Parallels Plesk SiteBuilder - 4.5 - Unix Installation Manual

Parallels® Plesk Sitebuilder

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Contents

Preface 4

About Parallels Plesk Sitebuilder .................................................................................................. 5

About This Guide ........................................................................................................................... 5

Who Should Read This Guide ....................................................................................................... 5

Typographical Conventions ........................................................................................................... 5

Feedback ....................................................................................................................................... 6

Preparing for Installation 7

System Requirements ................................................................................................................... 8

Known Installation Issues ............................................................................................................ 10

Installing Plesk Sitebuilder 11

Installing Plesk Sitebuilder Using Autoinstaller ........................................................................... 12

Installing Plesk Sitebuilder Using Native Meta-Package Manager ............................................. 13

Installing Plesk Sitebuilder from Tarball ...................................................................................... 13

Installing Plesk Sitebuilder in Distributed Environment ............................................................... 15

Deploying Distributed Architecture Components .............................................................. 20

Configuring Plesk Sitebuilder after Installation 27

Installing Design Templates and Language Packs 30

Performing First Login to Plesk Sitebuilder 31

Upgrading from Plesk Sitebuilder 3.x.x and 4.x.x 32

Upgrading Using Autoinstaller ..................................................................................................... 33

Upgrading Using Native Meta-Package Manager ....................................................................... 33

Uninstalling Plesk Sitebuilder 34

4 Preface

In this section:

About Parallels Plesk Sitebuilder ....................................................................... 5

About This Guide ............................................................................................... 5

Who Should Read This Guide ........................................................................... 5

Typographical Conventions ............................................................................... 5

Feedback .......................................................................................................... 6

Preface

Preface 5

About Parallels Plesk Sitebuilder

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 Hosts tab.
Titles of chapters, sections,

and subsections.

Read the Getting Started chapter.

Parallels Plesk Sitebuilder consists of two parts: the Wizard and the Administrator Panel.
Plesk Sitebuilder Wizard is a web application enabling its users to create web sites and

publish them on the Internet.
The Administrator Panel is a tool for managing Plesk Sitebuilder system-wide preferences

and maintaining web sites created in the Wizard.

About This Guide

This guide described the processes of Plesk Sitebuilder installation, initial configuration, and
upgrade.

Who Should Read This Guide

This guide is intended for users who have downloaded Plesk Sitebuilder and want to install it
in their systems, and for users who wish to upgrade their Plesk Sitebuilder to newer versions.

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.

6 Preface

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.

These types of users are called
Plesk Sitebuilder user roles.

Monospace

URLs, names of
commands, files, and
directories.

For example:
http://[Sitebuilder_host]/Login

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

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.

Before initiating the Plesk Sitebuilder installation process, check whether your system

In this chapter:

System Requirements ....................................................................................... 8

Known Installation Issues .................................................................................. 10

C H A P T E R 1

Preparing for Installation

meets the necessary requirements, and that the required software components are
configured correctly.

8 Preparing for Installation

System Requirements

Supported operating systems

Parallels Plesk Sitebuilder 4.5 for Linux/Unix can be installed on the following operating
systems:

 Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (for i386 only)
 Debian GNU/Linux 4.0
 CentOS 3.x (for i386 only)
 CentOS 4.x
 CentOS 5.x
 FedoraCore 4
 FedoraCore 5
 FedoraCore 6
 FedoraCore 7
 FedoraCore 8
 RedHat Enterprise Linux 3.0
 RedHat Enterprise Linux 4.0
 RedHat Enterprise Linux 5.0
 SuSE 9.3
 SuSE 10
 SuSE 10.1
 SuSE 10.2
 openSuSE 10.3
 SuSE 9.0 Enterprise (x86_64 only)
 SuSE 10.0 Enterprise
 FreeBSD 5.5 (i386 only)
 FreeBSD 6.1 (i386 only)
 Ubuntu 6.06
 Ubuntu 7.10
 Ubuntu 8.04

For enumerated operating systems, Parallels distributes official Plesk Sitebuilder
assemblies for both i386 and x86_64 architectures, unless otherwise specified.

