Customizing Service Links
This chapter describes how to customize items of the Panel graphical user interface which let your customers do the following:
* Register domain names.
* Purchase SSL certificates.
* Access you website providing the mentioned or other services.
These items are customized using the interface_template command line utility.
The utility is located in /usr/local/psa/bin directory on Linux systems.
How to set up a mirror for the Panel
1. Log in to the server on which you are going to set up a mirror.
2. Create a directory in which the files should reside. For illustration purposes, we will call this directory destination_directory/.
3. Set up a mirror by issuing the following commands.
These commands download the PSA_10.0.0/, SITEBUILDER_5.0.0/, and BILLING_7.0.0/ directories from the Parallels Updates repository to the destination_directory/.
# rsync -au –delete rsync://autoinstall.plesk.com/autoinstall/PSA_10.0.0/ destination_directory
# rsync -au –delete rsync://autoinstall.plesk.com/autoinstall/SITEBUILDER_5.0.0/ destination_directory
# rsync -au –delete rsync://autoinstall.plesk.com/autoinstall/BILLING_7.0.0/ destination_directory
Reference: http://parallels.com/
Repository Structure Parallels Plesk Panel for Linux/Unix
The Parallels Plesk Panel for Linux/Unix repository located at http://autoinstall.plesk.com is structured as follows.
* products.inf3 - Parallels Installer configuration file which describes the Panel products
* plesk.inf3 - Parallels Installer configuration files which describe different versions of the Panel and additional components.
* pp-sitebuilder.inf3 - The configuration file which describes SiteBuilder - the required Panel component.
* billing.inf3 - The configuration file which describes Customer & Business Manager - the Panel component.
* [PRODUCT_NAME]_[product_version] - Several subdirectories named in accordance with the Panel versions.
Reference: http://parallels.com/
Setting Up Locale in Parallels Plesk Panel
To change the default en-US locale:
Log in to the Parallels Plesk Panel server via SSH.
Change the locale by running the utility:
On Linux:
# /usr/local/psa/bin/admin –update -locale en-US
Reference: http://parallels.com/
Optimizing Parallels Plesk Panel in VPS
This makes the Panel use less memory than other control panels available on the market, which ensures better utilization of hardware resources and increased density of virtual environments per server.
If you deploy Parallels Plesk Panel in Parallels Virtuozzo Containers for Linux, consider switching the Panel to a special mode of operation - optimized for virtual environments.
The mode switches off InnoDB engine in MySQL database server, and Apache web server modules that are not critical for hosting services.
The only disadvantages of using the optimized mode are as follows:
* Web applications requiring InnoDB will not work.
* Perl, python and ASP scripts will not work because the required Apache modules will be switched off.
* PHP will be available only through CGI.
Note: It is not applicable to the Panel installations upgraded from earlier versions.
Reference: http://parallels.com/
