PHP / Plesk Hosting

Logging in to Plesk

  1. Go to 113.20.13.161
  2. Enter in your details in the login screen
  3. Click on “Log In”

Creating an email account

  1. Once you have logged in, click on “Create Mail Account” in the “Mail” section.
  2. Enter in “Mail account” the desired email address. The password and confirm it. Leave all other options as default.
  3. After you have entered all the correct details in, click on “Finish”

Creating a redirect

  1. Complete logging in, then click on ”Email Accounts”.
  2. Search through the list for the email account that you wish to set up the redirect on.
  3. Click on “Redirect”.
  4. Enter in the email address that you wish all mail to be redirected to.
    1. For example: you wish all mail that goes to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it to go to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
    2. You would click on This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ‘s email address and then enter This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it in the redirect address field.
  5. Once you have completed this, click on “Ok” and your redirect is configured.

Creating an autoresponder

Autoresponders are very useful for if you have a staff member on leave. You can configure an autoresponder to automatically reply to emails that are received and can notify the sender of the staff member’s return date.

  1. Once you have logged in, click on “Email Accounts”
  2. Search through the list and click on the email address that you wish to set up the autoresponder on.
  3. Click on “Autoresponders”
  4. Then click on “Add New Autoresponder”.
  5. Enter in the information in the respective fields. If you are confused as to what to do with each field, here is an explanation of what each field does.
    1. Active autoresponder – if you wish for the autoresponder to be active.
    2. Autoresponder name – the name of the autoresponder. This is for your purposes so choose something that is descriptive.
    3. Upon automatic response, forward the original message to the specified e-mail – if you enter an email address in this field, when an email is received, it will be automatically responded to and then forwarded to the email address that you enter here.
    4. Specify the condition for this automatic reply – you are able to configure and automatic responder to only respond when certain criteria are present. For example, to send out a request received email if the word “Help” is in the message subject or body.
    5. Reply subject – this is what the reply email’s subject will be. If left default, it will be Re: request subject. So if an email is received with a subject of “Pizza”, the autoresponder will responder with “Re: Pizza”
    6. Return address – leave this as its default to reply to the correct sender.
    7. Mail sending format – Choose between plain text or HTML. Most emails from outlook are html.
    8. Encoding – leave this default to UTF-8
    9. Reply with text – this is the text that the automatically responded email will consist of.
    10. Reply to the unique e-mail address not more than – this is to stop heaps of replies to the same email address. So if a sender is continually sending you emails for when you get back, they will only receive the autoresonded email a set number of times.
    11. Store up to – the number of unique email addresses to remember.
    12. Add New Attachment – you can include an attachment with your automatically responded email. This is not compulsory and is usually not necessary either.
  6. Once you have entered all the information in, click on “Finish”.

Removing an autoresponder

  1. After you have logged in, click on “Mail Accounts”
  2. Search through the list and find the email address that has the autoresponder that you wish to remove
  3. Click on the email address. Then click on “Autoresponders”
  4. Tick the check box next to the autoresponder that you wish to deactivate and then click on “Switch Off” which is above the list of autoresponders.

Changing email account password

  1. After you have logged in, click on “Mail “Accounts”.
  2. Scroll through the list that is shown and then select the email address that you wish to change the password for. You may also use the search function, this will certainly save time if you’re searching through a few hundred email accounts.
  3. Click on the email account. Then on the next page click on “Preferences”.
  4. In the “New password” field, enter the new password and confirm it. Remember to make it secure, so use a mixture of letters and numbers.
  5. Then, once you have entered a password in and confirmed it, click on “Ok”.

Viewing web statistics

One very useful feature of the Plesk server is the web statistics. This allows you to view information on visitors to your website.

  1. After you have logged in, click on “Web Statistics” in the “Statistics” section.
  2. A new window will open and it will give you a large amount of statistics to review. Once you have finished viewing the statistics, close the window.