(dv) How can I reboot my server? Applies to: (dv) 4.0 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: Plesk administrator access Applies to: (dv) 3.5 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: Plesk administrator access Overview The following will show the the various ways you can reboot your (dv) Dedicated-V ... Applies To: All (dv)

Restarting services in Plesk Applies to: (dv) 4.0 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: Plesk administrator access, SSH, root or sudo access Applies to: (dv) 3.5 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: Plesk administrator access, SSH, root or sudo access Overview You may need to restart one o ... Applies To: (dv) 3.5, (dv) 4.0

How can I block specific incoming emails? Applies to: (dv) 4.0 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: Plesk administrator access Applies to: (dv) 3.5 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: Plesk administrator access, SSH, root access End of Life Warning This service has a pending End of Life. Please move t ... Applies To: (dv) 3.5, (dv) 4.0

Migrating your websites to the (dv) Dedicated-Virtual Server Applies to: All (dv) Difficulty: Medium Time Needed: 60 Tools Required: SSH, FTP client, DNS Control Overview Whether you have a site with just static html pages or a dynamic database-driven one, this migration guide will help you get started with your new (dv) Dedicated-Virtual Server. ... Applies To: All (dv)

Rejecting all email for nonexistent users Applies to: (gs) Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: None Applies to: (dv) 4.0 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: Plesk administrator access Applies to: (dv) 3.5 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: Plesk administrator access Overview This ar ... Applies To: (dv) 3.5, (dv) 4.0, (gs)

Which version of Plesk do I have? Applies to: (dv) 4.0 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: Plesk administrator access Applies to: (dv) 3.5 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: Plesk administrator access Applies to: (dv) 3.0 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: Plesk administrator acc ... Applies To: (dv) 3.0, (dv) 3.5, (dv) 4.0

Using the Upgrade Server tool Applies to: (gs) Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: AccountCenter access Applies to: (dv) 4.0 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: AccountCenter access Applies to: (dv) 3.5 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: AccountCenter access Applies to: (dv) ... Applies To: (gs), (ve), All (dv)

How do I purchase a Snapshot Backup? Applies to: All (dv), (ve) Server Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: AccountCenter access Overview The Snapshot Backup preserves the entire state of your server, from the core configuration files down to the emails. Recommended use: Preserve a working version of your serv ... Applies To: (ve), All (dv)

How do I install PostgreSQL on my server? Applies to: (dv) 4.0 Difficulty: Medium Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: SSH, root access, vi knowledge Applies to: (dv) 3.5 Difficulty: Medium Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: SSH, root access, vi knowledge Overview PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database system. Postg ... Applies To: (dv) 3.5, (dv) 4.0

(dv) Plesk shared and exclusive IPs Applies to: (dv) 4.0 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: Plesk administrator access Applies to: (dv) 3.5 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: Plesk administrator access Overview Plesk allows IP addresses to be either shared or exclusive. This determines wheth ... Applies To: (dv) 3.5, (dv) 4.0

How do I assign an IP address in Plesk? Applies to: (dv) 4.0 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: Plesk administrator access Applies to: (dv) 3.5 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: Plesk administrator access Overview Move a domain from one IP address on your (dv) Dedicated-Virtual Server to a new ... Applies To: (dv) 3.5, (dv) 4.0

Using Webmail Applies to: (gs) Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: Email account Applies to: (dv) 4.0 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: Email account Applies to: (dv) 3.x Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: Email account Introduction Your (gs) Grid-Servi ... Applies To: (dv) 3.0, (dv) 3.5, (gs)

Remove MailMan from Plesk Applies to: (dv) 3.5 Difficulty: Medium Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: SSH, root or sudo access Overview Mailman is a web-based email distribution list manager. With an email distribution list, you can send an email message to a single address and have it automatically distributed to a ... Applies To: (dv) 3.5

Creating additional FTP/SFTP users Applies to: (gs) Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: AccountCenter access Applies to: (dv) 4.0 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: Plesk administrator access or root access, SSH, vi knowledge Applies to: (dv) 3.5 Difficulty: Medium Time Needed: 20 Tools Require ... Applies To: (dv) 3.5, (dv) 4.0, (gs)

