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FAQ

>> ISPmanager Frequently Asked Questions

- What are the benefits of VDS?

- What are templates, Apache, PHP, MySQL versions?

- What to do right after VDS purchazing?

- How to upload files to server where ISPmanager is installed?

- What does the limits mean?

- How to create a database?

- How to create a mail box?

- What is File Manager?

- What are PHP and Perl extensions?

- How to backup data stored on a server (site)? How to restore users' data from backup?

- Where to find perl, php, sendmail, and files stored on the site ?

- How to run PHP script from cron?

What are the benefits of VDS?

You will get guaranteed resources, possibility to set any additional software, and complete control over the system.

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What are templates, Apache, PHP, MySQL versions?

PHP and MySQL versions are different. And your choice will depend on your site engine. Template is a set of software preinstalled on your server. We would recommend the Soft2006 template installation as it is state-of-the-art technology.

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What to do right after VDS purchazing?

Access ISPmanager as root and create a user. Once you've done, reenter the control panel using this new account and create a WWW-domain by clicking on "WWW-domains" button in the menu.

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How to upload files to web server where ISPmanager is installed?

There are two variants of data uploading. We would recommend you the one by which files are transferred to the web server via "FTP" (File Transfer Protocol). As such, you can create and maintain your web pages on your own computer and upload files to your web site at your leisure. The information contained within your account activation notice will be needed to connect you to your web site via FTP (the administrative username and password). You can place files on your FTP site using a standard FTP client such as FarManager or TotalCommander. Place the data in the directory www/domain_name/.

You can also place files on your FTP site using File Manager in the ISPmanager menu.

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What do limits mean?

Limit or Quota allows you to enforce ISPmanager user and group limits on disk usage. Quotas are most often used to prevent users from hogging disk space. Additionally you can place limits on the shell access.

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How to create a database?

To create a database, you first need to log in ISPmanager with user privileges. Then create new MySQL database and a user for it. Then you can modify the data using PhpMyAdmin.

By default, MySQL database server remote access disabled for security reasons. However, some time you need to provide the remote access to database server from home or from web server. But you should be careful with it.

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How to create a mail box?

The first step of the procedure to create a new e-mail box is creating a mail domain in the Mail domains menu. Once you've done, you can create mail boxes, mail groups, mail redirects, and the like.

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What is File Manager?

File Manager allows you to upload and download files from and to your VDS right through your web-browser.

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What are PHP and Perl extensions?

These are optional modules that you can compil then you want and then it is required for your site engine. At this point you can install additional modules, such as PHP and mod_perl. PHP is an excellent scripting language for the web. Because PHP is directly compiled into the web server binary, it doesn't suffer from the performance hits of forking and executing a separate command interpreter. For its installation, go to the module PHP extensions. To install mod_perl, there are Perl modules.

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How to backup data stored on a server (site)? How to restore users' data from backup?

Server administrator can backup and store his/her data. As root you can configure the backup settings on the Backup settings page. The page Backup copies provides the detailed information about your backups, and allows you to restore or download the data to your computer.

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Where to find perl, php, sendmail, and files stored on the site?

Path to Perl - /usr/bin/perl
PHP - /usr/local/bin/php
Sendmail - /usr/sbin/sendmail
Web-domain files are stored in the directory /home/user_name/data/www/domain_name

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How to run PHP script from cron?

Add the line below into the scheduler

/usr/local/bin/php -q /home/user/data/www/domain_name/script.php

If your script runs through a web browser, use the following line

/usr/local/bin/GET http://domain_name/required_script.php

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