| |
Domain
Templates
Management
Domain
template
is a
predefined
set
of
domain-specific
restrictions,
options,
and
hosting
parameters
that
should
be
set
for
a
domain.
The
primary
purpose
of
domain
templates
is
to
simplify
creation
of
domains
with
automatic
settings
assignment
to
them.
The
following
parameters
can
be
defined
for
a
domain
template:
- Template name
- Disk space limit
- Maximum amount of traffic allowed
- Maximum number of web users
- Maximum number of databases
- Maximum number of mailboxes
- Mailbox quota
- Maximum number of mail redirects
- Maximum number of mail groups
- Maximum number of mail autoresponders
- Maximum number of mailing lists
- Maximum number of Tomcat web applications
- Domain validity period
- Log rotation settings
- Mail bounce configuration
- Scripting capabilities
- Webmail accessibility
- Mailing lists availability
- Traffic statistics retention period
- Domain DNS zone type
- Virtual host type
- Hard disk quota
- SSL support
- FrontPage support,
- FrontPage over SSL support,
- FrontPage Authorization
- SSI support
- PHP support
- CGI support
- mod_perl support
- mod_python support
- Apache ASP support
- Web statistics
- Apache Error Documents
Creating a domain template
To
add
a
new
domain
template,
follow
these
steps:
- On the Server administration page click the DOMAIN TEMPLATES button. The Domain templates management page appears.
- Click the ADD button, the Template creation and editing page appears.
- Enter the name for the domain template in the Template name field. To set the necessary parameter, check the appropriate checkbox, and type in the value for the parameter. To define the domain validity period, check the Validity period checkbox, select the desired measurement unit from the drop-down list (it can be years, months, days) and type in the value.
Check the Enable Log rotation checkbox to enable it. Select the log rotation period to be based on: size, or time (select from Daily, Weekly, Monthly). Specify the maximum number of log files to limit it, enable log files compression by checking the checkboxes, specify the email address for the processed log files to be delivered to.
NOTE
It is advisable to set the logrotation options appropriately in order to prevent the log files from growing too large to be handled by the statistics utility.
Set the Mail to nonexistent user option to Bounce with phrase or Catch to address.
Check the Allow the web-users scripting checkbox and enable Webmail and Mailing lists if desired.
Specify the statistics retention period in the Delete traffic statistics older than ... Months field.
Select the domain DNS zone type using the radio-buttons: Master or Slave.
Set the Virtual Host Type setting to:
Specify the hard disk quota in the appropriate field, if needed.
SSL support checkbox enables the maintenance of https protocol.
To allow the use of FrontPage Server Extensions, check the checkbox for FrontPage support and FrontPage over SSL support. Authorization will be disabled by default. For security reasons, authorization should only be enabled when FrontPage extensions are in use.
The following column of checkboxes controls the remaining selectable features for the domain template:
- SSI support - Server Side Included scripting enabled.
- PHP support - supports html documents that contain PHP scripts.
- CGI support - an individual cgi-bin directory is created and CGI scripting is enabled.
- mod_perl support - mod_perl scripting enabled.
- mod_python support - Python scripting enabled.
- Apache ASP support - Apache::ASP perl module enabled.
- Web statistics - keeping the usage statistics for the domain.
- Apache Error Documents - with this feature enabled, a client will be able to use custom files for displaying them in the case of Apache errors.
- Click UPDATE to submit settings, UP LEVEL to discard unsaved settings and return to the Domain templates management page.
The
template
will
be
added
to
the
list
of
domain
templates
and
become
available
as
option
when
creating
a
domain.
Domain Templates Management page
This
page
contains
a
list
of
all
domain
templates,
already
created
in
the
system.
Once
you
create
a
domain
template
you
are
able
to
use
it
while
creating
a
domain
for
any
client.
The
list
of
domain
templates
can
be
sorted
by
name
in
ascending
or
descending
order.
To
sort
the
list,
click
on
the
Name
header
of
the
list.
An
arrow
will
show
the
order
of
sorting.
You
can
search
through
the
list
for
a
certain
pattern.
It
may
help
you
in
case
you
have
a
great
number
of
templates
in
the
list
and
you
need
to
work
with
a
particular
one.
To
search
through
the
list,
type
the
pattern
string
into
the
text
input
field
and
click
SEARCH.
If
there
were
any
items
found
matching
the
entered
pattern
string,
they
will
all
be
displayed
in
the
form
of a
reduced
list.
The
button
SHOW
ALL
will
revert
to
displaying
the
whole
list.
To
add
a
new
domain
template,
click
on
the
ADD
button.
Editing a domain template
To
edit
a
domain
template:
- On the Domain templates management page, select the template you wish to edit by clicking on its name in the list. The Domain Template Editing page will open, allowing you to change the desired options. Settings that can be configured on that page are absolutely the same as on the Domain Template Creation page.
- Click UPDATE after you are done with configuring the template.
NOTE
When
altering
a
template,
nothing
will
change
for
the
domains
that
were
previously
created
using
this
template.
Removing a domain template
- On the Domain templates management page, select the template you wish to remove by putting a checkmark in the checkbox related.
- Click REMOVE SELECTED. The confirmation page appears.
- On the confirmation page, check the checkbox to confirm, and click SUBMIT.
|
|
|
|
