Creating SB Resellers for Plesk Domain Administrator Accounts
In this version of the Remote Admin for SiteBuilder 2 module, the Plesk administrator can automatically create SiteBuilder reseller accounts for Plesk domain users (FTP users). Thus, the module will automatically create a reseller account in SiteBuilder with the FTP user login and password of the selected Plesk domain.
When you create a reseller account for a Plesk domain user, the Remote Admin for SiteBuilder 2 module performs the following operations:
- Creates a SiteBuilder reseller account for this domain. The reseller login is the FTP user login and the reseller password is the FTP user password for this domain.
Note: If the FTP user password was not set, no password will be assigned to the corresponding reseller account.
You can manage this reseller account either through the module interface (SBM main page --> Resellers) or from the SiteBuilder administration panel (click the Resellers button).
- Creates the Remote Admin for SiteBuilder custom button on the management page of this domain in Plesk. This custom button opens the Module page and the user is automatically logged under his/her reseller account. Through the Remote Admin for SiteBuilder 2, resellers can manage their sites, hosts, and plans.
- Adds the target domain and all its subdomains to the list of allowed hosts for the new reseller account.
To create a reseller account in the SiteBuilder application for a Plesk domain-level user (in Plesk terminology, a domain administrator):
- On the SBM management page, click
Plesk Resellers. The Plesk Resellers page displays all domains with physical hosting existing in the Plesk control panel. The Access column shows the status of each domain:
- Using the check boxes, select one or several domains for which you want to create reseller accounts in the SiteBuilder application.
- Click
Allow Access at the bottom of the list (or click the status icon in the Access column). The status icon for the domain changes to
A(llowed). The reseller account is created for the selected domain. - To check that the reseller account has been created for the Plesk domain user:
- Return to the SBM main page and click
Resellers. On the Resellers page, check that the domain name has appeared in the list of SB resellers. Click the name of the reseller you have just created in the list. On the Hosts tab, validate that this domain is specified as the allowed host for publishing sites of this reseller. - Open the management page for the target domain in the Plesk control panel. You can see the Remote Admin for SiteBuilder custom button on this page. Using this button, the domain user will access the SiteBuilder RA module under his/her reseller account.
After the reseller account is created, you can manage its settings through the module interface (see the Resellers section of the Managing Sites chapter).
To remove the reseller account created for the Plesk domain user:
- On the SBM management page, click
Plesk Resellers. - In the list of domains with physical hosting, select one or several check boxes corresponding to the Plesk domains for which you want to delete the reseller account.
- Click
Deny Access at the bottom of the list. The corresponding reseller account will be removed from the SiteBuilder application.
Note:
- If the some of the domain settings are changed in the Plesk control panel, such as FTP user login, password, or domain name, all these changes will be automatically applied on the SiteBuilder application side. You will not have to manually change anything through the SB Remote Administration module.
- Reseller accounts for Plesk domains can be created only for domains with physical hosting. Reseller accounts cannot be created for domains with other types of hosting, such as standard or frame forwarding.