Domain Administrator Manual for NTS New Domain Hosting System

Table of Contents

1.     Purpose

2.     Important Links for Your Domain.

3.     Control Panel Access for Domain Administrator

3.1       Manage Your Email Accounts

3.1.1        Add New Email Account

3.1.2        Change The Password of The Email Account

3.1.3        Add New Mail Alias

3.1.4        Manage Spam Filtering Settings.

3.1.5 Manage Blacklists and Whitelists

3.1.6        Manage Dr. Web Antivirus Tool

3.1.7        Access to Your Webmail Interface

3.1.8        Create Mail Redirects.

3.1.9        Create New Mail Groups.

3.1.10      Add New Autoresponders

3.1.11 Change The Mailbox Size of the Email Account

3.2       Manage Your Domain’s Physical Hosting Setup.

3.2.1        Change FTP Password.

3.3       Manage The Folders and Files with File Manager

3.4       Preview Your Website.

3.5       Manage Your Database.

3.5.1        Add New Database

3.5.2        Add New Database User

3.5.3        Manage Databases with PHPMyAdmin Tool

3.6       Change Domain Administrator Password.

3.7       View Limits of Your Domain.

3.8       View DNS Information.

3.9       Add New Directories.

3.10     View Access and Error Log Files.

3.11     Add New Web User

3.12     Help and Support Information

1. Purpose

The purpose of new hosting system is to enhance the services we provide to our business customers. With this new system you will have:

• Enhanced Virus Filtering
• Enhanced Spam Filtering
• Custom Blacklists and Whitelists
• A new Webmail Interface where you can check your emails from anywhere
• A Control Panel where you can manage:
• Your domain
• Your domain’s email accounts (if you have email accounts with NTS)
• Your domain’s database (if you have a database with NTS)
• Your domain’s website (if you have a website with NTS)
• From the Control Panel you can:
• Create new email accounts
• Change the passwords of your domain’s email accounts
• Set custom antivirus and spam settings
• Change the mailbox sizes of your domain’s email accounts

2. Important Links for Your Domain

• Control Panel Domain Administrator access:

http://www.yourdomain.com:8443

• Website access:

http://www.yourdomain.com

• Front Page access:

http://www.yourdomain.com

• FTP access:

ftp://ftp.yourdomain.com

• Webmail access:

http://webmail.yourdomain.com

3. Control Panel Access for Domain Administrator

To access the domain administration page, type http://www.yourdomain.com:8443 in the address bar of your web browser. You will see the login screen. Put the username and password information that is provided to you by NTS Help Desk.

The Domain Administration Control Panel will be displayed after a successful login to your account.

3.1 Manage Your Email Accounts

To manage your domain’s email accounts, click on the Mail icon.

This page will appear:

3.1.1 Add New Email Account

You can add new email account under your domain by clicking on the Add New Mail Name icon.

This page will appear on the screen:

Fill out the necessary fields, and click OK.

3.1.2 Change The Password of The Email Account

You can modify the mail account by clicking on the hyperlink on the email address.

This screen will appear when you select the email account that needs to be edited:

From the above page, you can add new aliases, mail groups, change spam and virus settings, change passwords, etc.

To change or reset the password of the mail account, click on Preferences icon:

This page will be displayed. Please insert the new password, and confirm it, then click OK to approve the password change.

3.1.3 Add New Mail Alias

To add a new mail alias, click on the Add New Mail Alias icon.

This page will be displayed. Enter in the alias and click OK.

3.1.4 Manage Spam Filtering Settings

To manage the spam filter settings, click on the Spam Filter icon.

This screen will show up:

From this page, you can either select “Use Server Wide Settings”, or you can deselect it to put in a custom level of hits required for a message to be marked as spam. The lower the number, the more aggressive the spam filter will be. However, there may also be more occurrences of false positives, so please adjust this accordingly.

3.1.5 Manage Blacklists and Whitelists

To manage the blacklists and whitelists, click on the Spam Filter icon.

This screen will show up:

You can add and remove email addresses to and from your blacklist or whitelist. When you put an email address in your blacklist, it will block a person from sending email to you. If you whitelist an email address, for instance a newsletter, it will not be blocked by the spam filters, it will arrive in your mailbox.

