered This is the most common error 500 Internal Server Error Could not retrieve the HTML document because of server configuration problems gt To configure Parallels Plesk Panel s Web server to show custom error pages for a domain 1 Switch on support for custom error documents through Parallels Plesk Panel a Go to Home gt Web Hosting Settings b Select the Custom error documents check box c Click OK 2 Go to Home
167. thing goes wrong during backing up type the e mail address you need What data to back up You can back up only the Web hosting settings or the Web hosting settings and Web site content 4 Click OK Backing Up And Restoring Your Data 143 Restoring Data From Backup Archives gt Torestore your domain Web site 1 Go to Home gt Backup Manager 2 Click the backup file name you need 3 Specify the following settings Types of data to be restored Suspend domain Web site until restoration task is completed Select this if you want to avoid possible conflicts that may occur when users modify site content or settings while they are being restored Send an e mail notice when restoration task is completed Type your e mail address if you want the control panel to notify you when restoring is completed Conflicts resolution policy Specify what to do if any conflicts occur during restoration 4 Click Restore In case if any errors or conflicts occur during restoration of data the wizard will prompt you to select an appropriate resolution Follow the instructions provided on the screen to complete the wizard Note The Overwrite data restoring mode means that all objects will be restored from the backup files regardless of their current presence in the system The Overwrite mode works as follows If an object or settings from the backup file are not present in the Parallels Plesk Panel then they are created or s
168. this object and all child objects Include these with entries explicitly defined here check box To make the files and folders which are contained in this folder inherit the folder permissions defined here select the Replace permission entries on all child objects with entries shown here that apply to child objects check box Click OK Setting Changing and Removing Special Access Permissions You can also set change and remove special permissions including advanced management of folder permissions inheritance In Advanced permissions management mode several permission entries can be associated with a single group or user each containing different set of permissions Also the list of permissions in Advanced mode is more detailed and gives more opportunities for fine tuning file folder permissions It contains permissions that cannot be seen in Microsoft Windows interface but present combinations of native Microsoft Windows permissions They are Read Control Write Control and Execute Control Oo N a y To set change or remove file folder special permissions Go to Home gt File Manager Click an icon M corresponding to the required file or folder Click Advanced 70 Setting Up And Maintaining Your Web Site To create a permission entry for a group or user select the required name from the Group or user names list and click To set or change file folder permissions for a group or user select the required
169. tions group leave the always respond option selected If you wish to automatically reply only to e mail messages that contain specific words in the message text or subject line select the appropriate option and type the word combination in the input box 128 Using E mail Services d By default the subject line of incoming e mail will be inserted into the automated reply To use a custom subject type it into the Reply subject input box e As your correspondents may not figure out that the message they received from you was an automatic response they may want to respond to your auto reply So you should specify your e mail address as the Return address otherwise their messages will be directed at the autoresponder s address f Specify the automatic reply message format plain text or HTML and character encoding UTF 8 is recommended If you use HTML tags in your auto reply message you should select the HTML option g Type your message in the Reply with text field h To limit the number of automated responses per day to the same e mail address enter the desired number in the respective input box under Limits The default setting is to respond no more than ten times in one day to the same e mail address i To reduce mail server load you may want to limit the number of unique addresses that the autoresponder will remember To do this enter the desired number into the Store up to box j Attach your files if needed
170. to the screens that you manually add to favorites For information about working with shortcuts in the Favorites menu see the section Customizing Your Home Page on page 18 To return to a previous screen use the shortcuts in the path bar or the Up Level icon in the upper right corner of the screen When changing settings for an e mail account you can quickly select another e mail account whose settings you also want to change To do this click a small arrow icon located to the right of the e mail address Home gt Domains gt example com Mail Accounts gt mail example com y This will open a list of e mail addresses that you can select Home Domains gt example com Mail Accounts gt mail example com vy Go to another mail account webmaster example com Tools To sort a list by a certain parameter in ascending or descending order click on the parameter s title in the column heading The order of sorting will be indicated by a small triangle displayed next to the parameter s title Getting Started 13 Changing Your Contact Information and Password gt If you need to update your contact information or change password 1 2 On your Home page click Personal Data Update your information as required or type a new password and click OK If you forgot your password In your web browser s address bar type the URL where your Parallels Plesk Panel is located For example https your do
