To set up a Web site: please folow the following:-

1) Login to Plesk control Panel.

2) Go to Home > Domains group title menu > Create Domain.

3) Specify the domain name that was previously registered with a domain

name registrar. Leave the www check box selected if you want to allow

users to access the site by a common URL like www.your-domain.com.

4) If you have previously created a domain template and predefined all

hosting features and resource usage allotments. select the required

template from the Use domain template settings menu.

5) If you have a number of IP addresses to choose from, select the

required address from the Assign IP address menu.

6) Select the Mail and DNS check boxes

7) Select the Web Site Hosting option to host the Web site on this machine.

8) Select the Web Site Hosting option to host the Web site on this machine.

9) Click Next >>.

10) Specify the following settings:-

a) SSL support:-Secure Sockets Layer encryption is generally used for

protecting transfer of sensitive data during online transactions

on e-commerce Web sites that run on dedicated IP addresses.

b) Use a single directory for housing SSL and non-SSL content:-By

default, when users publish their sites through their FTP accounts,

they need to upload the Web content that should be accessible via

secure connections to the httpsdocs directory, and the content that

should be accessible via plain HTTP, to the httpdocs directory.

c) Hard disk quota:- Specify the amount of disk space in megabytes

allocated to the Web space for this site. This is the so-called hard

quota that will not allow writing more files to the Web space when

the limit is reached. At attempt to write files, users will get the "Out

of disk space" error.

d) Create Web site using Sitebuilder :-This allows a site owner to create

and manage his or her Web site using the Sitebuilder service installed

on the server.

e) Microsoft FrontPage support :- Microsoft FrontPage is a popular Web site

authoring tool. To enable users to publish and modify their sites through

Microsoft FrontPage, select the options Microsoft FrontPage.

f) Web statistics:- To allow Web site owner to view the information on the

number of people visited his or her site and the pages of the site they viewed,

select the statistics program you need from the Web statistics menu, and select

the accessible via password protected directory /plesk-stat/webstat

check box.

g) Custom error documents :-When visitors coming to your site request pages

that the Web server cannot find, the Web server generates and displays a

standard HTML page with an error message. If you wish to create your own

error pages and use them on your Web server or allow your customers to do

that, select the Custom error documents check box.

h) Use dedicated pool :- This option enables the use of dedicated IIS application

pool for Web applications on a domain. Using dedicated IIS application pool

dramatically improves the stability of domain Web applications due to worker

process isolation mode.

11) Click Next >>.

12) Review and adjust if you want to change any settings.

13) Click Finish.

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