Creating a catch-all email account Applies to: (gs) Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: AccountCenter access Applies to: (dv) 4.0 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: Plesk administrator access Applies to: (dv) 3.5 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: Plesk administrator access ... Applies To: (dv) 3.0, (dv) 3.5, (dv) Nitro, (gs)

How do I create a mailing list in Plesk? Applies to: (dv) 4.0 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: Plesk administrator access Applies to: (dv) 3.5 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: Plesk administrator access Overview This article will show you how to set up and manage mail groups using the Plesk C ... Applies To: (dv) 3.0, (dv) 3.5, (dv) 4.0

(dv) How do I enable FastCGI? Applies to: (dv) 4.0 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: Plesk administrator access Applies to: (dv) 3.5 Difficulty: Medium Time Needed: 20 Tools Required: SSH, root access, Plesk administrator access Overview This article will explain how to configure a domain on your ( ... Applies To: (dv) 3.5, (dv) 4.0

"Disk Quota Exceeded" errors in emails Applies to: (dv) 4.0 Difficulty: Easy Time: 10 Tools needed: Plesk administrator access Applies to: (dv) 3.5 Difficulty: Easy Time: 10 Tools needed: Plesk administrator access Overview This error occurs when you have a disk quota for an account exceeded, or one of your email users no ... Applies To: (dv) 3.5, (dv) 4.0

(dv) Session save path errors and the vhost.conf Applies to: (dv) 4.0 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: SSH, root access, vi knowledge Applies to: (dv) 3.5 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: SSH, root access, vi knowledge Overview Session support in PHP is of a way to preserve certain data across subseq ... Applies To: (dv) 3.5, (dv) 4.0

How do I enable or disable local mail for my domain? Applies to: (gs) Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: AccountCenter access Applies to: (dv) 4.0 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: Plesk administrator access Applies to: (dv) 3.5 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: Plesk administrator access ... Applies To: (dv) 3.5, (dv) 4.0, (gs)

How do I restore my server using a Snapshot Backup? Applies to: (dv) 4.0 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: Snapshot Backup, Plesk adminstrator or root access Applies to: (dv) 3.5 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: Snapshot Backup, Plesk adminstrator or root access Applies to: (ve) Difficulty: Easy Time Needed ... Applies To: (dv) 3.5, (dv) 4.0, (ve)

Site Preview Issues in Plesk Applies to: (dv) 3.5 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: Plesk administrator access, SSH, vi knowledge Overview Plesk features a Site Preview option that allows you to view your website even if DNS for your domain hasn't updated. End of Life Warning This service has a p ... Applies To: (dv) 3.5

Where are the access_log and error_log files for my server? Applies to: (gs) Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: AccountCenter access Applies to: (dv) 4.0 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: Plesk administrator access Applies to: (dv) 3.5 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: Plesk administrator access ... Applies To: (dv) 3.5, (dv) 4.0, (gs)

Managing your files with File Manager Applies to: (gs) Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: AccountCenter access Applies to: (dv) 4.0 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: Plesk administrator access Applies to: (dv) 3.5 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: Plesk administrator access ... Applies To: (dv) 3.5, (dv) 4.0, (gs)

FAQs on (dv) 3.x EOL Applies to: All (dv) Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: None Overview EOL is an acronym for End Of Life. Hosting related technology and services develop quickly and are constantly changing. Periodically, some products become antiquated or deprecated due to major enhancemen ... Applies To: (dv) 3.0, (dv) 3.5

Installing YUM on a (dv) Dedicated-Virtual Server Applies to: (dv) 4.0 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: None Applies to: (dv) 3.5 Difficulty: Medium Time Needed: 20 Tools Required: SSH, root access or sudo user, Developer Tools Overview YUM is a package manager for CentOS, the operating system provided with your (dv) ... Applies To: (dv) 3.5, (dv) 4.0

Why is my vhost file not being used by Apache? Applies to: (dv) 4.0 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: SSH, root access, vi knowledge Applies to: (dv) 3.5 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: SSH, root access, vi knowledge Overview The most common reason for the Apache webserver not being able to use you ... Applies To: (dv) 3.5, (dv) 4.0

