Parallels H-Sphere - 3.5.1 User Guide

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Contents

Preface 9

Typographical Conventions ........................................................................................................... 9

About This Guide ......................................................................................................................... 10

Feedback ..................................................................................................................................... 10

User Account 11

Temporary Index Page ................................................................................................................ 11

Uploading a Web Site .................................................................................................................. 12

Contents of Home Directory ........................................................................................................ 13

Control Panel Basics 14

Changing Hosting Plan ................................................................................................................ 15

Changing Hosting Platform ............................................................................................... 16

Changing Billing Period ............................................................................................................... 17

Changing Control Panel Password .............................................................................................. 17

Changing FTP Password ............................................................................................................. 18

Changing Traffic Limit .................................................................................................................. 19

Changing Disk Quota................................................................................................................... 20

Configuring Control Panel Skins .................................................................................................. 21

Changing Control Panel Language ............................................................................................. 21

Domain Registration 22

Registering Standard (Second Level) Domains .......................................................................... 22

Transfering Domains ................................................................................................................... 24

Hosting Existing Domains ............................................................................................................ 24

Creating Third Level Domains ..................................................................................................... 25

Hosting Sites Without Domain Names ........................................................................................ 25

Parking External Domains ........................................................................................................... 26

Domain Configuration 27

Removing Domains ..................................................................................................................... 27

Enabling Instant Domain Aliases ................................................................................................. 28

Creating Subdomains .................................................................................................................. 28

Configuring Shared or Dedicated IP Hosting .............................................................................. 29

Configuring Domain Aliasing ....................................................................................................... 30

Adding Server Aliases ................................................................................................................. 34

Configuring Domain Renewal ...................................................................................................... 35

Changing Domain Contact and Billing Information ...................................................................... 37

Adding Web Access Control ........................................................................................................ 37

DNS Settings 40

Removing And Restoring Built-in DNS Records ......................................................................... 41

Creating Custom DNS Records ................................................................................................... 42

Preface 4

Web Site Creation and Publishing 45

Parallels SiteStudio...................................................................................................................... 45

Parallels Plesk Sitebuilder ........................................................................................................... 46

Web Site Navigation 48

Redirect URL ............................................................................................................................... 49

Directory Indexes ......................................................................................................................... 52

Error Pages .................................................................................................................................. 53

Server Side Image Map ............................................................................................................... 55

MIME Types ................................................................................................................................. 55

WAP Support ............................................................................................................................... 56

Reverse Traceroute ..................................................................................................................... 56

FTP Management 58

WebShell File Manager and htProtect ......................................................................................... 60

FTP Subaccounts ........................................................................................................................ 61

Virtual FTP ................................................................................................................................... 62

Anonymous FTP .......................................................................................................................... 65

Anonymous FTP Upload Facilities .............................................................................................. 67

SSH Access to Server 68

Accessing Your SSH Account ..................................................................................................... 69

Running Shell Scripts With Crontab ............................................................................................ 70

Dynamic Web Content 71

CGI Scripts .................................................................................................................................. 71

PHP.............................................................................................................................................. 72

ColdFusion ................................................................................................................................... 73

Ruby on Rails .............................................................................................................................. 73

ASP .............................................................................................................................................. 74

ASP.NET ..................................................................................................................................... 74

Server Side Includes.................................................................................................................... 75

PHP/MySQL Applications ............................................................................................................ 76

Preinstalled CGI Scripts: phpBB and mnoGoSearch .................................................................. 77

phpBB Forum .................................................................................................................... 77

mnoGoSearch ................................................................................................................... 78

Fixing Broken Scripts ........................................................................................................ 79

Mail Resources 80

Mailboxes ..................................................................................................................................... 83

Mailbox Storage Quota ...................................................................................................... 85

Signing into a Mailbox ....................................................................................................... 85

Postmaster and Webmaster .............................................................................................. 86

Mail Forwards .............................................................................................................................. 86

Autoresponders ........................................................................................................................... 87

Removing Autoresponder .................................................................................................. 89

Mailing Lists ................................................................................................................................. 90

Managing Your Mail List Subscribers ................................................................................ 91

Sending Messages to Mailing List Subscribers ................................................................. 92

Managing Your Mailing List Moderators ............................................................................ 92

Preface 5

Adding Mailing List Trailer ................................................................................................. 93

Configuring Mailing Lists ................................................................................................... 95

Maildomain Aliases ...................................................................................................................... 99

Removing Mail Domain Aliases ....................................................................................... 100

Mailbox Aliases .......................................................................................................................... 101

Creating Mail Aliases ....................................................................................................... 101

Unassigning Mailbox Alias from Mailbox ......................................................................... 102

Removing Mailbox Aliases .............................................................................................. 102

Mail SMS ................................................................................................................................... 103

Mail Under Service Domain For Third-Level Hosting ................................................................ 106

Managing Mail Under Account With Third-Level Domain ............................................... 107

Managing Mail Under Service Account ........................................................................... 108

AntiSpam Protection .................................................................................................................. 109

Managing Antispam for the Entire Account ..................................................................... 109

Managing Antispam on the Mail Domain Level ............................................................... 110

Managing Greylisting Settings ......................................................................................... 111

Managing Mail Domain Keys ........................................................................................... 112

Configuring Antispam Protection for Mail Resource ....................................................... 112

AntiVirus Protection ................................................................................................................... 115

Managing Antivirus for the Entire Account ...................................................................... 115

Managing Antivirus on the Mail Domain Level ................................................................ 116

Configuring Antivirus Protection for a Mail Resource...................................................... 116

E-Mail Forgery SPF ................................................................................................................... 118

Enabling SPF................................................................................................................... 119

Disabling SPF .................................................................................................................. 120

Outlook Express Mail ................................................................................................................. 120

Configuring Outlook Express With POP Before SMTP ................................................... 121

Configuring Outlook Express With SMTP Auth Relay..................................................... 127

Eudora Mail Client ..................................................................................................................... 130

Web Site Statistics 135

Enabling Stats Logging .............................................................................................................. 136

Viewing Raw Logs ..................................................................................................................... 136

Running Third-Party Log Analyzers ........................................................................................... 137

Urchin .............................................................................................................................. 137

AWStats ........................................................................................................................... 137

Webalizer ......................................................................................................................... 138

ModLogAn ....................................................................................................................... 138

Protecting Statistics ................................................................................................................... 139

Promoting Your Site With Kanoodle .......................................................................................... 140

Traffic 141

Summary Traffic ........................................................................................................................ 141

Traffic Cycle ............................................................................................................................... 142

Traffic Limit ................................................................................................................................ 143

Disk Space 145

Summary Disk Usage ................................................................................................................ 145

Disk Space Billing ...................................................................................................................... 146

Individual Resource Quotas ...................................................................................................... 147

User Billing 148

Types of Payment ...................................................................................................................... 148

Billing Profile .............................................................................................................................. 149

Preface 6

Becoming a Payable User ......................................................................................................... 150

Paying With Web Based Payment Systems .............................................................................. 151

PayPal Subscription ........................................................................................................ 152

Automatic E-mail Invoicing ........................................................................................................ 153

Billing Period and Billing Month ................................................................................................. 154

Online Prices ............................................................................................................................. 155

Plan Fees ........................................................................................................................ 155

Resource Prices .............................................................................................................. 155

Refunds ..................................................................................................................................... 157

Refunds on Deleting Prepaid Billing Period Resources .................................................. 158

Refunds on Changing Hosting Plan ................................................................................ 158

Refunds on Changing Account's Billing Period ............................................................... 158

Refunds on Reducing Quotas and Limits ........................................................................ 159

Getting Money Back ........................................................................................................ 159

Billing History ............................................................................................................................. 160

Extra Packages .......................................................................................................................... 164

Online Store 166

Miva Merchant and osCommerce .............................................................................................. 167

Setting Up Miva Merchant ......................................................................................................... 168

Setting Up osCommerce ........................................................................................................... 169

Updating osCommerce to 2.2-MS2 ........................................................................................... 170

Data Transfer Security 171

Using Existing Key and Certificate ............................................................................................ 172

Creating Temporary Certificate ................................................................................................. 173

Acquiring a Permanent Certificate ............................................................................................. 175

Using Shared SSL ..................................................................................................................... 176

Renewing Permanent Certificates ............................................................................................. 177

Managing Comodo SSL Certificates ......................................................................................... 178

Database Hosting 182

MySQL Databases ..................................................................................................................... 182

Creating MySQL Database and Its Users ....................................................................... 183

Editing MySQL Databases with phpMyAdmin ................................................................. 185

Changing MySQL Disk Quota ......................................................................................... 186

Adding MySQL Users And Granting Them Privileges..................................................... 186

Changing User Passwords .............................................................................................. 188

PostgreSQL Databases ............................................................................................................. 189

Creating PostgreSQL Users ............................................................................................ 189

Deleting Users And Changing Their Passwords ............................................................. 190

Creating PostgreSQL Databases .................................................................................... 191

Editing PostgreSQL Databases and User Privileges with phpPgAdmin ......................... 192

Changing PostgreSQL Disk Quota.................................................................................. 193

Microsoft SQL Databases .......................................................................................................... 193

Creating Microsoft SQL Logins ....................................................................................... 194

Creating Microsoft SQL Databases ................................................................................. 195

Adding New Microsoft SQL Database Users .................................................................. 196

Changing Microsoft SQL Database Quota ...................................................................... 197

Managing Microsoft SQL Databases............................................................................... 198

ODBC DSN Records ................................................................................................................. 198

Creating New DSN Record ............................................................................................. 199

Editing DSN Records ...................................................................................................... 200

Preface 7

Virtual Private Servers 201

Checking VPS Status ................................................................................................................ 201

Adding Custom DNS Records for VPS ...................................................................................... 202

Changing VPS Root Password .................................................................................................. 202

Adding VPS IP ........................................................................................................................... 203

Changing VPS Limits ................................................................................................................. 203

Looking Up VPS System Information ........................................................................................ 204

Adding VPS Templates ............................................................................................................. 205

Parallels Virtuozzo Containers 207

Starting and Stopping Your Virtuozzo Container ....................................................................... 207

Changing Virtuozzo Container Administrative Password .......................................................... 208

Adding New IPs Allocated for Virtuozzo Container ................................................................... 208

Viewing Available Application Templates to Virtuozzo Container ............................................. 208

Changing Virtuozzo Plans ......................................................................................................... 209

Dedicated Servers 210

Adding Dedicated Servers ......................................................................................................... 211

Managing Dedicated Servers .................................................................................................... 212

Viewing Dedicated Server Info ........................................................................................ 212

Requesting Dedicated Server Upgrade .......................................................................... 212

Adding Extra IPs to a Dedicated Server .......................................................................... 213

Creating Reverse DNS Records for Dedicated Server IPs ............................................. 213

Setting Up Dedicated Server Backup Service ................................................................. 214

Requesting Dedicated Server Remote Reboot ............................................................... 214

Cancelling Dedicated Servers ......................................................................................... 215

Microsoft Exchange Hosting 216

Managing Microsoft Exchange Mailboxes ................................................................................. 217

Managing Microsoft Exchange SMTP domains ........................................................................ 218

Adding MX DNS Records for Microsoft Exchange SMTP Domains .......................................... 218

Managing Microsoft Exchange Distribution lists ........................................................................ 219

Microsoft SharePoint Hosting 220

Enabling Microsoft SharePoint Services on a Domain .............................................................. 220

Editing Microsoft SharePoint Settings ....................................................................................... 222

Managing Microsoft SharePoint Users ...................................................................................... 223

Creating New Microsoft SharePoint Users from Scratch ................................................ 223

Enabling Microsoft SharePoint Access for an Existing FTP Subuser ............................. 225

Deleting Microsoft SharePoint Users .............................................................................. 225

Application Pools 226

Adding Dedicated Application Pools .......................................................................................... 227

Assigning Web Applications ...................................................................................................... 228

Adding Web Directories ............................................................................................................. 229

Technical Support 231

Sending Trouble Tickets ............................................................................................................ 232

Preface 8

Following Up Trouble Tickets .................................................................................................... 234

Closing Trouble Tickets ............................................................................................................. 235

In this chapter:

Typographical Conventions ............................................................................... 9

About This Guide ............................................................................................... 10

Feedback .......................................................................................................... 10

Formatting convention

Type of Information

Example

Special Bold

Items you must select, such as menu options, command buttons, or items in a list.

