Site Management
There are two types of sites in SiteBuilder: trial sites and regular sites.
- Trial site is a site with limited functionality. Trial sites cannot be published. They are created by Users who use SiteBuilder for the first time. Also trial sites have a lifetime of 30 days. If a trial site is not switched into regular site upon expiration date, this trial site is terminated.
- Regular site is a site with a full functionality and ready for publishing. You can switch a trial site into a regular site.
To manage sites
- Click Main on the navigation pane.
- Click Site Management. The Site Management screen appears.
On this screen you can view the following information about sites:
- Status is a site status. The status may be Activated (A) or Deactivated (D). A deactivated site cannot be published on the Internet.
- Publish shows whether a site is allowed for publishing (+) or not (-). For trial sites the sign in the Publish column is (n/a).
- Type is a type of a site: trial or regular.
- Site alias is a unique site name.
- Reseller is a name of a Reseller who owns a site.
- Creation date is a date when a site was created.
- Expiration date is a date when a trial site is terminated.

If there are more than 6 sites in the sites list, the option Sites per page 10, 15, 25, All will be displayed at the bottom of the Site Management screen. You can select 10, 15, 25 or all sites to be displayed per page by clicking either of these numbers.
On the Site Management screen, you can see two icons enabling you to preview and publish sites. As only regular sites can be published, the Publish Site icon (
) is located only in the rows of regular sites. The Preview Site icon (
) is located in the rows of both types of sites because trial sites can be previewed as well as regular sites.
- To find a site, enter the site alias in the Site alias field and click Search.
- To see the list of all sites in the system, click Show All Sites.
- To activate or deactivate a site, select the check box beside a site and click Activate or Deactivate.
- To allow or disallow publishing of a regular site, select the check box beside the corresponding site and click Allow Publish or Disallow Publish.
- To switch a trial site to regular, select the check box beside the trial site and click Trial to Regular. If a trial site is deactivated then upon transferring it to a regular site this regular site will be deactivated also.
If licensing agreement is breached, that is the number of the sites allowed for publishing is overreached upon transferring the trial site into the regular site then this regular site becomes deactivated.
If licensing agreement is maintained during this operation then this trial site becomes activated regular site.
When a trial site becomes an activated regular site the Template Plan for trial sites is automatically assigned to it, that is all the settings of the Template Plan for trial sites are assigned to this site. For more effective usage of the Template Plans, edit settings of a newly transferred regular site.
- To delete a site, select it and click Delete.
To add a regular or trial site
- Click Add Regular Site or Add Trial Site. A new screen appears, displayed on the following picture.

- On the General Properties tab, do the following:
- Enter a site alias in the Site alias field.
- Select the Active check box to activate the site. By default sites are not activated.
- Select a hosting Plan from the Plan list.
- Select the interface language from the Language list.
- Enter a password in the Password field if you want to protect this site from editing. Reenter the password in the Confirm Password field.
- On the Publish Properties tab, do the following:
- Select the Allow publishing check box to allow publishing the site. To disallow publishing, clear the check box.
- Indicate the URL (that is the Internet address) of the site in the Site URL address field.
- Select the operating system, in which the site will be published (Unix or MS Windows), in the Target OS field.
- Select the publishing mode (FTP or VPS) from the Mode list.
Note: For the SiteBuilder modules to work correctly, a host where sites are published must have ASP.NET 2.0 installed on it.

If you select the FTP mode, configure the following parameters: FTP host, FTP login, FTP password, FTP working directory.
If you select the VPS mode, configure the following parameters:
- Site URL address is the Internet address of the site assigned to the site upon its publication.
- Target OS is the operating system of the server, on which the site will be published (MS Windows or Unix).
- VPS domain is the DNS or IP address of the virtual machine.
- VPS service VE IP address is the IP address of the machine where VPS is located.
- VPS identifier is the VPS identifier.
- VPS working directory is the name of the VPS directory where all site files will be stored.
- VPS owner user is the user name of VPS owner.
- VPS owner group is the type of VPS owner: 'User' or 'Group'.
Note: SiteBuilder does not publish deactivated sites. To publish a site, make sure that it is activated.
Note: The Publish tab is available during regular site creation only.
- On the Informational E-mail tab, do the following:
- Enter the e-mail address of the site owner in the E-mail field.
- Select the Site information to e-mail check box if you want to send site information to the owner.

- On the Plan Properties tab, do the following:
- Click Apply.
You can run group operations on sites listed on the Site Management screen. Group operations on sites include:
- Activating sites
- Deactivating sites
- Allowing publishing sites
- Disallowing publishing sites
- Switching sites from trial to regular
- Deleting sites
To perform a group operation, choose multiple sites by selecting several check boxes (you can choose all sites at once by selecting the check box at the top of the column) and click Activate, Deactivate, Allow Publish, Disallow Publish, Trial to Regular or Delete.