How do I set the default site for an IP address? Applies to: (dv) 4.0 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: Plesk administrator access Applies to: (dv) 3.5 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: Plesk administrator access Overview You can select and change which of your domains your IP address points to by maki ... Applies To: (dv) 3.5, (dv) 4.0

How can I change my email password? Applies to: (gs) Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: AccountCenter access Applies to: (dv) 4.0 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: Plesk administrator access Applies to: (dv) 3.5 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: Plesk administrator access ... Applies To: (dv) 3.5, (dv) 4.0, (gs)

How do I enable or disable named on my server? Applies to: (dv) 4.0 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: Plesk administrator access Applies to: (dv) 3.5 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: SSH, root access Overview BIND is by far the most widely used DNS software on the Internet and is fully compliant wit ... Applies To: (dv) 3.5, (dv) 4.0, (dv) Nitro

Backup Options Applies to: (dv) 4.0 Difficulty: Medium Time Needed: 20 Tools Required: Plesk administrator access Applies to: (dv) 3.5 Difficulty: Medium Time Needed: 20 Tools Required: Plesk administrator access Applies to: (ve) Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: None Snapshot Bac ... Applies To: (ve), All (dv)

Adding a domain in Plesk Applies to: (dv) 4.0 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: Plesk administrator access Applies to: (dv) 3.5 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: Plesk administrator access Overview This guide will show you how to add a domain for your (dv) Dedicated-Virtual Serv ... Applies To: (dv) 3.5, (dv) 4.0

Creating a POP/IMAP email account Applies to: (gs) Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: AccountCenter access Applies to: (dv) 4.0 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: Plesk administrator access Applies to: (dv) 3.5 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: Plesk administrator access ... Applies To: (dv) 3.5, (dv) 4.0, (gs)

(dv) Tech Specs - Complete package listing Applies to: (dv) 4.0 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: None Applies to: (dv) 3.5 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: None Applies to: (dv) 3.0 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: None Overview Here is the full list of all the packages insta ... Applies To: (dv) 3.0, (dv) 3.5, (dv) 4.0

Optimizing your (dv) server Applies to: (dv) 4.0 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: None Applies to: (dv) 3.5 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: None Applies to: (dv) 3.0 Difficulty: Medium Time Needed: 20 Tools Required: SSH, root access, vi knowledge Overview This article will s ... Applies To: (dv) 3.0, (dv) 3.5, (dv) 4.0

How do I enable a Plesk add-on? Applies to: (dv) 3.5 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: Plesk administrator access Overview Add-On features within Plesk can be purchased from Parallels. There are many feature that can be added on to your Plesk install such as Help Desk, Dr. Web, et cetra. End of Life War ... Applies To: (dv) 3.5

How do I create a database? Applies to: (gs) Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: AccountCenter access Applies to: (dv) 4.0 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: Plesk administrator access Applies to: (dv) 3.5 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: Plesk administrator access ... Applies To: (gs), All (dv)

Enabling WebDAV Applies to: (dv) 4.0 Difficulty: Medium Time Needed: 20 Tools Required: SSH, root access, vi knowledge Applies to: (dv) 3.5 Difficulty: Medium Time Needed: 20 Tools Required: SSH, root access, vi knowledge Overview WebDAV stands for Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning. It ... Applies To: (dv) 3.0, (dv) 3.5, (dv) 4.0

(dv) Developer's Tools Package Listing Applies to: (dv) 4.0 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: None Applies to: (dv) 3.5 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: None Applies to: (dv) 3.0 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: None "Developer Tools" can easily be enabled via the ... Applies To: All (dv)

Backing up your server using the Snapshot Backup tool Applies to: (dv) 4.0 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: Snapshot Backup, Plesk administrator access Applies to: (dv) 3.5 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: Snapshot Backup, Plesk administrator access Applies to: (ve) Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Req ... Applies To: (dv) 3.5, (dv) 4.0, (ve)

How can I turn off safe_mode on an (dv) Dedicated-Virtual Server with Plesk? Applies to: (dv) 4.0 Difficulty: Medium Time: 10 Tools needed: SSH Applies to: (dv) 3.5 Difficulty: Easy Time: 10 Tools needed: SSH Applies to: (dv) 3.0 Difficulty: Easy Time: 10 Tools needed: SSH For a discussion of Safe Mode and security, please see PHP Safe Mode, problems and wor ... Applies To: (dv) Nitro, All (dv)

