This topic explains options for service plans. You choose
these options when you add or modify a service plan or site.
Site
Information section |
Option |
Description and settings |
Security Level |
The security level assigned to a site establishes the operating
environment of the site. Depending on the security requirements of the
site, select one of the following options:
|
IP
Based Hosting
(Service Plan field only) |
Click this option if you are creating a Service Plan template
for IP-based
sites. |
Name Based Hosting
(Service Plan field only) |
Click this option if you are creating a Service Plan template
for name-based sites. |
DNS section |
Options |
Description
and settings:s |
Add to DNS |
If you want to add an entry to the DNS server, select the
check box; otherwise, leave it blank. |
Aliases section |
Option |
Description and settings |
Domain Aliasing |
If you want to allow other site suffixes to map to this site,
select the check box; otherwise, leave it blank. |
Aliases Suffixes |
In the text box, enter the specific site suffixes you want
to map to the site, for example, .net or .org. Enter only
one suffix per line.
Note:
If you add records to an alias zone (that is, a zone added to an alias
site), before you remove the alias site, make sure you manually migrate
all the records to another zone.
|
Monitoring
section |
Option |
Description and settings |
Threshold |
Enter the upper limit of network traffic (greater than 0),
in Megabytes, that the site is allowed to have per month. |
Cycle Start |
Specify the day of the month the bandwidth threshold monitor
resets and begins a new monitoring session.
Click the arrow and from the list, choose a number between
1 and 28. For example, if you want the monitoring to start
at midnight on the 10th of each month, choose 10. |
Analog Web/FTP Log Analyzer |
If you want to provide your customers with analysis reports
of Web and FTP server use, select the check box; otherwise, leave it blank.
|
Webalizer Log Analyzer |
If you want to provide your customers with graphical log
analysis reports of Web and FTP servers usage, select the check box; otherwise,
leave it blank.
|
System Limits
section |
Option |
Description and settings |
Disk Quota |
If you want to set a specific amount of disk space that can
be assigned to a site, select the check box. The disk space is allocated
in Megabytes.
|
Allocated Disk Quota |
Enter the numerical amount you want to assign.
|
User Quota |
User quota defines the number of users that can be created
for the site.
To allow unlimited
number of users:
Do not select the User Quota
checkbox; Leave the Max Users
field empty.
To allow limited
number of users:
Select the User Quota checkbox;
Enter the maximum number of users in the Max
Users field.
|
Max Users |
Enter the maximum number of users, for example, 25. |
Web Server
section |
Option |
Description and settings |
Web Server |
If you want to provide Web server support to your customers,
select the check box; otherwise, leave it blank. |
Web Server Name |
Enter the site name prefix, for example www. If you
do not specify a prefix, a DNS record will not be created for that site
name. |
CGI |
If you want to allow your customers to run CGI scripts on
their Web Servers, select the check box; otherwise, leave it blank.
|
Script Alias |
Specify the directory in which you will store CGI scripts
created for the site. The default directory is cgi-bin. If you
are unsure of what to enter in this field, leave the default. |
Secure Web (SSL)
(IP-based site option only) |
If you want to provide your customers with secure Web pages,
select the check box; otherwise, leave it blank.
Notes:
1. Secure Web (SSL) is only available
to IP-based sites.
2. SSL encryption will slow down page browsing on the Web site.
3. The customer must obtain
a SSL certificate from a certifying authority. He is also provided with
a self signed certificate, which is valid as any other certificate, however
this may result in warning messages being displayed on the server.
|
Server Side Includes |
If you want to allow your customers to create .shtml Web
pages, select the check box; otherwise, leave it blank. |
Modperl for Apache |
If you want to allow your customers to use Modperl for Apache,
select the check box; otherwise, leave it blank. |
Alias |
The default alias is perl. |
Generate Web Logs |
If you want to provide statistics about Web site traffic
for the CustomLog
report, and provide error information for the ErrorLog
report, select the check box; otherwise, leave it blank.
If you enabled the Analog
Web/FTP Log Analyzer option, you must also enable this option. The Generate
Web Logs application provides the statistics used for the Analog Web/FTP
Log Analyzer reports. |
Tomcat 4 |
If you want to allow your customers to use Tomcat 4, select
the check box; otherwise, leave it blank.
|
FrontPage Server Extensions |
If you want to support customers who want to use Microsoft®
FrontPage® to manage their Web site, select the check box; otherwise,
leave it blank.