Go to the System tab. Titles of chapters, sections, and subsections.

Read the Basic Administration chapter.

Italics

Used to emphasize the importance of a point, to introduce a term or to designate a command line placeholder, which is to be replaced with a real name or value.

The system supports the so called wildcard character search.

Monospace

The names of commands, files, directories, and domain names.

The license file is located in the

http://docs/common/ licenses directory.

C H A P T E R 1

Preface

Typographical Conventions

Before you start using this guide, it is important to understand the documentation conventions used in it.

The following kinds of formatting in the text identify special information.

10 Preface

Preformatted

On-screen computer output in your commandline sessions; source code in XML, C++, or other programming languages.

# ls –al /files

total 14470

Preformatted Bold

What you type, contrasted with on-screen computer output.

# cd /root/rpms/php

CAPITALS

Names of keys on the keyboard.

SHIFT, CTRL, ALT

KEY+KEY

Key combinations for which the user must press and hold down one key and then press another.

CTRL+P, ALT+F4

About This Guide

Parallels H-Sphere User guide aims at Web site owners and explains how to set up and manage Web sites from the Parallels H-Sphere User control panel.

Feedback

If you have found a mistake 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.

This section explains how to start working with your Parallels H-Sphere user account

In this chapter:

Temporary Index Page ...................................................................................... 11

Uploading a Web Site ........................................................................................ 12

Contents of Home Directory .............................................................................. 13

C H A P T E R 2

User Account

and domains you host.

Temporary Index Page

You will be able to access your Web site right after you register your account. To do this, you will have to use an instant domain alias. Instant Domain Alias is an additional web address which lets you access your site during the first several hours after the domain name registration, the time when the site is yet unavailable at the newly registered domain. Over the next few days DNS servers all across the Internet will update themselves with your new site name. Once that happens, you will be able to access your site at the domain you have registered.

The moment your account is registered, a temporary index page is added to your site's directory.

It will be there until you upload your site and replace it with your own index page (for example, yoursite/index.html). Meanwhile, from this temporary page you can:

 Administer your account. Enter your control panel login and password into Log

into your Control Panel. This login and password are e-mailed to you at the address

you specified at signup. Use the Control Panel to view your bills, change your contact/billing information, change passwords, get more disk space, report problems to the technical support staff and more.

 Create a web site in a matter of minutes right from your browser. Use the option

Launch Site Builder. Initially, the password to log into the site builder is the same as that for the control panel.

12 User Account

Uploading a Web Site

Whenever possible, upload your site using the utilities that come with your web-site development software. For instance, if you made your site with Parallels SiteStudio, FrontPage or Dreamweaver, use their integrated web publishing tools. If you made your site with simple text editors, or if your site-building software does not have a publishing utility, use freestanding FTP clients, such as CuteFTP, SmartFTP, or WebShell (on page 60), a Web-based file manager built in Parallels H-Sphere.

Please note that site publishing tools don't remove your old web content from the server. For instance, if you used Parallels SiteStudio to upload a site with 15 pages and later you published an updated 7 page version of this site, your directory on the server will have all the new pages and the old pages that haven't been overwritten. If you publish many versions of the Web site, the site may become cluttered with old files.

Warning: If you have a complete Web site, be careful not to overwrite it with a publish command.

Warning: Don't upload your site to the root of your user directory! Instead, put it to the specific directory.

User Account 13

Contents of Home Directory

Your home directory contains several default subdirectories. Their number and names will differ depending on your plan, yet some of them are common for all plans. Here are some of the directories that are automatically created and may not be deleted:

 Directories that contain your sites. Each of your sites is put in a separate directory. The

name of the directory is the same as your site's domain name. If you have more than one site, you will have several such directories. These are the directories where you will upload your .html files or any other files that you want to make accessible from the Internet. Each of these directories may contain their own /webalizer or /modlogan directories.

Note: Do not delete either of these directories! Your site is too valuable to lose at a touch of a button.

 The Logs directory. It contains directories for every site with transfer log enabled.

Each such directory contains its own set of log files that are required to write and read the data about all visits to your sites.

Note: Deleting the Logs directory will cause the loss of the web statistics accumulated in the course of your site operation.

 The Virtual FTP directory. Its name is the dedicated IP address. This directory is

created when you enable Virtual FTP Server and can be accessed by virtual FTP users to list and download its content. There are as many such directories as dedicated IP addresses. Read more on Virtual FTP (on page 62).

Note: Deleting Virtual FTP directories will cause incorrect operation of Virtual FTP. However, you may harmlessly delete individual files in these directories.

 The subdomain directories. When you make a subdomain, a new directory is created

with the subdomain name as the directory name. Read more about creating subdomains (on page 28).

Note: If you delete a subdomain directory, internet visitors will get the 404 "File not found" error when attempting to access the subdomain.

 The ssl.conf directory. This directory stores SSL pairs for all encrypted sites.

Note: Deleting the ssl.conf directory will result in incorrect SSL operation.

Warning: Don't delete ANY default directories in your root directory, as this will cause

malfunctions of your account. As a rule of thumb, you may delete only directories and files you have uploaded yourselves or that have been uploaded by any of your Virtual FTP and Anonymous FTP users.

This document introduces you to the basics of Parallels H-Sphere user control panel

In this chapter:

Changing Hosting Plan ..................................................................................... 15

Changing Billing Period ..................................................................................... 17

Changing Control Panel Password ................................................................... 17

Changing FTP Password .................................................................................. 18

Changing Traffic Limit ....................................................................................... 19

Changing Disk Quota ........................................................................................ 20

Configuring Control Panel Skins ....................................................................... 21

Changing Control Panel Language ................................................................... 21

C H A P T E R 3

Control Panel Basics

management.

Once logged into User control panel, go to Account > Account Settings:

 Plan: the arrangement of resources and services you are subscribed to. To change

your plan, click the icon next to the plan name. To switch between plans on different hosting platforms, like Unix and Windows, you need to go to Account > Change Hosting Platform and go through the platform change wizard (on page 16).

 Account manager Login: the name by which you are known to the hosting system. It's

the same as your control panel login.

 FTP Login: the login name you use when you upload your site to your home directory

on the server.

 FTP Password: the login name you use when you upload your site to your home

directory on the server.

Control Panel Basics 15

Changing Hosting Plan

In this section:

Changing Hosting Platform ............................................................................... 16

Your hosting plan determines the services you get with the account and the prices for these services. Big sites with high hit rates and special services require more expensive plans; cheaper plans are suitable for simpler sites.

 To change to a different plan:

1. Go to Account > Account Settings

2. Click the Change icon next to your plan name.

3. Select your new plan and click Submit.

Warning: Switching plans will disable the resources that are unavailable under the plan

you are switching to.

If you don't see the plan of your choice in the list that appears, it means it is incompatible with your current plan. You can't change to an incompatible plan, but you can create a new account under this plan and then, if you want, you can delete your old account.

 Plan Upgrade: If you are switching to a 'higher' plan, your disk quota doesn't increase,

but free units do. As a result, your disk quota may turn out to be lower than free units, so you can increase your disk quota without being charged. The same is true of other resources.

 Plan Downgrade: If you are switching to a 'lower' plan, the system reduces your

quotas for free units. If you are using more than free units, the system reduces the quota to the amount you are using.

16 Control Panel Basics

Changing Hosting Platform

Parallels H-Sphere with the integrated hostingPlatformChanger system package adds a possibility to change a hosting platform by switching to a plan of a different nature (Windows or Unix).

The platform change process with the help of hostingPlatformChanger package involves:

 Changing a user's hosting plan  Changing domain IPs  Removing incompatible resources (currently, all resources listed on the Web Options

page). You will be warned of it during the plan change.

 Manual transfer of a user's content.

 To initiate the platform change process:

1. Go to Account > Change Hosting Platform. On the page that appears, from the drop-down box choose the plan you want to switch to.

2. You will be prompted to a Billing Statement that lists the information about prices on new resources and refunds for the incompatible resources. Click Submit to continue.

Control Panel Basics 17

Upon completion of the procedure, a platform change request will be sent to your Parallels H-Sphere administrator. When it is approved, the necessary resources will be recreated, incompatible resources removed, DNS and IP changed.

3. When you receive the e-mail informing that your hosting platform is ready to be used, enable necessary resources and transfer user home directory content.

Changing Billing Period

Your billing period determines how far in advance you pay. Your hosting plan may be configured to allow you to switch between billing periods of different length, price and discount policies. To change the billing period:

 To change the billing period:

1. Go to Billing > Billing Profile.

2. Click Change next to your billing period.

3. Select a different billing period and click Submit.

More about billing on changing billing periods (on page 154).

Changing Control Panel Password

You need your control panel password to log into the control panel. Initially, this password is the same as your FTP password, but you can make these two passwords different.

 To change the Control Panel password:

1. Go to User > User Password menu.

2. Enter new password and apply.

18 Control Panel Basics

Changing FTP Password

You need your FTP password to upload your site to the server. Initially, this password is the same as your Control Panel password, but you can make these two passwords different.

 To change the FTP password:

1. Go to Account > Account Settings.

2. Click the Change icon next to FTP Password

3. Perform changes and submit.

Control Panel Basics 19

Changing Traffic Limit

Traffic limit is the gigabytes of transferred data you pre-pay for at the beginning of the

billing period. Every month the system checks if you stay within the limit, and if you don't, it charges you for the excess. Then your traffic is reset. Control Panel navigation is not included into the total traffic.

Total traffic limit is the amount of traffic you pay for in advance. It is charged at the recurrent fee. However:

 if you fail to run up all your quota resource, you are not returned the payment for the

unused megabytes;

 if you exceed the quota, you are charged usage fee per each gigabyte of the

excess traffic.

You can always buy additional amount of the resource in order not to be charged the extra payment. The system e-mails you a notification once you have used 80% of the traffic limit.

Example: If your billing period is 2 months long and started on the 5th of October, the first billing month will end on the 5th of November, and your total traffic will be reset. However, if you change your total traffic limit on the 15th of November, your traffic will be reset and a new billing month will start.

If you expect to run up more traffic than comes with your plan, it's a good idea to raise your traffic limit.

 To change the traffic limit:

1. Select Quick Access in the Account menu.

2. Click the Change icon next to Total traffic.

3. Enter how much traffic you expect to run up throughout your billing

period.

Changing Disk Quota

Depending on your plan configuration, billing for disk space is based on either disk quota or disk usage.

Disk Usage

If your disk space billing is based on disk usage, the Statistics section will display a bar showing average summary disk usage since the beginning of the billing month.

In this section you will also see the summary disk usage for the last day. It is the total disk space used by files in your FTP home directory, all your mailboxes and databases at the moment of the system scan. As a rule, the scans run every night.

Disk Quota

If your disk space billing is based on disk quota, the Statistics section will display a bar showing the amount of disk space actually used out of the disk space allowed by your account quota. This bar shows disk space only on the web server.

 To change your disk quota:

1. Go to Account > Account Settings menu.

2. Click the edit icon in the Quota field.

3. Enter new disk quota and submit.

Read more about disk space (on page 145).

