Customer's Guide
Quick Start with Plesk
Log In to Plesk
Overview of Plesk Interface
Set Up Your First Website
1. Create Your Site
Presence Builder
Content Management Systems
Uploading Content
2. Preview Your Site
3. Submit Your Sites to Search Engines
Set Up Mail Accounts
1. Create Mail Account
2. Access Your Mailbox
Access from Webmail
Access from Microsoft Office Outlook 2019
Access from Microsoft Office Outlook 2016
Access from Windows Live Mail
Access from Mozilla Thunderbird
Access from Apple Mail
Access from iPhone
Access from Gmail on Android
View Site Visit Statistics
Customer Account Administration
Changing Your Password and Contact Information
Viewing Subscription Summary
Allocated and Consumed Resources
Hosting Features Available for Your Websites
Permissions Available for Your Website
Viewing Statistics
Log Files
Tracing Failed Requests (Windows)
Managing Additional User Accounts
Creating Custom Buttons
Websites and Domains
Domains and DNS
Adding and Removing Domains
Adding Subdomains
Adding Domain Aliases
Adding Wildcard Subdomains (Linux)
Adding a Domain Forwarder
Configuring DNS for a Domain
Plesk as the Primary DNS Server
Plesk as a Secondary DNS Server
Disabling the Plesk DNS Service
Registrar’s DNS Settings in Plesk
Configuring DNS via Domain Connect
Configuring DNSSEC for a Domain
Hosting Settings
General Settings
Hosting Types
Website Status
Web Scripting Settings
PHP Settings
PHP Handler Types
ASP.NET Settings (Windows)
Web Server Settings
Apache and Nginx Settings
IIS Web Server Settings
Website Content
Presence Builder
Content Management Systems
Uploading Content Using FTP
Uploading Content with File Manager
Changing File and Directory Access Permissions in File Manager
Deploying Content Using Git
Restricting Access to Content
Site Descriptions
Previewing Websites
Web Applications
Viewing Website Error Log
Securing Connections with SSL/TLS Certificates
Securing Connections with the SSL It! Extension
Protecting Webmail and Mail with SSL/TLS Certificates
Protecting Your Website With an SSL/TLS Certificate
Getting Free SSL/TLS Certificate from Let’s Encrypt
Purchasing an SSL/TLS Certificate via Plesk
Purchasing an SSL/TLS Certificate From a Certificate Authority
Protecting Your Website With a Self-Signed SSL/TLS Certificate
Protecting Sites from Hotlinking (Windows)
Extended Website Management
Working with a Staging Site
Setting Up Custom Error Pages
Setting Up Custom Error Pages on Windows Servers
Setting Up Custom Error Pages on Linux Servers
Hosting Personal Web Pages Under Your Domains
(Plesk for Windows) Limiting Bandwidth and Number of Connections to Websites
Using Virtual Directories (Windows)
Creating Virtual Directories
Configuring ASP.NET for Virtual Directories
Configuring PHP for Virtual Directories
Setting Up Access to Virtual Directories
Changing Virtual Directory Settings
Adding and Removing MIME Types
Setting Up IIS Application Pool (Windows)
Web Publishing with Web Deploy (Windows)
Git Support
Using a Local Repository
Using remote Git hosting
Ruby Support (Linux)
Manage Ruby Applications
Manage Ruby Versions via CLI
Run Rake tasks
WP Toolkit
Plesk eCommerce Toolkit
Licensing Plesk eCommerce Toolkit
Setting Up Online Store
Configuring Online Store
Removing Plesk eCommerce Toolkit
Node.js Support
Creating Websites with Presence Builder
Getting Familiar With Presence Builder
Creating a Website
Importing Sites from SiteBuilder 4.5
Editing Websites
Structure: Pages and Navigation
Adding and Removing Pages
Adding and Removing Navigation Links
Design: Design Templates, Layout, Styles, Color Scheme, and Header
Selecting a Website Design Template
Changing Your Website Layout
Selecting Website Colors, Background Images, Fonts, and Styles for Borders and Corners
Changing the Website Header Elements
Content: Text, Tables, Images, Video, Forms, and Scripts
Text, Tables, Hyperlinks, Flash Files, and Images
Hyperlinks, Links to Email Addresses, and Anchors
Creating Links to Other Pages
Creating Links to Different Sections of a Webpage
Creating Links to Email Addresses
Image Gallery
Image Slider
Embedded Video
Contact Form
Blog
Commenting
Documents and Other Downloadable Files
Buttons for Sharing on Social Networks
Site Search
Online Store
Map
(Advanced) Custom Scripts
Advertisements
Twitter Feed
Amazon aStore
Multi-Language Websites
Settings and Tools for Webmasters
Saving and Loading Copies of a Website
Optimizing Sites for Mobile Devices
Publishing a Website to the Internet
Publishing a Website Copy to Facebook
Viewing Site Visits Statistics, Comments, and New Orders on the Dashboard
Deleting Websites
FTP Access to Your Websites
Changing FTP Access Credentials
Adding FTP Accounts
Setting Up Anonymous FTP Access
Mail Settings
Mail Settings of Domains
Adding Mail Accounts
Changing Mail Account Password
Setting Up Mail Forwarding
Creating Mail Aliases
Setting Up Auto-Reply
Protecting from Spam
Protecting from Viruses
Enabling DKIM Email Signing
Checking Disk Usage by Mailboxes
Changing Mailbox Size
Additional Services
Limiting Outgoing Mail
Using External Mail Servers (such as Gmail)
Using Mailing Lists (Windows)
Scheduling Tasks
Website Databases
Creating Databases
Accessing Databases
Viewing Connection Information
Copying Databases
Backing Up and Restoring Databases
Exporting and Importing Database Dumps
Managing Database User Accounts
Setting Up Custom Access Rules
Checking and Repairing Databases
Post-Restoration Database Repair (Windows)
Accessing Databases with ODBC (Windows)
Accessing Databases with Connection Strings
Backing Up and Restoring Websites
Creating Backups
Restoring Backups
Configuring Remote Storage
Uploading, Downloading, and Removing Backups
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