Backup and Restore an account with IscP

This howto will give you an idea on where you can get the IspCP account backup and how to restore your account with IspCP.

1) Backup of account

Daily backups must be enabled for your account by reseller so that you can get daily backups.

  1. Login with your FTP account
  2. Switch to backups/ directory
  3. Download the files stored in this directory
    (usually named backup_YYYY_MM_DD.tar.bz2)

2) Restore an account

Login to the client control panel of account. Click on “Webtools”

Click on “Daily backup”

Clicking on “Restore” button will restore the account from the latest daily backup on backups/ directory.

 

Manage Box Trapper with cPanel

The goal in enabling “Box Trapper” is to block emails that will not reply to the verification email.This means by using BoxTrapper  any mail address that is not placed on your whitelist will be required to send back a verification email to ensure that they are not a spammer.

1) To Enable BoxTrapper, Click on “Box Trapper”.


Click on “manage” to enable / disable “Box Trapper”.

Click the ” Enable” button.


You can further change BoxTrapper settings with the options on the same page

2)  Box Trapper Configuration. click on “Configure Settings”


  1. Enter all addresses forwarding mail to this account into the “Email addresses”.
  2. And email account holder name in the Your Name” text box.
  3. Enter the number of days to keep logs messages in queue.
  4. Set a SpamAssasin Score, all emails scoring above the specific score will be whitelisted and will bypass BoxTrapper
  5. Enable / Disable “Automatic White listing” using the appropriate check box.(If “Automatic White listing” is enabled,senders who successfully complete the verification process will not need to complete the verification process again when sending you email in the future.)

Click “Save” after entering all the information.

3) For Customizing Confirmation Messages, Click on Box “Edit Confirmation Messages”


Verification and blacklist messages can be customized by using this option.

  1. Select the button “Edit” to the list you would like to edit.
    • Edit the Information(Do not edit subject between %, otherwise BoxTrapper will not function correctly).
    • Click “Save” to save the corresponding message.
  2. Click the button “Reset to default” to set the message to default.

3) Manage  White/Black/Ignore List. Click on “Edit White/Black/Ignore Lists”

You can create lists with specific subject or email address. Select the link to the list you would like to edit. Please note : (The list should contain one entry per line)

  1. White-list   – Only allowed list of addresses and subject lines.
  2. Ignore-list  – Only not allowed list of addresses and subject lines.
  3. Blacklist   -Only not allowed list of addresses and subject lines (blacklisted content will also receive a warning message of your choice).

Click “Save” to save the corresponding message.

4) Click on “Forward Lists” on Box Trapper Configuration.


You can add forward white-listed email another email address also with this fuction.

Click Save when making changes to the list.

5) Click on “Review Log” on Box Trapper Configuration.

Through this interface you can view the Box Trapper log.

6) Click on “Review Queue” on Box Trapper Configuration.


Through this interface you can view any Box Trapper mail waiting for verification, you can manually view and approve messages.

Custom Error pages with IspCP

You can create and manage custom error pages of your sites with IspCP.

1) Click on “WebTools”

2) Click on “Error Pages”

click on “Edit” near error page that you want customise. Add content as you with on the specific error page.

Click “Save”.

Manage email accounts with cPanel

This is a tutorial on managing email accounts with cPanel

1) Click on Email Accounts.

2) Add an Email address and password in the respective fields.

“Password Generator” can be used for generating a strong password.The password strength is shown in text box.You can set  Quota for email accounts with “Mailbox Quota”.

Click on “Create Account”.

3)You can “Change  Password” / “Mailbox Quota” or to “Delete” an email account with “Usage / Quota / %” field.

There is other two option in combo box “more”  for Accessing Webmail and Configuring Email Client.

 

 

Password Protect a directory with IspCP

This is a howto/tutorial on creating password protected directories with IspCP.

Login to client area of the domain

1) Click on “Webtools”

2) Click on “Group/User management”

click on add user

Use the desired password and username on the respecitive feilds and click on “Add User”

3) Click on “Protected areas”

Click on “Add new protected area”

On Path : you can set the directory which you want to protect
Area name : give a desired area name
Click on “Protect it”

You will be now asked for a login when browsing the selected directory with the url.

