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Getting Started Guide
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Parallels Plesk Panel 11 // Linux Server
Parallels Plesk
Panel 11
for your Linux server

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Getting Started Guide: Parallels Plesk Panel 11, Linux Server
Version 1.1 (11.1.2012)
© Copyright 2012. All rights reserved.
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All other trademarks and copyrights are the property of their respective owners.
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Table of Contents
Introduction 5
SECURITY INFORMATION! 5
REPROVISIONING YOUR SERVER! 6
GETTING HELP! 7
OTHER RESOURCES! 9
Setting up Your Server 10
CHOOSING A HOST NAME, USER NAME, AND PASSWORD! 10
LOGGING IN TO YOUR MANAGER FOR THE FIRST TIME! 14
Connecting to Your Server 15
CONNECTING TO YOUR SERVER USING PLESK! 16
CONNECTING TO YOUR SERVER USING SSH! 19
GAINING ROOT ACCESS ON YOUR SERVER! 21
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Adding Domain Names to Your Server 23
LOGGING IN TO PLESK! 23
Setting up DNS for Your Domains 31
Setting up Email on Your Server 41
USING PARALLELS PLESK PANEL TO SET UP AN EMAIL ACCOUNT! 41
ACCESSING YOUR ACCOUNT WITH AN EMAIL CLIENT! 43
USING WEBMAIL TO ACCESS YOUR EMAIL! 44
Setting up Databases on Your Server 45
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Introduction
Unlike normal hosting plans, which put many customers' accounts on a single server, dedicated
servers are reserved exclusively for the account and use of a single customer. This means that
you have exclusive rights to the server's bandwidth, memory, and storage space.
When you purchase a server, you actually lease a server box that remains at our data centers,
which you can conﬁgure and set up according to your preferences.
We also offer an Assisted Service Plan that shifts the responsibility of setup, monitoring,
maintenance, security, and patching your server to our support team.
Assisted Service Plan servers do not have root/system-level access, but we allow control over all
other aspects of the server. The Parallels Plesk Panel is installed for advanced server
management tasks.
SECURITY INFORMATION
Compared to shared hosting, a server offers more power and more versatility. You can run and
install virtually anything on your server. However, with this added control comes added
responsibility.
You are responsible for the security, backup, and maintenance of your server, unless you
have purchased an Assisted Service Plan and/or Managed Backup Services.
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CAUTION! Remember to keep your administrative password secure. Anyone who
has administrative access to your server can manipulate the software and content
that runs on your server.
Unless you have Managed Backup Services with your server, we do not automatically back up
your server. We do, however, offer an FTP backup service with our servers. For more information
about our FTP backup service, please visit our website.
You can also purchase a hardware firewall for your server from us. You can use a hardware
firewall to control the traffic to and from your server. For more information about our firewall
service, please visit our website.
REPROVISIONING YOUR SERVER
If, at any time, you want to revert to a clean setup on your server, you can reprovision it.
Reprovisioning erases all of the content on your server’s hard drive. Your server resets to its
state at the time you first purchased it.
You can reprovision your server by using the Hosting Control Center.
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To Reprovision Your Server
1. Log in to your Account Manager.
2. Click Servers.
3. Next to the account you want to use, click Launch.
4. Under the Support section, click Reprovision Server. The Reprovision Server page displays.
5. If you want to, enter a new host name and user name. These values default to the current
host name and user name for the account.
6. Enter and confirm a new password, and then click Continue.
You receive a confirmation notice once your server is reprovisioned and ready to go. Typically,
this takes less than five hours.
GETTING HELP
After you set up your server, you can easily get help by submitting a trouble ticket or initiating a
chat session in the Hosting Control Center. Alternatively, you may contact Customer Support
directly.
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To Open a Trouble Ticket
2. Click Servers.
4. In the Hosting Control Center, under Support, click Trouble Tickets.
5. Enter your contact information, including an email address and phone number.
6. Under Trouble Ticket Description, enter a summary and a detailed description of your issue.
7. Click Continue.
8. Review your trouble ticket information and click Submit.
To Open a Chat Session
2. Click Servers.
4. In the Hosting Control Center, (in the top-right corner of the window) click Chat Now!
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OTHER RESOURCES
Use these resources to learn more about managing your server:
Parallels Plesk Panel Manuals http://www.parallels.com/products/plesk/resources/
You can ﬁnd user manuals and Flash tutorials on Parallels’
website.
CentOS Documentation http://www.centos.org
You can ﬁnd User Manuals on CentOS’ website.
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Setting up Your Server
Once you purchase your server and we complete initial configuration, you need to log in to your
Hosting Control Center to finish setting things up.
The Hosting Control Center is an easy place for you to set up your server’s host name, user
name, and password. You can also use it to schedule server maintenance, reprovision your
server, view bandwidth stats, request additional IPs, and submit trouble tickets.
CHOOSING A HOST NAME, USER NAME, AND PASSWORD
Servers with Assisted Service Plan require you to supply additional information,
including the domain name you’re using for your website’s hosting or the email
address for receiving server correspondence.
When setting up your server, you create a host name, user name, and password for your server.
This is the user name and password you will use to connect to your server in the future. It’s a
good idea to have this material ready when you log in for the first time.
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Choosing a Host Name
The server’s host name (also known as your account name) is a unique name for your server. If
you have multiple servers, the host names help you differentiate among them.
A host name can be anything, as long as it:
• Contains 3-15 characters
• Starts with a letter
• Only includes letters, numbers, periods, or a hyphen
• Does not start or end with a period or hyphen
• Does not include any spaces or any other special characters
Choosing a User Name
A user name is the primary ID that you use to access your server. This is also the user name you
use to access your server from an SSH or SCP program.
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CAUTION! Due to security reasons, you cannot log in directly to your server as
root. However, you do have root access if you did not purchase Assisted Service
Plan. To gain root access to your server, log in with your usual user name and then
use the su – command.
To learn more about root access, see Gaining Root Access on Your Servers.
Your user name can be between 4 and 32 lowercase alphanumeric characters. Your user name
cannot:
• Begin with a number
• Contain spaces, symbols, or capital letters
You cannot use the following reserved terms as a user name:
adm
admin
administrator
anonymous
backup
binftp
body
games
gopher
guest
halt
iusrlp
mailnull
news
nfsno
nobody
nscdntp
operator
pcap
root
rpc
rpcuserrpm
smmsp
sshd
sync
system
uucp
vcsa
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Choosing a Password for Your Server
Your server’s password, along with your user name, lets you connect to or gain root access to
your server. Keep in mind that Assisted Service Plan servers do not allow root access.
To ensure your server is kept secure, your password must:
• Contain 7-14 characters
• Include lowercase letters, uppercase letters, and numbers
• Not begin with a number or symbol
• Not contain backslashes, colons, single quotes, double quotes, spaces, ampersands (&), or
the caret symbol (^)
• Not contain your user name
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LOGGING IN TO YOUR MANAGER FOR THE FIRST TIME
Once you’ve selected a host name, user name, and password for your server, you can log in to
your Hosting Control Center and ﬁnish setting it up.
To Finish Setting up Your Server
2. Click Servers.
3. Next to the server you want to use, click Launch.
4. On the Account Setup page, enter the host name for your server.
5. Enter your user name and password for your account.
6. Click Continue.
7. Conﬁrm your settings and click Submit.
Once you click Submit, your server should be ready in approximately 12 hours. We’ll email you
once it’s ready.
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Connecting to Your Server
In general, you can connect to your server in two different ways. You can use a Web-based
interface like Plesk, or you can connect directly to your server using the Secure Shell (SSH)
protocol.
Either way, you connect to your server using its IPv4 address, the user name, and the password
you specified when you set up your account. If you are connecting to your account using Plesk,
log in with the user name “admin” instead of the user name you specified when you set up your
account.
If you have the Assisted Service Plan you will log in to Plesk with the user name that
you picked during setup.
To find the IPv4 addresses, log in to your Dedicated Hosting Manager. Your Dedicated Hosting
Manager lists your server’s IPv4 address on the first page you see after logging in.
Depending on how you configured your server, you might have multiple IP addresses to choose
from; you can use any IPv4 address to connect to your server.
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CONNECTING TO YOUR SERVER USING PLESK
Plesk is a Web-based control panel that you can use to manage your server, including setting up
domain, DNS, and email.
Make sure you have your IP address ready before you try to log in to Plesk. You'll need to use
your IP address to access Plesk on your server. You can ﬁnd the IP address to your server in your
Dedicated Hosting Manager.
