Installing Applications

To enhance your web site with valuable features, such as guest books, forums, hit counters, photo galleries, and e-commerce solutions, you can install the respective applications from Plesk Application Vault (Home > Web Applications). 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 Web Applications.

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

  2. Click Add New Application icon in the Tools group.
  3. In the left menu, select a category to which the application you need belongs.
  4. Select the required application in the list, and then click Install.
  5. Some applications will display a license agreement. Read the license agreement carefully, and if you agree with it, select the I agree check box and click Next >>.
  6. Specify whether you wish to create a hyperlink to the application and place it in the control panel.
  7. Specify the installation preferences and other information that may be required by the application (the requirements may vary among applications). Click Install.
  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, change the application administrator's password, or to install a license key for a commercial application, go to Home > Web Applications, and click an icon , corresponding to the application.

To upgrade an application to a newer version (if it is available on the server), go to Home > Web Applications, and click a corresponding shortcut in the U column.

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

In this section:

Installing Java Web Applications

Installing Ruby Web Applications