Plesk comes with a number of free site applications that you can choose to provide to your customers or remove from the control panel script library (referred to as application vault). You can also obtain and install commercially available applications from third-party vendors through the application portal www.apsstandard.com.
You can set usage rules for any site application you add to the vault. For example, you can make a certain free application a commercial one that will be available to your customers only if you add it to their application pools under your conditions (for instance, after you received payment). When you change a free site application into a commercial one, it is withdrawn from the application pools of all clients. Now only you can add this application to your clients' application pools when needed. When you change a commercial application into a free one, it becomes free of charge for all clients.
The following table lists applications shipped with the Plesk application vault.
Application name |
Description |
Link to application developer's site |
AdvancedPoll |
Poll management system. |
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AnyInventory |
Inventory management program. |
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AutoIndex |
Web site directory indexing system. |
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b2evolution |
Blog. |
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bbclone |
Counter. |
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Brim |
Personal online organizer. |
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Coppermine |
Photogallery. |
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CSLH |
Customer support. |
|
Docbase |
Knowledge base management system. |
|
Drupal |
Content management system and blogging engine. |
|
eGroupWare |
Application for coordination of group activities. |
|
gallery |
Photo gallery. |
|
geeklog |
Weblog. |
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gtchat |
Chat. |
|
ilohamail |
Webmail program. |
|
Joomla! |
Content management system and Web application framework. |
|
Miva Merchant |
Online store. |
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Miva Fasttrack |
Online store. |
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Mambo |
Content management system. |
|
Mantis |
Issue tracking system. |
|
MediaWiki |
Knowledgebase and content management system. |
|
Moodle |
Program for creating online education sites. |
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MyOrgBook |
Online organizer. |
|
Noah's Classifieds |
Classifieds system. |
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openbiblio |
Library. |
|
osCommerce |
E-commerce system. |
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Owl |
Knowledge base and documentation storage system. |
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phpAdsNew (Openads) |
Banner rotation management and tracking system for gathering statistics. |
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phpBB |
Forum. |
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phpBook |
Guestbook. |
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phpBugTracker |
Bug tracking system. |
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phpDig |
Search system. |
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phpMyFamily |
Genealogic system. |
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phpMyVisites |
Web site statistics. |
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MyPhpMoney |
Personal finance management. |
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PHProjekt |
Application for coordination of group activities. |
|
PHP Surveyor |
PHP Surveyor is a set of PHP scripts that interact with MySQL to develop surveys, publish surveys and collect responses to surveys. |
|
phpWebsite |
Content management system. |
|
phpWiki |
Documentation storage and retrieval system where anyone can edit published pages. |
|
pLog |
Blog. |
|
pmachinefree |
Web publishing platform. |
|
PostNuke |
Content management system. |
|
PPWSE |
Plesk Professional Web Site Editor is a content management system developed by SWsoft. It is a predecessor of SWsoft Sitebuilder. |
http://www.swsoft.com/en/products/plesk75reloaded/addons/ppwse/ |
Serendipity |
Content management system and blogging. |
|
Sitebar |
Bookmark server. |
|
Siteframe |
Content management system. |
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SMF |
Online forum. |
|
Tellme |
Network services (whois, traceroute). |
|
TikiWiki |
Content management system. |
|
TUTOS |
Work process organization tool. Includes a calendar, address manager, bug tracking system, project task management, timetracking, etc. |
|
Typo 3 |
Content management system. |
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UebiMiau |
Web mail client. |
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WebCalendar |
Calendar and schedule management system. |
|
WebShopManager |
The WebShopManager allows you to manage a fully functional online store from a centralized web-based administration system. |
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WordPress |
Publishing platform (blog). |
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XOOPS |
Content management system. |
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XRMS |
Customer relations management. |
All these packages (except for PPWSE, Miva Merchant and Miva Fasttrack) are free of charge open source applications. They are automatically added to application pools of all clients after installation of Plesk.
To view the information about the application distribution packages you have in the vault:
All distribution packages stored in the vault are listed in the Site Application Packages group.
An icon in the left column indicates whether this application is shown in the list of applications available for addition to a client's application pool:
- the application is shown in the list of applications available for installation.
- the application is hidden from the list of applications available for installation.
When you no longer want to provide your customers with an application, you can choose to either remove the corresponding package from the server, or temporarily hide it from the lists of available applications without removing it from the server.
An icon in the right column indicates the site application usage rules you defined:
- free of charge, automatically added to the application pools of all clients.
- commercial application, can be added to a client application pool only by you under certain conditions.
To the right of the icon, a license key description is shown if the application requires that you purchase and install a license key. "No license key is required" means that you can use the application on your server without purchasing and installing a license key.
The Name column displays the name of the site application.
The Version column displays site application version.
The Release column shows the site application release number.
The Application packages column shows the number of created application packages (offerings containing an application and an attached license key).
The Clients column shows the number of users using the site application.
The Categories column shows the category to which the application belongs.
The Description column gives a brief description for each site application.
To add a new application to the application vault and to make it available to all customers free of charge:
The new distribution package was added to the server application vault and the corresponding application package without a license key was created. The application is now available to all customers free of charge.
To obtain and install a commercially available application with a license key to the application vault:
The new distribution package was added to the application vault. Now you need to install a license key for the application to the license keys repository and then create an application package which will include the necessary program files and a license key.
Note: the Show the application in the list of applications that can be added to client's application pool option can be used when you want to temporarily stop providing the application to your clients without deleting the package from the server.
To make a certain free application a commercial one and to add it to application pools of selected customers:
Now the application was removed from application pools of all clients, and you can manually add this application to the pools of selected clients, as described in the following steps.
To upgrade an application package:
To remove from the application vault the applications that you do not want to provide to your customers:
The application distribution package was removed from the server application vault. Note that the applications already installed on users' sites are not removed.
For information about managing the repository of license keys for applications, refer to the section Managing License Keys for Applications.
If you need to install an application on a site, refer to the section Installing Applications.