About your Service Plan options

The following Service Plan Options Information table describes all the service options and how to apply them when creating or updating a Service Plan template or domain.

The table includes information on the following sections, which correspond to the WEBppliance Service Plan option sections. Click the name of the section you want to read, or you can view the entire table from the beginning.

Service Plan Options Information

Site information section

For this option:

Specify or enter:

Security Level

The security level assigned to a site establishes the operating environment of the site. Depending on the security requirements of the site, select one of the following options:

IP Based Hosting

(Service Plan field only)

Click this option if you are creating a Service Plan template for IP-based domains.

Name Based Hosting

(Service Plan field only)

Click this option if you are creating a Service Plan template for name-based domains.

DNS section

For this option:

Specify or enter:

Add to DNS

If you want to add an entry to the DNS server provided by WEBppliance, select the check box; otherwise, leave it blank.

Subdomains section

For this option:

Specify or enter:

Subdomain Interface

Select the check box to enable access to the subdomain interface for creating and managing subdomains.

Maximum Subdomains

Enter the maximum number of subdomains that can be created for the domain.

Base Directory

Enter the complete path to the directory where all the subdomains for the domain are located. By default, they will be located under /var/www.

Aliases section

For this option:

Specify or enter:

Domain Aliasing

If you want to allow other domain suffixes to map to this domain, select the check box; otherwise, leave it blank.

In the text box, enter the specific domain suffixes you want to map to the domain, for example, .net or .org. Enter only one suffix per line.

  • Note: If you add records to an alias zone (that is, a zone added to an alias domain), before you remove the alias domain, make sure you manually migrate all the records to another zone.

Aliases

In the text box, enter the specific domain suffixes you want to map to the domain, for example, .net or .org. Enter only one suffix per line.

  • Note: If you add records to an alias zone (that is, a zone added to an alias do0main), before you remove the alias domain, make sure you manually migrate all the records to another zone.

Monitoring section

For this option:

Specify or enter:

Threshold (MB)

Enter the upper limit of network traffic (in MB) that the domain is allowed to have per month.

  • Note: You will get a daily email message summarizing the domains that are over their bandwidth limit. If no domains are over the limit that day, you will not receive an email message.

Cycle Start

Specify the day of the month the bandwidth threshold monitor resets and begins a new monitoring session.

Click the arrow and from the list, choose a number between 1 and 28. For example, if you want the monitoring to start on the 10th of each month, choose 10.

Analog Web/FTP Log Analyzer

If you want to provide your customers with analysis reports of Web and FTP server use, select the check box; otherwise, leave it blank.

  • Note: If you enable this option, you must also enable the Generate Web Logs option.

Webalizer Log Analyzer

If you want to provide your customers with graphical log analysis reports of Web and FTP servers usage, select the check box; otherwise, leave it blank.

System Limits section

For this option:

Specify or enter:

Disk Quota

If you want to set a specific amount of disk space that can be assigned to a domain, select the check box; otherwise, leave it blank.

  • Note: You cannot set the disk quota for NFS servers. Leave this check box blank for domains on NFS servers.

Allocated Disk Quota (MB)

Enter the numerical amount (in MB) you want to assign.

User Quota

If you want to set a maximum number of simultaneous users that will be allowed to use this Service Plan on a single domain, select the check box; otherwise, leave it blank.

Max Users

Enter the maximum number of users, for example, 25.

Web Server section

For this option:

Specify or enter:

Web Server

If you want to provide Web server support to your customers, select the check box; otherwise, leave it blank.

Web Server Name

Enter the domain name prefix, for example "www.". If you do not specify a prefix, a DNS record will not be created for that domain name.

CGI

If you want to allow your customers to run CGI scripts on their Web servers, select the check box; otherwise, leave it blank.

  • Note: Be aware that CGI scripts generate processes that can use extensive server resources.

Script Alias

Specify the directory in which you will store CGI scripts created for the domain. The default directory is cgi-bin. If you are unsure of what to enter in this field, retain the default.

Secure Web (SSL)

(for IP-based domains only)

If you want to provide your customers with secure Web pages, select the check box; otherwise, leave it blank.

  • Note:
    1.
    Secure Web (SSL) is only available to IP-based domains.
    2.
    SSL encryption will slow down page browsing on the Web site.
    3.
    The customer must apply for the SSL certificate before the Web site can be secured.

Server Side Includes

If you want to allow your customers to create .shtml Web pages, select the check box; otherwise, leave it blank.

Modperl for Apache

If you want to allow your customers to use Modperl for Apache, select the check box; otherwise, leave it blank.

Alias

The default alias is Perl.

Generate Web Logs

If you want to provide statistics about Web site traffic for the CustomLog report, and provide error information for the ErrorLog report, select the check box; otherwise, leave it blank.