Control Panel Basics 21

Configuring Control Panel Skins

 To select a skin and configure interface design settings:

1. Select Look and Feel in the Account menu.

2. Select the skin from the Choose Design drop-down box. You will see the

skin preview. Click the Choose button.

Note: If your browser works slowly with XPressia, choose XPressia Lite which is specially designed for such situations.

3. Select an icon set in the Choose Icon Set box. You will see the preview of images from this icon set. Click the Set button.

Note: Choose the Text Links mode if your browser is slow in drawing images.

4. Set Tooltips state. This option determines whether or not to show hints at

the top of each page.

Changing Control Panel Language

This option will change all texts in the control panel, including labels, system notes, context online help, etc.

 To change the language of the control panel:

1. Select Language in the User menu.

2. On the page that appears, select the preferred language from the drop -

down box and click Submit.

This chapter tells about registering domains via Parallels H-Sphere.

In this chapter:

Registering Standard (Second Level) Domains ................................................. 22

Transfering Domains ......................................................................................... 24

Hosting Existing Domains .................................................................................. 24

Creating Third Level Domains ........................................................................... 25

Hosting Sites Without Domain Names ............................................................... 25

Parking External Domains ................................................................................. 26

C H A P T E R 4

Domain Registration

You can create an account without any domain at signup. If so, your account will have FTP and disk space, but without DNS zone, Virtual and Anonymous FTP, Mail service or ODBC support. You can create a domain to this account later in the future.

Registering Standard (Second Level) Domains

 To create a new standard domain (.com, .net, .org, etc.):

1. Enter your desired domain name into the f ield after the www part:

Domain Registration 23

2. Choose the top level domain from the drop-down box: .com, .org, .net, and so on, and click Submit.

3. Enter your contact and billing information. Agree to the charges if any.

Based on these data, the system generates a domain registration request and submits it to the domain registration company.

Go through subsequent steps (on page 30) that allow you to configure new domain as:

 Full-featured web/mail hosting domain  Web hosting/mail service alias for an existing domain  Domain without web hosting/mail service to be considered later either for hosting or

for aliasing

Type of the domain being registered will depend on the options you choose:

24 Domain Registration

Transfering Domains

Transfer domain already registered from outside your control panel with any registrar to OpenSRS or to Enom. This will update domain's info and change its DNS servers in the OpenSRS or Enom databases to the Parallels H-Sphere ones.

Transferred domains are registered with OpenSRS or Enom for the period chosen at transfer plus the time remaining from registration with original registrar.

Note: You can't transfer domains that are already in use in the system. Nor can you transfer third level domains if they use a second level domain owned by another user.

Go through subsequent steps (on page 30) that allow you to configure new domain as:

 Full-featured web/mail hosting domain  Web hosting/mail service alias for an existing domain  Domain without web hosting/mail service to be considered later either for hosting or

for aliasing.

Hosting Existing Domains

Choose this option to host a domain registered outside Parallels H-Sphere if you'd:

 prefer to contact the registrar personally rather than apply changes automatically;  like to register a non-standard or regional domain, which can't be registered

automatically (e.g. your_domain.de);

 prefer a different registrar than the one used by your hosting provider.

In either case, you need to make sure that the domain name is valid. Enter it into the box, omitting the www part.

Following the registration you will get an e-mail notification with the information to send to your domain name registration company. They will make appropriate changes on the root DNS servers, and within a couple of days your domain will be accessible at the new IP address. Right after registering the domain in your user control panel, your site will be available by the instant domain alias.

Domain registration is a standard procedure. First, you purchase a domain name from a domain registration company. Second, you register this domain name with your web hosting provider and get your new IP address. It is only then that your site becomes available to all Internet community. This is true for both standard and nonstandard domains. In case of standard domain names, however, the registration process is automated.

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Creating Third Level Domains

Third level domains are registered on your provider's DNS server. You don't need to register a third level domain with a domain registration company. If you choose to create a third level domain, it will contain your provider's domain name. E.g. if your provider's domain name is besthosting.com, and the third level domain you are registering is mythirdlevel, the fully qualified domain name would be mythirdlevel.besthosting.com.

Third level domain registration is available only if it's allowed under the selected plan. Functionally, third level domains have same features as second level domains.

To register a third level domain name, enter the desired domain name in the Domain

name field. Choose provider's domain name to the right and click Submit.

Hosting Sites Without Domain Names

You can also host sites without domain names (the so-called stop-gap domains). When you create a stopgap domain, you get no DNS zone, and you cannot use e-mail service. However, you will be able to access and manage your site using the instant domain alias you get at signup.

Stopgap domains support web site management and FTP services. Also, you can have IP-only access if you get a dedicated IP.

To create a stopgap domain, just click the Submit button in the Stopgap domain registration form:

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Parking External Domains

This feature allows using Parallels H-Sphere DNS server to map IPs to domain names serviced and hosted on other servers (not those of Parallels H-Sphere). In this case, a DNS zone is created with a custom DNS A record for the domain name and its IP is entered in the form below:

This chapter dwells on domain and subdomain configuration, domain and server

In this chapter:

Removing Domains ........................................................................................... 27

Enabling Instant Domain Aliases ....................................................................... 28

Creating Subdomains ........................................................................................ 28

Configuring Shared or Dedicated IP Hosting ..................................................... 29

Configuring Domain Aliasing ............................................................................. 30

Adding Server Aliases ....................................................................................... 34

Configuring Domain Renewal ............................................................................ 35

Changing Domain Contact and Billing Information ............................................. 37

Adding Web Access Control .............................................................................. 37

C H A P T E R 5

Domain Configuration

aliasing, shared and dedicated hosting and so on.

Removing Domains

 To remove a domain:

1. Select Domain Info link in Domain Settings menu on the left.

2. Click the Delete icon in the Domain name field at the top of the page.

3. Confirm the deletion by clicking "Yes, I agree with the above".

Choose whether you would like to preserve the content of the domain's directory.

 If you choose to leave web content, all this Web site will remain on the server

and will be accessible by FTP.

 If you choose to remove web content, all this Web site and its directory will be

permanently deleted from the server.

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Enabling Instant Domain Aliases

An instant domain alias is an additional web address that gives access to your Web site when you don't have a real domain name or when your real domain name is temporarily unavailable. Instant domain aliases are generated randomly based on your provider's domain name and can't be changed.

 To enable or disable access to your Web site by instant domain alias:

1. Go to Domain Settings > Web Options.

2. Select the domain if you have more than one.

3. Click Edit next to Web Service.

4. At the bottom of the Web Service page that appears, enable or disable

Instant access domain alias.

Creating Subdomains

A subdomain is a lower level domain. It is added on the left of the domain name, e.g. subdomain.example.com. You can create as many subdomains as allowed by the plan. Domains and subdomains have equal functional capabilities, including web site management, e-mail service, FTP, dedicated IPs, etc., but subdomains do not have their own DNS zones and usually cost less.

 To create a subdomain:

1. Select Domain Info link in Domain Settings menu in user's Control Panel.

2. Click Add in the Sub Domains field. You will be asked to enter the

subdomain name:

3. Enter the new subdomain. It will be displayed in the Subdomain field of the Domain Settings page.

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Configuring Shared or Dedicated IP

IP Hosting

Advantages

Disadvantages

Shared IP

 can be used for virtually unlimited number

of virtual hosts;

 easy to configure and use;

 requires no additional hardware of

software;

 can be used for free.

 does not support Virtual

FTP;

 does not support SSL

protection.

Dedicated IP

 supports Virtual FTP  supports SSL

 It is a pay service

Hosting

This is also called Virtual Hosting (Shared IP) and IP-Based Hosting (Dedicated IP).

 Shared IP hosting - one IP address is assigned to several domains and access to a

domain is available only by its domain name;

 Dedicated IP hosting - one IP address is assigned to one domain. To access a

domain, you can use either its IP address or its domain name.

Switching from Dedicated IP to Shared IP will delete your virtual FTP and SSL services.

 To change the type of IP:

1. Select Domain Info in the Domain Settings menu.

2. If you have several domains, choose the one to enable virtual FTP for.

3. Click Change to Shared IP in the IP Address field:

4. If prompted, confirm the change by clicking "Yes, I agree with the

above".

Important:: After you switch between shared and dedicated IPs, it will take several hours before the domain becomes available at the new IP address.

Domains on dedicated IPs don't have instant access aliases.

You can use an IP-only server. To create it, choose "no domain" during signup. Following the signup, you should change IP to Dedicated.

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Configuring Domain Aliasing

Hosting Domain Alias

Mail Service Alias

domain of Host Existing Site type Registered domain Transferred domain

Domain aliasing is creating domain names that point to other domains. For example, if your domain name is example.com, you can register another domain name, e.g. example.net and have it point to the location of example.com. This means, every Internet user who goes to example.net will land in example.com.

A domain alias may have:

 its own DNS zone;  custom DNS records;  separate mail service.

The new concept of domain aliasing is treating domain aliases as full-featured domains. It means that they can be registered/renewed via domain registrar right from your control panel. Besides, domain aliases can be easily turned to full-featured hosting domains and vice versa.

This concept provides you with more flexible approach to creating web hosting/mail service aliases. Currently, Parallels H-Sphere supports hosting/mail service alias for the following types of domains:

If you have domain aliases , they will continue to operate according to the old scheme. To make old aliases full-featured domains, remove them and then add again as described below.

 To configure new domain as a web hosting/mail service alias for an

existing domain:

1. Choose Add New Domain in Domain Settings menu.

2. Enter name for your alias and click Submit:

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3. Click Continue. On the Options page choose settings according to the screenshot below.

4. Click Submit.

 To disable web hosting/mail service alias for a domain:

1. Go to Edit Domain page:

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2. Click the Trash icon near Mail Service Alias/Alias to existing hosting domain.

 To turn domain/mail service alias to full-featured web/mail hosting

domain:

1. Go to Edit Domain page.

2. Click the Trash icon near Mail Service Alias/Alias to existing hosting domain.

3. Click Off near Mail Service/Web Service:

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4. Mail/Web Service will show as enabled:



 To register domains without web/mail service considered later either for

hosting or for aliasing:

1. Choose Add New Domain in Domain Settings menu.

2. Enter name for your domain and click Submit.

3. Click Continue and on the Options page choose settings exactly as shown

on the below screenshot.

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4. Click Submit. Later on the Edit Domain page turn ON either the Service buttons or the Alias buttons.

Adding Server Aliases

Server aliases are additional names for your virtual host. Unlike domain aliases, they are not added to your DNS zone, and are registered only with Apache. For instance, if your virtual host name is example.com and you also would like it to be available at www.example.com, you should add www server alias to the example.com domain.

 To add a server alias:

1. Go to Domain Settings > Web Options.

2. Click the Edit icon next to the domain you need.

3. Scroll down to the Server alias field and click the Add icon.

4. Enter server alias. It will be added to the list of server aliases for this

virtual host name.

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Configuring Domain Renewal

Domains transferred or registered from your control panel with a domain registrar need to be renewed once the registration period expires. In your account you can choose between manual and automatic renew modes.

This option is available only for domains registered from your control panel.

Although you will be sent an e-mail notification before your domain expires, you can choose whether to renew your contract with the registrar company manually or automatically. In the automatic mode, your domain name will be renewed for as many years as you specify in your control panel settings. In the manual mode, you would have to enter your control panel and click the Renew Domain link; otherwise the domain name will expire and become unavailable.

 To set the renewal mode to automatic or manual:

1. Go to your control panel Domain Settings/Domain info menu, and click the domain name link.

2. On the page that appears in section Domain Renew Mode, click the Renew domain link.

3. To switch to another mode, click the Edit icon. On the page that opens, select either Manual or Automatic.

With Manual renew mode, you will be warned about domain expiration in advance, so that you can renew the domain on time.

