I don't have much experience with Plesk, so I'd appreciate some help. I got a new customer who, aside from his main site, wants ability to set up 4 subdomains and 4 additional FTP accounts for the users. What he wants is http://subdomain.domain.com .

When setting up this customer in Plesk,

1. How do I assign the additional FTP accounts? Do I do it or can he in his Plesk control panel?

2. Do I set up the subdomains or does he? How/where are they set up?

Thanks for your help.
Vito

To set up a subdomain on Plesk, you set it up exactly the same
way as you would a regular domain, just enter subdomain.domain.com and configure hosting as usual.

For additional ftp accounts you can just have them create web users, and use them as ftp accounts.

On plesk I believe only Client's are allowed to create domains, so If you have them set up as a client then they can create the subdomains, otherwise you will have to create them.

Thanks for the reply.

I'm still not sure I get it 100%. So from what you're saying, my customer cannot create the subdomains himself. I have to create them, right?

But here's the thing. He signed up for an account 100 MB space, 3 GB bandwidth. This is for his entire site. If I set up new subdomains for him as if they were different domains, how do I divvy up the disc space/bandwidth?

Vito

You mention that you are not familiar with Plesk much, but are you with Apache?

You can setup the subdomain in Apache's httpd.conf ((I would only suggest this if you are familiar with httpd.conf)).
The benefit of doing it this was is only apparent when you have a limited domain license of Plesk (like 200 domain) because setting up subdomains in Plesk costs you one licence for each ;-)

B

Vito:

You don't need to...
You can set up the subdomain in Plesk, and choose standard forward hosting instead of physical hosting. Point the subdomain in forward hosting to the subdirectory the client will be hosting his material. There is no divvying of space or bandwidth this way.

EXAMPLE -> Sub.domain.com

Set up the domain as sub.domain.com
in Plesk choose the domain sub.domain.com
Select standard hosting, then Forward hosting
Enter in the URL http://www.domain.com/sub/

HTH ;-)

Cheers,
B

No, unfortunately I am not comfortable with httpd.conf.

Did I mention this is not my server? I am working with a reseller account.

Byron29, that sounds like the best way to do it. Thanks. I will set it up that way.

Thanks all for your help.

Vito

Hey...

that is the best way to make it work with a reseller account ;-)

just make the domain and standard forward it. Makes it nice and easy for you and the client;-)

B

Since the string was about SubD's in Plesk let me ask this question.

We have been adding sub's on our server for about a year and we just add them as another domain without the www.

In the past they would show up righ then if the main domain was already propagated.

Now all of a sudden they will not show up at all even three days later. I can FTP to it but it will not resolve??

Any thoughts?

Robert