Creating SB Sites for Plesk Domains
This version of Remote Admin for SiteBuilder 2 allows the Plesk administrator to create sites in the SiteBuilder application for existing Plesk domains. This means that Plesk domain users can create, edit the content, and publish their sites using the SiteBuilder Wizard, a powerful web site construction tool.
When you create a site in the SiteBuilder application for a Plesk domain/subdomain, the SiteBuilder Remote Administration Module performs the following operations:
- Creates a site associated with the selected domain in the SiteBuilder application. The Site Alias (site name or siteID) is automatically generated as
<ftp_username>_<domain(subdomain)>_site
. For example, your FTP user login is "nick" and your domain is mydomain.com, the site alias will be nick_mydomain_com_site
. Site aliases are used to identify sites in the SiteBuilder database. Using your site alias as a login, you can start a session in the SiteBuilder Wizard to edit your web site content and publish it on the server. - Sets up publishing properties for your new site. The publication mode is automatically set to FTP, the target Plesk domain is specified as an FTP host, and FTP user login and password are taken from the domain preferences in Plesk.
- Create the SiteBuilder custom button on the management page of this domain in Plesk. This custom button redirects the domain user to the SiteBuilder Wizard from where he/she can edit the website and publish it.
- Adds the target domain as an allowed host for publishing sites through SiteBuilder (see the Allowed Hosts section).
To create a site in the SiteBuilder application for a Plesk domain:
- On the SBM main page, click
Domain Administrators. The Domain Administrators page displays all domains and subdomains with physical hosting existing in the Plesk control panel. The Access column shows the status of each domain/subdomain:
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D(isabled) - the site for this domain has not been created in the SiteBuilder application
A(llowed) - the site for this domain has been created in the SiteBuilder application
- Using the check boxes, select one or several domains for which you want to create sites in the SiteBuilder application (the selected domains should have the Disabled status).
- Click
Allow Access at the bottom of the list (or click the status icon in the Access column). The status icon for the domain changes to
A(llowed). The site is created in the SiteBuilder application for the selected domain. - To validate that the site has been created for the Plesk domain (these steps are optional):
- Return to the SBM main page and click
Site Management. On the Site Management page, find your site in the list of all sites existing in the SiteBuilder database. Do not forget that the site alias (or site name ) for your domain is <ftp_username>_<domain(subdomain)>_site.
If there are a lot of sites in the list and it is difficult to find your site, use the Search by Site Alias option. Enter the site alias in the field and click Search. Refer to the Administering Sites section on how to manage sites through the module interface. - Return to the SBM main page and click
Allowed Hosts. On the Allowed Hosts management page, check that the domain/subdomain for which you have created the site appeared in the list of allowed hosts. - Open the management page for the domain/subdomain in the Plesk control panel. You should see the SiteBuilder custom button on this page. Using this button, the domain user will access the SiteBuilder Wizard to edit the site content and publish the new site to the hosting location.
After the site is created, you can manage its settings through the module interface (see the Resellers section of the Managing Sites chapter) or log into the SiteBuilder Wizard to edit its content.
To remove the site created for a Plesk domain:
- On the SBM main page, click
Domain Administrators. - In the list of domains and subdomains, select one or several check boxes corresponding to the Plesk domains for which you want to delete the site.
- Click
Deny Access at the bottom of the list. The corresponding site will be removed from the SiteBuilder database.
Note:
- If the some of the domain settings are changed in the Plesk control panel, such as FTP user login, password, or domain name, all these changes will be automatically applied on the SiteBuilder application side. You will not have to manually change anything through the Module interface.
- In SiteBuilder, sites can be created only for Plesk-enabled domains with physical hosting. Sites cannot be created for domains with other types of hosting, such as standard or frame forwarding.