To set up a domain alias:

1. On your Home page, click the domain name for which you wish to set up additional domain names.
2. Click the Domain Aliases icon.
3. Click the Add Domain Alias icon.
4. Type the desired domain alias name, for example alias.com.

   Domain aliases can comprise letters, digits and hyphens. Each part of the domain alias between dots should not be longer than 63 symbols.

5. Select the Synchronize DNS zone with the primary domain check box if you want the domain alias to use the same DNS zone resource records as in primary domain. With this setting, any subsequent changes in resource records of the primary domain's zone will be applied to the DNS zone of this domain alias.
6. Select the Mail check box, if you want e-mail directed at the e-mail addresses under the domain alias to be redirected to the e-mail addresses under your original domain name.

   Example: You have an e-mail address mail@yourdomain.com. You have set up an alias for your domain name, for example, alias.com. If you want to receive mail to your mailbox mail@yourdomain.com when it is sent to mail@alias.com, select the Mail check box.

7. Select the Web check box. Otherwise, the web server will not serve the web content to users coming to your site by typing the domain alias in their browsers.
8. Select the Java Web applications check box if you have Java applications installed on your site and you want them to be accessible through the domain alias.
9. Click OK.

To set up a subdomain:

1. On your Home page, click the domain name you need.
2. Click Subdomains.
3. Click Add New Subdomain.
4. Select the required Hosting type and click OK:
   • Select Physical hosting to create a virtual host for the domain.
   • Select Subdomain on subfolder to create a virtual subdomain. Subdomain on subfolder will use physical structure of the domain. The creation of a separate FTP user account will be not possible: the FTP user account of the domain will be used.
5. Type the subdomain name as required. This can be, for example, a topic of a site, organization department, or any other combination of letters, numbers and hyphens (up to 63 characters in length). To add the WWW prefix, select the appropriate checkbox.

   The subdomain name must begin with an alphabet character. Subdomain names are case insensitive.

6. If you are creating subdomain on subfoler, specify the physical location for the subdomain files in the Site home directory field:
   • Clear the Create physical directory for subdomain checkbox and specify the existing directory to the right of httpdocs field. You can click to browse for the required directory, select it and click OK.
   • Leave the Create physical directory for subdomain checkbox selected to create a corresponding physical directory with the same name as the subdomain.
7. If you are creating subdomain with physical hosting, specify the FTP user account for it:
   • If this subdomain will hold a part of your own Web site that you manage on your own, leave the Use the FTP user account of the main domain option selected.
   • If this subdomain will hold a separate web site that will belong to or will be managed by another person, select the Create a separate user account for this subdomain option, and specify the login name and password that will be used for accessing the web space through FTP and publishing web site content. Specify the hard disc quota in the appropriate field in megabytes or leave the Unlimited checkbox selected. When the specified limit is exceeded, you will not be able to add files to the web space, and editing existing files may corrupt them.
8. Leave the Publish site with SiteBuilder checkbox selected to be able to access SiteBuilder and build web site through your Plesk control panel interface. When the Publish site with SiteBuilder option is selected, a site will be created in SiteBuilder.

   All publishing parameters will be set in the paths predefined: for subdomain with Physical hosting - /subdomains/SUBDOMAINNAME/httpdocs/sitebuilder; for subdomain with Subdomain on subfolder - /httpdocs/SUBDOMAINNAME/.

9. If you want to enable Microsoft FrontPage support, select the appropriate checkbox. Enable or disable Remote Microsoft FrontPage authoring by selecting the appropriate option.
10. Specify the programming languages support in the Services group by selecting the required languages. Use select all or clear all to select or clear all of the languages available.

    If the ASP.NET support is disabled on the domain for which you are creating subdomain, it is also unavailable on Subdomain on subfolder. In case the ASP.NET support is enabled on the domain, the ASP.NET is available for subdomain created on a subfolder.

11. Select the Additional write/modify permissions option if this subdomain's web applications will use a file-based database (like Jet) located in the root of httpdocs or httpsdocs folders. Please note that selecting this option might seriously compromise the web site security.
12. To complete the setup, click OK. It may take up to 48 hours for the information on new subdomain to spread in the Domain Name System and become available to the Internet users.

