How to use Installatron in Direct Admin

How to use Installatron in Direct Admin

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

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Now let’s learn how to use Installatron

Click the Installatron link here

This is the main page for Installatron

Installatron is an auto-installer program, that allows you to install dozens of free scripts and programs, with just a few clicks

The scripts available for installation are listed on the right side of this page, here

Scroll down to see the complete list of available programs…..

That’s quite a long list! There are currently over 50 programs availabe through Installatron

Let’s install the b2evolution blog…. click here

Now let’s go through an example….. let’s install one of the scripts into our account

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To install b2evolution, click New Install

This is the b2evolution page, and contains information about the script we’re going to install

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Enter an admin password here

Take note that this installation requires a MySQL database, so make sure one is available to you before proceeding

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To agree to the script’s Terms of usage, click this checkbox

Click Install when ready

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Click Configure

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To complete the installation, click GO!

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That’s it! b2evolution has been installed

To begin using b2evolution, you can login by clicking here

Close this window, and return to the Installatron screen

Click Finalize

Click OK

You can also administer your b2evolution installation by clicking here

Click the Home icon here

This is the end of the tutorial. You now know how to use Installatron to install dozens of free scripts into your account. Remember that in most cases, you’ll need to make sure you have 1 available MySQL database for successful script installations

How to create a Domain Pointer in Direct Admin

How to create a Domain Pointer in Direct Admin

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

Now let’s learn how to setup domain pointers

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Click the Domain Pointers link

This is the main Domain Pointers screen

A domain pointer allows you to point another domain name to your main account domain name, so that both domain names resolve to the same website

You can setup as many domain pointers as your account plan will allow, resulting in many domain names all pointing to the same website

Let’s setup a domain pointer now…. enter a domain name to be redirected to this account

Click the Add button

The domain name you enter must have it’s nameserver (or DNS) settings changed to the same DNS settings your main domain is set to….. this is done through your domain registrar

Now let’s delete the domain pointer we just created….. click here

The new domain pointer has been setup!

Then click Delete

The domain pointer has been deleted

Click the Home icon here

This is the end of the tutorial. You can return to this section and setup as many additional parked domains as your account plan will allow

Managing MySQL databases with phpMyAdmin in Direct Admin

Managing MySQL databases with PHPMyAdmin in Direct Admin

Click the MySQL Management link

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

Now let’s learn how to use PHPMyAdmin to manage MySQL databases

Click the phpMyAdmin link

Enter your system username and password

Then click OK

This is the PHPMyAdmin main screen

From this drop-down menu, let’s choose a database to manage

Click the SQL link

There are currently no tables in this database, as indicated here

Click the Import link

You can run SQL queries here, but we’re not going to do that now…..

Then click Browse so we can search for a database to upload

Let’s upload table1.sql from our local computer

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To complete the upload, click Go

Click the table1 link

We’ve successfully uploaded the table called table1.sql to the test.sql database

Click the Export link

On this page you can see all the details of table1 within the database test.sql

Now let’s learn how to save the table1 table to our personal computer

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Select the Save as file check box

Then click Go

Click Save

Click Save

Click Yes to re-write the old table1.sql file

Click Close

We’ve just saved table1 to our computer

Click the Exit button

If at any time you need help with using PHPMyAdmin or MySQL, click on one of these help links

We’ve successfully signed out of PHPMyAdmin

Click the Home icon here

This is the end of the tutorial. You now know how to use PHPMyAdmin to manually manage a MySQL database

How to create a POP email account in Direct Admin

How to create a POP email account in Direct Admin

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

Now let’s create a new POP email account

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Click the E-Mail Accounts link

There is already a POP email account listed… it is the main POP account that every hosting account comes with (username@domainname.com)

But we’re not going to use that account…. we’re going to create a new POP email account

Click the Create mail account link here

Here’s where you create a new POP email account

Enter the new email address you want to create here

Give the new account a password

Re-enter your password

If you want to put a size (or storage space) limit on this email account, enter it here

When finished, click the Create button

That’s it! The new POP email account has been created

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Click here when finished

Details of the new account are listed here. Be sure to pass this information on to whoever will be using this email account, so they can properly setup their email program to access it

Click the Home icon here

This screen shows all the POP email accounts in your hosting account, including the account we just created

From this screen you can create additional POP email accounts, delete existing ones, or change their passwords

This is the end of the tutorial. Don’t forget to setup your new POP email account in your favorite email program (i.e. Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora, etc.)

How to view website statistics in Direct Admin

How to view your website statistics in Direct Admin

Click the Site Summary / Statistics / Logs link

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

Now let’s learn how to view our website statistics

This is the main web stats screen, and has lots of information about this hosting account

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For example….. we’ve used 2.50 MB of bandwidth so far this month, and are allowed a total of 5,000 MB

We’ve also used only 2 of our allowed 50 POP email accounts

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Here you can view how many resources you’ve used in your account (Current Usage), as well as the total amount you’re allowed (Maximum Usage)

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You can change the email address the server (or server administrator) uses to notify you of important messages here

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Here is where you can see all the various services in the server, and whether or not they are running

Click the demo1234.com link here

Now let’s take a look at the webalizer stats for our website

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This is the main Webalizer Stats page

To view more detailed statistics, click the month for which you want to view statistics

Click the [Daily Statistics] link

This is the summary stats page for the chosen month. For more detailed stats, select from the available links

Click the [URLs] link

Let’s return to the Direct Admin page

Click the Home icon here

This is the end of the tutorial. You can return to the Site Statistics page at any time to view updated stats about your website

How to password protect a directory in Direct Admin

How to password protect a directory in Direct Admin

Click Password Protected Directories

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

Now let’s learn how to password protect a directory in our hosting account

There are currently no directories in this account, that are password protected

Let’s locate a directory to protect…. click here

Let’s password protect the Members directory in this hosting account… click the Protect link for the Members directory

Enter the Prompt for the login box that will appear when someone tries to access this directory

enter a username…

… and password

Then re-enter the password here

Click the Protection Enabled box to enable password protection for this directory

Click Save when finished

That’s it! The Member’s directory is now protected in that visitors will be prompted for a username and password before they can enter

Click the Home icon here

Click the Password Protected Directories link again

This link represents the directory we just protected. Let’s click the link to manage it

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… and here we see a list of users that have been created and given password access to this directory

We can update an existing user’s password by entering the username here, followed by the new password…..

… and we can also add new users to this directory by entering new usernames and assigning them passwords as well

Finally, we can delete existing users from having access to this directory by selecting them here and clicking delete

Here we can see that this directory has password protection enabled

This is the end of the tutorial. You now know how to password protect a directory in your hosting account, such that people will have to enter a username and password to enter it