171. ton in the Custom buttons group or navigation pane To reconfigure an application change the application administrator s password or to install a license key for a commercial application go to Home gt Web Applications and click an icon corresponding to the application To upgrade an application to a newer version if it is available on the server go to Home gt Web Applications and click a corresponding shortcut in the U column To remove an application go to Home gt Web Applications and select a check box corresponding to the application that you no longer need Then click Remove The application and its databases will be removed from the server Setting Up And Maintaining Your Web Site 53 In this section Installing Java Web Applications cccccceeeeeceeeeecceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaas 53 Installing Ruby Web Applications Linux HOSting ceceeeseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeenaees 54 Installing Java Web Applications You can install Java Web application packages in the Web archive format WAR These Java applications are not distributed with Parallels Plesk Panel therefore you should obtain them separately gt To install a Java Web application 1 From your Home page go to Home gt Web Applications gt Java Applications and click Switch On This will start the Tomcat service which provides an environment for Java code to run in cooperation with a web server Click Install
172. tting File and Directory Access Permissions Windows Hosting see page 67 section for more information on setting access permissions To reconfigure ASP NET for a virtual directory Go to Domains gt domain name gt Virtual Directories Browse to the required directory and enter it Click ASP NET Settings and change the options accordingly Refer to the Configuring ASP NET for Virtual Directories see page 41 section for more information on configuring ASP NET Adding and Removing MIME Types Multipurpose Internet Mail Exchange MIME types instruct a Web browser or mail application how to handle files received from a server For example when a Web browser requests an item on a server it also requests the MIME type of the object Some MIME types like graphics can be displayed inside the browser Others such as word processing documents require an external helper application to be displayed Setting Up And Maintaining Your Web Site 83 When a web server delivers a Web page to a client Web browser it also sends the MIME type of the data it is sending If there is an attached or embedded file in a specific format IIS also tells the client application the MIME type of the embedded or attached file The client application then knows how to process or display the data being received from IIS IIS can only operate files of registered MIME types These types could be defined both on the global IIS level and on the domain or virtual di
173. ur Web Site 39 Configuring ASP NET for Your Domain Most ASP NET configuration settings that commonly need to be customized in order for ASP NET applications to function in a desirable way can be edited through Parallels Plesk Panel gt 1 To configure ASP NET for a domain Go to Home gt ASP NET Settings Set up the strings that determine database connection data for ASP NET applications which use databases This option is available only for ASP NET 2 0 x When you open the ASP NET configuration page for the first time sample connection parameters with common constructions are displayed You can then delete them and specify your own strings To add a string enter the required data into the Name and Connection Parameters input fields and click next to them To remove a string click next to it Set up custom error messages that will be returned by ASP NET applications in the Custom Error Settings field To set the custom error messages mode select an appropriate option from the Custom error mode menu On custom error messages are enabled Off custom error messages are disabled and detailed errors are to be shown RemoteOnly custom error messages are displayed only to remote clients and ASP NET errors are shown to the local host To add a new custom error message which will be applied unless the Off mode was selected enter the values in the Status Code and Redirect URL fields and click
174. ur error documents Customizing DNS Zone Configuration for Your Domain Your control panel automatically creates DNS zone for your domain in accordance with the configuration preset defined by your provider The domain name should work fine with the automatic configuration however if you need to perform custom modifications in the domain name zone you can do that through your control panel To view the resource records in a DNS zone of your domain go to Home gt DNS Settings in the Web Site group A screen will show all resource records for your domain Note Here you can update the DNS zone with multiple changes in DNS records at once and then confirm the changes by clicking the Apply button Unconfirmed changes will not be saved To learn about modifying resource records in the DNS zone of a domain alias refer to the Setting Up Additional Domain Names for a Site Domain Aliases section In this section Adding Resource Records sc cies hate teenie Heese Sener aeeewis 93 Modifying Resource Records 2 iscint tied oul ehmkadilenakeenint 94 Removing Resource Recordsi ertene ia er aan 95 Restoring the Original Zone Configuration cccceccceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeenaaees 95 Setting Up And Maintaining Your Web Site 93 Adding Resource Records gt To add anew resource record to the zone 1 Go to Home gt DNS Settings in the Web Site group 2 Click Add New Record in the Tools group 3 Select a resource
175. using the certificate shared by another domain The domain that shares its SSL certificate with others is called Master SSL Domain Note In order to use shared SSL the Master SSL Domain should be set by your server administrator 62 Setting Up And Maintaining Your Web Site gt To use SSL certificate of the Master SSL Domain enabling shared SSL use 1 Click Shared SSL on your Home page 2 Select the Switch on shared SSL check box 3 Specify the virtual directory name in the corresponding input field The virtual directory with the supplied name will be created on the Master SSL Domain This directory will be used for accessing your site through SSL For example let us suppose that you have a domain named mydomain com Master SSL Domain is defined as master_ssl_domain com and the virtual directory name you supplied is my virtual dir In this case to access your site through SSL you need to use the following address https master_ssl_domain com my_virtual_dir Note You cannot use your domain name e g mydomain com to access your site via SSL if you are using shared SSL 4 Select the directory where protected content is located on your domain The documents within specified directory will be accessible only through SSL You can only choose either httpdocs or httpsdocs as a target directory 5 To make your domain accessible via SSL only select the Require SSL check box 6 Click OK gt To stop using SSL certifi