3.1.6 Manage Dr. Web Antivirus Tool

You can enable or disable Antivirus protection by clicking on the Dr.Web icon.

You will see this page:

You can enable virus check by selection of options above. Please click OK to have the selection takes effect.

3.1.7 Access to Your Webmail Interface

To access your Webmail interface, click on the “Webmail” icon. A new window will open with the login area.

3.1.8 Create Mail Redirects

To create a mail redirect, select the “Redirect” icon from the list.

Insert the redirect address, check the “Redirect” checkbox, and click “OK” to apply the mail redirection.

3.1.9 Create New Mail Groups

To create a new mail group, click on the Mail Group icon.

This page appears:

Click on the Add New Member icon to add a new email address to your mail group. Group members can consist of either external mail addresses (those not belonging to this domain) or accounts within this domain.

3.1.10 Add New Autoresponders

To create Autoresponders, click on the “Autoresponders” icon.

This page will be displayed:

Select “Add New Autoresponder”, and create your new autoresponse like in the example screen:

After the creation, your new autoresponder will be turned off:

Click on the to enable it, after enabling it, the icon will look like this

3.1.11 Change The Mailbox Size of the Email Account

To change the mailbox size, click the link on the email account that requires a mailbox size change.

You will see this screen. Click on the Mailbox icon under Tools.

You can insert the new mailbox size in Kbytes and click OK.

3.2 Manage Your Domain’s Physical Hosting Setup

To manage you domain’s physical hosting setup, click on the Setup icon.

You will see this page:

You can modify the setup page according to your preferences.

3.2.1 Change FTP Password

You can change your ftp password through Setup page. Insert your new password, and click OK for it to take effect.

3.3 Manage The Folders and Files with File Manager

To manage the folders and files under your website, click on the File Manager icon.

You will see a page as in the example.

The HTTPDOCS folder is the folder that holds your website files, and the CGI-BIN folder is the folder that holds your CGI scripts. You can create new files; copy your files, etc…

3.4 Preview Your Website

You can view your website via the Site Preview icon.

3.5 Manage Your Database

To manage your databases, click on the Databases icon on the Control Panel.

3.5.1 Add New Database

You can click on the Add New Database icon to add a new database or manage your current database by clicking on the hyperlink on the database name.

When you click on the hyperlink on the database, you will see this page:

3.5.2 Add New Database User

To add a new Database user, click on the “Add New Database User” icon under your database.

This page will appear:

Create the new database user, and click OK.

3.5.3 Manage Databases with PHPMyAdmin Tool

To manage your database with PHPMyAdmin, click on the “DB WebAdmin” icon.

3.6 Change Domain Administrator Password

To change the password of domain administrator account, click on Domain Administrator icon under the Control Panel.

You will see this page:

Set the new password and click on the OK button.

3.7 View Limits of Your Domain

To view limits of your domain, click on the “Limits” icon under the Control panel.

The limits of your domain will be displayed:

3.8 View DNS Information

To view your domain’s DNS Information, click on the “DNS” icon under Services tab in the Control Panel.

You will see the DNS information of your domain:

3.9 Add New Directories

You can create new directories by clicking the Directories icon. The new directory will appear under your website folder, which is HTTPDOCS.

3.10 View Access and Error Log Files

You can see the access and error logs by clicking on to the Log Manager icon.

3.11 Add New Web User

You can add a new web user by clicking to the Web Users icon.

On the page that shows up, click to the Add New Web User link.

Insert the web user's username and password, and if you want to limit the space they can use, insert Hard disk quota , otherwise check the Unlimited checkbox. Click OK. Create more web users by repeating the same steps.

The new web user can reach his/her folder via ftp. He/she needs to type the following to the internet browser address bar:

ftp://www.yourdomain.com

When he/she inserts the username and password. he/she can reach to the folder assigned for him/her. He/she can upload and download files to/from the folder.

3.12 Help and Support Information

If you have any questions:

· Please contact our Help Desk. You can view the contact information through Contact NTS icon under your Control Panel.

· You can review the Domain Administrator’s Manual by clicking the “Domain Administrator’s Manual” icon in the Control Panel.