Configuring APS Applications Catalog

When you log in to Parallels Plesk Panel as administrator and click the Applications shortcut in the navigation pane, you are taken to the Application Vault screen, which provides links for downloading and installing applications on the server.

There is the Add Applications from APS Catalog link for downloading individual applications from the APS Catalog, and there are links for downloading application bundles, where all applications are categorized and sorted by popularity. There are three predefined application bundles: 50 most popular applications, next 50 most popular applications, and all applications.

You can do the following:

• Redefine the set of applications included into each bundle, or remove the links for downloading application bundles from the user interface.
• Specify what applications and application categories should be presented in the APS catalog.

To remove all links for downloading application bundles from the user interface:

On the server file system, go to the directory <parallels_plesk_panel_installation_directory>\etc and create there an empty file named apscatalog_presets.conf.

To redefine the set of application bundles and to specify what applications should be included into each bundle:

1. On the server file system, go to the directory <parallels_plesk_panel_installation_directory>\etc\ and create a text file named apscatalog_presets.conf.
2. Add the required entries to the file.

   You should first add a bundle's name in brackets, up to three entries, which can be [mostused], [lessused], and [all]. Then you should type the names of applications to be included into the corresponding bundle, one application name per line.

   The resulting text file should look like in the following example:

   [mostused]

   joomla

   WordPress

   Drupal

   [lessused]

   VideoDB

   phpMyChatPlus

   [all]

   joomla

   WordPress

   Drupal

   movabletype

   SugarCRM

   VideoDB

   phpMyChatPlus

3. Save the file.

To specify what applications and application categories should be presented in the APS catalog:

1. On the server file system, go to the directory <parallels_plesk_panel_installation_directory>\etc\ and create a text file named apscatalog_categories.conf.
2. Add the required entries to the file.

   You should first add a top-level category name in brackets, like [Web]. Then, you should add a name of a nested sub-category, for example, [Web/Blog]. After that, you can type the names of applications that belong to that category, one name per line.

   Also, to be sure that no other applications (except for those that you specified) are shown in the server's APS Catalog and application vaults of other users, you can add to the file the line otherApplicationsPolicy = hide, and in the next line, add the line hideLevel = admin. If you want to hide other applications only from your customers, but not from your own application vault, then use the line hideLevel = client.

   The resulting text file should look like in the following example:

   otherApplicationsPolicy = hide

   hideLevel = admin

   [Web]

   [Web/Blog]

   joomla

   WordPress

   Drupal

   [Web/Gallery]

   phpGallery

   VideoDB

3. Save the file.