The Domain Administration Page
A domain is a virtual address on the Internet for any organization or entity. To an Internet end-user, a domain appears as space on one server, regardless of its implementation. Domains are identified by their familiar Internet URL (uniform resource locator) addresses. Syntactically, a domain name is a string of names or words separated by periods. For example, abc.com is the name of the domain where Company ABC's information resides on the Internet.
A domain belongs to a user. For example, John Smith may be a programmer whose domain is aceprogrammer.com. In the same respect, the ABC, Inc. company may own a domain by the name of abc.com. The Bundle Pack interface must create your domain. However, you can remotely administer your domain once the account is established.
From the Domain Administration page, you can manage several aspects of your domain, including:
- View the Domain Preferences
- Access the Domain Report
- Manage Mail for the Domain
- View DNS settings
- View Hosting settings
- Create Web Users
- Create Protected Directories
- Manage the Domain SSL Certificate
- Manage Databases
- Change the Domain Level Control Panel password
View the Domain Preferences
The Domain Preferences page displays the preferences that the Administrator has set up for this domain. It also allows you to edit a few parameters.
The parameters available for viewing from at this page are:
- Disk Space Limit . the amount of disk space allocated for this domain.
- Maximum Mailboxes - the maximum number of mail accounts allowed for creation at this domain.
- Mailbox quota . the limit set for the size of the mail accounts (mailboxes).
- Maximum Mail Redirects - the maximum number of mail allowed for setting up at this domain.
- Maximum Mail Groups - the maximum number of mail groups allowed for creation at this domain.
- Maximum Auto Responders . the maximum number of mail auto responders allowed for setting up at this domain.
- Maximum Web Users . the maximum number of web users allowed for creation at this domain.
- Maximum Databases . the maximum number of databases allowed for creation at this domain.
- Allow Scripting for Web Users . enables the Web Users to download and execute scripts.
- Web Mail . allows utilizing access to mailboxes via web-interface. If the option is provided, the mailbox can be accessed by means of a web-client , which is made available from the URL: webmail.<domain.name>
The following parameters you are able to set up:
- For Mail sent to non-existent users, you are able to select either a mail bounce message to return to the sender, or a catch-all e-mail address to which the messages are sent.
- The WWW prefix checkbox determines whether the given domain will require the www prefix in order to be accessed.
To adjust the settings, follow these steps:
- From the Client Home page, click the domain name that you need to work with from the list provided. The Domain Administration page appears.
- Click the PREFERENCES button to access the Domain Preferences page.
- To utilize a mail bounce message, select the radio button for Bounce with phrase and enter the text that the mail bounce message is to contain.
- To utilize a catch-all e-mail address, select the radio button for Catch to address and enter the appropriate e-mail address.
- Check or uncheck the WWW prefix checkbox to determine whether the given domain will allow the www prefix to be used to access the domain. If the box is checked, Internet users will be able to access a domain (i.e.
domain.com) by utilizing either the domain name itself or the domain with the 'www' prefix. If the box is unchecked it will not be accessible with the 'www' prefix (i.e. www.domain.com).
- The UPDATE button is used to submit any and all changes.
- The UP LEVEL button returns you to the Domain Administration page.
NOTE: Selecting UP LEVEL without selecting UPDATE will cancel all changes.
A Domain User is anyone who is the end-user of a domain that is hosted on the Bundle Pack. If you're a reseller who is the Administrator for the Bundle Pack, then this would be your Client. A Domain User is limited to a single domain and is not capable of managing matters that influence the entire system's functioning (i.e.: limits and quotas for the domain), whereas the Administrator would be able to modify such settings. The Domain User is able to manage mail accounts at the owned domain, manage their databases, and things such as that. Accessing the Bundle Pack control panel through the web browser (Netscape 4.x+ or Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.x+), you can:
- View settings and preferences for the domain
- Change your Control Panel password
- Manage mail accounts
- Create Web Users
- Create Protected Directories
Note: The Bundle Pack interface will warn you of any consequences before allowing you to execute a major change.
Note: The Bundle Pack interface will warn you of any consequences before allowing you to execute a major change.
The Bundle Pack Administrator Interface keeps a summary of pertinent data relating to all of your domains. You can view this information at any time. At the top of the Report page, the domain being reported on is listed in boldface. The domain report
includes the following information:
- Domain owner (client)
- Domain status
- Creation date
- Hosting type
- Virtual host type
- IP Address
- FTP Login
- FTP Password
- Disk space limit
- Real disk space
- Traffic
- Real Traffic
- FrontPage support
- SSI support
- PHP support
- CGI support
- mod_perl support
- Apache ASP support
- SSL support
- Web statistics
- Web users
- Apache error docs
- Anonymous FTP
- Mailboxes
- Redirects
- Mail Groups
- Autoresponders
- Domain user
- Databases
To access the domain report, follow these steps:
- Click the REPORT button at the Domain Administration page to see the domain's data and statistics.
- From this screen, you can do several things:
- You can send the report as e-mail. You may need to send this report to your administrator. E-mail the report by clicking SEND AS E-MAIL. Or, enter a different e-mail address to send the report to another recipient.
- You can access graphical site statistics for the domain by selecting the WEBALIZER option. This opens a separate window where you will see the site statistics for the given domain. It should be noted that Webalizer,
by default, is set to update statistics for the domain once every 24 hours. If you attempt to access Webalizer before it has operated its first update you will receive a notice that Webalizer is either not running or has not yet been started.
