Managing Domains

This chapter will teach you how a domain can be created and further managed in Plesk Expand.

As it was mentioned above, Plesk Expand allows you to control domains from all your Plesk servers. Here, you can create domains for any Plesk client from any Plesk server, registered in Plesk Expand. Domains can be created either with the help of the domain template or individually per customer requirements. After the creation, domains can be managed at your will.

Domains can be managed on the Domains management page. This page can be accessed by selecting the Domains shortcut in the navigation pane.

The Domains management page displays the list of all domains from all Plesk servers registered in Plesk Expand:


Column Name	Description
S (status)	Represents the state of the domain:		The domain is active.
			The domain is presently deactivated.
H (hosting)	Indicates the type of hosting configured for the domain:		Physical Hosting (Virtual Host).
			Standard Forwarding.
			Frame Forwarding.
			No hosting was configured for the domain.
ID	Shows the ID number of the domain. The ID number is given to each domain automatically after creation and depends on the order of its creation. It means that the first domain created in Plesk Expand gets ID number 1, the second created domain – ID number 2 and so on.
Domain Name	Displays the name of the domain without the www prefix.
Plesk Client	Provides the name of the Plesk client the domain belongs to.
Plesk Server	Displays the name of the Plesk server the domain is registered on.
Creation Date	Displays the Month, Date and Year of the domain creation.
Disk Usage	Shows the disk space used by the domain in kilobytes.
L (login)		Allows you to log in to the desired Domain Administrator account of this domain in the Plesk control panel as administrator. It takes you straight to this domain administrator account on the Plesk server it is registered. The Plesk control panel will open in a separate browser window. Note: 1. Only administrator can use this function. 2. You will not be asked to enter login and password, as they were provided during the registration of a Plesk server this domain is registered on.
		Opens this domain in a separate browser window. Note: This arrow is disabled when no hosting is configured for the corresponding domain.

The Domains Management page provides many links to the pages where you can:

create a new domain for a particular Plesk client; to proceed to the New Domain page, click New Domain.
create and manage domain templates; to get to the Domain Templates management page, click Domain Templates.
manage DNS zones; to proceed to the DNS management page, click DNS. For details about configuring and administering DNS zones, see Managing DNS Zones section in Chapter 3. Managing Plesk Servers.
administer a domain; to proceed to the administration page of a certain domain, click its name.
view domains by status; select the corresponding option from the Status drop-down box (All, Active or Disabled) and click Search. To revert to the full list, click Show All.
search for a domain; enter domain ID, domain name, Plesk client name or a Plesk server name in the provided data fields and click Search.
deactivate a domain/domains by selecting the corresponding checkbox(es) and clicking Disable or by clicking the icon in the S (status) column. The status icon will change to .
activate a domain/domains by selecting the corresponding checkbox(es) and clicking Enable or by clicking the icon in the S (status) column. The status icon will change to .
reload a domain/domains by selecting the corresponding checkboxes and clicking Reload; this will take you to the Reload Domain(s) page where you can select which data should be reloaded. This option might be useful, if you have made any changes to a domain or several domains in Plesk, and wish to refresh (or reload) these domains in Plesk Expand without having to wait for Plesk Expand to do that automatically.
Note: The domain(s) will not stop the operation during the reload.
remove a domain/domains from the system by selecting the corresponding checkbox(es) and clicking Remove Selected. A confirmation page appears prior to removal.

Note: This domain will be removed both from Plesk Expand and the Plesk server it is registered on.

In This Chapter

Managing Domain Templates

Creating New Domain

Managing DNS Zones

Administering Domain

Assigning Domain to Reseller

Reloading Domain

Removing Domain from Plesk Expand