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Getting started with ISPmanagerThis document provides the information you'll need to know about getting started with VPS. Let's start with the interface and look through the modules where you can find the information about server parameters and change the main settings. |
Welcome message
Once you purchased and paid the VPS , you will receive a letter “Your VPS-First is active”. The package is not important. Please, read the letter carefully and keep it. You will need the information later. Find the following data:
Control panel: ISPmanager Lite (www.ispsystem.com)
ISPmanager web-interface address https:// XX.XXX.XX.XX /manager/
Your virtual server address: your_vps.joinvps.com
user: root
password: XXXXX
IP-address allocated to your virtual server: XX.XXX.XX.XX
First NS: ns1.joinvps.com XX.XXX.XX.X
Second NS: ns2.joinvps.com XX.XXX.XX.XX
Please note! Server IP-address, domain name and password are just examples. Use the information from your letter.
Open URL of the control panel
In your browser open the ISPmanager address specified in the letter: https:// XX.XXX.XX.XX /manager/. Please note, that if address starts with "https", that means all the data transfered between server and browser is encrypted. If you type http://, the error message will be displayed.
Fatal error:
Please change your protocol. You should use 'https' to work with this program.
Authorization and license agreement
Using the correct URL you will get to the “Authorization” page. In the “Login” field type “root”, in the “Password” field specify the password from the letter you received.
The third and the forth fields can remain unchanged. The "License agreement" is displayed first. This page will appear only once. "Welcome root... Congratulations!" You successfully access the control panel of your server. On the left there is ISPmanager modules menu. It is not necessary to use all the modules.
Administrators. Change the password
Open the “Administrator” module in the “Accounts” section. There is a list with "root" only. Later you can create additional administrators for server management. Open the “Root” parameters form. To do so, select the corresponding line in the table and click “Edit administrator parameters”. You can also enter the form double-clicking the line. There you can change the password. All other administrator parameters are read-only.
Attention! If you change the root password, please, keep it in mind. Only the technical support team will be able to recover it.
System information
Open the “System information” module in the “Statistics” section. There you can view the information on your VPS resources and server parameters. Double-click the “Disc space size” line. Next, the “Disc information” is displayed. “Used/total”: 1/400. It means that only 1 Mb from 400 Mb available is used.
Return to the previous page using the corresponding button. Double-click the “Processes number” to view the “Processes list”. There is information about all the processes running on your server.
Current activity and Operation log
Open the “Current activity” module in the “Statistics” section. There you can view information about the user currently working with the ISPmanager control panel. There is only one line. Later if you create more users on your server, the list will be larger.
Open the “Action log” module in the “Statistics” section. There you can view the history about all the operations made via the control panel. In the operations list you can find information on the operation time, user making this operation, and his IP-address. You can use the filter by specified parameters.
If you changed your password, there will be the following record in the Log:
2006-12-06 06:34:50 root xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx mgradmin.edit
Server parameters
Move to "Server settings" — "Server parameters".
"Server name" is the main domain name of your server. It is impossible to change it via ISPmanager, but usually it is not necessary.
"Time zone" is the time according to which your server works. It affects the Scheduler tasks and the time of the time functions in your scripts. Select the appropriate time zone.
"Root mail redirect" is a email address to receive redirected mail from the server. Once in 24 hours the scripts make reports about system performance. All these letters will be sent to the e-mail address specified in this field. We recommend you to set a real e-mail box on another server.
IP-addresses
In the “IP-address” module of the “Server settings” section you can look through the IP-addresses allocated to your VPS. Later you can order additional IP-addresses or refuse them, but the main one remains unchanged.
You can set different statuses to IP-addresses. For example, you can allocate certain IP-address to a user, and only he will be able to use it for his domains.
Data bases servers
Open the “Data base servers” module in the “Server setting” sections. There is one record for MySQL server run on your VPS. Open the form with this MySQL server parameters. We need the following information:
"Password" is a current root password to access the server without MySQL data base.
"Coding" – when you add MySQL bases to the server, they should be encoded.
PHP extensions
Open the “PHP extensions” module in the “Server settings” section. It displays all the PHP extensions installed on your server. Each of them has the “Enabled” or “Disabled” status. If there is a lock-like icon, this extension is compiled into PHP and cannot be disabled. You can enable or disable PHP extensions, if necessary. We recommend you to enable only those extensions that are required by your scripts, as the more extensions are on, the more server resources are consumed.
User settings
In the “User settings” module you can set your control panel interface. You can choose a language, theme, set the number of lines per page, enable or disable access from the specified IP-addresses. Also you can change the password of the current user.
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