Direct Admin End User Series (26)

How to create a catch-all email account in Direct Admin

This demo assumes you’ve already logged in to Direct Admin

Now let’s learn how to create a catch-all email account

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Click the Catch-All E-Mail link

Let’s go ahead and set a catch-all email address

You have three (3) choices in how to deal with emails being sent to addresses that don’t exist, or aren’t setup in your hosting account

1) You can have the email returned to the sender…

2) You can have the email dropped (deleted) and completely ignored…

3) Or you can have these emails forwarded to a specific email address, which can be an address within your hosting account, or an unrelated address

Let’s select an email address we already have setup in this hosting account

Then click the Update button

That’s it! The new catch-all email account has been setup

Click the Home icon here

This is the end of the tutorial. You can return to the catch-all email setup screen at any time, to change your catch-all email settings

How to setup a Cron Job in Direct Admin

This demo assumes you’ve already logged in to Direct Admin

Now let’s learn about Cron Jobs and how to set them up in Direct Admin

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Click the Cronjobs link

A Cron Job is a system command that you schedule to occur at a later date/time

For example, if you wanted to run a CGI script every Monday morning, you would set this up as a Cron Job

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This is the main Cron Job page where you can setup new Cron Jobs, or delete existing ones

Let’s setup a Cron Job…..

Enter the path of the script you wish to run

When finished, click Add

In this case, we’re setting up a Cron Job to run the test_script.cgi every morning at 9:00am

To delete the Cron Job, simpy select it here, then click Delete

The Cron Job has been setup, and can be seen here

Scroll up to the top of the page

The Cron Job has been deleted

Click the Home icon here

This is the end of the tutorial. You now know how to setup Cron Jobs in Direct Admin, as well as delete them. For more information on using Cron Jobs, please consult www.site-helper.com/misc.html#cron

How to create additional FTP accounts in Direct Admin

Click the FTP Management link

This demo assumes you’ve already logged in to Direct Admin

Now let’s learn how to create a new FTP account

As you can see here, there is already one FTP account, and it is the main (default) FTP account of this hosting account; this default FTP account cannot be deleted

Let’s go ahead and create a new FTP account…. click here

Enter a new FTP username

Then enter and confirm a password for this new FTP account

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Then click Create

Choose the extent of access you wish to grant this new FTP user

Success! The new FTP account has been setup, and can be seen here

You can change FTP passwords for your FTP accounts from here

Now let’s delete the FTP account we just created

The FTP account has been deleted

Click the Home icon here

This is the end of the tutorial. You now know how to setup additional FTP accounts, change their passwords, and delete them altogether