Once you published a site on the server, you may want to make sure that it functions properly in the actual hosting environment. You can preview the site through your favorite web browser, even if the information on the domain name has not yet propagated in the Domain Name System. Note that Macromedia Flash and CGI scripts will not work during preview.

To preview a site:

1. On your Home page click the domain name you need.
2. Click Site Preview in the Hosting group.

To change the properties of an alias:

1. On your Home page, click the domain name you need.
2. Click Domain Aliases.
3. Click the alias name you need.
4. Click Preferences in the Tools group.

To modify resource records in the DNS zone of a domain alias:

1. On you Home page, click the domain name you need
2. Click Domain Aliases.
3. Click the alias name you need.
4. Click DNS Settings.
5. Add, edit or remove the resource records as required:
   • To add a resource record to the zone, click Add New Record. Specify the required values and click OK to write the values to the zone.
   • To modify a resource record, under the Host column, click a hyperlink corresponding to the record you need.
   • To remove a record, select a check box corresponding to the record you wish to remove and click Remove Selected.

You can also allow and disallow certain domains to directly link to your domain files.

To allow a domain directly link to your domain files:

1. On your Home page, click the domain name you need.
2. Click Hotlink Protection.
3. Input the domain name in the Friendly domains field.
4. Click Add.
5. Repeat steps 2 and 3 to add other domains, if necessary, and click OK when finished.

To disallow a domain directly link to your domain files:

1. On your Home page, click the domain name you need.
2. Click Hotlink Protection.
3. Select the domain in the Friendly domains field.
4. Click Remove.
5. Click OK

To add an authorized user of a protected directory:

1. On your Home page, click the domain name you need.
2. Click Web Directories in the Hosting group.
3. On the General tab, click the required name from the Web directories list and select the Protection tab. Alternatively, you can click the icon corresponding to the required directory.
4. Click Add New User in the Tools group.
5. Specify the login name and password that will be used for accessing the protected area. The password should be from 5 to 14 symbols in length.
6. Click OK.

To change password for an authorized user of a protected directory:

1. On your Home page, click the domain name you need.
2. Click Web Directories in the Hosting group.
3. On the General tab, click the required name from the Web directories list and select the Protection tab. Alternatively, you can click the icon corresponding to the required directory.
4. Click the user's name from the Protected URL users list.
5. Specify the new password and confirm it.
6. Click OK.

To revoke a permission to access the protected directory from a user:

1. On your Home page, click the domain name you need.
2. Click Web Directories in the Hosting group.
3. On the General tab, click the required name from the Web directories list and select the Protection tab. Alternatively, you can click the icon corresponding to the required directory.
4. Select a check box corresponding to the user's name.
5. Click Remove Selected. Confirm the operation and click OK.

To password protect a directory in your site and to specify authorized users:

1. On your Home page, click the domain name you need.
2. Click Web Directories in the Hosting group.
3. On the General tab, click the required name from the Web directories list and select the Protection tab. Alternatively, you can click the icon corresponding to the directory you want to protect.
4. Click Protect to set up a protection.
5. To add an authorized users, click Add New User in the Tools group.
6. Specify the login name and password that will be used for accessing the protected area. The password should be from 5 to 14 symbols in length. Click OK.
7. Click Preferences to type a a resource description or a welcoming message that your users will see when they visit your protected area in the Realm access text input field. Click OK.
8. To add more authorized users for this protected resource, repeat the steps 6 and 7.

To remove access permissions from a group or user:

1. On your Home page, click the domain name you need.
2. Click File Manager.
3. Click corresponding to the required file or folder.
4. Select the required name in the Group or user names list and click next to it.

   Note: The icons appear unavailable for entries with permissions inherited from a parent object.

5. Select the required entry.
6. Clear the Allow inheritable permissions from the parent to propagate to this object and all child objects. Include these with entries explicitly defined here checkbox.
7. Select the entry again and click .
8. Click OK.

If some scripts on your sites stop working, this might be due to the incorrectly defined or corrupted file and folder access permissions. It is advised to run check and repair process to restore proper access permissions, thereby restoring scripts functioning.