- You can send the report as e-mail. You may need to send this report to your administrator. E-mail the report by clicking SEND AS E-MAIL. Or, enter a different e-mail address to send the report to another recipient.
To print a copy of the report, select File/Print in your browser and a paper copy of the report will print.
To return to the domain record, click UP LEVEL to close the report and to return to the Domain Administration page.
The Bundle Pack interface allows you to perform several e-mail administration functions. The server uses the qmail system to help you set up e-mail accounts and services. Your e-mail system is protected against open relays, because qmail does not
allow the mail server to be remotely accessed.
You can create and manage e-mail boxes for individuals or customers within your domain. E-mail management functionality includes:
- Create, edit or delete e-mail boxes and edit individual mailbox quotas.
- Redirect or forward messages from one e-mail address to another e-mail address.
- Create, edit or delete e-mail groups (several individual accounts grouped together under one e-mail address for convenient multi-copy messaging).
- Create, edit, or delete e-mail autoresponders (automatic reply to e-mail sent to the given mail name).
To create a mailbox for a given mail name, from the Mail Name Properties page, follow these steps:
- Click in the check box provided next to Mailbox.
- When enabling a mailbox for the first time for a mail name account, you must enter a password.
- The Old Password will say "NONE" if you have yet to enter a password. Once it is entered, the password cannot be viewed from this screen.
- To enter a password, click in the New Password text box and enter the selected password.
- To properly update the password, you must re-enter the password in the Confirm Password text box.
- To set up the mailbox quota, select the Default for domain radio button to set the limit to the maximum available in the given domain, or select Enter size and enter the quota you wish to set, in KiloBytes, for the given mailbox. Note that this limit may not exceed the default set for the domain.
- Once you have enabled the mailbox, entered the passwords and set up mailbox quota, click UPDATE to submit the information.
- To change a password, simply re-enter the new password in the New Password text box, re-enter this password in the Confirm text box, and click UPDATE. NOTE: Once enabled, the mailbox icon on the Mail Names page appears in color.
When you create e-mail accounts for a domain, you are creating e-mail boxes, which will be accessible via POP3 protocols. Mailbox creation is as easy as keying in a name and password. Follow these steps to manage mail names:
1. Click the MAIL button at the Domain Administration page. The Mail Names Management page appears. From this page, users can:
- Create a new mail name.
- View a list of mail names currently existing under the specified domain.
To the left of each domain name on the list there are four icons representing different mail account types. They are:
The Mail Name Properties page allows you to activate any combination of mailboxes, mail redirects, and mail groups for a given mail name.
- Click the MAIL button at the Domain Administration page. The Mail Names page appears.
- In the Mail names list, click on the name you want to edit. You then access the Mail Name Properties page.
- The mail name is listed at the top of the page. To change the mail name, click in the name field, change the name, and click UPDATE.
NOTE: From the Mail Name Properties page, you can also enable and set up:
- Mailbox Accounts and Quotas
- Mail Redirects
- Mail Groups
- Mail Autoresponders
- Mailbox Accounts and Quotas
- When you are finished editing mail name properties for the domain, click UP LEVEL to return to the Mail Names page.
You can forward or redirect e-mail from one mailbox to another e-mail address. By creating an e-mail redirect or alias, messages are sent to a different e-mail box without the sender needing to know the new address. E-mail can be redirected to an address outside the domain. Use this feature to:
- Temporarily forward mail when someone is unavailable to receive it
- Send mail to a new mail box if a mail box user is leaving the organization
- Forward mail to a new account which will eventually replace an old mail box (e.g. someone is changing their mailbox name but hasn't had time to inform all correspondents of the change yet)
In order to create or enable a mail redirect for a given mail name, from the Mail Name Properties page, follow these steps:
- Click in the check box provided next to Redirects.
- In the text field to the right, enter the appropriate address to which to forward mail sent to this mail name.
- To change the redirect address for a given mail name, click on the existing entry in the Redirects box and change it to the new address.
- Click the UPDATE button to enter these changes.
NOTE: Once enabled, the redirects icon on the Mail Names page appears in color.
A mail group is a list of several e-mail accounts that are grouped together under one e-mail address for convenient multi-copy messaging. For example, if you want to send the same message to 5 people in the programming department, you can create a "Programming" e-mail group that includes the individual e-mail addresses for all 5 staff members. So, when someone sends a message to the Programming e-mail group, he/she only types and sends one message. Copies of the message are e-mailed to all 5 individuals. By using mail groups, the sender does not need to know each individual's e-mail address, just the group name. In this way, mail groups save time.
To create a mail group for a given mail name, from the Mail Name Properties page, follow these steps:
- Click in the checkbox provided next to Mail Groups.
- To create a new mail group, ensure the box is checked, then click the ADD button.
- The Add Mail Groups box appears.
NOTE: Group members can consist of either external mail addresses (those not belonging to this domain) or accounts existing within the domain. - To add an external mail address to a Mail Group, fill in the correct address in the enter external recipient mail text box, and click ADD.
- To add an existing account from the same domain, click on the desired address in the Select registered users list, and click ADD.
- The selected addresses will appear in the box to the right of the mail groups checkbox on the Mail Name Properties page.
- To delete one or more group members, highlight the selected group member in the box to the left of the mail group check box. Click the REMOVE button.
- A warning will appear. Click OK to confirm that you want to delete the address from the mail group.
- After completing your changes, click UPDATE to submit all changes. NOTE: Once enabled, the mail groups icon on the Mail Names page appears in color.
