Customizing Domains

Parallels Pro Control Panel creates a chroot (change root) environment for each domain you create. Effectively, changing the root of a domain limits the part of a file system a process can access, since the directory you specify becomes the root directory for all subsequent file system references. The chroot file system contains the Web pages, CGI scripts, users' mailboxes and home directories, FTP, and other files.

There may be instances where you might want to add enhanced capabilities to this chrooted environment. For example, you might want to install additional HTML or SHTML (SSI) pages, and other executable programs on the domain for users with Telnet or SSH access to the site. You can make these functions available through shell scripts and custom .tar files.

The scale of customizations possible depend on the security level set for the domain. Please read the overview of domain security in the following section before customizing domains.