Plesk Control Panel Installation

Plesk control panel is software that allows you to manage your server operating system more easily. With the control panel, you can easily publish many of your websites, open email accounts for your websites, or perform DNS operations much more easily. This panel is installed on Linux or Windows server operating systems. Plesk control panel is a well-known control panel in this scope. It is known as the most used panel after cPanel. Pre-installation preparation;
Plesk control panel is designed to be installed on Windows server and Linux server operating systems with zero configuration, so there is no need to make any adjustments on the server for installation.
Plesk Panel installs all the components you want on the server and configures them in the best way for shared web hosting services. For installation, we go to the download section of the Parallels company website and download the small-sized file that will start the installation. (http://page.plesk.com/plesk-free-download-wp)

After downloading the necessary installation file, we start the installation process by running the “plesk-installer.exe” program. In the first step, a screen asking for your server administrator password will appear; we proceed by entering the administrator password of your server in this field.

In the next step, the screen where we will install the Plesk panel appears. We start the installation process by clicking the “Install or Upgrade Product” link. When we click this link, steps for the Plesk panel version and installation type you will install will appear. We select these fields as indicated in the image and continue the installation process via the “Continue” button.

In this section, the versions of the Plesk panel are listed. Trial versions of the Plesk panel are also available in this area; if there is no special request, the stable version is generally selected. I will select the new panel, the Onyx version, for this guide.

We must make a selection according to the features we want the panel to be installed with. I will select Full installation and add/remove some features. I continue by clicking Continue.

From the panel features screen, I can add or remove the features I want. This way, we prevent unnecessary services from running. However, since Plesk installation is generally requested as standard by netinternet customers, you can easily complete the installation by selecting typical.

We start the installation by entering our Plesk panel password. Our Windows operating system and Plesk panel passwords must be different and strong; otherwise, our server may be hacked.

The installation takes approximately 15-20 minutes.

The installation is complete. You can log in to your panel via ipaddress:8443 or ipaddress:8880 ports.

Example;
192.168.120.20:8443
192.168.120.20:8880

Since we have done a new installation, we need to make some settings in our panel. We continue by selecting our panel theme as “commercial web hosting” “Service Provider view”.

We determine the shared IP address for the websites we will manage in our panel, a new strong password for our panel, and the hostname record of our server, then continue.

We fill in the “Information” details according to our customer’s information and complete the configuration settings.
The installation of our panel is complete. We can start using our panel by obtaining a license key.
We introduce our license file from the “Install Key” section as shown in the image.

Our license key can be a .zip file or just an activation code. Since we generally obtain it in .zip format, I used this method.

The licensing process is complete.

Our Plesk panel is generally ready for use. We can add our customers or websites and start using it. However, before adding our websites, we need to complete the DNS operations in our panel.
We go to “Tools & Settings” from the main menu on the right and enter the “DNS Template” settings.

We edit the standardly configured records according to our needs. As an example, we will configure NS addresses and A record;

ns1.ozgur.com 192.168.119.1
ns2.ozgur.com 192.168.119.2

In the default NS configuration, we click on the section that says domain.

We configure the NS address to which we will redirect the websites we will publish on our server. We perform the same operation for the other NS.
We create an A record for our IP address.

We enter the domain section on the default A record and perform the configuration as shown in the image.

After creating the same records for both IP addresses, our operations in the DNS template section are complete. If you want to enter a special record (MX, TXT), you can easily configure it from this section. If you make NS redirection from the domain registrar company for the websites you will open in your panel as shown above, your website will start working on your new server.

Abdullah Altunbaş

Content Writer

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