 To renew your domain manually:

1. Click the Renew domain link:

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 Renew/registration date: the date you registered your domain or last time renewed

the domain registration.

 Registration/last renew period in years: the period you registered or last time

renewed the domain registration for.

 Total contract length in years: the period you have registered your domain for

(including all the renewals).

 Expiration date: the date when your domain registration period expires.

 Advisable renew date: the date you are advised to renew the domain registration.

 Renew domain for this many year(s): set the period you'd like to renew the domain

registration for.

2. Click Submit to confirm your renewal request and agree to charges, if any.

Warning: Make sure to renew your domain on time, as you won't be able to renew it from your Control Panel when it expires.

 To configure automatic renewal:

1. Go to your control panel Domain Settings/Domain info menu, and click the domain name link.

2. On the page that appears in section Domain Renew Mode, click the Renew domain link.

3. Select Automatic and enter the years to renew the domain for:

If you have opted for an Automatic Renew Mode, the domain will be automatically renewed for the number of years you specified when choosing the Domain Renew Mode. The charges for a renewal will be made according to your plan settings.

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Changing Domain Contact and Billing Information

Contact/billing info is available only for domains registered through Control Panel.

If you want to change either your contact or billing information for a registered domain, click the Edit icon in the corresponding section. Edit info in the form and check Yes in the Affect Owner Info entry:

Note: If your .org domain is locked, you won't be able to update your domain's contact/billing information via control panel! Unlock your domain first!

Adding Web Access Control

This document describes the Web Access Control resource which allows Linux users to add and configure web access for their domains to different locations. You can allow or deny access for domain names or IP addresses (groups of IPs).

By adding Web Access Control, you define the default order (type) of access.

 To add Web Access Control in your User control panel:

1. Go to Domain Settings - > Web Options

2. Scroll down to Web Access Control and click Add. Configure the form that

shows.

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3. Enter Location which provides for access control by URL

 If Current Default Access Rule=allow, this location/web directory will be available for

all domain names/IPs.

 If Current Default Access Rule=deny, this location will be denied for all.

4. Submit to confirm.

By editing Web Access Control, you can add, delete, upload and export allowed or denied domain names/IPs.

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 Current Default Access Rule: if necessary, you can change current default access

rule.

 Deny Domains/IPs list: you can delete any domain or IP from the list

If current default access rule=allow, you can define the list of domain names/IPs which have no access. If current default access rule=deny, you can allow access to defined

domain names/IPs.

 Domain: type in a new domain and click Add

 Add IP address and Mask.

 Manage Domains/IPs: you can upload list domains/IPs from file and export

existing list to file. If you define a group of IPs, you should add mask with the "/" in front of it, e.g: 192.168.112.5/255.255.255.0

Note: Don't forget about permissions on directories to where you want to upload/export files. If you don't have permissions toread/write files, you cant' upload/export your lists.

DNS can be considered something similar to a phone book. When you move from one

In this chapter:

Removing And Restoring Built-in DNS Records ................................................ 41

Creating Custom DNS Records ......................................................................... 42

C H A P T E R 6

DNS Settings

location to another, your name stays the same, but your phone number may change. In order to point your name to the new phone number, you must contact the telephone service provider so they assign you the new phone number and update all directory information to reflect you as pointing to this new phone number.

In this way, the IP number can be compared to a phone number: When someone calls

http://www.example.com/, your ISP looks at the DNS server, and asks "how do I contact example.com?" The DNS server responds: "It can be found at 198.105.232.4". As the Internet

understands it, this can be considered the phone number for the server, which houses the http://www.example.com web site.

The DNS records for your domain are kept on your hosting server in the place called DNS zone. When you register a domain by means of the control panel, all DNS records are automatically created for you, but in some rare cases you may need to add custom records to your DNS zone. An example would be when you want all e-mail to be processed by an external mail server rather than by the built-in mail system. However, such user intervention requires knowledge of DNS configuration and clear understanding of what is to be done.

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Removing And Restoring Built-in DNS Records

 To remove/restore built-in (default) DNS records of all types (A, CNAME,

MX and TXT) from your control panel:

1. Select Domain info in the Domain Settings menu.

2. On the page that appears, click the Edit icon in the DNS Configuration field:

3. On the DNS configuration page click Trash for the record you want to

remove:

4. To restore the record, click Restore default records.

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Creating Custom DNS Records

 To create a custom record to your DNS zone:

1. Select Domain info in the Domain Settings menu.

2. On the page that appears, click the Edit icon in the DNS Configuration field.

3. This link will take you to the DNS Configuration page:

4. On this page you can see several blocks of DNS records.

You can add any type of DNS records by clicking an appropriate link. You will be asked to enter corresponding DNS data.

Adding Custom A Records

Normally, A records are used to map domain names and web server IP.

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 Name: enter the string to map to the web server.  TTL: set how many seconds will elapse before the record is refreshed in the DNS

cache.

 Data: enter the IP of the web server.

Warning: Please pay attention to $ORIGIN when you add an A record.

Adding Custom MX Records

Custom MX records should be added when you want to use your external mail servers to process your e-mail. To use your external servers instead of those you get by default, you need to disable mail service on the Domain Settings page of your control panel. To use the external mail servers in addition to those you get by default, you need to keep mail service enabled in the control panel. The priority of the custom MX record will define whether your external servers will act as secondary or primary. For instance, if you set the priority of the custom MX record higher than 10 (e.g. 11), your external mail server will be used as secondary. If you set the priority of the custom MX record lower than 10 (e.g. 9), your external mail server will be used as primary. In the latter case, your mail will be sent to your external mail server until it goes down or becomes otherwise inaccessible. Then the default mail server will take over.

When you enable mail service in the control panel, an MX record is created automatically in the DNS zone. If mail service is disabled, this built-in MX record remains in the DNS zone, and you can remove it manually using the control panel interface.

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 Name: your local domain name. If you leave the Name field blank, all mail will be

redirected for the base zone.

 Data: the priority of the record and mail domain name (not the IP) mail will be

forwarded to.

Important: To add an MX record for the base domain, leave the Name field empty.

Adding Custom CNAME Records

Finally, CNAME records are used to map aliases with domain names.

 Name: The alias you give to the real host name.  TTL: set how many seconds will elapse before the record is refreshed in the DNS

cache.

 Data: The real name of the host you create an alias to. This must be an official host

name. It cannot be an alias. A CNAME-record should always point to an A-record to avoid circular references.

Warning: Please pay attention to $ORIGIN when you add a CNAME record.

Your account comes with a comprehensive suite of Web tools that will help you create

In this chapter:

Parallels SiteStudio ........................................................................................... 45

Parallels Plesk Sitebuilder ................................................................................. 46

C H A P T E R 7

Web Site Creation and Publishing

a professional Web site without knowing HTML, manage files in your home directory and protect any directory on your site.

Parallels SiteStudio

Before you pay a fortune to a Web design studio or waste hours making a nice-looking web site in FrontPage, consider our online site builder Parallels SiteStudio that will create you a professional Web site in a matter of minutes and post it to your directory on the server.

Note: In Parallels H-Sphere 3.3 or higher we recommend migrating from SiteStudio to Parallels Sitebuilder (on page 46).

 To start SiteStudio:

1. Go to Domain Settings > Web Options menu for chosen domain.

2. Click Login in the SiteStudio section to launch Parallels SiteStudio control

panel in a new window.

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Parallels Plesk Sitebuilder

Parallels Sitebuilder is a powerful tool designed by Parallels for creating and publishing your Web sites even without having proper skills in Web design.

 To enable and configure Parallels Sitebuilder in your control panel:

1. Go to Domain Settings > Web Options for your domain.

2. Find the Sitebuilder Site field and click the red square icon to enable

Parallels Sitebuilder for your domain.

3. Pass through the Parallels Sitebuilder setup wizard. You will be prompted to configure which Parallels Sitebuilder plan will be used for your Parallels Sitebuilder resource. For this, click the pencil icon next to the Sitebuilder plan field. On the page that appears you will see the plan currently used for your Parallels Sitebuilder resource and the list of available plans. To get acquainted with plan details, click the magnifier icon next to a respective plan. To choose or change the current plan, choose one from the drop-down menu and click Submit.

Alternatively, these settings are available from the Domain Settings > Sitebuilder menu.

4. Parallels H-Sphere users who already have Parallels SiteStudio may test Parallels Sitebuilder without charge during the trial period set by their Parallels H-Sphere administrators. Otherwise, users who enable Parallels Sitebuilder will be charged immediately after they go through the setup wizard.

During the trial period, a user may click a respective icon to accept or reject the Parallels Sitebuilder resource before the end of the trial period.

5. Once Parallels Sitebuilder is enabled, you will see some other controls next to the Sitebuilder Site field. Click the Sitebuilder setup page icon to log into your Parallels Sitebuilder control panel ( http://IP:8080/ by default). Here you can change the look of your site .

6. To view a new site's design, click the magnifier icon next to the Sitebuilder Site field. The site will open in a new window. Build your site and click Publish to upload it to the Web.

 To migrate existing sites from Parallels SiteStudio to Parallels Sitebuilder:

1. Go to Domain Settings > Web Options for your domain.

2. If you already have Parallels SiteStudio (on page 45) enabled for this

domain, you will see the migrate icon next to the Sitebuilder Site field. Just click this icon and confirm to start the migration process and make your site available in the Parallels Sitebuilder control panel.

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3. After the migration is over, you will be brought back to the Web Options page.

4. Now your site available in the Parallels Sitebuilder control pane l. You may click the respective icon next to the Sitebuilder Site field to log into Parallels Sitebuilder, edit and publish your site migrated from Parallels SiteStudio.

This chapter introduces you to the tools that enhance your site navigation.

In this chapter:

Redirect URL ..................................................................................................... 49

Directory Indexes .............................................................................................. 52

Error Pages ....................................................................................................... 53

Server Side Image Map ..................................................................................... 55

MIME Types ...................................................................................................... 55

WAP Support .................................................................................................... 56

Reverse Traceroute ........................................................................................... 56

C H A P T E R 8

Web Site Navigation

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Redirect URL

Use this feature to redirect your visitors from one web page to another or even to a different Web site.

 To create a redirect in a Unix-based account:

1. Go to Domain Setting > Web Options for the domain you need.

2. Scroll down to find the Redirect option and click the Add icon next to it.

3. Agree with the charges.

4. On the page that appears, create the redirect rule.

Unix-based accounts

Entering http://www.examples.com/products into the Redirect from field and http://www.examples.com?param1=yes in the to field, will take all the http://www.examples.com/products visitors to the http://www.examples.com?param1=yes page.

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If you leave the Redirect from field empty, visitors will be redirected from any location in the site. In the to field, you can enter URLs with parameters, as illustrated in the screenshot above.

Leave Redirect status as is unless you want to change the default:

 Permanent: returns a permanent redirect status (301) indicating that the resource

has moved permanently.

 Temporary: returns a temporary redirect status (302). This is the default and

indicates to the client that the resource has moved temporarily.

 See other: returns a "See Other" status (303) indicating that the resource has been

replaced.

 Gone: will cause a visitor's browser display "The requested resource is no longer

available on this server and there is no forwarding address. Please remove all references to this resource." message when trying to go to the 'to' URL.

Windows-based accounts

In Windows plans, redirect works in a slightly different manner:

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 The exact URL entered above

redirects requests for any files in the indicated directory to one file. For example, to redirect all requests for products.html file to the following URL: 'www.example.net', enter www.example.net/products.html in the To field and select this option. You can redirect requests to URLs with parameters, for example www.examples.net/?param1=yes *Note: you can redirect requests for files and directories both to your own site and to any other external URL.

 A directory below this one

redirects a parent directory to a child directory.

