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Installing Applications

To enhance your web site with valuable features, such as guestbooks, forums, hit counters, photo galleries, and e-commerce solutions, you can install the respective applications from Plesk Application Vault (Home > Application Vault). The number and variety of available applications depend on your provider's policy and your hosting plan.

To install an application on your site:

  1. On your home page, click the Application Vault icon in the Hosting group.

    A list of applications installed on your site will be displayed.

  2. Click Add New Application icon in the Tools group.

    A list of site applications available for installation will be displayed.

  3. To specify the site where you want to install and deploy an application, select it in the Target domain drop-down box in the upper-right corner of the screen.
  4. To specify which application you wish to install, select a radio button corresponding to the application of your choice.
  5. Click Install.
  6. Specify whether you wish to create a hyperlink to the application's interface and place it on your Home page in the control panel.
  7. Specify the installation preferences and other information that may be required by the application (the requirements may vary), and click OK, when finished.
  8. If you have chosen to create a hyperlink button inside your Plesk control panel, specify its properties:

Now the application is installed and you can insert a link to this application into the web pages of your site, for example, on your home page. Otherwise, you and your users will have to access this application by typing its URL, which can be long enough to remember.

To access the web interface of an application, do any of the following:

To reconfigure an application or change the application administrator's password, go to Home > Application Vault, and click an icon , corresponding to the application.

To deinstall an application, go to Home > Application Vault, and select a check box corresponding to the application that you no longer need. Then click Remove selected icon. Remove Selected. The application will be deinstalled and its databases removed from the server.