Starting Up With CP+

The document explains how to start working in CP+ interface right after installation.

1. Log In To CP+ As Admin
2. Install CP+ License
3. Configure CP+ Services

1. Log In To CP+ As Admin.

When CP+ installation is complete, the setup script would finish its work with the following message:

        CP+ has been installed and started successfully.

        Use your web browser to go to

        CP+:  http://cpplus_host:10000/
        EndUser_CP:  http://cpplus_host:20000/

        and login with the name < admin > and password for Unix user < root >.

In your browser, log into CP+ at http://cpplus_host:10000/ as admin and with your server root password:

2. Install CP+ License.

You will be asked to install CP+ license. Without it, you won't be able to work with CP+.

Press Install License. CP+ License Installation form appears:

Now you have two options:

1) Request PSoft to purchase CP+ licenses. PSoft staff will issue licenses for you and sent the license files to the e-mail address you specified.

Save these files locally. Then, in the Install License File form select a license file by clicking the browse button (...) and browsing through your local directories for the file:

Click the Install License button to install CP+ license from the file.

2) Or, you may click on the Get Trial License button to acquire a temporary license to test CP+ within a month. Fill in the form and send it to PSoft:

Note: Trial license can be given to you only once! You won't be able to get it after CP+ reinstall!

After you successfully install licenses, you will enter CP+ admin interface. Site Manager page will appear by default.

3. Configure CP+ Services.

CP+ provides Web interface to perform system administration tasks on certain services such as Apache, Bind or mail server installed on the given dedicated box. CP+ automatically detects the services installed if they are set up in their default locations. Otherwise, you will see a warning message that a certain service is not properly configured:

You may click on the Site Manager's module configuration link and turn the service off to be unavailable for management via CP+.

The Server settings section allows you to enable configurations for BIND, mail, Apache setup, databases (MySQL and Postgres), quota setup and quota type, set default IP address, enable name based hosting and more:

The Domain owner permissions section allows you to specify the rights of the domain onwers: selecting home directories for users, creating FTP users, setting mailbox quotas and more:

In the Defaults for new domains section you can specify default values for home directory base, home subdirectory, Shell for mailbox and FTP users, Shell for domain users, default quotas for new servers and new mailboxes and more.

In the Actions upon domain and user creation section you can specify the actions that will be taken when domain/user is created, e.g sending template files for emails to new domain owners, new mailboxes, new local users.

In Feature modules available to domain owners you can enable/disable the modules listed in this section (BIND DNS Server, Virtual Email, Apache Webserver etc).

Extra modules available to domain owners

Click Save to apply changes in configuration.

After you have successfully configured some services for CP+ management and turn others off, you will be able to configure CP+ Site Manager, to add websites (virtual domains), to modify service configuration templates, and to start/stop services from the Site Manager page: