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 | If you are new to the Plesk web interface, we highly recommend you go through a few quick tutorials to help you become acquainted with the features and capabilities available in that software:
Plesk 8: http://www.liveoakhosting.com/plesk8.php
These videos will give you a brief overview of the Plesk Domain Manager and help familiarize you with its capabilities.
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| Logging Into Your Plesk Account |  |
| To manage your domain in Plesk, enter the following address into a browser with the port number shown.
In a web browser go to www.yourdomain.com:8443.
Enter the Plesk user name and password sent to you in your Welcome email. Click Login
Within your Plesk account, you can manage many aspect of your domain without being a server administrator:
-- Add and delete email account.
-- Monitor your disk space and bandwidth.
-- View site reports on your traffic.
-- Change user names and password for emails, ftp account, or your Plesk login.
-- Make simple changes to your web site files.
-- And more!
Please make sure to go through our Plesk tutorials to help you get to know everything you can do to manage your owns site! |
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| What server am I on? | |
| You will often hear us refer to our servers in reference to their rs or secure number (that is, rs1, rs3, secure12, and so on). How do you know which server your domain is on? There are two easy ways to tell:
When logging into your domain manager, the number following secure in the url is your server number.
For example:
http://secure25.liveoakhosting.com = Server 25
http://secure18.liveoakhosting.com = Server 18
After logging into the domain manager, in the header of your browser, just to the left of our logo, you will see Server: secure# where # is the server number you are on. |
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| Setting Password Protected Directory in Plesk | |
| In order to keep site specific information secure a password protected directory can be set within Plesk.
In a web browser go to www.yourdomain.com:8443. Login and click into the domain.
Click the Directories icon under Hosting . This opens protected directories for the domain.
To add a protected directory click Add New Directory and enter the name of the directory you wish to protect into the Directory name field proceeded by a forward slash.
For directory location you can choose a non-SSL, SSL secure directory, or both. Enter header text to display information on the title bar at visitor login.
Click OK then click Add New User to create a user for the directory.
Enter the New user name and a new password consisting of 6-8 alpha-numeric characters which should not contain the user name. Confirm the password then click OK
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| Previewing Web Site in Plesk | |
| In many cases it is necessary to view a website before it goes live.
In a web browser go to www.yourdomain.com:8443. Login and click into the domain.
Click the Site Preview icon under Hosting. This enables the site to be previewed before going live on Live Oaks servers.
Please bear in mind that this only works if you use relative path names in your links (./dir/filename.html). If you use absolute pathnames (http://www.yourdomain.com/dir/filename.html) it will try to link to the live site and you will not be able to test.
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| Viewing Web Stats in Plesk | |
| To find out how much traffic your site is getting check out the usage statistics on the Plesk domain manager.
In a web browser go to www.yourdomain.com:8443. Login and click into the domain.
Click the Report icon under Domain. Under Tools click Web Stats. This shows all usage statistics for the domain.
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| Creating Secondary FTP Accounts in Plesk | |
| Depending upon what you want to do with the FTP account, will determine how and where you set up this new account. Choose from one of the following options:
Create a directory to transfer files between parties. The files uploaded into this account do not necessarily need to be available to view in a web page, but work well when files are too large to send via email or need to be accessed by many different people from various locations.
Create a subdomain with a separate FTP account. If you would like a new site section without access to the main site and allows for site access through a browser.
Create a protected directory that is only accessible to a single FTP account. Allows file access to these directories via ftp and a browser, however, all content is password protected.
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