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1. WebCP User Manual Last modification 11 17 2004 WebCP User Manual page 7 of 7 Revision 1 1 DS WebCP User Manual Last modification 11 17 20042. on the server and they will need to alias them Sever Settings The server settings section is up to you as if you want to change it here or at etc webcp config php sometimes under etc webcp web config inc php If you change it here make sure that you have a backup of the old config file as on occasion you might change something that you didn t mean to and the server won t perform correctly Everything is fairly self explanatory here except the password that already exist will never show up so it isn t blank and if you want to change the password take caution and make sure that you know how to change MySQL passwords on the command line and where the config file is just incase webcp stops responding I would never change the Secret Key here Backups To come later Site statistics No functionality Control Panel This is where you can change the domain named file We currently do not use this as a DNS solution so we are not documenting it Server Status This shows what services are running and supposedly where you can restart stop and start them I have had mixed results trying to use the restart stop start on here but the status is helpful at times and also it shows the memory and processor usage as well as some other stats If you click the restart symbol next to the processor usage it will RESTART the SERVER So you might want to test that before relying on it in the future Billing
3. WebCP User Manual page 1 of 7 Webcp user manual This manual consist of two parts a how to on usage and a troubleshooting section for known problems Part 1 How to use webcp When you login to webcp you will see 4 different sections server cp reseller cp domain cp and personal cp I will cover each section individually for clarity and give recommendations on different steps when dealing with webcp Section 1 Server CP Now depending on which version you might have a central cp for now this is not used and nothing should be changed in it Server CP is where you can setup different resellers and suspend or remove them as well Also in the deb install starting with version 0 5 3 rcl you can also change certain server configuration parameters here as well Reseller Management This is where you can suspend or delete resellers to suspend or unsuspended a reseller click on the lock I would highly suggest doing this as a last resort because suspending in webcp has never be perfected I think that this should be done when a client is late and as the same scenario the we would usually turn off someone s server To remove a reseller you would click the stop sign with an x in it This is another last resort and it is advisable that all the domains inside the resellers account be removed first Account Creation To create a new reseller you would type in there name the contact email address for the reseller any IPs t
4. ain Settings This is where you would have ended up if you clicked a domain name in the Sites Management Also it can be access via the Domain CP but if the user is just a domain admin they will only be able to update their email address and there default user root Also if a Server Side option is Off they can turn it on to make it not available choose the N A option Sub Domains and Pointer You can view add and delete sub domains and pointers from this section Sub domains make a new directory for example web2 would make a new web directory as well as the existing main www so you need to give your domain admin permissions to see which would be the root of there domain and let them know about the directory setup instead of leaving it www web So web2 would have content that would go into web2 web Pointers are a little different you can point a domain such as www example2 com to www example com To do this you would leave the hostname www the domain name would be example2 com your checkbox options are the same as if they were the main domain as well as the server side options Database Management You can create delete and update the password for databases here Notice I didn t say update the username because once a database is created only the username that is chosen then can be used unless it is recreated PHPMyAdmin can be used to access these databases if it has been installed Be forewarned that if you susp
5. and Package Manager N A Revision 1 1 DS WebCP User Manual Last modification 11 17 2004 WebCP User Manual page 3 of 7 Help Hopefully I will insert this document to the help section at one time but until then the help button is useless Section 2 Reseller CP The reseller cp is what a reseller would see when they login This is where you can do several things with the domains as well as change the reseller settings if you are a domain admin Reseller Information Shows settings and usages Sites Management Shows all the domains setup under the particular reseller you are under There is a status bar that should say something like lt Reseller CP gt Sites Management Reseller Name if you forget which reseller you are under From here you can click on a domain and go to the Domain CP section or you can suspend or delete domains like in the reseller management Lock to suspend or unsuspended and the Stop sign with an x in it to delete You can also use the checkmarks to apply an action to more than one domain The top Search bar allows you to search for domains traits or show more details in the listing and also is important because sometimes the next button doesn t function correctly and this allows you to see all the domains Domain Creation This is where you can setup a new domain Select the IP from the dropdown list if it isn t there did you add it to the resellers profile The ho
6. connected to webcp with For example if you wanted a 24 or Class C you would choose 204 68 227 If you wanted the exact IP choose the full IP and that will be the only IP the user can login from Also there is an option to reset the default page This is the page you will first go to when logging into webcp and can be set with the bookmark link at the top This doesn t set a bookmark in your browser like the name implies E Mail Settings A large problem area and this is probably why users shouldn t be allowed in the admin panel There seems to be no access control in this section yet so users can create aliases if they don t exist and worst turn on catch all Now it is not like they will get incredibly important mail since this wouldn t be the mail email box that the domain admin uses but it will probably make them get large amounts of spam At the time I am writing this I noticed this and am posting a bug to web cp net now This is also where you can forward and have the autoresponder setup as well pretty self explanatory File Manager This is a place where users can admin there files for permissions and a easy way to remove or rename or move stuff but that is about it It also allows the creation of new directories and the editing of the htaccess file You can also upload files but restricted to the max post size set for PHP in the php ini file Server Status Same thing Help This hopefully Revision 1 1 DS
