Contents

Preface  About Plesk  First Steps with Plesk  Configuring Your Control Panel  Configuring and Maintaining Your Server  Before You Start Serving Your Customers  Managing User Accounts  Hosting Web Sites     Obtaining a Domain Name     Setting Up Hosting Account for a Web Site     Creating FTP Subaccounts     Publishing a Site     Organizing Site Structure with Subdomains     Previewing a Site     Deploying Databases     Accessing Data From External Database Management Systems     Configuring ASP.NET for a Domain     Installing Applications     Managing IIS Application Pool     Setting Up Additional Domain Names for a Site (Domain Aliases)     Managing Virtual Directories     Hosting Personal Web Pages     Setting Up Anonymous FTP Access to the Server     Customizing Web Server Error Messages     Performing Group Operations on Domains     Serving Domain Names for Sites Hosted on Other Servers (Domain Forwarding)     Customizing DNS Zone Configuration for Domains     Serving Sites with External Domain Name Servers     Transferring Sites Between User Accounts     Suspending and Unsuspending Domains and Web Sites  Securing Web Sites  Using E-mail Services  Using Help Desk for Resolving Your Customers' Issues  Viewing Statistics  Backing Up And Restoring Your Data  Monitoring Connections to Control Panel, FTP Services and Plesk Server  Accessing The Server Via Remote Desktop (RDP)  Logging Actions Performed by Your Customers in the Control Panel  Appendix A. Advanced Features