To check and repair access permissions for a domain or a group of domains, restoring scripts functioning:

1. On your Home page, select the checkboxes corresponding to the domain names you want to perform permissions check on.
2. Click Check permissions.
3. Adjust the settings as required:
   • Clear the Check-only mode checkbox to check and repair access permissions. Leave the Check-only mode checkbox selected to run the checking in the read-only mode, when permissions are only checked (with errors reported), but not fixed.
   • Leave the Send notification by e-mail checkbox selected to receive check and repair report by e-mail, and specify the required e-mail address in this field.
4. Click OK. Plesk will start checking permissions and correcting them, if the corresponding option is set. Please note that this procedure might take a lot of time, depending on the complexity of file and folder structure of your domains.

To avoid excessive usage of bandwidth, which can lead to resources overage, you can limit bandwidth usage for a domain.

To limit the bandwidth for a domain:

1. On your Home page, click the domain name you need.
2. Click Performance in the Hosting group.
3. Select the Switch on bandwidth throttling checkbox.
4. Input the maximum speed (measured in KB per second) that a domain can share between all its connections in the Maximum network use (KB/S) field.
5. Click OK.

To avoid Denial Of Service attacks and to prevent excessive usage of bandwidth, you can set a limit of maximum number of simultaneous web connections your domain can have.

To limit the maximum number of simultaneous web connections to a domain:

1. On your Home page, click the domain name you need.
2. Click Performance.
3. Select the Switch on connections limiting checkbox.
4. Input the maximum number of simultaneous connections in the Connections limited to field.
5. Click OK.

To set or change access permissions for a group or user:

1. On your Home page, click the domain name you need.
2. Click File Manager.
3. Click corresponding to the required file or folder.
   • To change or remove permissions from a group or user, click the required name in the Group or user names list.
   • To set permissions for a group or user, which is not in the Group or user names list, select the required user/group name from the drop-down box located above the list and click : the user/group appears in the list. Select it.
4. To allow or deny permissions to a selected group/user, select the Allow or Deny checkboxes corresponding to permissions listed under Permissions for [user/group name].

   Note. If check boxes in Allow and/or Deny columns are shaded, it means that the corresponding permissions are inherited from a parent folder.

   • To deny the permission, which are inherited from a parent object as allowed, select the required checkboxes under Deny. This will override inherited permissions for this file/folder.
   • To allow the permission, which are inherited from a parent object as denied, clear the Allow inheritable permissions from the parent to propagate to this object and all child objects. Include these with entries explicitly defined here checkbox: this removes the inherited permissions. Then select the required check boxes under Allow and Deny.
5. Click OK.

To allocate more disk space to the web page owner:

1. On your Home page, click the domain name you need.
2. Click Web Users in the Hosting group.
3. Click the user name you need.
4. Type the amount of disk space in megabytes into the Hard disk quota box.
5. Click OK.

To schedule a task for a domain:

1. On your Home page, select the required domain from the list.
2. Click Scheduled Tasks in the Hosting group.
3. Click Add New Task.
4. Input a name for your task in the Description field.
5. In Scheduler notification, specify whether the scheduler should notify you when it runs this task. The following options are available:
   • Switched off - do not nofity you.
   • Send to the default e-mail - send the notification to your default e-mail address.
   • Send to the e-mail I specify - send the nofitication to the e-mail specified in the corresponding field. After selecting this option, you need to input the required e-mail in the field on the right.
6. Specify which command to run. Type it into the Path to executable file input box. If you need to run the command with certain options, type them in the Arguments field.
7. Select the appropriate priority in the Task priority field. Task priority can be set to Low, Normal or High.
8. Specify when to run your command by selecting the appropriate checkboxes in the Hours, Days of Month, Months or Days of Week fields.
9. Click OK to schedule the task or click Run Now to schedule the task and immediately run it.

To temporarily suspend execution of scheduled task:

1. On your Home page, select the required domain name from the list.
2. Click Scheduled Tasks in the Hosting group.
3. Select the system user account on whose behalf the task is executed.
4. Locate the task that you want to suspend and click the command name.
5. Clear the Switched on check box and click OK.