176. usion you can configure data source names DSNs for ColdFusion through Parallels Plesk Panel Data source names allow your ColdFusion Web applications to use local and remote databases for processing and storing application data 50 Setting Up And Maintaining Your Web Site In this section Creating a New Data Source Name l 50 Changing Settings of a Data Source Name ccccceeceeeeeceeeeeeeeeeteesetnneeeeeees 50 Removing a Data Source Name cece ccez cone cacccerc cone ccpecteacepdenenanraielecetd omen scpectencees 51 Creating a New Data Source Name gt To create a new Data Source Name for Adobe ColdFusion on your domain On your Home page go to ColdFusion DSN and click Add New ColdFusion DSN Specify the data source name and select the required driver for this data source in the Driver menu Click Next gt gt Choose the appropriate options on the driver configuration screen Typically you should specify the path to the database user credentials and other connection options depending on the selected driver Refer to Adobe ColdFusion documentation for more information on the driver configuration options Click OK to finish Changing Settings of a Data Source Name gt To change the settings Data Source Name for Adobe ColdFusion on your domain On your Home page go to ColdFusion DSN and click the required data source name in the list Specify the data source name and select the
177. want to create your own error pages and use them on your web server With Parallels Plesk Panel you can customize the following error messages 400 Bad File Request Usually means the syntax used in the URL is incorrect for example uppercase letter should be lowercase letter wrong punctuation marks 401 Unauthorized Server is looking for some encryption key from the client and is not getting it Also wrong password may have been entered 403 Forbidden Access denied Similar to 401 a special permission is needed to access the site a password and or username if it is a registration issue 404 Not Found Server cannot find the requested file File has either been moved or deleted or the wrong URL or document name was entered This is the most common error 405 Method Not Allowed The method specified in the Request Line is not allowed for the resource identified by the Request URI 406 Not Acceptable The resource identified by the request is only capable of generating response entities which have content characteristics not acceptable according to the accept headers sent in the request 407 Proxy Authentication Required This code is similar to 401 Unauthorized but indicates that the client must first authenticate itself with the proxy 412 Precondition Failed The precondition given in one or more of the request header fields evaluated to false when it was tested on the server This response code allows the client to place preco
178. with an error code that already exists but you can redefine the URL for the existing code To remove a custom error message from the list click next to it 6 Configure compilation settings in the Compilation and Debugging field To determine the programming language to be used as default in dynamic compilation files choose an entry from Page default language list To enable compiling retail binaries leave the Switch on debugging check box empty To enable compiling debug binaries select the Switch on debugging check box In this case the source code fragments containing error will be shown in a diagnostic page message Note When running applications in debug mode a memory and or performance overhead occurs It is recommended to use debugging when testing an application and to disable it before deploying the application into production scenario Configure encoding settings for ASP NET applications in the Globalization Settings section To set an adopted encoding of all incoming requests enter an encoding value into the Request encoding field default is utf 8 To set an adopted encoding of all responses enter an encoding value into the Response encoding field default is utf 8 To set an encoding which must be used by default for parsing of aspx asmx and asax files enter an encoding value into the File encoding field default is Windows 1252 To set a culture which must be used by default
179. wn in your control panel s navigation pane under the Sitebuilder Administration group Home page This provides shortcuts to the task oriented wizards Here you can perform any operations on your account and Web site through the Sitebuilder system For more information see http download1 parallels com SiteBuilder 4 5 0 doc site_owner en US html usin desktop _interface htm Sites Here you can add and manage sites For more information see http download1 parallels com SiteBuilder 4 5 0 doc site owner en US html mana ing sites htm The main working area on the right provides access to the tools available for the current section of the control panel selected in the navigation pane Additional operations are accessible from drop down menus that open when you click group titles Mail Mailsettings reate Mail Create Redirect Create Mailing List ccount gl Create P Mailing Lists e Virus Protection Autoresponder 4 su r Sparn Filtering P Open Webmail 12 Getting Started To navigate through Parallels Plesk Panel you can use a path bar a chain of links that appears in the right part of the screen below the banner area Home Domains gt example com Mail Accounts gt To the right of the path bar there are Favorites and Visited Pages menus The Visited Pages menu keeps the shortcuts to the recently visited control panel screens These shortcuts are added automatically The Favorites menu keeps the shortcuts
180. y IIS instead of Defined by parent directory Click OK to complete the creation To set access permissions for a virtual directory Go to Home gt Web Directories Click the amp icon corresponding to the directory you wish to open and set the access permissions for this directory and all its files Refer to the Setting File and Directory Access Permissions Windows Hosting see page 67 section for more information on setting access permissions To configure ASP NET for a virtual directory Go to Home gt Web Directories Browse to the required directory and enter it Click ASP NET Settings and set the options accordingly Refer to the Configuring ASP NET for Virtual Directories see page 41 section for more information on configuring ASP NET Changing Virtual Directory Settings To change preferences of an existing virtual directory on a domain Go to Home gt Virtual Directories Find the directory which preferences you wish to change and click G or click Directory Access Permissions in the required directory Change the preferences of the virtual directory Name specify virtual directory name Path specify the path to the physical directory which virtual directory is linked to Setting Up And Maintaining Your Web Site 81 Script source access select this check box to allow users to access source code if either Read or Write permissions are set Source code includes scripts in ASP app

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