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This document describes what steps you need to make in order
to configure your admin panel:
Creating Your Administrative
Account
When you get registered with the system (either directly
"from the street" or submitting required information
to the administrator), you receive a welcome e-mail with the
login and password to your reseller account.
Reseller account represents you as a user of the system and
is a gateway to creating your administrative account.
Administrative account is used to to group resources, set
retail prices, edit plans, signup users, manage your users'
accounts and the range of other administrative tools. See
below for instructions on how to create and configure your
administrative account.
1. Go to the login page at the URL that you received in
your welcome e-mail.
2. Log into your reseller account with the login and
password that you received in your welcome e-mail.
3. When you first log into your reseller account you'll be
asked to create your administrative account and fill in the
form below:
Submit this form, and your administrative account will
be created.
Note:
Admin login and Admin password are used
to log directly into your admin control panel.
Reseller login and Reseller password are used
to log into your reseller account.
Configuring Your Admin
Control Panel
When you have created your administrative account you can
log into your admin control panel either directly from the
street with your admin login/password or from your reseller
account Info -> admin account:
Creating DNS zone to service your
main domain
First, you will need to create so called 'service' DNS zone.
This is required for:
- replacing the URL of your login page and users control
panels that contain references to your parent host with
your own independent control panel URL,
e.g.: r.41.res.parent_host.com:8080 to cp.your_own_domain.com:8080
- the instant alias, to provide your users with a temporary
access to their sites until the DNS servers throughout the
world get updated and point users' domains to the appropriate
IP;
- third level domain hosting on the basis of your main domain
name.
1. Go to E.Manager -> DNS Manager ->Add
DNS zone.
2. Create DNS zone for your domain.
3. When you have created DNS zone to service your main domain,
click the Edit icon in the Action section next
to the DNS zone. Check if there are all the necessary built-in
DNS records for your domain.
It should look similarly to the following table:
You might need to add some Custom DNS records.
* For more details, see Configuring
Your DNS Settings, Admin guide.
Creating instant alias template
Instant alias template is required to generate instant aliases.
These provide your users with a temporary access to their
sites until the DNS servers throughout the world get updated
and point users' domains to the appropriate IPs.
In your administrative account go to E.Manager ->
DNS manager, click the Edit icon next to the DNS Zone
you have created. Click the Add Instant Alias link.
In the form you would be taken to enter the prefix and
shared IP tag. This is done to distinguish between
different templates. It proves very helpful in case you'd
like to assign different instant alias templates to generate
URL's for temporary access to users' sites under different
plans.
*For more details see Configuring
Your DNS Settings, Admin guide.
Adding server aliases
Server aliases are intended to exclude all the references
to your parent host and make his servers transparent to your
end clients. Use your own names for the servers of the parent
hosting company. Your customers will see only your DNS server
aliases, but the DNS zone will be registered on the same servers
as those of the parent hosting company.
First, make sure the DNS zone for your main domain has been
created with all the necessary built-in DNS records. Then
go to E.Manager -> Server Aliases. In the
page that appears, on the left you'll be able to enter your
own host names and select service zones from those you have
created with the DNS Manager; on the right you can see which
server you are creating aliases for:
In the upper part of this form, enter your aliases for DNS
servers. These aliases (e.g.: ns1.your.domain.com)
must be registered with Network
Solutions. Such registration requires a dedicated IP.
To register two DNS aliases, you need two dedicated IPs.
In the lower part of this form, enter your aliases for all
other logical servers in the system. They will show when users
connect to your servers, for example, by FTP. These server
names don't have to be registered anywhere, and you can enter
any names you want. All you need is to have this DNS zone
(e.g.: your.domain.com) registered with a domain registration
company, such as OpenSRS or InterNIC.
When you are through with creating aliases, click the Submit
button. Valid aliases are displayed as plain text, i.e.
no drop-down boxes and the Trash Can icon will appear
next to the record.
Changing reseller CP alias to
his own CP URL
After the system configuration has been complete (which,
also, includes creating and configuring plans
and Other aspects of control panel configuration),
the reseller control panel can be accessed by the instant
reseller cp domain alias. When the DNS servers worldwide get
updated, you can substitute it with a branded control panel
URL. Select Change URL in the INFO menu of your
reseller account :
On the page that appears, choose the protocol, enter the
domain name and the port number for your control panel. The
port must be the same as that of the parent hosting company.
As a result, the URL of the control panel will be similar
to http://cp.domain.com:8080.
It is also recommended that you back up your instant cp alias:
you may need it whenever your custom control panel URL.
Further steps of control panel configuration
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