Note:
Microsoft FrontPage has its own protected directory feature. If you select
the FrontPage option, your users cannot use the directory protection provided
by the control panel. Your users can protect their directories through
FrontPage instead. For information on this FrontPage feature, see the
Microsoft FrontPage user guides.
|
Subdomains section |
Option |
Description and settings |
Subdomain Interface |
Select the check box to enable access to the subdomain interface for
managing subdomains. |
Maximum Subdomains |
Enter the maximum number of subdomains that can be created for the site. |
Base Directory |
Enter the complete path to the directory where all the subdomains for
the site are located. By default, they will be located under /var/www. |
E-Commerce section |
Option |
Description and settings |
Miva Merchant |
If you want to allow your customers to create e-commerce storefronts
using Miva Merchant, select the check box; otherwise, leave it blank. |
File Management
section |
Option |
Description and settings |
File Manager
|
If you want to allow your customers to access, create, and
remove files and directories on the site, select the check box; otherwise,
leave it blank. |
Backup/Restore |
If you want to allow Site Administrators and subscribers
to backup and restore data or configuration files, select the check box;
otherwise, leave it blank. |
Mail Access
Protocol section |
Option |
Description and settings |
POP3+IMAP Server |
If you want to provide your email users access to their email
from remote mail clients, select the check box; otherwise, leave it blank. |
Mail section |
Option |
Description and settings |
Email |
If you want to allow your customers to send and receive email
messages from the mail server on the site, select the check box; otherwise,
leave it blank. |
Mail Server Name |
Enter the prefix you want to use, for example, mail. |
Majordomo |
If you want to allow your email users to create mailing lists,
select the check box; otherwise, leave it blank. |
Vacation Auto-Responder |
If you want to allow your email users to create vacation messages to
automatically respond to incoming email messages, select the check box;
otherwise, leave it blank.
Note:
If you select this option, and later temporarily remove it from the site
then add it back to the site, you must notify your users to reactivate
this feature. When you remove this feature from the site, Vacation Auto-Responder
automatically resets the option to Off for any user account currently
using the feature. Users will not be able to use this feature until they
manually set to On again.
|
Spam filtering |
If you want to allow
your email users to manage spam, select the check box; otherwise, leave
it blank. |
Web-based
E-mail section |
Options |
Description and settings |
SquirrelMail Web-based Email |
If you want to provide your customers access to their email
messages over the Internet, select the check box; otherwise, leave it
blank.
|
Mail Scanner |
MailScanner |
If you want to enable email scanning for the site, select the check
box; otherwise, leave it blank.
|
Scan incoming mail |
If you want to allow only incoming email messages to be scanned, select
the check box, otherwise leave it blank. |
Scan outgoing mail |
If you want to allow only outgoing email messages to be scanned, select
the check box, otherwise leave it blank. |
Remote
Login And Tools section |
Option |
Description and settings |
Development Tools |
If you want the virtual domain shell of your customers to
have access to development tools like GCC or G++ compilers, select the
check box; otherwise, leave it blank. |
OpenSSH Secure Shell |
If you want to allow your customers to log on and access
the site through an SSH connection, select the check box; otherwise, leave
it blank. |
Telnet |
If you want to allow your customers to log on and access
the site through a Telnet connection, select the check box; otherwise,
leave it blank. |
File Transfer
section |
Option |
Description and settings |
FTP |
If you want to allow your customers to transfer files to
and from the site using an FTP connection, select the check box; otherwise,
leave it blank.
|
FTP Server Name |
Enter the prefix you want to use, for example, ftp. |
Anonymous FTP |
If you want to allow anonymous users access the FTP server
without a password, select the check box; otherwise, leave it blank. |
DataBase
Server section |
Option |
Description and settings |
MySQL |
If you want to allow your customers to manage their SQL databases
through MySQL, select the check box; otherwise, leave it blank.
Do not configure the rest of the options
in the Database Server section
if you do not enable MySQL.
|
Database Administrator |
The Database Administrator exercises administrative control
over all the databases of the
site.
Enter the user name of the Database Administrator in this
field. The name should not exceed 16
characters.
|
Number of Databases |
Enter the maximum number of databases permissible for the
site.
|
Database Prefix |
Enter a prefix for the database. The prefix is necessary
to ensure that the database is unique to the site and can have a maximum
of 30 characters.
Prefix caveat
The prefix name,
once set, must not be changed, as this will change the name of all the
databases across the site. As a result of this, your site databases will
be inaccessible.
To restore connection to the database, do one of the following:
Revert to the original
prefix.
Change
the code references in your site pages so that they refer to the new prefix.
|
Power Tools section |
Option |
Description and settings |
Power Tools |
To enable Power
Tools for a site, select the check box next to Power Tools. To allow
site administrators to install individual tools, select the check boxes
that appear next the tools. To prevent site administrators from installing
individual tools, disable tools by clearing their check boxes.
To disable Power Tools for a site, clear the check
box next to Power Tools. If this check box is cleared, Power Tools is
disabled even if individual tools are selected. |