Installing Applications

To enhance your web sites with valuable features, such as guest books, forums, hit counters, photo galleries, and e-commerce solutions, you can install the respective applications from the control panel's script library (Home > domain name > Application Vault). The number and variety of available applications depend on your provider's policy and your hosting plan.

To install an application on a site:

  1. On your Home page, click the domain name you need.
  2. Click Application Vault in the Hosting group. A list of applications installed on your site will be displayed.
  3. Click Add New Application in the Tools group.
  4. In the left menu, select a category to which the application you need belongs.
  5. Select the required application in the list, and then click Install.
  6. 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 >>.
  7. Specify whether you wish to create a hyperlink to the application and place it in the control panel.
  8. Specify the installation preferences and other information that may be required by the application (the requirements may vary among applications). Click Install.
  9. If you have chosen to create a hyperlink button inside your control panel, specify its properties:
  10. Click OK to complete creation.

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 too long 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:

  1. Go to Home > domain name > Web Applications.
  2. Ñlick an icon corresponding to the application.

To upgrade an application to a newer version (if it is available on the server):

  1. Go to Home > domain name > Web Applications.
  2. Click a corresponding shortcut in the U column.

To uninstall an application:

  1. Go to Home > domain name > Application Vault, and select a check box corresponding to the application that you no longer need.
  2. Click Remove Selected. The application will be uninstalled and its databases removed from the server.

If you want a certain Web-application to be started when someone tries to enter a domain, it can be done by creating a default domain application.

To set an application as default for a domain:

  1. On your Home page, click the domain name you need.
  2. Click Application Vault in the Hosting group. A list of applications installed on the site will be displayed.
  3. Select a checkbox corresponding to the Site Application name you want to set as default, then click Default. Click OK to confirm the creation of the default Site Application.

Now, when a user enters an URL in the address field of his browser (e.g. http://example.com), he is taken to the default Web-application.

In this section:

Installing Java Web Applications

Installing ASP.NET Web Applications