- For example, to redirect your 'examples.net/products' directory to a subdirectory named 'news', enter 'excample.net/products/news' in the 'to' text box and select this option. Without this option, the Web server will continually map the parent to itself.

 A permanent redirection for this resource

sends the following message to the client: '301 Permanent Redirect'. Redirects are considered temporary, and the client browser receives the following message: '302 Temporary Redirect'. Some browsers can use the '301 Permanent Redirect' message as the signal to permanently change a URL, such as a bookmark.

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Directory Indexes

This tool allows you to set your own index pages instead of those specified in the default settings. In other words, you can tell your visitors' browsers which page to load as they hit your domain. Usually, it's /index.html by default, but you can set any other custom welcome page.

Example: If a visitor goes to your site http://www.example.com, the first page to open will be http://www.example.com/index.html. However, if you set /welcome.html as the directory index, the page to open will be http://www.example.com/welcome.html.

Warning: your custom index pages won't add to the defaults; they will replace them. Therefore, make sure to enter the full list of indexes you would like to have in your configuration.

 To set your custom directory indexes:

1. Go to Domain Setting > Web Options for the domain you need.

2. Scroll down to find the Directory Indexes option and click to enable it.

Agree with the charges if any.

3. In the box that appears, enter the names for files that will be treated as indexes. Put file names in the descending order of priority and separate them with spaces (for example, index.html cgi.bin about.html).

4. Skip this step if you are using a Windows-based plan. At the top of the Web Service page, click the Apply link for the Server configuration to change. The changes will take effect within 15 minutes.

5. To edit the list you have made, click the Edit icon next to the Directory Indexes option: with spaces (index.html cgi.bin about.html).

If you are using a Unix-based plan, click the Apply link at the top of the Web Service page.

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Error Pages

Successful Client Requests

200 OK 201 Created 202 Accepted 203 Non-Authoritative Information 204 No Content 205 Reset Content 206 Partial Content

Client Request Redirected

300 Multiple Choices 301 Moved Permanently 302 Moved Temporarily 303 See Other 304 Not Modified 305 Use Proxy

Client Request Errors

400 Bad Request 401 Authorization Required 402 Payment Required (not used yet) 403 Forbidden 404 Not Found 405 Method Not Allowed 406 Not Acceptable (encoding) 407 Proxy Authentication Required 408 Request Timed Out 409 Conflicting Request 410 Gone 411 Content Length Required 412 Precondition Failed 413 Request Entity Too Long 414 Request URI Too Long 415 Unsupported Media Type

Server Errors

500 Internal Server Error 501 Not Implemented 502 Bad Gateway 503 Service Unavailable 504 Gateway Timeout 505 HTTP Version Not Supported

Use this utility to define what will be done if a requested page on your site is missing or fails to open for any other reason. In order to specify your own Error Documents, you need to be slightly familiar with the server returned error codes:

 To configure Error Pages:

1. Go to Domain Setting > Web Options for the domain you need.

2. Scroll down to find the Error option and click the Add icon on its right.

3. In the form that appears, enter the error document settings:

 For Unix accounts:

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 Error Document Code: choose the one you need from the drop-down box.  Message or URL: the path to the page with ERROR message

IMPORTANT: if ErrorDocument 401 is chosen in Error Document Code, the path must be relative to the local user's site home root

 Type: Specify if the text in the previous field must be treated as a URL (Redirect) or

as a text message (Message).

For Windows accounts:

Users will get a slightly different form to enter the path to the custom error page. Note that the path should be relative to the home directory, not to the virtual host directory.

If you check FILE:

 only static error page files can be used;  the same error page files for this domain can be shared with other account

domains.

For instance, with the following file path, all account domains will share this error page: pages\404_error.html

 use the "\" character as a delimiter in the file path;  do not start the file path with "\".

If you check URL:

 it will allow you to use scripts (php/ASP) to dynamically generate error pages

(alternatively, use static error page files for each type of error page);

 error page files for this domain can't be shared with other domains;  "Path to Custom Error page" must be relative to the virtual host and start with "/".

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Server Side Image Map

This feature allows your server to regard files with a specific extension as map files. In other words, the server checks the file with the specified extension to define the links of an image (unlike a client-side image map, which uses the information inserted into the HTML code) and reports back to the browser where to go.

 To add an image map file extension:

1. Go to Domain Setting > Web Options for the domain you need.

2. Scroll down to find the Server Side Imagemap option and click the Add icon

on its right.

3. Agree with the charges.

4. Enter the file extension beginning with a dot:

MIME Types

This utility allows defining file formats that are not defined in web browsers. This enables the browser to display or output files that are not in HTML format, just like it displays simple text files, .gif graphics files and PostScript files.

 To add a definition for your own file format:

1. Go to Domain Setting > Web Options for the domain you need.

2. Scroll down to find the MIME Type option and click the Add icon on its

right.

3. Agree with the charges.

4. On the page that appears, enter the extension for this file type:

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5. Begin file extension with a dot. The MIME type must comply with MIME

Content

MIME Type

File Extension

WML Source

text/vnd.wap.wml

.wml

Compiled WML

application/vnd.wap.wmlc

.wmlc

WMLScript source

text/vnd.wap.wmlscript

.wmls

Compiled WMLScript

application/vnd.wap.wmlscriptc

.wmlsc

Wireless Bitmap

image/vnd.wap.wbmp

.wbmp

type specifications, for example, text/rtf or video/mpeg.

WAP Support

WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) is a secure specification that allows users to access

information instantly via handheld wireless devices such as mobile phones, pagers, two-way radios, smartphones and communicators. Although WAP supports HTML and XML, the WML language (an XML application) is specifically devised for small screens and one-hand navigation without a keyboard. WAP also supports WMLScript.

To add support for WML or WMLScript, add the following MIME Types (on page 55):

Reverse Traceroute

This net troubleshooting tool allows you to ping any Internet host from your hosting server. In other words, you can use this tool to determine if a host is reachable and how long it takes for the signal to go all the way through.

 To launch the Reverse Traceroute tool, do the following:

1. Select Trace Route link in the Domain Settings menu.

2. In the form that appears, enter the host name or the IP address of the

server you would like to ping:

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3. Select the time-out period. If you see the connection is slow, select a bigger period.

4. Click Trace and wait for the result. The next page will show all the hosts that were passed to reach the target server.

After signup users are provided with FTP access to their home directory. To establish

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FTP Management

an FTP connection, you will need the following pieces of information: FTP login, FTP password, and FTP host name.

To find this information, select FTP User link in FTP/User Account menu.

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 Login is the login to be used to enter a user directory via FTP. It is automatically

In this chapter:

WebShell File Manager and htProtect ............................................................... 60

FTP Subaccounts .............................................................................................. 61

Virtual FTP ........................................................................................................ 62

Anonymous FTP................................................................................................ 65

Anonymous FTP Upload Facilities ..................................................................... 67

generated on the basis of the account name. Note: instead of using an FTP client, you may choose here Parallels H-Sphere builtin Web-based file manager WebShell (on page 60) by clicking the File Manager (HtProtect) link.

 Password is by default the password associated with your username. If necessary,

you can change (on page 18) and hence make it different from you control panel password.

 Host Name is a web server domain name to be used to access files via FTP.

There are different ways to allow guest users to download, upload or view files in dedicated directories of your account:

 FTP subaccounts  Virtual FTP  Anonymous FTP

They will be described later in this chapter.

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WebShell File Manager and htProtect

WebShell allows you to copy, move, delete, and rename files and directories in your home directory on the server. Also, you can use it to upload, download, compress and decompress files as well as preview them in the browser.

htProtect utility is integrated into WebShell. Protect utility allows you to password-protect any directory on your site so only authorized visitors can open its content with their browsers.

 You can launch WebShell in two different ways:

 From the Quick Access page, click File Manager under the Tools section.  Go to FTP/User account>FTP User menu of your Control Panel and click the File

Manager (HtProtect) link on the page that appears.

WebShell and htProtect manuals are available from the WebShell interface, Help button.

WARNING (For Windows-based accounts): When you want to password protect a folder in WebShell that is accompanied with creating a user, authentication problem can arise as WebShell will not check whether system account with the same user name exists. There are two ways to prevent this problem:

- Create a user in WebShell based on the name of your own FTP account. For

example, FTP account name is mike. Then user name in Webshell can be mikeNNNN, where NNNN are some other symbols.

- If you want to protect a folder using your own FTP account name, you should set the

same password in Webshell as for FTP account.

Make sure you are logged off Webshell before browsing untrusted sites from the same browser window.

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FTP Subaccounts

The simplest way to authorize your friends or colleagues to work with particular directories of your account is to create FTP subaccounts. An FTP subaccount is a combination of a username and a password, which gives full FTP permissions to a single directory, without giving access to the root directory, other directories or the control panel. No dedicated IP is required for FTP subaccounts. Although each FTP subaccount has a login which is different from yours, both have the same ID in the system.

 To create a new FTP subaccount:

1. Select FTP User link in FTP/User Account menu.

2. At the bottom of the page that shows, find FTP sub-accounts (or System

accounts in Parallels H-Sphere 3.0 and up) and click the Add icon.

3. On the next page, enter the FTP login and password that will be used by this other user, and the directory this user will be restricted to. The directory must be relative to your home directory. If you leave the directory field empty, FTP sub-users will have access to your whole home directory.

Notes:

 FTP subaccount's directory can be multi-level nested subdirectory relative to

your home directory.

 For Windows accounts you must use the "\" character as a delimiter in the path.

 You must not add the leading slash (domain.com/dir/subdir for Unix,

domain.com\dir\subdir for Windows).

4. In Parallels H-Sphere 3.0+, when creating FTP subaccounts you can also make the FTP subuser being set up a SharePoint user. For this, on the first step check Allow sharepoint access as well and enter SharePoint settings (on page 220).

FTP subaccount traffic is a part of the Total/Summary traffic (on page 141), but you can always see how much FTP traffic has been run up by an individual FTP subaccount by going to the FTP Manager page and clicking the Edit icon next to the subaccount login.

Important: Windows FTP-subaccounts work only if Webshell (on page 60) version is

4.3.2 and up.

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Virtual FTP

Only for Unix-based accounts

Virtual FTP provides ampler possibilities than FTP sub-accounts. You can give your authorized Virtual FTP users access to more than one directory and specify a different set of permissions for each directory. Virtual FTP users log right into your root, but can enter only those directories you allow them to enter.

To provide Virtual FTP Access to a certain domain, do the following:

1. If you are using a dedicated IP, skip this step. Otherwise, switch to dedicated IP (on page 27).

2. Select FTP in FTP/User Account menu.

3. Enable FTP for this domain:

4. If you have several domains, choose the one to enable virtual FTP for.

5. Click the confirmation link to agree with the charges.

6. Fill the form that appears:

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 Add Name of the Server for the new virtual host. This name will appear in the

welcome message when guest users connect to your server with FTP clients.

 Enter E-mail of the administrator by which FTP users can reach you with questions

or comments.

7. Create a new Virtual FTP User by going to the FTP Host page and clicking Add for Virtual ftp-users

8. Click the Add icon for Virtual FTP Directories and enter the name for the new Virtual FTP Directory:

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End it with a slash, for example: Dir1/. The location must be specified relative to root.

To create a virtual FTP directory inside a different directory, include the path, for example, UserDirs/Dir1/.

On the same page, specify permissions to this directory:

 Read: check to allow file downloads from this directory.

 Write: check to allow file uploads to this directory. List: check to allow viewing /

browsing the contents of the directory. It is usually used jointly with Read.

 Grant Permissions to all users: check to grant these permissions to all your Virtual

FTP users. If you leave this property unchecked, you will have to define permissions on this directory individually for each Virtual FTP User.

