Upgrading License Key for Your Plesk Panel
Parallels Plesk Panel comes with a trial license key, which is automatically installed to the control panel. This license key allows you to create one user account, host one Web site and one mail box. Therefore, to fully use the Parallels Plesk Panel as you need, you should obtain a license key from Parallels or one of its resellers and install it to the control panel.
Parallels Plesk Panel will attempt to connect over TCP/IP to the licensing server through port 5224. Please make sure that this is not blocked by a firewall. The update process runs automatically and the Parallels Plesk Panel administrator does not need to do anything unless there is a problem. Should the Parallels Plesk Panel key expire, check your firewall and then go to Home > License Management (in the Help & Support group) and click Retrieve Keys. If the key cannot be updated, contact your reseller or Parallels (if you purchased the license key directly from Parallels).
You can test the connection to the licensing server anytime by going to Home > License Management (in the Help & Support group) and clicking Retrieve Keys.
Set up antivirus in Plesk on a Linux-based hosting server
1. Go to Home > Updates.
2. Click your Parallels Plesk Panel version.
3. In the list of components, select either Dr.Web antivirus or Kaspersky antivirus.
4. Click Install.
After the installation is completed, obtain and install a license key for the selected antivirus program, as described in the following steps.
5. Go to Home > License Management.
6. Click Order Control Panel Add-ons. The Parallels online store page listing available add-ons opens in a new browser window.
7. On this page, select the check box next to the Dr. Web Antivirus or Kaspersky Antivirus item and click ADD TO MY BASKET.
8. Because Parallels Plesk Panel add-ons are added to the license keys that already exist, the Parallels Plesk Panel Number Checking System page will open. Enter the number of your license key to which you add this feature and click Submit.
9. In the next steps, indicate the currency, number of keys, provide contact details, billing address, and payment method, and submit the form. You will be notified by e-mail when your order is processed.
10. When you receive the e-mail notice, return to the License Management screen (Home > License Management) and click Retrieve Keys to retrieve the ordered license key. Parallels Plesk Panel License Manager will retrieve the upgraded license key from the Parallels licensing server and install it to your control panel.
11. Go to Settings > Virus Protection Settings.
12. Under Antivirus preferences, select the antivirus you need and click OK.
If you are going to host more than 300 domains or web sites on your server, you should switch on support for piped logs in the Apache Web Server.
To enable piped logs:
Log in to the server shell.
Issue the command mysql -uadmin -p`cat /etc/psa/.psa.shadow` -D psa -e “replace into misc (param,val) values (’apache_pipelog’, ‘true’);”
Rebuild Apache configuration by issuing the command /usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/websrvmng -a -v
Source from Plesk.
Modify global setting for the Apache server in the main Apache configuration file:
/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf for RedHat-based systems;
/etc/apache2/apache2.conf (or a corresponding file from /etc/apache2/conf.d/ /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/) for Debian-based systems;
/etc/apache2/httpd.con (or /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/*) for SuSE;
Virtual Host Structure and Permissions
Vhost permissions should satisfy the following conditions:
Home directory should be readable by apache, psaadm and psaftp.
The user cannot change some catalogues of their directories.
Other users should not have access to the user’s home directory.
Sender Policy Framework (SPF) is a relatively new method of fighting spam. As more time passes, this protocol will be used as one of the standard methods of fighting spam on the internet. Essentially, an SPF record is a type TXT record placed into a domain’s DNS zone. The string placed within the TXT record specifies a list of authorized host names/IP addresses that mail can originate from for a given domain name. Once this entry is placed within the DNS zone, no further configuration is necessary to take advantage of servers that incorporate SPF checking into their anti-spam systems. These are added the same way as a regular A, MX, or CNAME record would be.
A typical example TXT record for SPF looks like this:
serverbuddies.com. IN TXT v=spf1 a:mail.serverbuddies.com ~all
serverbuddies.com. IN TXT “v=spf1 a mx ~all”
source for this information can be found here: http://www.openspf.org/SPF_Record_Syntax
SPF Record Testing Tools
http://www.kitterman.com/spf/validate.html