This procedure explains how to log into Plesk for the ﬁrst time and includes some post-
installation steps. You only need to perform these steps once.
Not all Plesk options are available on servers with Assisted Service Plan. Assisted
Service Plan server screenshots may differ slightly from those shown below.
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To Access Your Server Using Plesk
1. Open a Web browser and go to:
https://[[ipaddress]]:8443/
Where [[ipaddress]] is your server's IPv4 address.
2. When the Plesk login screen displays, enter admin as your
user name (or the user name that you selected if you have
the Assisted Service Plan). Enter the password you defined when you set up your server.
3. Read and accept the SWsoft End-User License Agreement.
4. The post-installation configuration page displays. In the Full hostname filed you can leave
the default hostname that Plesk created for you, or you can enter your own fully qualified
domain name. For example, host.coolexample.com.
5. You can keep the default settings for the Select shared IP addresses. Plesk automatically fills
in these fields based on your server and account information.
6. Under the Shared IP addresses section, select the primary IP address for your server in the
list of Exclusive IP addresses, and click Shared >>. If you do not plan to host multiple
domains on your server, you can skip this step.
7. Enter a password to use with the Plesk admin user. You can use the same password that you
used to log in initially or create something new.
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8. Click OK to finish the post-installation configuration and log in to Plesk.
This is what the administrator interface looks like when you log in to Plesk for the first time:
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The Server Administration screen in Plesk is the main dashboard that you use to manage and
monitor your server. From here you can create new domains and email accounts, manage IP
addresses, and start and stop service on your server.
Plesk has numerous features that can help you manage your server. To ﬁnd out more about Plesk
and the other features that we do not cover in this guide, please visit the SWsoft website at:
http://www.swsoft.com/en/plesk/
For information about how to set up a domain and email using Plesk, see Adding a Domain to
Your Server Using Plesk and Setting up Email on Your Server.
CONNECTING TO YOUR SERVER USING SSH
This section does not apply to Assisted Service Plan servers.
If you are a more experienced user and are comfortable using a command-line interface, you can
use the Secure Shell, or SSH, protocol to connect to your server. First, download and install an
SSH client on your computer. If you're using Windows, we recommend using PuTTY (http://
www.putty.nl/). Mac users can use Mac SSH (http://www.macssh.com). Linux and UNIX users can
use OpenSSH.
Once you have installed an SSH client, log in to your server using your IP address, user name, and
password. In this example, we use PuTTY.
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Remember, before you log in to your server; make sure you have your IP address ready. You'll
need to use your IP address to access your server. You can ﬁnd the IP address to your server in
your Hosting Manager.
To Connect To Your Server Using SSH
(PuTTY)
1. Open your SSH client (PuTTY).
2. In the Host Name (or IP Address)
ﬁeld, enter the IP address for your
server.
3. Click Open. This is the basic SSH
command-line interface.
4. Log in to your server with the user
name and password you created when
you set up your account.
5. Once you log in, you can execute shell
(Bash) commands to navigate and
manage your server.
Typically, only advanced users that are familiar with Linux and shell commands connect to their
server using SSH. You should be able to take care of most of your server management tasks
using Plesk.
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GAINING ROOT ACCESS ON YOUR SERVER
This section is not applicable to Assisted Service Plan servers.
On our dedicated and Virtual Private Linux servers, root is the administrative user that you can
use to access and edit all of the ﬁles on your server (this includes system-critical ﬁles). You can
also use root access to install and uninstall programs on your server.
Using root access on your server can be dangerous. When you work on your server
as root, you could potentially destroy important files and delete programs by
accident. Typically, you should only use root to make one or two changes to your
system and then switch back to your normal user account.
You cannot log in to your server remotely using root. If you need root access on your server, use
the su – command once you have logged in with your user name.
The su (short for substitute user) command makes it possible to become the root user,
temporarily, while you are logged in with your normal user name.
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To use su to log in as root, type:
su -
By default, your root password is the same as the password you use with your normal user name.
When you are ﬁnished performing tasks as the root user, type exit to return to your normal user
name.
To keep you data and server settings secure, only use root when necessary. Complete the task at
hand, then exit.
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Adding Domain Names to Your Server
As you probably already know, a domain name works a lot like an address forwarding service.
