To set up a subdomain:
1) Click the domain name you need on your Home page.
2) Click Subdomains.
3) Click Add New Subdomain.
4)Now select the required Hosting type and click OK:
a) For creating a virtual host for the domain Select Physical hosting .
b) For creating a virtual subdomain Select Subdomain on subfolder. Subdomain on subfolder will use physical structure of the domain. The creation of a separate FTP user account will be not possible: the FTP user account of the domain will be used.
5) Type the subdomain name as you need . This can be, for example, a topic of a site, organization department, or any other combination of letters, numbers and hyphens . To add the WWW prefix, select the appropriate checkbox.
Note:The subdomain name must begin with an alphabet character.
6) If you are creating subdomain on subfoler, specify the physical location for the subdomain files in the Site home directory field:
a) Clear the Create physical directory for subdomain checkbox and specify the existing directory to the right of httpdocs field. You can click to browse for the required directory, select it and click OK.
b) Leave the Create physical directory for subdomain checkbox selected to create a corresponding physical directory with the same name as the subdomain.
7) If you are creating subdomain with physical hosting, specify the FTP user account for it:
a) If this subdomain will hold a part of your own Web site that you manage on your own, leave the Use the FTP user account of the main domain option selected.
b) If this subdomain will hold a separate web site that will belong to or will be managed by another person, select the Create a separate user account for this subdomain option, and specify the login name and password that will be used for accessing the web space through FTP and publishing web site content. Specify the hard disc quota in the appropriate field in megabytes or leave the Unlimited checkbox selected. When the specified limit is exceeded, you will not be able to add files to the web space, and editing existing files may corrupt them.
Leave the Publish website with SiteBuilder checkbox selected to be able to access SiteBuilder and build web site through your Plesk control panel interface. When the Publish site with SiteBuilder option is selected, a website will be created in SiteBuilder.
Note:All publishing parameters will be set in the paths predefined: for subdomain with Physical hosting – /subdomains/SUBDOMAINNAME/httpdocs/sitebuilder; for subdomain with Subdomain on subfolder – /httpdocs/SUBDOMAINNAME/.
9) If you want to enable Microsoft FrontPage support, select the appropriate checkbox. Enable or disable Remote Microsoft FrontPage authoring by selecting the appropriate option.
10) Specify the programming languages support in the Services group by selecting the required languages. Use select all or clear all to select or clear all of the languages available.
Note:If the ASP.NET support is disabled on the domain for which you are creating subdomain, it is also unavailable on Subdomain on subfolder. In case the ASP.NET support is enabled on the domain, the ASP.NET is available for subdomain created on a subfolder.
11) Select the Additional write/modify permissions option if this subdomain’s web applications will use a file-based database (like Jet) located in the root of httpdocs or httpsdocs folders. Please note that selecting this option might seriously compromise the web site security.
12) To complete the setup, click OK. It may take up to 48 hours for the information on new subdomain to spread in the Domain Name System and become available to the Internet users.
You can modify the common Access Control List (ACL) by using Plesk. ACL contains all hosts to which DNS zone transfers for all zones are allowed.
To modify the common Access Control List (ACL) for a domain follow these steps:
1) Click the domain name you need on your Home page.
2) Click DNS Settings in the Services group.
3) Select Transfer Restrictions tab.
a) For adding a network to ACL, specify the IP address and mask in the IP address/mask field and click Add Network.
b) If you wants to delete a network from ACL, just select the checkbox corresponding to the required network in the list, Now click Remove selected icon. Remove Selected, confirm the removal and click OK.
To remove an alias from a domain follow these steps:
1) Click the domain name you need on your Home page.
2) Click Domain Aliases.
3) Select a check box corresponding to the domain alias that you want to remove.
4) Click Remove Selected.
5) Confirm removal and click OK.
1)Click the required domain nameon your Home page, go to ColdFusion DSN and click the required data source name in the list.
2) Specify the data source name and select the required driver for this data source in the Driver menu. Click Next >>.
3) Choose the appropriate options on the driver configuration screen. Typically, you should specify the path to the database, user credentials and other connection options, depending on the selected driver. Refer to Adobe ColdFusion documentation for more information on the driver configuration options.
4) Click OK.
By following these steps you can Remove a resource record from the zone:
1) Click the domain name you need on your Home page.
2) Click DNS Settings in the Services group.
3) Select a check box corresponding to the record you wish to remove.
4) Click Remove Selected.
5) Confirm removal and click OK.
To delete a domain with its Web content:
1) Select a check box corresponding to the domain name you wish to remove on your Home page.
2) Click Remove Selected, confirm removal and click OK.
To delete a subdomain with its Web content:
1) Click the domain name you need on your Home page.
2) Click the Subdomains icon in the Hosting group.
3) Select the check box corresponding to the subdomain you wish to remove.
4) Click Remove Selected, confirm removal and click OK.
How to modify the properties of a resource record for a domain ?
1) Click the domain name you need on your Home page.
2) Click the DNS Settings icon in the Services group.
3) Click the hyperlink in the Host column corresponding to the resource record you want to modify.
4) Modify the record as required and click OK.
To modify the entries in the Start of Authority (SOA) record for a domain follow these steps:
1) Click the domain name you need on your Home page.
2) Click DNS Settings.
3) Select the SOA Records tab.
4) Specify the desired values:
a) Refresh Interval - This is how often the secondary name servers check with the primary name server to see if any changes have been made to the domain’s zone file. Plesk sets the default value of three hours.
b) Retry Interval - This is the time a secondary server waits before retrying a failed zone transfer. This time is typically less than the refresh interval. Plesk sets the default value of one hour.
c) Expire Interval - This is the time before a secondary server stops responding to queries, after a lapsed refresh interval where the zone was not refreshed or updated. Plesk sets the default value of one week.
d) Minimum TTL - This is the time a secondary server should cache a negative response. Plesk sets the default value of one day.
e) Default TTL - This is the amount of time that other DNS servers should store the record in a cache. Plesk sets the default value of one day.
5) Click OK.
To allocate more disk space to the web page owner:
1) Click the domain name you need on your Home page.
2) Click Web Users in the Hosting group.
3) Click the user name you need.
4) Type the amount of disk space in megabytes into the Hard disk quota box.
5) Click OK.
For Restoring the original zone configuration in accordance with the configuration preset defined by your provider:
1) Click the domain name you need on your Home page.
2) Click DNS Settings in the Services group.
3) Click Restore Defaults.
4) In the IP address drop-down box, select the IP address to be used for restoring the zone and specify whether a www alias is required for the domain.
5) Confirm the restoration and click OK. The zone configuration will be recreated.
To reset the entries in the Start of Authority (SOA) record to default settings:
1) Click the domain name you need on your Home page.
2) Click DNS Settings in the Services group.
3) Select the SOA Records tab.
4) Click Restore Defaults.
Follow These steps to Suspend a domain or a web site:
1) Click the domain name you need on your Home page.
2) Click the Switch Off icon.
Note:The domain/web site will be suspended, its Web, FTP and mail services will no longer be accessible to the Internet users, and domain owner will not be able to log in to the control panel.
To unsuspend a domain/web site follow these steps:
1) Click the domain name you need on your Home page.
2) Click the Switch On icon.