User's Manual

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 Support for programming and scripting languages widely used in development of dynamic
Web sites and server-side Web applications. Specify which of the following
programming and scripting languages should be interpreted, executed or
otherwise processed by the web server: Active Server Pages (ASP), Server
Side Includes (SSI), PHP hypertext preprocessor (PHP), Common Gateway
Interface (CGI), Fast Common Gateway Interface (FastCGI), Perl, Python,
ColdFusion, and Miva scripting required for running Miva e-commerce solutions.
By default, PHP is configured to operate in safe mode with functional
restrictions. To learn more about PHP safe mode, refer to
http://php.net/features.safe-mode. Some web applications may not work
properly with safe mode enabled: If an application on your site fails due to safe
mode, switch the safe mode off by clearing the PHP 'safe_mode' on check box in
the hosting account properties (Domains > domain name > Setup icon in the Hosting
group).
 Web statistics. To allow domain/web site owner to view the information on the
number of people visited his or her site and the pages of the site they viewed,
select the statistics program you need from the Web statistics menu (AWStats is
recommended), and select the accessible via password protected directory /plesk-stat/
check box. This will install the statistics software of your choice, which will
generate reports and place them into the password protected directory. The
domain/web site owner will then be able to access Web statistics at the URL:
https://your-domain.com/plesk-stat/webstat using his or her FTP account login
and password.
Note: When you switch from one statistics program to another, all reports
created by the previously used statistics program are deleted and new
reports are created in accordance with the information read from log files
kept on the server. This means that if you configured the system (at Domains
> domain name > Log Manager > Log Rotation) so as to keep log files only for the
last month, then Web statistics will be available only for the last month.
 Custom error documents. When visitors coming to a site request pages that the
web server cannot find, the web server generates and displays a standard
HTML page with an error message. If you wish to create your own error pages
and use them on your web server or allow your customers to do that, select the
Custom error documents check box.
10 Click OK.
Now your server is ready to accommodate the new Web site, and the site owner
can publish the site to the server. For instructions on publishing a Web site, refer to
the Creating and Publishing a Site (on page 140) section of this guide.
Note: If you transferred this domain name from another Web host, you will need to
update the host DNS address with the domain name registrar so as to point to your
name servers: log in to your registrar's web site, locate the forms used to manage
the domain host pointers, and replace the current DNS host settings with your
name servers' host names. The information on new name servers will spread
across the DNS system within 48 hours.
If you have registered several domain names that you would like to point to a site
hosted on this server, you should set up domain aliases. Refer to the Setting Up
Additional Domain Names for a Site (Domain Aliases) section for details.