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Site Management

As it was mentioned in the Plan Management subsection there are two types of web sites in SiteBuilder: trial web sites and regular web sites.

Site Management allows you to view, edit, activate/deactivate, delete SiteBuilder sites on your host, and switch the trial web site into the regular site. Click the Site Management icon in SiteBuilder's Administrator Interface to access site management functions.

On this screen a web site can be deactivated or activated. Activated web site is marked by A (activated) in the Status column. To deactivate it, select a check box beside activated web site and click Deactivate. To activate web site select the check box beside deactivated web site, marked by D (deactivated) in the Status column, and click Activate. Deactivated web site can not be published.

The administrator is enabled to allow or disallow publishing of the regular web site. To allow publishing of the regular web site select the check box beside the web site and click Allow Publish. To disallow publishing select the check box beside the corresponding site and click Disallow Publish.

To make the trial web site into regular web site for its further publishing select the check box beside this trial site and click Trial to Regular. If trial site is deactivated then upon transferring it to regular web site this site is deactivated also.

If licensing agreement is breached, i.e. the number of the web sites allowed for publishing is overreached upon transferring the trial site into the regular web site then this regular web site becomes deactivated.

If licensing agreement is maintained during this operation then this trial site becomes activated regular site.

When the trial site becomes the activated regular site the Template Plan for the trial web sites is automatically assigned to it, i.e. all the settings of the Template Plan for the trial web sites are assigned to this site. For more effective usage of the Template Plans it is recommended to edit settings of newly transferred regular site.

Note: Only regular web site can be published. Trial web site must be made regular before its publishing

To delete the web site select the check box beside the appropriate web site and click Delete.

If required web site is not included in the list of sites displayed on the Site Management screen this regular site can be added to the system by clicking the Add Regular Site button. Also trial site can be added to the system by clicking the Add Trial Site button. To see the list of all web sites in the system click Show All Sites. If required web site can not be found in the list of web sites administrator can try to find it by entering its site alias in the Search by site alias line and clicking Search...

You can run group operations on sites listed on the Site Management screen. Group operations on sites include:

To perform a group operation, select the multiple accounts by selecting the check boxes in the second column in the table on the Site Management page. Also, you can select all accounts by setting the check box at the top of the table.

Then click one of the controls (Activate, Deactivate, Allow Publish, Disallow Publish, Trial To Regular or Delete) to perform the required action on sites.

Note: By default, site publishing is disabled. To enable it, check the sites you want to allow publishing and click Allow Publish.

On this screen administrator can find two icons enabling him or her to preview and publish web sites. The icons are located in the rows of corresponding web site. As it was previously stated, only regular web sites can be published and the Publish Site icon (SiteBuilder Publish Site Icon ) is located only in the rows of regular web sites. Preview Site icon (SiteBuilder Preview Site Icon ) is located in the rows of both types of web sites (regular and trial) since trial sites can be previewed as well as regular sites.

Also Site Management screen provides administrator with the following information regarding SiteBuilder web sites: site alias, site reseller, site creation date and site expiration date. Site expiration date is provided only for trial sites because only trial web sites have time life.

Site Management Screen

On the General Properties tab, enter site alias of the new site, select a hosting plan, language and associate a site with the reseller. If you wish to protect editing this site with a password, fill in the Password and Confirm Password fields. Resellers are indicated in the Reseller column. If administrator creates the regular web site he or she can assign reseller to this web site by selecting available resellers from the Reseller pop up list.

Select the Active check box to activate the site. By default sites are not activated.

To apply the Template Plan to the web site, select the Template Plan in the Plan pop up list. The administrator is able to change Template Plan for the particular web site by doing the same operation.

To set language locale of the web site select language in the Language pop up list.

To apply changes to web site, click Apply; to return to the previous menu without saving, click Cancel.

Note: There are three required fields to be filled out in order to apply changes to the web site general properties: Site Alias, Plan and Language. If any these three fields are empty the changes are not applied.

Site Management. General Tab

On the Publish Properties tab, you can allow/disallow publishing, specify the host name of the new site, indicate URL (i.e. Internet address) of your site, select operating system, in which a web site will be published (Target OS), choose the publishing mode (Mode), and select FTP host. You can also enter FTP Login, Password, and FTP Working Directory. These settings are used for publishing the site with SiteBuilder.

Note: SiteBuilder does not publish deactivated web sites. To publish web site make sure that it is activated.

Site created in SiteBuilder can be published either in Unix operating system or in MS Windows.

It is required to select a publishing mode for web site, i.e. the method it will be stored on the server. The mode can be either regular FTP or VPS. VPS is a Virtual Private Server. VPS uses physical server resources to emulate several virtual servers.

Site Management. Publish Properties Tab.

If administrator selects VPS as publishing mode then he or she should enter the following VPS parameters:

Also administrator is able to allow or disallow publishing of this web site by selecting Allow publishing option.

Note: Mode field is required to be filled otherwise publishing will be denied.

After entering all required parameters click Apply if you want to cancel publishing in VPS mode click Cancel.

Site Managment. Publish in VPS Mode.

On the Informational E-Mail tab, you can specify the e-mail address of the site owner and setup e-mail delivery (site information to e-mail).

Enter the e-mail address of the site owner in the E-mail field, select Site information to e-mail check box if you wish to send site information to the owner, and click Apply. To return to the previous menu without saving, click Cancel.

Note: This pop up list is available during regular web site creation only. If administrator creates trial site the Reseller pop list is not displayed.

Site Management. Informational E-mail Tab.

During the creation of regular web site the administrator is able to select the Template Plan for his/her web site on the Plan Properties tab. He or she is also able to edit the User's part of the web site Template Plan described in the previous Plan Management subsection. The following web site parameters can be edited by administrator: maximum number of web site pages, web site components, web site hosts, and templates of web site pages.

To add a trial site, follow the same steps. For trial sites the Publish Properties tab is not active.

To see the list of the web site Template Plan properties click the Plan Properties tab. There are four Template Plan properties elements accessed by clicking appropriate tabs located in the bottom left corner of the Plan Properties screen: General, Hosts, Modules and Templates. The General tab displays: the number of its previous revisions, and the number of its Inherited Plans, and the limit of web pages, i.e. maximum number of web pages allowed for web site to contain. In the number of previous Template Plan revisions digits before decimal point indicate how many times this Template Plan was revised, and the digits after decimal point indicate how many Inherited Plans of this Template Plan were created.

The Hosts tab shows the list of host names a web site is assigned to. The Modules tab displays names, status, version, types and descriptions of web site modules. The Templates tab provides administrator with names, status, and ID of web site templates.

Site Management. Plan Properties Tab.

See Also

Configuring Sites

Allowed Hosts Management

Resellers Management

Plan Management