Required software components
The following software components are also necessary for Plesk Sitebuilder operation:

 Apache web server
 MySQL Server version 3.0 or later
 mysql client libraries versions 4.x or 5.x

Preparing for Installation 9

 Modules perl-DBI and perl-DBD-mysql
 libxml2 version 2.6.16 or later
 libxslt version 1.1.12 or later
 Ioncube loader (shipped in the php5-ioncube-php52 package of Plesk

Sitebuilder)

 PHP 5.2.x (shipped in the php5sb package of Plesk Sitebuilder)

Note: On some operating systems, it is possible to use native PHP configurations
(for example, on Debian 4.0), but Parallels provides no official support for these
configurations.

For some operating systems, Parallels provides packages to support PHP 5.2:

 For RedHat Enterprise Linux 3, CentOS 3, and SuSE Linux 9.0 Enterprise:

 libxml2-shared-2.6.24
 mysql-libs41-4.1.19

 For RedHat Enterprise Linux 3/4, and CentOS 3/4:

 libxslt-shared-1.1.12

To make sure that you have all the required PHP extensions installed, open the URL
http://[Sitebuilder_host]/check.php in your web browser. If the results (displayed
in the browser window) do not contain any error or warning messages, this means that
all necessary extensions are installed. Otherwise, install the missing extensions.

Hardware requirements

 Min 100 MB free disk space
 Min 512 MB RAM

Supported browsers
Plesk Sitebuilder 4.5 for Linux/Unix supports the following browsers:

 Internet Explorer 6.0
 Internet Explorer 7.0
 Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.x
 Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.x

Safari 3 With the following browsers:

 Internet Explorer 5.5
 Mozilla (Mozilla Suite - SeaMonkey) 1.7.x

- Plesk Sitebuilder is deemed to work correctly in general, but Parallels provides no
official support for Plesk Sitebuilder operation on these browsers.

Requirements to servers used for publishing Plesk Sitebuilder sites
To ensure correct operation of the published Plesk Sitebuilder sites on remote

publishing servers, read requirements to these servers in section Requirements to Host in
Plesk Sitebuilder for Linux/Unix Administrator's Guide
(http://www.parallels.com/en/products/sitebuilder/docs).

10 Preparing for Installation

Known Installation Issues

When installing Plesk Sitebuilder on a Parallels Virtuozzo Container, use a specialized
Plesk Sitebuilder application template for the desired operating system. Using such
templates streamlines Plesk Sitebuilder installation and resolves all dependencies. You
can download such a template during the Sitebuilder package download from the
Parallels web site (http://www.parallels.com/en/download/sitebuilder), where you will find
it in the list of components under the Virtuozzo templates title.

If you wish to install Plesk Sitebuilder without using the Plesk Sitebuilder application
template, on Virtuozzo Containers OS templates for Fedora Core 4, RedHat Enterprise
Linux 4.0, or CentOS 4.x, you may encounter dependency errors concerning the
following packages:

 selinux-policy-targeted-sources
 selinux-policy-strict-sources

To avoid these issues, install these components on the Parallels Virtuozzo Containers
Hardware Node from the operating system repository. Make sure these components
are installed before starting Plesk Sitebuilder installation.

It is assumed that your system meets all the requirements (see page 8) described in the

In this chapter:

Installing Plesk Sitebuilder Using Autoinstaller .................................................. 12

Installing Plesk Sitebuilder Using Native Meta-Package Manager ..................... 13

Installing Plesk Sitebuilder from Tarball ............................................................. 13

Installing Plesk Sitebuilder in Distributed Environment ...................................... 15

C H A P T E R 2

Installing Plesk Sitebuilder

previous chapter, and Plesk Sitebuilder has not been installed on your server before.
If you are not using Autoinstaller, the installation process varies depending on the

operating system you use.
Having installed Plesk Sitebuilder, configure it as described in section Configuring Plesk

Sitebuilder after Installation (on page 27).