1-STARTING UP
To Log into your control panel
Open your web browser, and in the address bar type the URL where your Plesk control panel is llocated.
For example, https://yourdomainname.com:8443, where your-domain.com is the domain name of your account.
- Press ENTER. Plesk login screen will open.
- Type the login name and password your provider gave you into the Login and Password boxes, respectively.
2-MANAGING YOUR ACCOUNT
To view the list of operations you can perform within your control panel, on your Home page, click Permissions. The permissions for operations are listed as follows:
Access to control panel: Shows whether you can access the control panel for managing domains and sites.
Domain creation: Shows whether you can host new domain names/web sites on the server.
Physical hosting management: Shows whether you can fully control hosting accounts
System access management: Shows whether you can enable and disable access to the system through Remote Desktop.
Hard disk quota assignment: Shows whether you can change the disk space on your site.
Subdomains management: Shows whether you can set up, modify and remove subdomains.
Domain aliases managemen:. Shows whether you are able to set up additional alternative domain names for web sites and allow users to do so.
Log rotation management: Shows whether you can adjust the cleanup and recycling of processed log files for your site.
FTP accounts management: Shows whether you can create and manage additional FTP accounts.
Scheduler management: Shows whether you can schedule tasks with the task scheduler.
Domain limits adjustment: Shows whether you can distribute the resources given to you by your service provider between your domains.
DNS zone management: Shows whether you can manage the DNS zones of your domains.
Tomcat applications management. Shows whether you can install Tomcat Java applications
Mailing lists management: Shows whether you can use mailing lists.
Spam filter management: Shows whether you can use spam filter provided by the SpamAssasin
Antivirus management: Shows whether you can use server-side antivirus protection.
Backup/restore functions: Shows whether you can use the control panel's facilities to backup and restore your sites.
3-YOUR HOSTING ACCOUNT:
- Changing Your FTP Account Credentials
To change the user name and password for accessing your FTP account:
1 On your Home page, click Setup.
2 Specify the new FTP login name and password.
3 Click OK.
- Downloading your website with Windows:
Go to My Network place, select add new network place and follow the instructions of the wizard. Remember to select
FTP as the method of connection. Log in with your login name and password and start downloading, you can use the regular copy/paste method.
- To create a new database on your hosting account:
1 On your Home page, click Databases.
2 Click Add New Database.
3 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).
4 Select the database type that you are going to use: MySQL or Microsoft SQL Server. Click OK.
5 To set up database administrator’s credentials, click Add New Database User.
6 Type a user name and a password that will be used for accessing the contents of the database.
7 Click OK.
- To import an existing database:
1 On your Home page, click Databases.
2 Click Add New Database.
3 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).
4 Select the database type that you are going to use: MySQL or Microsoft SQL Server. Click OK.
5 To set up database administrator’s credentials, click Add New Database User.
6 Type a user name and a password that will be used for accessing the contents of the database. Click OK.
7 Click WebAdmin in the Tools group. An interface to phpMyAdmin (or ASPEnterpriseManager) database management tool will open in a separate browser window.
4-SETTING UP THE MAIL SERVICES:
IIf you wish to have an e-mail address associated with a site, like yourname@yourdomain.com, you should create a mailbox.
Login into your Control Panel.
- Click the Mail in the Services group.
- Click Add New Mail Name.
- 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.
SETTING UP MICROSOFT OUTLOOK EXPRESS
1 Open Microsoft Outlook Express.
2 Go to Tools > Accounts.
3 Click the Mail tab to open a list of your mail accounts.
4 Click the Add > button and select the Mail … item.
5 Enter your name as you want it to appear in any messages you send, and
click Next >.
6 Type your e-mail address that you created through Plesk (for example,
your.name@your-domain.com), and click Next >.
7 Select the protocol of your incoming mail server.
Plesk supports both POP3 and IMAP protocols, we recommend that you select
IMAP because this leaves your e-mail on the mail server so that it can later be accessed
from other locations and by other methods, for example, browser based Webmail.
8 Specify the mail domain name as the incoming and outgoing mail server (for
example: mail.your-domain.com), and click Next >.
9 Type your e-mail address in the Account name box (for example:
your.name@your-domain.com).
10 Type your password. This should be the password that you specified during
creation of the mailbox through Plesk.
11 Leave the Remember password box checked, if you do not wish 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 >.
12 To complete setting up your e-mail program, click Finish.
