After you login to your Advanced Control Panel, you will see that it is organized into five tabs which are located at the top of the screen. Each tab represents a different Dashboard. The functions listed within each of the five tabs are described, below. *

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Click the "Site" tab to access the Site Dashboard. This area is where you manage individual websites. Here you can add sites, configure them, manage email, and perform scheduled tasks. To add a site, click the "add site" link on the left pane. Website Settings Central location for configuring your site, including admin user, server aliases, custom error pages, MIME types, customer settings, and SSL. Website Files & Scripts The list of directories and files containing in your documents root directory appears on this screen. Also, using this tool you can upload files to your system. Website Statistics Detailed monthly report based on Apache log files will be displayed. By default, the web statistics for the current month is shown. You can select the month and year to view website statistics. Select the month and the year from drop-down menus at the top of the screen and click the Submit button. Mailboxes This tool allows you to setup mailboxes for your websites Type a user name before @ in the E-mail field, and select one of your domains. If you want to create mailboxes for this user in each of your domains, select (multiple domains). Mail Forwarding With this tool, you can redirect the incoming mail for particular user to somewhere else. Mailing Lists Mailing list is a list of e-mail addresses identified by a single name, such as mail-list@yourdomain.com. When an e-mail message is sent to the mailing list name, it is automatically forwarded to all the addresses in the list. phpMyAdmin phpMyAdmin is a handy tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of a MySQL database. MySQL is an open source relational database management system that relies on SQL for processing the data in the database. Open Webmail The Advanced Control Panel allows reading mail using Open WebMail system. If you are new to Open WebMail and wish to know more, please, see at the Open WebMail Help site. All Applications All applications that can be configured per website are enlisted under the Site zone of your Control Panel. Some applications are provided with the special control panels used for application configuration. Such applications are shown under the separate icons at your Control Panel dashboard. Crontab By using Crontab, you can schedule any script or program to run at a time that is most convenient for you.

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Click the "System" tab to access the System Dashboard. This area is where you manage your system. Here you can perform server maintenance, add or remove users, stop and re-start applications such as your mail or FTP server, or perform backup. Backup and Restore This is your central location for performing backups. Server Info The most general information about your server appears on the screen. The server can be restarted from this screen. Web Server This tool displays your Apache web server dashboard. Apache is a public-domain open source web server. The server can be restarted from this screen. File Manager This tool allows you to setup mailboxes for your websites Type a user name before @ in the E-mail field, and select one of your domains. If you want to create mailboxes for this user in each of your domains, select (multiple domains). FTP Server With this tool, you can manage the FTP settings such as ProFTPD, GPL-licensed FTP server software, and view basic settings of the FTP server. The server can be restarted and configured from this screen. Databases Add, configure and remove MySQL databases using this icon. This screen allows you to add database users and view the tables of MySQL databases. phpMyAdmin phpMyAdmin is a handy tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of a MySQL database. MySQL is an open source relational database management system that relies on SQL for processing the data in the database. FTP Accounts This tool allows you to add FTP users. Services This tool shows you the list of Services installed in the selected System that you can manage via the web interface. Log Files Here you can navigate and manipulate your log file system. You can copy, rename and delete log files and directories, upload log files to the server, change permissions, etc - all from your browser. All the operations are similar to the conventional File Manager. To view a log, click on its name. Mail Server Stopping and starting your mail service at times may be helpful. Sometimes, you may need to stop your mail service, for example, to check your mail system, or investigate flooding, etc. Spam Filter If you want to limit electronic mail, usually advertising some products, services, businesses, schemes, websites, etc., set a spam filter for your mail. Domains To view domains registered for your system, click the Domains icon. The list of domains appears on the screen; The list of domains displays the following: Domain. Domain name; IP Address. The IP address (if any) that correspond to domain name; Registered. Whether a zone file was created for a domain, i.e., whether a domain is registered (green tick) or not (red cross). MX Records You may create several MX records with different-priority (for example, 10, 100, 200, etc.) mail exchangers. The reason for setting up multiple MX records is a reliable mail delivery. In the unlikely even of the primary mail server being down, the mail message will be temporarily sent to another mail server designated by the MX record. If this mail server is not responding, the message will be sent to lower-priority mail exchanger.

 

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