Prepackaging Applications Your Customers Can Use

Plesk comes with a number of free and paid site applications that you can choose to provide to your customers or remove from the control panel script library (referred to as application vault). You can also distribute your custom applications.

All free applications from the control panel's application vault are automatically added to the application pool of each customer you serve. However, paid applications can be added to the customer's pool only upon purchase.

You can set usage rules for any site application in the vault. For example, you can make a certain free application a commercial one that will be available to your customers only if you add it to their application pools under your conditions (for instance, after you received payment).

When you change a free site application into a commercial one, it is withdrawn from the application pools of all clients. Now only you can add this application to your clients' application pools when needed. When you change a commercial application into a free one, it becomes free of charge for all clients.

To learn more about installing and managing Counter-Strike Game Server, refer to the Counter-Strike Game Server Administrator Guide.

To learn more about installing and managing Acronis True Image module, refer to the Acronis True Image Module Administrator Guide.

To view the information on applications you have in the vault:

1. Go to Server > Application Vault.
2. The list of all available applications will be shown. You can click Refresh to refresh the list of available applications. The following information about web applications is available:

   The icon in the first left column indicates the type of the site application:

   - the free site application requiring no license key, included in the default installation of Plesk for free, automatically added to the application pool of each customer you serve.

   - the commercial site application requiring a license key, purchased from SWsoft additionally.

   - the commercial site application requiring a license key, purchased from SWsoft additionally, with no key installed at the moment.

   Note: if you wish to purchase and install a license key for a commercial application, such as Acronis True Image Plesk Professional Web Site Editor, refer to section Installing Additional License Keys.

   The icon in the second column left to the site application name indicates the site application usage rules you defined:

   - free of charge, automatically added to the application pools of all clients;

   - commercial, can be added to a client application pool only by you under certain conditions.

   The Release column shows the site application release number.

   The Instances column denotes how many times the application was deployed on a web site.

   The Clients column shows the number of users using the site application.

   The Name column displays the name of the site application.

   The Description column gives a brief description for each site application.

   Clicking on the icon will open a new window with help for the corresponding site application.

To add an application to the application vault:

1. Go to Server > Application Vault.
2. Click Add New Application. You can only add new non-ASP.NET applications.
3. Click Browse and locate the installation package of your application, then click OK.

   The application is now installed to the application vault and you can add it to the customer's application pool, or install on a site you need (this will automatically add the application to the customer's pool).

To remove an application from the application vault:

1. Go to Server > Application Vault.
2. Select a check box corresponding to the application you want to remove and click Remove Selected.
3. Confirm removal and click OK.

   The application package will be removed from the server application vault, however, the application instances installed on users' sites will not be deinstalled.

To make a certain free application a commercial one or vice versa:

1. Go to Server > Application Vault.
2. Click the icon in the second column left to the corresponding site application name.

To add a commercial application to a customer's application pool:

1. Go to Server > Application Vault.
2. Click a hyperlinked number in the Clients column.
3. Click Add New Client.
4. Select the user you need and click OK.

If you need to install an application on a site, refer to the Installing Applications section.

Certain applications (e.g., Counter-Strike Game Server) cannot be installed on individual sites, operating on the server level instead.

To view the list of available server-wide applications:

1. Go to Server > Application Vault > Server Applications.
2. Click Add New Server Application.

OR

1. Go to Server > Application Vault > Server Applications Repository.

To install a server-wide application:

1. Go to Server > Application Vault > Server Applications.
2. To specify which application you wish to install, select a radio button corresponding to the application of your choice.
3. Click Install.
4. Specify the installation preferences and other information that may be required by the application (the requirements may vary among applications). When finished, click Install.

To remove a server-wide application:

1. Go to Server > Application Vault > Server Applications.
2. Select the corresponding checkbox and click Remove Selected.
3. Confirm the removal and click OK.