How to find and install applications in Plesk

How to find and install applications in Plesk

This demo assumes you’ve already logged in to Plesk.

Now let’s learn how to find and install third party applications.

Click the Applications tab.

You can use third party applications to add features to your website such as a blog, online store, photo gallery, or you can base your site entirely on a single application such as Joomla or WordPress.

To learn more about an app, simply click its name.

Featured Applications shows the most recommended and popular apps available for your website.

You can learn more about the application… and if you want to use it, you can install it from here.

Now click All Available Applications.

This section shows all the applications, both free and commercial, that are available to be installed.

Selecting a category will narrow your search… and you can also choose a sub-category.

We can now view all the applications related to content management on the web.

Let’s go through an example of installing an app.

That’s it! The application was installed, and you can see the application settings on this page.

In the Manage My Applications section, we can see which applications we’ve installed, and it’s from here that we can go to manage our installed applications.

This is the end of the tutorial. You now know how to find and install third party applications in Plesk.

From here you can change any of your application settings…

Or remove the application from your account.

How to add a domain to your account in Plesk

How to add a domain to your account in Plesk

This demo assumes you’ve already logged in to Plesk.

Now let’s learn how to add a domain to our account.

Click the Add Domain button.

Enter the new domain name you want to setup.

Choose the hosting type for this domain. In this case we want the domain to have it’s own website, so we’ll leave Website Hosting selected.

Choose whether you want the preferred domain to have the www prefix or not.

When ready, click OK.

That’s it! The new domain has been created.

To delete a domain, click the Remove Website icon here.

This is the end of the tutorial. You now know how to add a domain to your account in Plesk.

How to manage DNS zones in Plesk

How to manage DNS zones in Plesk

This demo assumes you’ve already logged in to Plesk.

Now let’s learn how to manage DNS zones.

Click the DNS Settings option.

From here you can switch off the DNS service…

Make the Plesk DNS server act as a slave for this zone, and use an external DNS zone instead…

Add a DNS zone record…

… or restore the default settings.

Let’s go ahead and add a new record.

Let’s add an A record, which lets us point a subdomain to an IP address.

The DNS record has been created, but you still have to click Update for the changes to go live.

That’s it! You can now see the new record we just added, here in the list of DNS records.

To remove a DNS record, simply select it, then click Remove.

Once again, click Update to make the changes live.

This is the end of the tutorial. You now know how to manage DNS zones in Plesk.

How to add a domain forwarder in Plesk

How to add a domain forwarder in Plesk

This demo assumes you’ve already logged in to Plesk.

Now let’s learn how to add a domain forwarder.

Click the Add Domain button.

Now enter the domain name you want as a forwarder.

In the Hosting Type section, click Forwarding.

Then enter the address you want the new domain name forwarded to… the target website.

Choose whether you want this to be a permanent or a temporary forwarder.

Then click OK when finished.

That’s it! The new domain forwarder has been created. Now when someone visits demo-domain.com, they will automatically be forwarded to testsite.com.

To delete this domain forwarder, simply click the Remove Website icon.

This is the end of the tutorial. You now know how to add a domain forwarder in Plesk.

How to suspend websites in Plesk

How to suspend websites in Plesk

This demo assumes you’ve already logged in to Plesk.

Now let’s learn how to suspend websites.

You may want to suspend a website within your Plesk account, if for example you are managing the website for a third party and they’ve stopped paying for your services.

To suspend a website, simply click the Suspend link for the website.

That’s it! The website has been suspended and will no longer display in a browser.

To unsuspend the website, click the Activate link.

This is the end of the tutorial. You now know how to suspend and unsuspend websites in Plesk.

How to add a subdomain in Plesk

How to add a subdomain in Plesk

This demo assumes you’ve already logged in to Plesk.

Now let’s learn how to add a subdomain.

Click the Add Subdomain button.

Enter the subdomain name you want to create.

The document root folder is automatically created, which you can rename if you wish.

Click OK when ready.

This is the end of the tutorial. You now know how to add a subdomain in Plesk.

That’s it! The new subdomain has been created, and you can manage it from here.