Overview

Beginning with version 7 and higher, Plesk ships with a set of installation packages of third-party applications that can be provided to the customer on demand. These web applications can be deployed on domains and then managed seamlessly from within Plesk Control Panel. Besides, Plesk provides its customers with means of deploying their own web applications on domains using the same mechanism. This mechanism is implemented in Application Vault, a module of Plesk.

Purpose

Application Vault presents a full-fledged repository of web applications with extended management capabilities. Application Vault stores installation packages of web applications on a server running Plesk v. 7.0 or later and has on-board mechanisms to install, configure, and delete these applications on the domain. These mechanisms perform the bulk of work, hiding the details of these tricky processes from the user.

The installation packages stored in Application Vault are arranged in the sets. These sets are then provided by Plesk suppliers along with Plesk. A typical set includes such applications as:

• File managers & Statistics systems (AutoIndex);
• Chats (gtchat, etc.), forums (phpBB, etc.), blog systems (pLog, WordPress, b2evolution, etc.);
• Photo galleries (nGallery, etc.);
• Web mail clients (Uebimiau, etc.);
• e-commerce systems (osCommerce);
• CRM systems (TUTOS, xrms, etc.);
• Content management systems (Drupal, Mambo, PostNuke, Typo, etc.);
• others.

Where Applicable

Application Vault ships with Plesk beginning with version 7.0. This module is designed as an optional extension of Plesk functionality. To activate it, you need to buy a licence. Application Vault has a Plesk-styled graphical user interface. If activated, Application Vault and all its operations are accessible via Plesk Control Panel.

Target Audience

• Application Vault was designed in order to provide a customer with a set of useful web applications and a simple mechanism of their deployment on a domain.
• Also, Application Vault targets Plesk resellers who would like to implement their own applications, or to use third-party ones, and to supply customized versions of Plesk with extended sets of web applications containing these ones.

Application Vault was designed to standardize the structure of application projects, which would guarantee their smooth installing/initial configuring/uninstalling by means of Plesk.