All of your website content sits on a computer with a unique address, your IP address. This is the
same IP address that you use to connect to your server using Plesk. Your domain name directs
visitors to your site using this IP address.
Before you set up a domain to host on your server, make sure you have already registered that
domain through an accredited domain registrar.
To make the connection between domain name and IP address work, you need to ﬁrst set up a
domain and hosting on your server using Plesk. This section of the guide walks you through the
necessary steps:
• Step 1 - Access Service Provider View
• Step 2 - Create a Subscription in Plesk
• Step 3 - Setting up Hosting for Your Domain
LOGGING IN TO PLESK
There are two ways that you can access the Plesk control panel on your server. You can log in to
your Dedicated Hosting Manager and click Launch Plesk, or you can go to the following URL:
https://[[ipaddress]]:8443/
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Where [[ipaddress]] is your server’s IPv4 address.
STEP 1 - ACCESSING SERVICE PROVIDER VIEW IN PLESK
In Plesk, there are several interface views available for you to choose from. Depending on which
view you use, features and settings might be located in different places. To maintain consistency,
we document our Plesk support documentation using the Service Provider view.
If your control panel has a navigation menu on the left, you are using Service Provider view.
Otherwise, follow these steps to switch your view:
To Access Service Provider View in Plesk
1. Log in to your Parallels Plesk Panel as admin.
2. Click Server.
3. In the Panel Appearance section, click Interface Management.
4. Select Service Provider view, and then click OK.
5. Click Home.
STEP 2 - CREATING A SUBSCRIPTION IN PLESK
Before you add a domain to your server, you need to create a subscription in Plesk. All domains
in Plesk have to be associated with a subscription. You can use one subscription to set up
multiple domains on your server or each domain can have a unique subscription.
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To Create a Subscription in Plesk
1. Log into Plesk using admin as your user name (or the user name that you selected if you have
the Assisted Service Plan). Enter the password you deﬁned when you set up your server.
If this is the ﬁrst time you have logged in to Plesk, read through and agree to the SWsoft End-
User License Agreement and set up a new admin password for Plesk. See Connecting to Your
Server on page 16 for more information.
2. From the menu on the left, select Subscriptions.
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3. Click Add New Subscription.
4. To create a new subscription, enter the domain
name, user name, password, and repeat password.
The other ﬁelds on this page are optional.
5. Click OK.
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STEP 2 - CONFIGURING HOSTING SETTINGS FOR YOUR DOMAIN
Using the hosting conﬁguration section of Plesk, you can determine what features you want to
enable on your hosting account. For example: SSL, disk space, SSH access, FrontPage extensions,
SSI, PHP, CGI, and Web statistics.
You can also decide if you want to physically host your domain on this server or forward it to
another domain.
In the following example, we set up a basic, physical hosting account for the domain we created
in Step 1 - Creating a Subscription in Parallels Plesk Panel. For more information about the
various hosting features in Plesk, you can take a look at the Plesk documentation on SWsoft's
website: http://www.parallels.com/products/plesk/docs/
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To Configure Hosting Settings for Your Domain in Plesk
1. If you're not already logged in to Plesk, log in using admin as
your user name (or the user name that you selected if you
have the Assisted Service Plan). Enter the password you
deﬁned when you set up your server.
2. From the menu on the left, select Domains.
3. From your list of domains, click Manage hosting to the right
of the domain you want to conﬁgure hosting settings for.
In this example, we set up hosting for coolexample.com.
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4. This is the management page for your domain in Parallels Plesk Panel. Click the Websites &
Domains tab to get to your hosting area. In the Domains list, click the domain name you
added.
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5. This is the hosting settings page for
your domain. Here, you have a
number of hosting options for your
domain. Go through the list and
select the features you want to
enable for this domain. If you need
to you can change PHP Settings, as
well.
6. When you've finished selecting the
features for your domain, click OK.
You can now access the directory for
your domain and upload files using
Plesk. However, for people to see your
website online, you need to configure
the DNS for your site.
The next section of this guide, Setting
up DNS for Domains on Your Server,
walks you through DNS setup. Once you
configure the DNS for your site, you can FTP into your website hosting directory in the same way
that you would with a traditional hosting account.