 

Database management with IspCP

This is a tutorial/howto on managing Mysql databases with IsPCP

1) Click on “Manage SQL”

2) Click on “Add Sql Database”

Use a desired database name and if you want to have  the user id added with the database name check “Use numeric ID” box and enable the needed option

3) Click on “Add SQL user”

 

4) Managing database with Phpmyadmin

Click on the PhpMyAdmin or you can access it with the url http://admin.yourserver_name.com/pma/

Use database username and password to login to the phpmyadmin

 

Using IspCP filemanager

This is a tutorial/howto on using filemanager with IspCP

IspCP uses a filemanager called net2ftp, ftp login details are used to login to the file manager.

1) Create a FTP account

click on “FTP Accounts”

Click on “Add FTP user”

Use desired username and password in the respective fields. If you want to create an account with access to a specific subdirectory not main dir in the account, enable “Use other dir” and chose the dir by clicking on “Choose dir” link.

2) Click on Filemanager

You can also access filemanager with http://admin.your_server.com/tools/filemanager/

Use the FTP account login details you created to login, you can also go directly to a subdirectory by specifying it on “Initial directory”. Click login

 

Email managment with IspCP

This is a tutorial/howto on managing email account with IspCP

Click on “Email Accounts”

1) Add Email account

Click on “add mail user”

You can set the email username and password there, then click on add

2) Forward email account

Click on “add mail user”

Set the email username and password on respective fields. Enable “Forward mail” and you can set the email address to which the forwarding must be done on the next box. Multiple email address can be set separated by comma.

Click on add

2) Create a catch all email account

Catch all account is an email account that is used to route all the main to non existing email address of a domain.

Click on catch all, you can select email account to set as catch all from the ”

This is a tutorial/howto on managing email account with IspCP

Click on “Email Accounts”

1) Add Email account

Click on “add mail user”

You can set the email username and password there, then click on add

2) Forward email account

Click on “add mail user”

Set the email username and password on respective fields. Enable “Forward mail” and you can set the email address to which the forwarding must be done on the next box. Multiple email address can be set separated by comma.

Click on add

2) Create a catch all email account

Catch all account is an email account that is used to route all the main to non existing email address of a domain.

Click on Catch all. You can select the email address to be set as catch all from the list “Mail accounts list” or set a different on by selecting “

Click on “Create catch all”

Click on webmail to access the webbased email client.

Add a subdomain in IspCP

This is a  tutorial/howto on adding a subdomain with IspCP

Login to your IspCP control panel as a client

1) Click on “Manage domains” on the top panel

2) Click on add subdomain

* Subdomain name :: Give the subdomain name
* Directory tree mount point :: by default it will be same as subdomain name, you can change it if you want to point the subdomain to another dir

Click on add button at the bottom to add the subdomain

3) Add a redirect / Forwarder for a subdomain

* Subdomain name :: Give the subdomain name
* Enable Forward :: enable it
* Forward to URL :: give the url to which you want to forward the subdomain

Click on add button at the bottom to add the subdomain and create the redirect.

 

Using Domain alias with IspCP

A short tutorial on creating domain alias with IspCP omega. Using Domain alias you will be able to,

  • Park a newsite on your main site , ie mainsite.com and newsite.com will give you same content.
  • Add a new site to your control panel, ie newsite.com will have separate home directory and will display different content.
  • Redirect or forward a new site, ie newsite.com can be forwarded to google.com

Login to client area of IspCP omega

1) Click on “Manage Domains”

2) Click on “Add alias” on right panel

To Park a domain

* On Domain name feild -add the domain you want to park
* On  Directory mount point – /
* Enable Forward – Set as Disable

Click on Add alias button on bottom to park the domain on mainsite.

To Add a separate site

* On Domain name field – The domain you want to add
* On  Directory mount point – Enter the domain name
* Enable Forward – Set as Disable

Click on Add alias button on bottom add the new domain, upload contents to /mainsite.com/newsite.com/htdocs/

To Redirect a new site

* On Domain name field -add the domain you want to park
* On  Directory mount point – /
* Enable Forward – Set as Enable
* Forward to URL – Set the url to which you want to forward

Click Add alias button on bottom to add the Forwarder/Redirect