Registering Site in System

To register a site:

1. On the navigation pane, click Sites.
2. Click Add New Site.

   If you have already reached the maximum number of sites allowed by your plan, the Add New Site button is disabled.

3. On the General tab, provide any arbitrary name for the site in the Site name field.

   The name is used to identify the site in Plesk Sitebuilder and is not displayed in visitors' web browsers.

4. Click the Publishing Settings tab.

   Important: Your Plesk Sitebuilder administrator may disallow you to modify site publishing settings. In that case, the Publishing Settings tab is missing on the site management page.

   If you do not see the Publishing Settings tab, just click OK to register your site.

5. On the Publishing Settings tab, select a publishing mode: FTP, VPS, or XCOPY.

   Important: The list of available publishing modes is configured by the Plesk Sitebuilder administrator in your service plan.

6. If you select FTP publishing mode, provide the following parameters:
   • In the Host field, enter the IP address or domain name (without the http:// prefix) of the server to which you want to publish the site.
     • If the maximum number of hosts allowed by your plan is limited, select a host from the list. This list contains hosts specified in your plan.
     • If the number of hosts allowed by your plan is unlimited, you can specify any FTP server you have at your disposal (make sure that the server meets the requirements).

       For information about the allowed number of hosts (limited or unlimited), contact your Plesk Sitebuilder administrator.

   • In the Login and Password fields, provide your FTP server access credentials.
   • In the Working directory field, specify the path on the server where the site content will be stored after publication.
   • In the Web site URL field, enter the web address where the site will be available after publication.

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

7. If you select VPS publishing mode:
   • In the Host field, enter the IP address or domain name of your Parallels Virtuozzo Container.
   • In the Container ID field, specify an integer number of the Virtuozzo Container is identified it on the physical server.
   • In the User field, enter the name of the Apache user on the Plesk Sitebuilder machine (apache, www-data, etc.).
   • In the Group field, specify the name of the Apache group on the Plesk Sitebuilder machine (apache, www-data, etc.).
   • In the Working directory field, specify the absolute path on the Virtuozzo Container to the folder where the site content will be stored after publication.
   • In the Web site URL field, enter the web address where the site will be available after publication.

     Note: Using this mode you can publish sites only to servers running Parallels Business Automation, Standard.

8. If you select XCOPY publishing mode:
   • In the Working directory field, enter the name of a directory (with full path) where the site content will be stored after publication. For example, /var/www/yoursite.
   • In the Web site URL field, specify the web address where the site will be available after publication.
9. Click Verify Location.

   In order for the published sites to work properly, the location you specify for publishing a site should be checked for Plesk Sitebuilder consistency. During this check, the system verifies whether the specified publishing parameters are valid and the publishing location meets all the requirements. This verification may take several minutes; the results are displayed on the same screen.

   If you see errors or warning messages, review the site publishing settings for consistency. See section Requirements to Publishing Location and make sure that all requirements to the publishing location are met. For details about typical Plesk Sitebuilder publishing issues and their resolution, see Appendix. Troubleshooting Plesk Sitebuilder. If you find no answers to your question in these sections, contact your Plesk Sitebuilder administrator.

10. Click OK.