Appendix D. Web Hosting Settings in Service Templates

To enable your customers to preview websites and access the myLittleAdmin database management tool (on Windows hosting) from Customer Panel, in the Parent domain name to use in the webspace naming template menu, select the domain name under which you will allow creating subdomains for internal needs. In the Webspace naming template box, type in w.{WEBSPACE_ID}.{PARENT_DOMAIN}.

Select the Plesk version that must be available to users.

Select this if you want to allow users to upload securely web content to the server through SSH.

Select this if you want to allow users to access the server over a Remote Desktop connection.

You can select Web hosting or WordPress hosting. If you want to provide WordPress hosting services, select the WordPress hosting option. During the provisioning of websites for customers, a WordPress site will be deployed, and additional WordPress management tools will be available in the customer panel.

If a service template provides several types of websites, this option will specify the website type that will be provisioned by default.

Select this to enable SSL encryption on websites hosted within a subscription.

Select this to allow users to design and use their own error pages that the web server returns with HTTP error codes.

Select a statistics engine that will create reports on how a subscription's websites are visited: how many people visited a site and which web pages they viewed.

Specify the types of IP available addresses and how they should be allocated: a dedicated IP address is allocated to a single customer, while shared IP addresses are shared among multiple users.

Select this to provide users with a dedicated IIS application pool and the means to manage it: enable or disable it, and set up the maximum amount of CPU power that the pool may use.

Select this to enable users to switch on and off the hosting setting called Additional write/modify permissions. These permissions are required, for example, if users’ web applications use a file-based database (such as Jet) located in the root of httpdocs or httpsdocs directory.

Select the programming and scripting languages that should be interpreted, executed or otherwise processed by a web server: Microsoft ASP.NET framework, PHP hypertext preprocessor (PHP), Common Gateway Interface (CGI), Perl, Python, Fast Common Gateway Interface (FastCGI), Microsoft or Apache Active Server Pages (ASP), Server Side Includes (SSI). For PHP, you can also select the PHP handler that should be used.