Archive for the ‘Web control panel’ Category

Setting nameservers in plesk

Thursday, August 2nd, 2007

HOWTO: Name Servers in Plesk

1. Register Primary and Secondary nameservers with registrar to two local IP’s on the Plesk system.

2. Create “A” and “PTR” Records for the primary and secondary nameservers in a local domain’s zone designating the two IP’s as nameservers.

3. Create the NS records in the DNS Template under the SERVER section. This will automatically insert the zone records into any newly created domain’s zone file.

4. Add the NS records to any domain that you wish to use the nameservers for.

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Setting POP and SMTP on cPanel

Thursday, August 2nd, 2007

Each website has email addresses, and they need to get it configured on the email clients like Outlook Express, Microsoft Outlook, Eudora, Thunderbird etc…

Most email clients require the following information:

POP3/Incoming Mail Server: mail.yourdomain.com

SMTP/Outgoing Mail Server: Use the setting for the outgoing mail server provided by your ISP or mail.yourdomain.com

Account Name: Whole email address is your account name

Password: Password that you’ve assigned for the email account

Email Ports
POP3/Incoming port: 110
SMTP/Outgoing port: 25

Enable “My server requires authentication” option.

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Plesk control panel

Thursday, August 2nd, 2007

Plesk is a web based control panel which supports Linux as well as Windows operating systems. It allows a server administrator to set up new websites, email accounts, and DNS entries through a web-based interface.

Plesk have various features like create sub domains, manage domains, automatically create a new site with point-and-click ease, based on a domain template or custom requirements, automatically create DNS and appropriate application entries, such as Apache, FTP, create email, mail groups, auto responders, create protected directories (SSL and non-SSL), Log Rotation Management, manage site using FrontPage Web-Admin etc…

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