Plesk has numerous features that can help you manage your server. To find out more about Plesk
and the other features that we do not cover in this guide, please visit the SWsoft website at:
http://www.parallels.com/products/plesk
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Setting up DNS for Your Domains
Nameservers are the Internet's equivalent to a phone book. A nameserver maintains a directory
of domain names that match certain IP addresses. This makes it possible for people across the
Internet to access your website using a familiar domain name, instead of having to remember a
series of numbers.
This section of the guide walks you through setting up your server as the nameserver for your
domain and covers the procedure for assigning this nameserver to your domain.
After you set up your DNS, it can take up to 48 hours before your domain resolves to your IP
address. This period is referred to as the propagation period.
We do not directly control the propagation period for your domain. While it should take no more
than 48 hours, we cannot guarantee this time frame.
This section of the guide walks you through the necessary steps:
• Step 1 - Creating a Zone File for Your Domain Name
• Step 2 - Correcting the Nameserver Records in the Zone File
• Step 3 - Creating and Registering Your Domain Hosts
• Step 4 - Assigning the Nameservers to Your Domain
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STEP 1 - CREATING A ZONE FILE FOR YOUR DOMAIN
To use your server as a nameserver, all of the domains on your server must have a zone file. A
zone file is the file that maps your IP address to your domain name. It's easy to set up a zone file
for your domain in Plesk, because Plesk automatically creates a zone file for any domain you set
up.
If you have not set up your domain in Plesk, please see Adding a Subscription to Your Server
Using Plesk before proceeding.
STEP 2 - CORRECTING THE NAMESERVER RECORDS IN THE ZONE
FILE
Although Plesk creates a zone file by default it will only configure the NS and A records for
ns.coolexample.com (where coolexample.com is your domain name). To ensure that your domain
resolves properly you will need to alter the ns.coolexample.com records as well as add an
additional set of records to match the domain hosts you will create in Step 3 - Creating and
Registering Your Domain Hosts.
To Register Your Domain Hosts in Parallels Plesk Panel
1. If you're not already logged in to Plesk, log in using admin as your user name (or the user
name that you selected if you have the Assisted Service Plan). Enter the password you defined
when you set up your server.
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3. From your list of domains, click Manage hosting to the right of the domain you want to
conﬁgure the domain hosts for.
4. This is the management page for your domain in Plesk. Click the Websites & Domains tab to
get to your hosting area. Then click DNS Settings.
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5. Select the following entries, and then click Remove:
coolexample.com NS ns.coolexample.com
ns.coolexample.com A 62.74.125.122
6. Select Confirm removal, and then click OK. Then click Update to finish the zone file update.
7. Click Add Record, complete the following fields, and then click OK:
Record Type Select A.
Domain Name Enter the first domain host you want to use. We recommend NS1, but you
can enter anything.
IP address Enter your server’s IP address.
8. Click Add Record again, complete the following fields, and then click OK:
Record Type Select A.
Domain Name Enter the second domain host you want to use. We recommend NS2, but you
can enter anything.
IP address Enter your server’s IP address.
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9. Click Add Record again, complete the following fields, and then click OK:
Record Type Select NS.
Domain Name Leave this field empty.
IP address Enter your first domain name host, followed by a dot, and then the domain
name you are using. For example, ns1.coolexample.com.
10.Click Add Record again, complete the following fields, and then click OK:
Record Type Select NS.
Domain Name Leave this field empty.
IP address Enter your second domain name host, followed by a dot, and then the
domain name you are using. For example, ns2.coolexample.com.
STEP 3 - CREATING AND REGISTERING YOUR DOMAIN HOSTS
Once you set up a domain and create a zone file in Plesk, you need to create and register two
domain hosts for your domain at the registry. If your domain is registered with us, you can log in
to your account manager and complete this step.
If your domain name is registered with another company, you need to contact them for
instructions regarding domain host registration.
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To Register Your Domain Hosts
2. From the Domains section, select Launch.
3. Click the domain name you want to host on your server.
4. On the bottom-left of the page, next to Host Summary, click
(add).
5. Complete the following fields, and then click OK:
Host name Enter the first host name you created. For example, ns1.
Host IP 1 Enter your server’s IP address
6. Click (add) again, complete the following fields, and then click OK:
Host name Enter the second host name you created. For example, ns2.
Host IP 1 Enter your server’s IP address
7. Click Update to finish the zone file update.
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These domain hosts can be used for other domains hosted on your server. You do not need to
create new domain hosts for each of your domains.