7. end a user or delete a user you might suspend or delete the DATABASE if it is associated with the user Or I should say that you wouldn t be able to access the database More than likely it is still there but you will have to login to MySQL as root and grant another user access to the DB This is a MySQL admin task so I will not cover it now Tips amp Tools As of 0 5 3 this has some nifty functions such as a ping traceroute whois dig and module listing for testing Revision 1 1 DS WebCP User Manual Last modification 11 17 2004 WebCP User Manual page 6 of 7 Server Status The same as always Domain Statistics This is a stupid button it shows the same as domain info but since webalizer is installed I always wanted this to go to the webalizer page for that domain I haven t because it always changes and reverts back in the next version Help The same useless button Section 4 Personal CP Personal CP deals with user settings User Information The stats for this user User Settings This is were you would have been taken if you click a username from the User Management section If you are a domain admin or above you can change anything The regular user can only change the full name password language and interface look they can as well as an admin restrict access to a range of IPs using the IP Access Restriction This is a dropbox with the different classes of the current IP that you are
8. hat we allocate to them the number of domains sub domains domain pointers their accumulative quota for all domains as well as users databases and transfers Never turn on shell access as of now we do not support it The server side options should be whatever we want to give them If you not give them an option mark it N A as if it is just off they have the option to turn it on If they need SSL you must first add SSL to the sslang variable in the config php file as well as modifying apache to start with SSL Most of the time we would want to add this for the customer on the first need of SSL on the server as you cannot start apache with SSL if there are no sites running SSL To add SSL to the apache init d file you would find under the start case where you see something like If HTTPD then And change it to Revision 1 1 DS WebCP User Manual Last modification 11 17 2004 WebCP User Manual page 2 of 7 If SHTTPD DSSL then This would also be changed under restart and graceful There are also other sections if you know what they will be for the first domain for this reseller and the first account which would be there reseller account login NB the account creation has webmaster and admin as aliases TAKE these OUT as you don t need them and they might call back later asking why they can t setup a webmaster account Now if you have taken these out and they can t create these accounts they are in use
9. natory the user type should e Standard User unless making a demo account The access level should be one of the following depending what you want to grant the user in webcp Regular user cannot change anything in webcp except their password and there autoreply message but can login through ftp so mind your User Root Directory Revision 1 1 DS WebCP User Manual Last modification 11 17 2004 WebCP User Manual page 5 of 7 Domain Admin can add delete users and update user accounts and permissions Can modify domain sub domains and pointers but cannot change quotas Can change MySQL DBs Reseller Admin Everything a domain admin can but across multiple domains can change quotas if they don t exceed the Resellers quota but cannot change resellers quota or permissions Server Admin Everything a Reseller can do but pretty much anything in webcp can be done I think the only thing that a central admin could do besides a server admin was to manage multiple servers but that hasn t been written yet or tested so if you are going to setup a server admin you can make them a central admin This brings us to the next section quotas which are specified in MB after that Email Aliases can be anything as long as the aliases doesn t match a user that already exist You can add multiple aliases if you separated them by commas The interface look can be changed but that is nothing that I am going to document Dom
10. s to checked and will redirect a request to the IP address to the domain name for that IP This is mainly for alias access and dedicated IP setups and shouldn t be turned off unless testing a site via direct IP The rest of the option are self explanatory except that if you want to make a server side option not available choose the N A option as the domain admin can turn the option on if it is just marked OFF Backups coming soon Reseller Settings All the options from the reseller add page so you can update the settings If you are logged in as a reseller you will only see the request more option which sends an email to the server admin Server Status Same as the Server Status under Server CP Help Hopefully I will insert this document to the help section at one time but until then the help button is useless Section 3 Domain CP Domain CP lets you modify various aspects of a domain as well as create and delete users Domain Information Shows settings and usages Users Management List all the users that are associated with a particular domain From here you can search for a user or suspend or delete a user You can also click on a username that would take you to that users Personal CP see section 4 As with the Sites Management you can apply a setting to multiple users if desired User Creation This is where you would create a user Full Name username and password are self expla
11. stname should be www unless if www is somewhere else and this will be a mail server then you should change it to mail or web2 or whatever seems appropriate Domain name should be the domain name without the hostname example com for example The hostname aliases could be another hostname that you want the server to answer for for example webmail or app The default user root should match the following criteria hostname web USER The default is www web 7USER which gives each user their own web space If this is not desired use www data USER as this will not give them web access The following checkboxes are defined below http domain com Access which is normally checked will alias domain com to hostname domain com this is very important when setting up DNS if this is mail since your hostname has to be an A record and cannot be a CNAME to domain com else recursion happens If mail resides somewhere else then you would want this option unchecked as this option does apply to mail settings and you would want you mail to go to the outside server if you have forms on the website Alias domain com defaults to unchecked as you might will get a lot of spam this way Check it if you would like everything that is mail bound and web bound with any hostname to go through Revision 1 1 DS WebCP User Manual Last modification 11 17 2004 WebCP User Manual page 4 of 7 Redirect to Domain Name default
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