To resume execution of scheduled task:

1. On your Home page, select the required domain name from the list.
2. Click Scheduled Tasks in the Hosting group.
3. Select the system user account on whose behalf the task is executed.
4. Locate the task whose execution you want to resume and click the command name.
5. Select the Switched on check box and click OK.

To remove password protection and make the resource available to the public:

1. On your Home page, click the domain name you need.
2. Click Web Directories in the Hosting group.
3. On the General tab, click the required name from the Web directories list and select the Protection tab. Alternatively, you can click the icon corresponding to the required directory.
4. Select a check box corresponding to the name of the directory, from which you want to remove protection.
5. Click Remove Selected. The protection will be removed and the contents of the directory will be accessible to the public without restrictions

Access permissions can also be applied to virtual (web) directories.

To set access permissions for a virtual directory:

1. On your Home page, click the domain name you need.
2. Click Web Directories.
3. Navigate the web site structure and click the required directory.
4. Click Permissions in the Tools group and set access permissions for this virtual directory, as described in the sections above.

You can also set, change and remove special permissions including advanced management of folder permissions inheritance. In Advanced permissions management mode, several permission entries can be associated with a single group or user, each containing different set of permissions. Also, the list of permissions in Advanced mode is more detailed and gives more opportunities for fine-tuning file/folder permissions. It contains permissions that cannot be seen in Microsoft Windows interface, but present combinations of native Microsoft Windows permissions. They are Read Control, Write Control, and Execute Control.

To set, change or remove file/folder special permissions:

1. On your Home page, click the domain name you need.
2. Click File Manager in the Hosting group.
3. Click corresponding to the required file or folder.
4. Click Advanced.
   • To create a permission entry for a group or user, select the required name from the Group or user names list and click .
   • To set or change file/folder permissions for a group or user, select the required name from the Group or user names list, select the required Allow and Deny checkboxes corresponding to permissions listed under Permissions for [group/user name].
   • To remove a permission entry for a group or user, select the required name from the Group or user names list and click .
   • To make child objects of a folder inherit its permissions defined under Permissions for [group/user name], select the Replace permission entries on all child objects with entries shown here that apply to child objects checkbox, and select checkboxes in the Apply onto: list which correspond to objects you want to inherit the permissions.
5. Click OK.

To set up access permissions inheritance for files and folders:

1. On your Home page, click the domain name you need.
2. Click File Manager in the Hosting group.
3. Click corresponding to the required file or folder.
4. To make the file/folder inherit permissions from a parent folder (if it does not), select the Allow inheritable permissions from the parent to propagate to this object and all child objects. Include these with entries explicitly defined here checkbox.
5. To make the files and folders, which are contained in this folder, inherit the folder permissions defined here, select the Replace permission entries on all child objects with entries shown here that apply to child objects checkbox.
6. Click OK.

To remove an alias from a domain:

1. On your Home page, click the domain name you need.
2. Click Domain Aliases.
3. Select a check box corresponding to the domain alias that you want to remove.
4. Click Remove Selected.
5. Confirm removal and click OK.

To delete a domain with its Web content:

1. On your Home page, select a check box corresponding to the domain name you wish to remove.
2. Click Remove Selected, confirm removal and click OK.

To delete a subdomain with its Web content:

1. On your Home page, click the domain name you need.
2. Click the Subdomains icon in the Hosting group.
3. Select the check box corresponding to the subdomain you wish to remove.
4. Click Remove Selected, confirm removal and click OK.

To remove a subdomain with its web content:

1. On your Home page, click the domain name you need.
2. Click Subdomains.
3. Select a check box corresponding to the subdomain name that you wish to remove, and click Remove Selected.
4. Confirm removal and click OK. The subdomain configuration and its web content will be removed from the server.

To remove a web page owner's account together with their web page:

1. On your Home page, click the domain name you need.
2. Click Web Users in the Hosting group.
3. Select a check box to the right of the user name you wish to remove and click Remove Selected.
4. Confirm removal and click OK.

To unschedule a task:

1. On your Home page, select the required domain name from the list.
2. Click Scheduled Tasks in the Hosting group.
3. Select the system user account on whose behalf the task is executed.
4. Select a check box to the left of the task that you want to unschedule.
5. Click Remove Selected.
6. Confirm removal and click OK.