What is a "Client" in Plesk? Applies to: (dv) 3.5 Difficulty: Easy Time: 10 Tools needed: Plesk administrator access Applies to: (dv) 3.0 Difficulty: Easy Time: 10 Tools needed: Plesk administrator access Overview The Client feature in Plesk allows you to create one or more Plesk user accounts with access to spec ... Applies To: (dv) 3.0, (dv) 3.5

Making directories browsable, solving 403 errors Applies to: (gs) Difficulty: Medium Time: 10 Tools needed: FTP, plain text editor or SSH, vi knowledge Applies to: (dv) 4.0 Difficulty: Medium Time: 10 Tools needed: FTP, plain text editor or SSH, vi knowledge Applies to: (dv) 3.5 Difficulty: Medium Time: 10 Tools needed: FTP, plain tex ... Applies To: (gs), All (dv)

How do I view my web statistics? Applies to: (gs) Grid-Service Difficulty: Easy Time: 10 Tools needed: AccountCenter access Applies to: (dv) 4.0 Difficulty: Easy Time: 10 Tools needed: Plesk administrator access Applies to: (dv) 3.5 Difficulty: Easy Time: 10 Tools needed: Plesk administrator access Overview Urchin ... Applies To: (gs), All (dv)

(dv) HOWTO: Basic Apache performance tuning (httpd) Applies to: (dv) 4.0 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: None Applies to: (dv) 3.5 Difficulty: Medium Time Needed: 20 Tools Required: SSH, root access, vi knowledge Applies to: (dv) 3.0 Difficulty: Medium Time Needed: 20 Tools Required: SSH, root access, vi knowledge ... Applies To: (dv) 3.0, (dv) 3.5, (dv) 4.0

Tips on migrating to a (dv) 4.0 from a (dv) 3.x Applies to: (dv) 3.5 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: None Applies to: (dv) 3.0 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: None Migration instructions and tips We recommend reading this article before proceeding with your migration: Migrating your websites to th ... Applies To: (dv) 4.0

Prevent search engines from indexing your websites Applies to: (gs) Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: FTP client, plain text editor Applies to: All (dv) Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: FTP client, plain text editor Overview Web Robots, also known as Web Wanderers, Crawlers, or Spiders, are programs tha ... Applies To: (gs), All (dv)

How can I edit the php.ini file? Applies to: (gs) Grid-Service Difficulty: Medium Time Needed: 20 Tools Required: AccountCenter access, SSH enabled, FTP client, plain text editor Applies to: All (dv) Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: SSH, root or sudo access Overview The php.ini file is the default co ... Applies To: (gs), All (dv)

An introduction to the root user Applies to: All (dv) Difficulty: Medium Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: None Overview The root is the user name or account that by default has access to all commands and files on a Linux or other Unix-like operating system. It is also referred to as the root account, root user, and the ... Applies To: All (dv)

Using .htaccess rewrite rules Applies to: (gs) Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: Plain text editor, FTP Applies to: All (dv) Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: Plain text editor, FTP Applies to: (ve) Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: Plain text editor, FTP Overview T ... Applies To: (gs), (ve), All (dv)

Installing PECL extensions Applies to: (gs) Difficulty: Medium Time Needed: 20 Tools Required: SSH, vi knowledge Applies to: (dv) Difficulty: Medium Time Needed: 20 Tools Required: SSH, vi knowledge Overview PECL is a repository for PHP Extensions, providing a directory of all known extensions and hosting facil ... Applies To: (gs), All (dv)

(dv) 3.5 Memory Upgrade Program Applies to: (dv) 3.5 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: AccountCenter access Overview Since June 4, 2009, (mt) Media Temple has offered free memory upgrades for existing (dv) Dedicated-Virtual 3.5 servers. This reflects our recent memory upgrade to our (dv) product line. A ... Applies To: (dv) 3.5

Installing Git on a (dv) 3.5 server The newest version of this article now appears in our wiki. This page will redirect to our wiki article "Installing Git on a (dv) 3.5 server" within seconds. Please use the link if the redirect fails. Applies To: (dv) 3.5