Managing Users' Sites

To register a new site in the system:

1. On the navigation pane, click Sites.
2. Click Add New Site.
3. On the General tab
   • In the Site name field, provide any arbitrary name for the site.
   • In the Owner field, specify the user name of a registered Plesk Sitebuilder user you want to assign this site to. You will be able to change the owner of the site at any time.
4. Click the Publishing Settings tab.

   Note: For trial sites, this tab is disabled because you cannot publish a trial site until you upgrade it to a regular site.

   

   Trial site is a web site created by an anonymous user in the Wizard. A trial site has a limited lifetime period and cannot be published until its owner registers a Plesk Sitebuilder account.

5. Select a publishing mode for the site: FTP, VPS, or XCOPY.

   The list of publishing modes and hosts available to a user you configure in the user's service plan. For details about setting up service plans, refer to section Creating Service Plans.

6. If you select FTP publishing mode, provide the following parameters:
   • Host is the IP address or domain name (without the http:// prefix) of the FTP server.
     • If the maximum number of hosts allowed by your license is limited, select a host from the list. The list contains hosts registered by you in your Administrator Panel.
     • If the number of hosts allowed by your plan is unlimited, you can specify any FTP server you have at your disposal. After you specify a custom host (i.e. a host not registered in Plesk Sitebuilder), it will be automatically registered in the system and appear in the list of hosts on the Hosts screen.
   • Port is the port for connecting to the specified FTP server.
   • In the Login and Password fields, specify your credentials to the specified FTP server.
   • Working directory is the path on the FTP server to the folder where the site files will be stored after publishing.
   • Web site URL is the address where the site will be available after publishing.

     Note: Make sure that the Web site URL and the Working directory settings point to the same publishing location. For example, to publish a site with URL http://test.url.com/myfolder, the working directory should be myfolder.

7. If you select VPS publishing mode:
   • Host is the IP address or domain name of the Parallels Virtuozzo Service Container to be used for publishing.
   • Container ID the digital identifier of the Container on the hardware node.
   • User is the name of the Apache user on the Plesk Sitebuilder machine (apache, www-data, etc.).
   • Group is the name of the Apache group on the Plesk Sitebuilder machine (apache, www-data, etc.).
   • Working directory is the path on the FTP server to the folder where the site files will be stored after publishing.
   • Web site URL is the address where the site will be available after publishing.
8. If you select XCOPY publishing mode:
   • Working directory is the path to the folder where the site files will be stored after publishing. For example, /var/www/yoursite.
   • Web site URL is the address where the site will be available after publishing.
9. To verify that the specified publishing location meets all the Plesk Sitebuilder requirements, click Verify Location.
10. Click OK.

After you register a site for a user, it appears in this user's Administrator Panel. He or she can proceed to creating the content of the site in the Wizard by clicking the Edit icon for this site in the list.

To publish a site:

1. On the navigation pane, click Sites.
2. Click the Publish icon opposite the site you want to publish.