9. Click the Edit icon next to the directory you have just created. If you haven't granted the same permissions to all your Virtual FTP Users, you can specify permissions for each of them individually:

If you have chosen to grant the same permissions to all users, you can skip this step.

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Anonymous FTP

This feature allows you to give public FTP access to a dedicated directory in your account. A special directory is created in your root, and its content can be viewed and downloaded, and for Windows-based accounts uploaded as well.

Note: In Unix-based accounts Anonymous FTP becomes available only after you create a Virtual FTP server.

 To configure Anonymous FTP:

1. Select FTP in FTP/User Account menu.

2. If you have several domains, choose the one to enable virtual FTP for.

On the page that appears, switch to dedicated IP. ( Read more about Shared and Dedicated IPs (on page 27).)

Skip this step if you have already enabled Virtual FTP.

3. For Unix-based accounts, select FTP in FTP/User Account menu. Enable FTP for this domain and agree with the charges:

4. On your control panel home page, select FTP in FTP/User Account menu. Enable Anonymous FTP for this domain:

in Unix:

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in Windows:

5. Agree with the charges if any.

6. For Windows-based accounts, set the new FTP virtual host:

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Anonymous FTP Upload Facilities

Only for Unix-based accounts

If you want to allow anonymous FTP users to upload files, enable Anonymous FTP Upload Facilities by doing the following:

1. Enable Anonymous FTP (on page 58).

2. At the bottom of the FTP vhost page you will find a new option to enable

anonymous FTP upload facilities:

3. Turn it on. This will create a dedicated directory inside the Anonymous FTP directory.

4. The Uploads (Windows-based plans) / Incoming (Unix-based plans) directory has only the 'upload' permissions, so it will allow neither downloading nor viewing its content.

SSH is a secure form of Telnet connection, using an RSA key. It is a more powerful

In this chapter:

Accessing Your SSH Account ........................................................................... 69

Running Shell Scripts With Crontab................................................................... 70

C H A P T E R 10

SSH Access to Server

means of access than FTP, as it provides a command line interface for running scripts, etc.

At the same time, SSH allows more possibilities for error, and actions which may cause harm to the server. Therefore, SSH access is a privilege to an account. It can be revoked at any time if user's activities appear detrimental to the health of the server.

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Accessing Your SSH Account

 To request shell access to the server:

1. Select FTP User in the FTP menu.

2. Enable Shell Access and administrator will receive the request on his

control panel.

3. Agree with charges, if any.

4. Click the Request Status link that appeared to learn if your request has

been processed by administrator. Depending on the request status, the Request status will show up as not reviewed by administrator or granted by administrator.

5. If shell access is granted by administrator, it turns ON and opens you access to the server.

Important: Parallels H-Sphere 3.1+ users with SSH access enabled will be automatically limited to their home directory. This is done for security reasons, in order to restrict users from running certain commands and accessing system directories. However, users will still be able to create, copy, move, rename and delete files and directories and run a variety of utilities and file managers:

 Utilities: cat, echo, ln, mkdir, ps, rm, sh, cp, date, kill, ls,

mv, pwd, rmdir, sleep, md5/md5sum, ping, awk, diff, find, id, sed, tar, whereis, basename, dirname, grep, ldd, sort, touch,

which, cut, du, head, more, tail, vi, whoami, clear.

 File managers: mc, ytree, vifm, deco.

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Running Shell Scripts With Crontab

Crontab allows you to clock and run your own Unix shell scripts automatically. It is available only in Unix-based plans and requires the knowledge of Unix shell commands.

 To enable crontab jobs:

1. Select FTP User in the FTP menu.

2. Enable Crontab.

3. Agree with charges, if any.

4. Click the Edit icon for Crontab.

5. On the page that appears, add the crontab job.

 Commands are executed by cron when the minute, hour, day and month fields

match the current time, and when at least one of the two day fields (day of month, or day of week) match the current time. If you want to set any minute, hour, day, enter * symbol.

 In the Command box write a command to be executed by cron, i.e. path relative

to your root home directory.

 The Mail-To address is where the system will direct reports if errors occur.

To delete a job, check the box in the Delete section and click Submit Query.

This document explains how to add support for dynamic Web pages, such as CGI,

In this chapter:

CGI Scripts ........................................................................................................ 71

PHP ................................................................................................................... 72

ColdFusion ........................................................................................................ 73

Ruby on Rails .................................................................................................... 73

ASP ................................................................................................................... 74

ASP.NET ........................................................................................................... 74

Server Side Includes ......................................................................................... 75

PHP/MySQL Applications .................................................................................. 76

Preinstalled CGI Scripts: phpBB and mnoGoSearch ......................................... 77

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Dynamic Web Content

PHP, ColdFusion, or ASP scripts.

CGI Scripts

To add CGI support, it will suffice to create a CGI alias or, in other words, to specify a CGI file extension and a CGI handler for it, for instance Perl. For example, you can specify that all *.cgi files must be treated as executable Perl scripts.

 To add a CGI alias:

1. Select Domain info in the Domain Settings menu.

2. Click the Edit icon in the Web Service field.

3. On the Web Service page that shows, scroll down to find the CGI-dir option

and turn it on. Now all files in the cgi-bin directory will be treated as CGI executables. This is the directory to place all your cgi scripts.

4. On the Web Service page, scroll down to find the CGI option and click the Add icon on its right.

5. Enter an extension beginning with a dot and select the handler from the list.

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PHP

You can add support to your own PHP scripts. Currently, we support 4.x and 5.x.

 To add PHP support, do the following:

1. Select Domain info in the Domain Settings menu.

2. Click the Edit icon in the Web Service field.

3. On the Web Service page, scroll down to find the PHP option and turn it on.

4. If you wish to have the different PHP version than the default one set by

the administrator. Choose the PHP version from the drop-down box if you wish to have the different version than the default one set by the administrator. Agree with the charges.

5. Skip this step if you are using a Windows-based plan. At the top of the Web Service page, click the Apply link for the Server configuration to change. The changes will take effect within 15 minutes.

6. On the Web Service page, click the Add icon that has appeared next to the PHP option.

7. On the page that appears, enter an extension for your PHP pages beginning with a dot, for instance .php4. Select the MIME type from the list.

8. Skip this step if you are using a Windows-based plan. At the top of the Web Service page, click the Apply link for the Server configuration to change. The changes will take effect within 15 minutes.

9. Starting with version 3.1, you can have more options to choose for PHP 4 and PHP 5. For this, first disable the PHP resource on the Web Service page and then enable the Advanced PHP resource below. You can choose between the following modes, if enabled by your administrator:

 libphp - PHP runs as an Apache module. The advantage is that PHP is always in

memory use which results in a higher speed capability and lower server load.

 cgi - PHP runs as a CGI script in a separate process which starts with each

request and completes its work upon the script execution. This provides a simpler and more secure PHP work, but draws excessive memory usage and higher memory load.

 fastcgi - PHP also runs as a CGI script, but under a single process which does

not stop when the script is executed. This allows to minimize server load while running PHP in CGI mode.

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ColdFusion

 To add ColdFusion support in a Windows-based account:

1. Select Domain info in the Domain Settings menu.

2. Click the Edit icon in the Web Service field.

3. On the Web Service page, scroll down to find the ColdFusion option and

turn it on.

4. Agree with the charges.

5. If you need to add custom file extensions to be handled by ColdFusion,

click the Add icon that has appeared next to the PHP option.

6. On the page that appears, enter an extension for your PHP pages beginning with a dot.

Note: If your account wasn't created from the control panel, default extensions won't be added when you enable ColdFusion.

Ruby on Rails

If Ruby on Rails is installed and enabled in your plan, you can switch it on for your domains.

Note: To use Ruby on Rails, it must be installed manually to a Web server by your Parallels H-Sphere administrator.

 To enable Ruby on Rails for your domain:

1. Select Domain Info in the Domain Settings menu.

2. Click the Edit icon in the Web Service field.

3. On the Web Service page, scroll down to find the Ruby on Rails option and

turn it on.

4. You will be warned that Ruby on Rails will create its own index page on your domain instead of the existing one. Choose Yes, continue to enable Ruby on Rails.

5. After you enabled Ruby on Rails, your domain's index page will the Ruby on Rails invitation.

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ASP

 To add support for ASP (Active Server Pages) in a Windows-based

account:

1. Select Domain info in the Domain Settings menu.

2. Click the Edit icon in the Web Service field.

3. On the Web Service page, scroll down to find the ASP option and turn it on.

4. Agree with the charges.

ASP.NET

 To add support for ASP.NET in a Windows-based account:

1. Select Domain info in the Domain Settings menu.

2. Click the Edit icon in the Web Service field.

3. On the Web Service page, scroll down to find the ASP.NET option and turn

it on.

4. In Windows 2003-based accounts, choose the ASP.NET version from the drop-down box. In Windows 2008-based accounts, choose application pool with appropriate ASP.NET version.

5. Agree with the charges, if any.

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Server Side Includes

You can add your own SSI aliases or, in other words, specify SSI file name extensions. For example, you can specify that all *.ssi files must be treated as server side includes.

To add an SSI alias, do the following:

1. Select Domain info in the Domain Settings menu.

2. Click the Edit icon in the Web Service field.

3. On the Web Service page, scroll down to find the SSI option and click the

Add icon on its right.

4. Agree with the charges, if any.

In the window that appears, enter your SSI file extension beginning with a dot:

Skip this step if you are using a Windows-based plan. At the top of the Web Service page, click the Apply link for the Server configuration to change. The changes will take effect within 15 minutes.

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PHP/MySQL Applications

A pack of over 30 PHP/MySQL third-party Web applications is supplied with Parallels H-Sphere. If your hosting provider enabled it in your plans, you can install these applications on your domains. If your hosting provider enabled it in your plans, you can install these applications on your domains.

 To install an application:

1. Select EasyApp in the Domain Settings menu.

2. On the page EasyApps Collection that shows, you will see the list of

applications that can be installed. Press on the title of application you want to install.

3. you will find yourself at a page with its description (outline, homepage, diskspace etc.) and a link to install it. Click Install.

4. Fill in the necessary data on the form that appears:

 Domain. Choose a domain, if you have more than one, to install the application

on.

 Path. Location of the application, when you have installed it, in relation to the

domain's root directory.

 User name. Name of the application's administrator.

 Password. Password of the administrator.

 E-mail. Electronic address to send notifications to, which will be written in the

application configuration file.

5. In rare cases, such as with Advanced Poll etc., you will be redirected to the original installation page. In case of more extensive data to fill in, refer to the application's documentation.

6. Press Submit Query.

7. Agree with the additional charges for MySQL-related resources that will

be needed for the application to work.

8. After the application is installed, you will find it on the page with its description under Installed Applications. Press the Edit button to change its settings.

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Preinstalled CGI Scripts: phpBB and mnoGoSearch

Owners of Unix accounts can use simple CGI wizards to enhance their sites with the following scripts:

 phpBB (requires MySQL).  mnogosearch

All CGI scripts for a particular site are stored in the cgi-bin directory, unless specified otherwise. If you accidentally delete any files in the cgi-bin directory, you can recover them by going to the Web Options page and clicking the Restore to default link. Your existing files remain untouched, so you will not lose your changes. To get rid of

undesirable changes in the script files, delete these files and then click the Restore to default link on the Web Options page. Also, use the Restore to default link to fix your temporary index page to default.

See the Contents of Home Directory (on page 13) for more information on the files and catalogues not to be deleted.

phpBB Forum

phpBB is a high powered, fully scalable, and highly customizable bulletin board package. phpBB has a user-friendly interface, simple and straightforward administration panel, and helpful FAQ.

phpBB Key Features:

 Unlimited forums and posts  Multiple language interface  Private or public forums  Powerful search utility  Private messaging system  Complete customization with templates

phpBB files are stored in a separate directory for each of your sites.