STEP 5 - ASSIGNING THE NAMESERVERS TO YOUR DOMAIN
Now that you created and registered two domain hosts, you need to change the information for
your domain to use these new servers. If your domain is registered with us, you can log in to
your account manager to complete this step.
If your domain name is registered with another company or you manage the DNS for your
domains with a third-party tool, you'll need to contact them for information about assigning
nameservers to your domain.
To Assign the Nameservers to Your Domain
2. From the Domains section, click Launch.
3. Click the domain name you want to host on your server.
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4. From the Nameservers section, click Set Nameservers.
5. Select I have speciﬁc nameservers for my domains.
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6. In the Nameserver 1 and Nameserver 2 ﬁelds, enter the names of the domain hosts you
created previously. For example, ns1.coolexample.com and ns2.coolexample.com.
7. Click OK.
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ACCESSING YOUR DOMAIN USING FTP (UPLOADING FILES)
After you set up your DNS, it can take up to 48 hours before your domain resolves to your IP
address. This period is referred to as the propagation period.
Once your domain resolves, you will see the default Parallels Plesk Panel index page when you
type your domain name into a browser. This is an example of the default Parallels Plesk Panel
index page.
When this page displays, you can connect to the hosting account for your domain using FTP or
through Parallels Plesk Panel to upload ﬁles to your website.
To make your Web pages viewable, upload them to the "httpdocs" directory in your
hosting account. This directory is the root directory of your website.
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Setting up Email on Your Server
Once you have set up your domain and hosting, setting up email accounts in Plesk only takes a
few steps.
If you followed the procedure in the previous section of this guide to set up the DNS for your
domain, you do not need to modify your MX records to set up email accounts in Plesk.
USING PARALLELS PLESK PANEL TO SET UP AN EMAIL ACCOUNT
The easiest way to set up an email account for a domain on your server is using Parallels Plesk
Panel.
To Set Up Email Accounts for Your Domain in Plesk
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2. From the Hosting Services menu, select Domains.
3. From your list of domains, click Manage hosting to the right of the domain you want to use.
4. Go to the Mail tab and click Create E-Mail Address.
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5. Complete the following fields, and then click OK:
E-mail address Enter the email address you want to create at the domain name.
Mailbox Select Mailbox, and then select the size of the mailbox.
Password & Confirm Enter the password for the email account.
ACCESSING YOUR ACCOUNT WITH AN EMAIL CLIENT
To access your email account using an email client, such as Outlook, Thunderbird, or Entourage,
you need this information:
User Name The name of the email account you created in Parallels Plesk Panel, for
example: admin@coolexample.com.
Password The password you specified.
POP3 mail.coolexample.com (coolexample.com is your domain name).
SMTP Setting mail.coolexample.com (coolexample.com is your domain name).
The outgoing (SMTP) server requires authentication and uses the same
user name and password as the incoming (POP3) server.
For more information about setting up mail accounts in Parallels Plesk Panel, you can look at the
Parallels Plesk Panel documentation on Parallels’ website.
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USING WEBMAIL TO ACCESS YOUR EMAIL
Instead of accessing your email using a traditional email client, you can access your email on the
Web using a standard Web browser.
If you have Webmail enabled in Parallels Plesk Panel, you can access your email at:
http://webmail.coolexample.com (coolexample.com is your domain name).
Log in to your account using the user name and password you set up in Parallels Plesk Panel or
provided to you by your administrator.
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Setting up Databases on Your Server
Many websites need databases to function properly. Plesk lets you create databases and database
users in your server's control panel.
To Create a MySQL Database in Plesk
3. From your list of domains, click Manage hosting to the right of the
domain you want to use.
4. Click the Websites & Domains tab to get to your hosting area.
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5. Click Databases.
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6. Click Add New Database.
7. Enter a Database name, and then click OK. The other ﬁelds on this page are optional.
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To Create a MySQL Database User in Plesk
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3. From your list of domains, click Manage hosting to the right of the domain you want to use.
4. Click the Websites & Domains tab to get to your hosting area.
5. Click Databases.
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6. Click the name of the database that you want to use.
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7. Click Add New Database User.
8. Enter a Database user name, New password, and Conﬁrm password.
9. Click OK.
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