If you have enabled the Analog Web/FTP Log Analyzer option, you must also enable this option. The Generate Web Logs application provides the statistics used for the Analog Web/FTP Log Analyzer reports.

Tomcat 4

If you want your customer to use Tomcat 4, select the check box; otherwise, leave it blank.

FrontPage Extensions

(IP-based domain option only)

If you want to support customers who want to use Microsoft® FrontPage® to manage their Web site, select the check box; otherwise, leave it blank.

  • Note: Microsoft FrontPage has its own protected directory feature. If you select the FrontPage option, your users cannot use the directory protection provided by WEBppliance. Your users can protect their directories through FrontPage instead. For information on this FrontPage feature, see the Microsoft FrontPage user guides.

E-Commerce section

Miva Merchant

If you want to allow your customers to create e-commerce storefronts using Miva Merchant, select the check box; otherwise, leave it blank.

File Management section

For this option:

Specify or enter:

Backup/Restore

If you want to allow your customers to backup and restore data or configuration files, select the check box; otherwise, leave it blank.

File Manager

If you want to allow your customers to access, create, and remove files and directories on the domain, select the check box; otherwise, leave it blank.

Mail Access Protocol section

For this option:

Specify or enter:

POP3+IMAP Server

If you want to provide your email users access to their email from remote mail clients, select the check box; otherwise, leave it blank.

Mail section

For this option:

Specify or enter:

Email

If you want to allow your customers to send and receive email messages from the mail server on the domain, select the check box; otherwise, leave it blank.

Mail Server Name

Enter the prefix you want to use, for example, "mail.".

Majordomo

If you want to allow your email users to create mailing lists, select the check box; otherwise, leave it blank.

Vacation Auto-Responder

If you want to allow your email users to create vacation messages to automatically respond to incoming email messages, select the check box; otherwise, leave it blank.

  • Note: If you select this option, and later temporarily remove it from the domain then add it back to the domain, you must notify your users to reactivate this feature. When you remove this feature from the domain, Vacation Auto-Responder automatically resets the option to Off for any user account currently using the feature. Users will not be able to use this feature until they manually set it to On again.

Web-based Email Access section

For this option:

Specify or enter:

Squirrel Mail Web-based Email

If you want to provide your customers access to their email messages over the Internet, select the check box; otherwise, leave it blank.

Remote Login section

For this option:

Specify or enter:

Development

If you want the virtual domain shell of your customers to have access to development tools like GCC or G++compilers, select the check box; otherwise, leave it blank.

OpenSSH Secure Shell

If you want to allow your customers to log on and access the domain using an SSH connection, select the check box; otherwise, leave it blank.

Telnet

If you want to allow your customers to log on and access the domain using a Telnet connection, select the check box; otherwise, leave it blank.

The maximum number of Telnet domains supported on one server is 250.

File Transfer section

For this option:

Specify or enter:

FTP

If you want to allow your customers to transfer files to and from the domain using an FTP connection, select the check box; otherwise, leave it blank.

  • Note: Name-based domains support FTP file transfers at the Site Administrator level only. Other users can upload files to the domain using the File Manager upload feature.

FTP Server Name

Enter the prefix you want to use, for example, "ftp.".

Anonymous FTP

If you want to allow anonymous users to access the FTP server without a password, select the check box; otherwise, leave it blank.

Database Server section

For this option:

Specify or enter:

MySQL

If you want to allow your customers to manage their SQL databases through MySQL, select the check box; otherwise, leave it blank.

  • Note: Enabling MySQL will also enable the MySQL set of command line tools for database management.

Database Administrator

The Database Administrator exercises administrative control over all the databases of the site.

Enter the user name of the Database Administrator in this field. The name should not exceed 16 characters.

  • Note: If you leave this field blank, the default user name is the same name as you entered in the Administrator User Name field.

Number of Databases

Enter the maximum number of databases permissible for the site.

  • Important: Please take note of the significance of the following values:

  • 0 - Site Administrator cannot create databases for the site. Note that no default database is created when a site is created.

  • -1 - Site Administrator can create unlimited number of databases for the site.

Database Prefix

Enter a prefix for the database. The prefix is necessary to ensure that the database is unique to the site and can have a maximum of 30 characters.

Prefix caveat

  1. The prefix name, once set, must not be changed, as this will change the name of all the databases across the site. As a result of this, your site databases will be inaccessible.

    To restore connection to the database, do one of the following:

  1. Revert to the original prefix.

  2. Change the code references in your site pages so that they refer to the new prefix.

Reseller

Select the reseller for whom you want to create sites using the service plan template.

  • Note: When you create a site using this service plan, the site will, by default, be owned by the reseller. The Service Plan template you create for the reseller does not limit the reseller in any way from defining his own service plan configurations.