 To add phpBB forum to your site:

1. Select Domain Info in the Domain Settings menu.

2. Click the Edit icon in the Web Service field.

3. On the Web Service page, scroll down to find the phpBB option and turn it

on.

4. Agree with charges, if any.

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5. Go through the installation wizard. You will be prompted to select from the existing MySQL databases to use with phpBB or create a new one.

Warning: Assigning a previously created MySQL database to be used for phpBB needs, you will remove contents of all its tables.

6. Choose or create a MySQL user to access and manage MySQL database you have allocated for use with phpBB.

7. Click the Setup icon to install the script. You will be taken to the phpBB administrator control panel, where you can start configuring the forum to your liking.

8. If you are taken to the setup page again, click the Fix button. This will reset the config.php script which contains settings to access the phpBB MySQL database.

mnoGoSearch

If you are running a Unix-based account, you can enhance your site with , a utility that searches your site by keywords.

 To enable mnoGoSearch:

1. Select Domain Info in the Domain Settings menu.

2. Click the Edit icon in the Web Service field.

3. On the Web Service page, scroll down to find the mnoGoSearch option and

turn it on.

4. Agree with charges, if any.

5. Go through the wizard. you will be prompted to select from the existing

MySQL databases or create a new one to be used by mnoGoSearch.

Warning: Assigning a previously created MySQL database to be used for mnoGoSearch needs, you will remove contents of all its tables.

6. Choose or create a MySQL user to access and manage MySQL database you have allocated for use with mnoGoSearch.

7. Go to your search page by clicking the View icon. To make it available to the Internet users, put a link to your mnoGoSearch page on your site's pages.

Note: It will take some time to index your site pages and get your search

working.

Parallels H-Sphere supports adding mnoGoSearch URLs directly from your Control Panel. This will improve the process of your site indexing, and therefore the search results.

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 To add a mnoGoSearch URL:

1. Select Domain Info in the Domain Settings menu.

2. Click the Edit icon in the Web Service field.

3. On the Web Service page, scroll down to find the mnoGoSearch option. Click

the Add URL icon. you will be prompted to enter the URL you want to add.

4. The URL will appear on the Web Services page, in the mnoGoSearch section:

You can extend your mnoGoSearch capabilities (for example, set local charset) by editing the indexer.conf file. To learn how to work with indexer.conf, refer to

indexer.conf-dist which can be found in the /account/fe_mnogosearch/domain/ directory.

Note: If you mishandle anything, you can always restore mnoGoSearch configuration to the default by clicking the Edit icon, but all your custom settings will be lost.

Fixing Broken Scripts

If you have accidentally deleted any of your CGI scripts and/or the index page (index.html), you can restore them to default. To get rid of any undesirable changes in you CGI scripts and go back to the default settings, delete the unnecessary files and restore the scripts.

 To fix/restore the scripts:

1. Select Domain Info in the Domain Settings menu.

2. Click the Edit icon in the Web Service field.

3. On the Web Service page, click the Restore to default link.

Parallels H-Sphere has an advanced mail system that is easy to manage.

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Mail Resources

Click the Mail Info menu to manage your account mail services from the Mail controls page:

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 Mail domains: a mail domain whose mail resources you can manage and view on the

mail domain controls page. To manage mail resources on your other domains, choose it from the drop- down list and click Go.

 Incoming POP3 Server and Outgoing (SMTP) Server: to deliver mail from and to your mail

resources.

 Login: sign into your mailbox or change its password from outside your control

panel.

 Change Mailbox Password Link: change mailbox password without logging into

Parallels H- Sphere control panel.

 Mail traffic: traffic run up by incoming and outgoing mail on the mail domain it is

displayed for. Mind that it also includes traffic generated by incoming spam (on page 109) or virus (on page 115) messages the system deletes.

 Mail relay: switch ON the option to ensure incoming mail is kept on the mail relay

server, if your primary mail server goes down.

 AntiSpam: this resource filters and deletes incoming spam messages. Antispam (on

page 109) can be added for all mailboxes or for all mail resources.

 AntiVirus: this resource checks incoming mail for viruses. Antivirus (on page 115)

can be added for all mailboxes or for all mail resources.

 SPF: determines rules to be used by your corresponding mail servers to check

whether e-mails received from your mail domain are forgery or not.

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 Mail domain aliases: aliases of your mail domain (on page 99)

In this chapter:

Mailboxes .......................................................................................................... 83

Mail Forwards .................................................................................................... 86

Autoresponders ................................................................................................. 87

Mailing Lists....................................................................................................... 90

Maildomain Aliases............................................................................................ 99

Mailbox Aliases ................................................................................................. 101

Mail SMS ........................................................................................................... 103

Mail Under Service Domain For Third-Level Hosting ......................................... 106

AntiSpam Protection .......................................................................................... 109

AntiVirus Protection ........................................................................................... 115

E-Mail Forgery SPF ........................................................................................... 118

Outlook Express Mail ......................................................................................... 120

Eudora Mail Client ............................................................................................. 130

 New E-mail Setup Functions: links to create new mail resources (on page 80).  [A] ... [Z] first-letter navigation links to the rest of your mail resources (based on

alphabetical sorting)

 [Prev] [1] [2] ... [Next] navigation links to the rest of your mail resources. Appear if

there are more than 10 mail resources on the maildomain)

 E-mail: e-mail address of mail resources on the mail domain.  Resources included: mail resources working on this e-mail address.  Properties: properties of mail resources working on this e-mail address:

 - mailbox quota usage

 - sign in the mailbox

 - Catch All. This property is set on a mailbox level to catch all mail sent to

non-existent mail addresses at this domain. It can be enabled only for one mailbox per domain. It can't be enabled on other mail objects like mail alias, forward, responder.

 - discard all incoming email

 - add subscribers/moderators/trailer to a mailing list

 - delete all mail resources working on the e-mail address

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Mailboxes

Mailboxes are used to send and receive e-mails via client based mail software and can store mail on the hosting mail server.

Webmaster and postmaster mailboxes are obligatory created on each mail domain.

 To create mailboxes:

1. Click New E-mail in the E-mail Setup Functions section and fill in the configuration page:

2. Enter mailbox name into the Email address box.

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3. Check AntiSpam/AntiVirus to enable antispam filtering and antivirus protection for your mailbox.

4. Check the box next to MAILBOX and configure:

 Password: an alphanumeric combination that authenticates logging into the

mailbox. It is required when you are logging into the mailbox outside your control panel or when you configure an external mail client to access your mailbox.

 Comment: enter description to help identify the mailbox.

 Catch All: This property is set for a mailbox resource to catch all mail sent to non-

existent mail addresses at this domain. It can be enabled only for one mailbox per domain. Catch All can't be set for postmaster or any other mail resource but mailbox.

 Discard All Incoming Mail: If you don't need ALL your incoming mail, you can

configure your mailbox to discard all incoming mail. In this case senders won't receive 'undelivered mail' notifications.

 Alias by: use this option for mass creation of mail aliases. Enter alias names

(without the @ part) separated by ',' or ';' or 'SPACE'.

5. Click Submit at the bottom of the form and agree with the charges, if any.

 To remove a mailbox with preserving other services running on this e-mail

address:

1. Click the mailbox e-mail address in the E-mail list on the Mail Manager page.

2. Uncheck MAILBOX and click Submit.

Note: Postmaster mailbox can't be deleted.

 To remove a mailbox with other mail services running on this e-mail

address:

1. Go to the Mail Manager page

2. Click the Trash icon next to the target mailbox

Note: If Catch All is enabled for a mailbox, it can't be deleted. To delete a Catch All

mailbox, first switch Catch All OFF or switch it to another mailbox.

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Mailbox Storage Quota

Mailbox quota defines how many megabytes of mail you can store in your mailbox. You can't store more than allowed by the mailbox quota. It's not included into the site disk space quota. If your hosting plan allows, you can increase the initial free mailbox quota.

 To increase mailbox quota:

1. On the Mail Manager page click the MB link in the mailbox Properties section:

2. Enter new quota size in megabytes and click Submit.

From this moment on, you will be charged for the difference between this new amount and the free amount your hosting plan grants. This charge will be added to the recurrent fee at the beginning of each billing period.

Note: You cannot change quota for the postmaster mailbox.

Signing into a Mailbox

To send and receive mail from your mailbox you should sign in.

On the Mail Manager page click the Launch Webmail icon:

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Provided you signed up for a Unix/Linux plan, you can also sign into your mailbox from outside your control panel by entering http://YOUR_WEB_SERVER_IP in the Address field of your browser and clicking the IMP-mail client link on the page you are taken to.

Postmaster and Webmaster

You get Postmaster mailbox for free. Webmaster is a regular mailbox and it counts towards your total mailboxes. This means, if you get 0 free mailboxes, you pay for the Webmaster box, but you don't pay for Postmaster.

When postmaster and webmaster mailboxes are created:

 Catch All is disabled by default. You can enable it entirely in the Globals menu  Forward (on page 86) is disabled by default  Option Discard all incoming mail is enabled by default  You can't change quota for the postmaster mailbox  Postmaster mailbox can't be deleted

Mail Forwards

Mail forwards redirect all mail sent to the mail forward e-mail address to other e-mail addresses.

Important: Mail forward cannot be set with Catch All as postmaster.

 To create a new mail forward:

1. Click New E-mail on the Mail Manager page:

2. On the configuration page, that you will be taken to, enter the mail

forward name in the Email address field.

3. Check the box next to MAIL FORWARD.

4. Enter destination e-mail addresses separated with ',' or ';' or 'ENTER' or

'TAB' or 'SPACE':

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5. Click Submit and agree with the charges, if any.

6. To add e-mail addresses to the list of destination addresses, repeat the

last three steps.

To remove e-mail addresses from the list of destination addresses, check the Delete box next to the target e-mail addressed and click Submit.

 To remove a mail forward with preserving other services running on this e-

mail address:

1. Click the mail forward e-mail address in the E-mail list on the Mail Manager page.

2. Uncheck the Mail Forward box and click Submit.

 To remove a mail forward with other mail services running on this e-mail

address:

1. Go to the Mail Manager page

2. Click the Trash icon next to the target mail forward

Autoresponders

Autoresponder automatically sends a preset message in reply to all mail sent to the autoresponder's e-mail address. They don't store the incoming mail as mailboxes do, nor can they be used to send messages other than the preset autoresponse.

 To create an autoresponder:

1. Click New E-mail on the Mail Manager page or click the name of the existing mail resource:

2. If you chose New E-mail, enter the autoresponder name in the Email address field. If you choose the existing mail resource, skip to Step 4.

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3. Enable antispam (on page 109) and antivirus (on page 115) for mail SMS. For security reasons, we strongly recommend it to minimize the risk of using your Mail SMS for distributing spam.

4. Scroll down to the Autoresponder section and fill out the form:

 Check the box next to AUTORESPONDER.

 Enter the uniform response in the Message field and its title in the Subject field.

 Enter Sender Filter which restricts the range of possible sender e-mail addresses.

Autoresponder Warning:

If you get the warning, it means that administrator enabled patterns policy where Sender Filter value is obligatory.

Autoresponder appears as marked and won't work until you configure Sender Filter:

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 Include incoming message: if you want to quote the original message in the

autoresponse. If you check this option, there is a risk for your autoresponder to be used for distributing spam messages sent to it from intruders. To minimize this risk, configure antispam for the autoresponder as it is said in the item 4 above.

 Add attachments to your autoresponder, for instance your corporate logo.

5. Click the Submit button at the bottom of the form and agree with the charges, if any.

You can edit autoresponder message and its subject at any time.

