How to create an autoresponder in Direct Admin

How to create an autoresponder in Direct Admin

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

Now let’s learn how to create an autoresponder

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Click the Autoresponders link

Click the Create New Autoresponder link

This is the screen where you can create autoresponders for your hosting account

When an email is sent to an autoresponder email address, an automatic message is sent back to the sender of the email. Let’s create an autoresponder message

Enter a new email address for the new autoresponder, keeping in mind that the address you enter cannot already exist as a POP email account, forwarder or mailing list

Then enter your autoresponder message here

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If you want to be notified whenever an autoresponse is sent, click here and enter your email address

When finished, click the Create button

That’s it! The new autoresponder has been created, and is listed here

From this same screen, you can also modify existing autoresponders, or delete them entirely

Let’s go ahead and delete the autoresponder we just created

Click the Delete Selected button

The autoresponder has been deleted

Click the Home icon here

This is the end of the tutorial. You can return to the autoresponder page at any time, to add, modify, or delete autoresponders for your hosting account

How to install an SSL certificate in Direct Admin

How to install an SSL certificate in Direct Admin

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

Now let’s learn how to install an SSL certificate in Direct Admin

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Click the SSL Certificates link

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Keep in mind that you can only install an SSL certificate into an account that uses a dedicated IP address; if this account did not have a dedicated IP address, then this page would have returned an error

Let’s start by creating a certificate request

To install an SSL certificate, we first have to create a certificate request, then take that request to an SSL certificate vendor to purchase a certificate

Enter the details of your company for the certificate

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When finished, click Save

The certificate request has been generated, and is located here; you must copy this request and use it in your SSL certificate vendor’s order form when purchasing your certificate

Once you’ve purchased your new SSL certificate, return to the SSL certificates screen

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We now have to paste our newly bought certificate below the Private Key shown below…. click here

Paste the new SSL cetificate here

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You would then click the Save button to install the new SSL certificate

Click the Home icon here

This is the end of the tutorial. Remember that your account must be setup with a dedicated IP address in order for you to be able to install a dedicated SSL certificate for your domain

How to backup your website in Direct Admin

How to backup your website in Direct Admin

Click the Create/Restore Backups link

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

Now let’s learn how to backup our website/files, and restore them

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This is the main backup screen, where you can select specific portions of your account to backup….. Leave everything checked if you want everything in your account backed up

Let’s go ahead and create a backup of this account….. click Create Backup

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Now let’s download the latest backup to our computer….. click here

The backup file has been created

Click Save

Click Save again

When the download is complete, click Close

Now let’s go take a look at the backups we have stored in our hosting account….. click here

Click the Home icon here

Here is our backup, listed in the Backups folder of File Manager

Go back to Create/Restore Backups

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Select the file you wish to restore from this list

Now let’s learn how to restore files from a backup

Then click here to restore the files

You can choose to restore only part of the account, by unchecking the boxes next to the items you don’t want restored

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Let’s restore the entire account…. click here

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Click here to return to File Manager

The account was successfuly restored

Now let’s restore the backup that we previously saved to our computer

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Click Upload files to current directory

Locate the backup file on your computer

Then click Open

Click Upload Files

That’s it! The backup has been uploaded to the server, and can now be used to restore the account

Click the Home icon here

This is the end of the tutorial. You now know how to backup your account to the server, or to your own computer….. and how to restore previously saved backups from the server, or from your computer

How to create a subdomain in Direct Admin

How to create a subdomain in Direct Admin

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

Now let’s learn how to create a subdomain

Click the Subdomain Management link here

Enter the prefix of the new subdomain here

The is the subdomain page where you can setup and remove subdomains for your hosting account

Let’s go ahead and create a new subdomain

Then click the Create button

To delete the subdomain, click this box here…

Success! The new subdoman has been created, and a folder of the same name has also been setup in your public_html directory… which is where you would upload your subdomain files

From this page, you can check your subdomain stats, and bandwidth usage, as well as view it’s usage logs and error logs

… and click this box if you also want the newly created folder and it’s contents removed…

Then click the Delete Selected button

The subdomain has been removed from the hosting account

Click the Home icon here

This is the end of the tutorial. You now know how to setup new subdomains and view their usage stats, as well as how to remove subdomains from your account

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

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 manage URL redirects in Direct Admin

How to manage URL redirects in Direct Admin

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

Now let’s learn how to create URL redirects from Direct Admin

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Click the Site Redirection link

Type in the URL of the page you want to redirect away from

This is the main redirect page, where you can create and delete URL redirects

Then enter the destination URL, or the page you want visitors to be redirected to

Click Save

Now let’s delete the URL redirect we just setup

That’s it! The URL redirect has been setup….. and is now listed here

Click the Home icon here

The URL redirect has just been deleted

This is the end of the tutorial. You now know how to setup URL redirects, and delete them, from your Direct Admin control panel