Configuring Mailman Mailing List Software ....................................................................... 73
Preventing Your Customers From Sending Mass E-mail ................................................. 73
Configuring Plesk for Database Hosting ..................................................................................... 73
Setting Up Remote Database Hosting .............................................................................. 75
Managing Database Servers............................................................................................. 78
Enabling Support for Adobe ColdFusion ..................................................................................... 80
Enabling Integration with Sitebuilder ........................................................................................... 81
Enabling Support for Miva E-commerce Applications ................................................................. 84
Configuring Statistics ................................................................................................................... 86
Configuring E-mail Notification System ....................................................................................... 86
Configuring Help Desk ................................................................................................................ 90
Adjusting System Date and Time ................................................................................................ 92
Starting, Stopping and Restarting Services ................................................................................ 93
Enabling Piped Logs for Web Server to Reduce the Risk of Web Service Disruption ................ 94
Monitoring Mail Server Message Queue and Troubleshooting Mail Congestion ........................ 94
Scheduling Tasks ........................................................................................................................ 96
Extending Plesk Capabilities with Modules ................................................................................. 98
Installing Modules ............................................................................................................. 99
Configuring and Managing Modules ................................................................................. 99
Removing Modules ......................................................................................................... 100
Serving Your Customers 101
Before You Start Serving Your Customers ............................................................................... 102
Simplifying Setup of User Accounts ................................................................................ 103
Simplifying Setup of Domains and Web Sites ................................................................. 107
Prepackaging Applications Your Customers Can Use.................................................... 111
Predefining Content for New Web Sites ......................................................................... 116
Managing User Accounts .......................................................................................................... 118
Adding User Accounts ..................................................................................................... 119
Modifying User Accounts ................................................................................................ 123
Suspending and Unsuspending User Accounts.............................................................. 128
Removing User Accounts ................................................................................................ 129
Hosting Web Sites ..................................................................................................................... 129
Obtaining Domain Names ............................................................................................... 130
Setting Up Hosting Account for a Web Site .................................................................... 131
Creating and Publishing a Site ........................................................................................ 140
Previewing a Site ............................................................................................................ 147
Deploying Databases ...................................................................................................... 147
Installing Applications ...................................................................................................... 151
Securing E-commerce Transactions with Secure Sockets Layer Encryption ................. 154
Restricting Access to Web Site's Resources with Password Protection ........................ 160
Organizing Site Structure with Subdomains ................................................................... 163
Setting Up Additional Domain Names for a Site (Domain Aliases) ................................. 165
Hosting Personal Web Pages on Your Web Server ....................................................... 168
Setting Up Anonymous FTP Access to the Server ......................................................... 170
Customizing Web Server Error Messages ...................................................................... 172
Customizing DNS Zone Configuration for Domains........................................................ 174
Serving Sites with External Domain Name Servers ........................................................ 178
Serving Domain Names for Sites Hosted on Other Servers (Domain Forwarding) ........ 180
Transferring Domains Between User Accounts .............................................................. 181
Suspending and Unsuspending Domains ....................................................................... 181
Removing Domains ......................................................................................................... 182
Using E-mail Services ............................................................................................................... 183
Creating Mailboxes ......................................................................................................... 184
Setting Up Your E-mail Program for Retrieving Mail from Your Mailbox ........................ 185
Accessing Your Mail from a Web Browser ...................................................................... 186
Protecting Mailboxes from Spam .................................................................................... 187
Protecting Mailboxes from Viruses ................................................................................. 192