Removing Autoresponder

 with preserving other services running on its e-mail address:

1. Click the autoresponder e-mail address on the Mail Manager page.

2. Uncheck the AUTORESPONDER box.

3. Click the Submit button at the bottom of the form.

 along with all mail services running on its e-mail address:

1. Go to the Mail Manager page in the Mail Info menu.

2. Click the Trash icon in the autoresponders Properites section.

To remove a Catch All autoresponder, first switch Catch All off.

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Mailing Lists

Mailing lists act similar to forwards (on page 86) with the only difference that they offer wider possibilities such as independent end user subscription, message and subscription moderation, archiving and more.

The mailing list solution available in the control panel is the popular EZMLM/IDX MAILING LIST MANAGER (http://www.ezmlm.org). For comprehensive information on EZMLM, see EZMLM FAQ (http://www.ezmlm.org/faq-0.32/index.html).

 To create a mailing list:

1. Click New Mailing List on the Mail Manager page:

2. Fill in the form that appears:

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 E-mail address: the name of the mailing list that all mail will be forwarded from to

subscribers. You can enter only a new e-mail address. If you need to use an existing address, first delete the resource that uses it.

 Comment: a comment that will help you identify this address among other mail

resources, if needed.

3. Click Submit and agree to additional charges if any.

For specific details on how to configure your mail list (on page 95), please read documentation at www.ezmlm.org (http://www.ezmlm.org/)

Managing Your Mail List Subscribers

The number of subscribers shows in brackets in the mailing list Properties column.

 To add subscribers to a mailing list:

1. Click the Subscribers icon in the Properties section.

2. Enter subscriber's email address in the Add subscriber field. To add

several subscribers at once, enter their e-mail addresses separated with line break in the Batch subscribers creation field:

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3. Click Submit.

 To remove subscribers from a mailing list:

1. Click the Subscribers icon in the Properties section.

2. Click Delete next to the subscriber to delete subscribers one by one or

the Delete icon in Remove all subscribers.

Sending Messages to Mailing List Subscribers

To send a message to a mailing list, send the newsletter to the mailing list e-mail address using WebMail or any mail client such as Outlook Express.

Managing Your Mailing List Moderators

Moderators approve of message posts and requests for subscription. Individual

moderator's addresses are kept secret, even from other moderators. The total number of moderators is displayed in brackets in the mailing list Properties column.

 To add a moderator to your mailing list:

1. Click the Moderators icon in the Properties section.

2. Enter moderator's e-mail in the field:

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3. Click Add.

4. Repeat steps 1-3 if necessary

 To remove a moderator from your mailing list:

1. Click the Moderators icon in the Properties section.

2. Click the Delete icon next to the moderator

There can be several moderators, both for messages and subscription:

 Message moderators allow messages to be sent to the mail list. The message will

be passed on to the mailing list subscribers only if a moderator approves it.

 Subscription moderators allow people to join the list. If at least one subscription

moderator approves the request, the user address becomes a subscriber.

As a rule of thumb, most lists use the same addresses for both functions.

Adding Mailing List Trailer

Message trailer is a uniform text added to each message. Typically, it contains

instructions on how to unsubscribe from the list and similar information for subscribers. There can be only one trailer for all messages within one mailing list. Message trailer can edited at any moment.

 To add a message trailer:

1. Click the Trailer icon on the Mail Manager page.

2. Enter the text that will be added to each of your subscribe messages:

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3. Click Submit.

In this section:

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To remove a message trailer, delete the text and click Submit.

To remove a mailing list, click the Trash icon in the mailing list's Properties section.

Configuring Mailing Lists

You can configure mailing list by clicking the e-mail address in the E-mail list on the Mail Manager page:

Enter the e-mail address that enables mail list subscribers to report their problems or error messages sending requests to your_mailinglist- owner@domain.com. Since EZMLM can take care of virtually all requests without human intervention, the list owner may read mail only infrequently.

By default, all messages sent to a list are kept archived. This way, subscribers can later retrieve messages from the archive. For instance, subscribers haven't been following the list for a while, or they just want to see the discussion of a specific question. E.g.: retrieve one message at a time with the -get command: your_mailinglist-get.123@domain.com (get message 123) Read more on commands to access the ezmlm message archive (http://www.ezmlm.org/ezman-0.32/ezman1.html#ss1.7%20). * The archive is also used to create digests (on page 90). You can view mailing list archive from your Control Panel. For this, click on the magnifying glass above the Archived option:

This will carry you to a web interface where you can view and search for monthly archived messages received by your mailing list:

Check Not Archived to disable archiving the messages sent to the list.

You can prohibit the overall access to the archive and authorize only moderators to get at

it. Check the Digest box to set up the mailing list with a digest function. The digest is a

special kind of mailing list extension. Instead of sending separate messages, it sends out a collection of messages ordered by digest subscribers collections of messages. Digest is sent out when a predetermined time or traffic limit has been reached. Receiving digest is very convenient for users who want to follow a list, but not to participate in the discussion. Digests contain each message as it was sent out by the list. No editorials, no missing messages. If the list owner has chosen to restrict posts and archive access to subscribers, digest subscribers are automatically given the same privilege. From the subscriber point of view, the digest list for the mailing list your_mailinglist@domain.com is called your_mailinglist- digest@domain.com. You use the same commands to work with digest as you do when you work with the main list. The only difference is that you use your commands with 'digest' indication.

Check "No prefix" to prohibit adding prefix to the subject line of each message that does not already contain it. If you want the subject line of each message that does not contain it, to include the prefix, place the text in the file DIR/prefix

Here you can restrict the access to the mailing list archive by allowing only subscribers retrieve the archive. Non-subscribers' requests will be rejected.

Usually an applicant for subscription (your_mailinglist-subscribe@domain.com) is sent a confirmation request. To confirm it, one should just reply to the message. When it is done, recipient's address is added to the database and he becomes a subscriber. This verification mechanism tests if the person at the subscription address really wants to be a subscriber. You can always include or exclude confirmation from the subscription procedure.

Normally, confirmation is not required to unsubscribe from a mailing list. However, this option gives added security in that one can't remove another without permission.

Mailing list users are not allowed to list the addresses of all subscribers. Still, you can allow remote administrator to get it. The subscription log stores entries for each modification made to the subscriber database. Remote administrators can list this log or search it for specific entries. For example, listing this file allows the remote administrator to see recent additions and removals.

In special cases, the list owner may set up the list to be message moderated. On a message moderated list, messages, instead of going directly to the list (to send messages to the list, one must know its name. If the list is called mailinglist@domain.com, just send a message to mailinglist@domain.com), are sent to one or more moderators. They can accept or reject, but not modify the message. If the message is accepted, it is sent to the list unmodified. If it is rejected, it is e-mailed back to the sender, optionally with an explanation from the moderator. On moderated lists it may take a little longer for the message to reach all the subscribers, since it has to be read and approved by at least one moderator before being sent out to the subscribers.

Here, you can allow remote administrators to edit the text files that make up most of the ezmlm responses. Replies are sent only if the target address is a remote administrator. With this switch, ezmlm replies to the -edit command with a list of the files in dir/text/. Only files where editing seems reasonable are included in the list. The remote administrator can edit any file in dir/text/ by sending e-mail containing the new text to -edit.file where "file'' is the name of the file replaced (edited). In reply to this command, ezmlm sends a message with the file and editing instructions. A "cookie'' based on the date, file name, and contents of the file is added to the ``Reply-To:'' address. The cookie becomes invalid as soon as the file has been changed, or after 27 hours, whichever is shorter. Also, the cookie cannot be used to edit any other file, even if the other file has exactly the same content.

Here you can disable posting by subscribers to the mailing list, so they will only receive messages posted by moderators. This is usually chosen to send announcement or notifications where the interaction between recipients is not intended.

If you enable this function, users will be required to request to the remote administrator in order to retrieve mail list archives. Otherwise, archive will be accessible only to the remote administrator.

With this option enabled, it will process commands sent in the subject to listrequest@host.

A remote administrator is an address with the rights to do certain administrative tasks remotely by E-mail. Depending on how the list is configured, remote administrators may have the right/ability to list subscribers, search for subscriber addresses by name, add and remove subscriber addresses and/or edit the texts that are sent in reply to list commands.

Mailing lists may use subscription moderation. Subscription to these lists is identical to the subscription process in mailing lists, except that after confirmation the request is passed on to the list moderator(s). One becomes a subscriber only after his request has been approved by a moderator, i.e. he replies to the "Reply-To:" address.

You can set up your mailing list to allow posts from subscribers only. In this case posts received from non-subscribers will be rejected and sent back.

To save changes, click Submit.

Maildomain Aliases

Mail resources on a mail domain that has a mail domain alias will all have alternative addresses. Mail resources and their aliases will have different domain parts (i.e. mail domain and its alias) and the same resource names. For instance, with example.net being a mail alias to example.com, every mail resource on example.com will have a counterpart on example.net, specifically: mailbox@example.net will be an alternative mail address to mailbox@example.com mailforward@example.net will be an alternative mail address to mailforward@example.com autoresponder@example.net will be an alternative mail address to autoresponder@example.com etc.

 To create a Mail Domain Alias:

1. Make sure you enabled mail domain alias for the target domain.

2. On your control panel home page, click the Mail Info icon.

3. In the Mail domains drop down box, choose the domain you'd like to enable

mail domain alias for.

4. In the E-mail Setup Functions section, click New Mail Domain Alias

5. On the page that appears choose the domain alias to enable mail domain

alias on and click Next:

6. Click Submit on the next page to confirm your choice and agree with charges, if any.

Removing Mail Domain Aliases

Important: When removing mail domain alias, you remove aliases for ALL your mail resources on the primary mail domain. You cannot remove a mail domain alias for an individual mail resource.

 To remove a mail domain alias:

1. Go to Mail Info > Mail Manager

2. Click the Trash icon next to the mail domain alias that you are removing in

the Mail Domain Alias section:

Parallels H-Sphere - 3.5.1 User Guide

Specifications and Main Features

Frequently Asked Questions

User Manual

Preface

Typographical Conventions

About This Guide

Feedback

User Account

Temporary Index Page

Uploading a Web Site

Contents of Home Directory

Control Panel Basics

Changing Hosting Plan

Changing Hosting Platform

Changing Billing Period

Changing Control Panel Password

Changing FTP Password

Changing Traffic Limit

Changing Disk Quota

Configuring Control Panel Skins

Changing Control Panel Language

Domain Registration

Registering Standard (Second Level) Domains

Transfering Domains

Hosting Existing Domains

Creating Third Level Domains

Hosting Sites Without Domain Names

Parking External Domains

Domain Configuration

Removing Domains

Enabling Instant Domain Aliases

Creating Subdomains

Configuring Domain Aliasing

Adding Server Aliases

Configuring Domain Renewal

Changing Domain Contact and Billing Information

Adding Web Access Control

DNS Settings

Removing And Restoring Built-in DNS Records

Creating Custom DNS Records

Web Site Creation and Publishing

Parallels SiteStudio

Parallels Plesk Sitebuilder

Web Site Navigation

Redirect URL

Unix-based accounts

Windows-based accounts

Directory Indexes

Error Pages

Server Side Image Map

MIME Types

WAP Support

Reverse Traceroute

FTP Management

WebShell File Manager and htProtect

FTP Subaccounts

Virtual FTP

Anonymous FTP

Anonymous FTP Upload Facilities

SSH Access to Server

Accessing Your SSH Account

Running Shell Scripts With Crontab

Dynamic Web Content

CGI Scripts

ColdFusion

Ruby on Rails

ASP.NET

Server Side Includes

PHP/MySQL Applications

Preinstalled CGI Scripts: phpBB and mnoGoSearch

phpBB Forum

mnoGoSearch

Fixing Broken Scripts

Mail Resources

Mailboxes

Mailbox Storage Quota

Signing into a Mailbox

Postmaster and Webmaster

Mail Forwards