Plesk Web Hosting 6.0 ADMINISTRATOR MANUAL > Installing Plesk Web Hosting on Your System

RedHat Linux 9

it's implied that Red Hat® Linux 9 is already installed on your system.

  1. Log in

    Log in as root to your system.

  2. Prerequisites

    Make sure that all the required libraries are installed. Refer to section Package requirements of chapter Preparing To Install Plesk Web Hosting 6.0 for the list of required libraries.

    1. You can check whether a particular rpm is already installed by entering the following command: rpm -q 'rpmname'. For example:

      bash$ rpm -q pam

      pam-0.74-22

    2. If some rpm’s are missing, you can install the rpm's of indicated versions or higher from the RedHat 9 disc or you can obtain them at ftp://updates.redhat.com/9/en/. For installation use the following command: rpm -Uvh 'rpm_name'.rpm

      NOTE

      You can use Plesk Web Hosting Autoinstaller to simplify installation of Plesk Web Hosting and all required RPMs.

      IMPORTANT

      Pay attention to the options used. Utilizing -U instead of -i will help you avoid some problems during Plesk Web Hosting installation.

    3. If prior to installing Plesk Web Hosting you have already installed and configured MySQL, you need to perform one of the following:

      • set the empty password for the MySQL root user, or
      • create the user admin with password setup and 'root' privileges

  3. Base installation

    Install the following base Plesk Web Hosting rpm's from the web directory 'base' in your Plesk Web Hosting archive or from the "Downloads" section at http://www.Plesk Web Hosting .com/

    • courier-imap-1.7.0-30psa.rh9.i586.rpm
    • psa-6.0.0-rh9.build030422.02.i586.rpm
    • psa-courier-imap-add-6.0.0-rh9.build030422.02.i586.rpm
    • psa-locale-6.0.0-rh9.build030422.02.noarch.rpm
    • psa-logrotate-3.6.6-1.rh9.i586.rpm
    • psa-proftpd-1.2.7rel-rh9.build030422.02.i586.rpm
    • psa-proftpd-xinetd-1.2.7rel-rh9.build030422.02.i586.rpm
    • psa-qmail-1.03-rh9.build030422.02.i586.rpm

    For installation use the following command: rpm -Uvh 'rpm_name'.rpm

  4. Additional

    In order to enable Plesk Web Hosting provide additional functionality you can install a number of additional packages.

    NOTE

    These packages are not required for Plesk Web Hosting to function properly.

    1. If you plan to use web server-wide SPAM protection, you should install following rpm from the 'opt/mail' web directory

      psa-qmail-rblsmtpd-0.70-rh9.build030422.02.i586.rpm

    2. In order for your Apache to support FrontPage extensions and Apache::ASP it's necessary to install rpm's from the web directories 'opt/fp' and 'opt/perl' respectively in your Plesk Web Hosting archive, or from the "Downloads" section at http://www.Plesk Web Hosting .com/

    3. In order for your web server to support JSP and Java Servlet it's necessary to install following rpms from the 'opt/java' and 'Third_Party' web directories

      • mod_webapp-4.1.18-1psa.rh9.i586.rpm
      • psa-tomcat-configurator-6.0.0-rh9.build030422.02.noarch.rpm
      • j2sdk-1_4_1_01-fcs-linux-i586.rpm
      • tomcat4-4.1.18-full.1jpp.noarch.rpm
      • tomcat4-admin-webapps-4.1.18-full.1jpp.noarch.rpm
      • tomcat4-webapps-4.1.18-full.1jpp.noarch.rpm

    4. If you plan to use PostgreSQL RDBMS, you should install the rpm's of indicated versions or higher from the RedHat 9 disc or you can obtain them at ftp://updates.redhat.com/9/en/.

      • postgresql-7.3.2-3.i386.rpm
      • postgresql-web server-7.3.2-3.i386.rpm
      • postgresql-libs-7.3.2-3.i386.rpm

  5. Completion

    When the installation is finished, Plesk Web Hosting 6.0 will have started automatically. In order to complete the Plesk Web Hosting initial configuration, you need to login to Plesk Web Hosting on your host at https://machine.domain.name:8443/ or https://IP-Address:8443/

    IMPORTANT

    The default username is admin and the default password is setup. Both are case sensitive. For security reasons this password should be changed upon initial login.

    NOTE

    Plesk Web Hosting cannot enable user quotas on XFS partition during installation because such operation requires remount of XFS partition. In order to enable hard disk quotas on XFS partition you should manually remount it with usrquota option (additional information can be found on 'quotaon' man page).

Initial configuration

When you login to the Plesk Web Hosting control panel for the Primary time, you are taken to the post-installation configuration page, where you are prompted to supply the following information:

  1. Select the shared IP addresses list displays the whole range of IP addresses in the pool. You need to select the addresses that will be used as shared for name based hosting accounts.

  2. Specify the full hostname in the appropriate field.

  3. To change the default administrator's password, type it in the Administrator's password input field, and confirm in the field below.

Click UPDATE button to complete the initial configuration.


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