Control panel

All UniWeb hosting solutions allow to modify your site settings 24 hours a day. This includes the option to manage your website, add or remove a site user, create a mailing list, manage disk space, back up and restore files and perform other virtual-site-related administrative tasks.

A Site Administrator can manage a virtual site using any standard Web browser. To access the Site Management screen for your site, go to the User Login page. (/online/en/support/userlogin.html)

User Management

The User Management section appears when you first access the Site Management screen. The User List displays the site users by user name in ascending order.

The User list has five columns which display information about each site user, and allow the Site Administrator to manage or remove a user.

• The first column displays the full name of the site user.
• The second column displays the user name of the site user.
• The third column displays the email alias(es) of the site user.
• The fourth column displays icons to indicate which services are enable (telnet/shell access, FrontPage Server Extensions or Secure POP3 [APOP], to indicate that a site user is the Site Administrator, or to indicate that a site user is suspended.
• The fifth column displays icons to manage a site user, the email settings for the site user and to remove a site user.

If you move the mouse pointer over an icon, a short help message appears. To access a section of the Site Management screen, click the section button along the left side of the screen.

The User Management section on the Site Management screen allows you to perform administrative functions related to site users: setting the site users defaults, adding or removing users; entering and modifying user names and passwords; managing users disk space allocations, telnet access and e-mail aliases.

Setting defaults for a site user:

Before assigning default values to a site user, you must decide on the needs of your users.
To edit the default settings for a site user:

	On the Site Management list click Set User Defaults.
	Enter the information for the site. You can set the default value for the maximum allowed disk space (Mb) available to a newly created user for their file storage and Web pages the number of site users to display at one time in the user list on the screen the format for generating user login names initial plus last name / last name / first name You can also enable or disable services for telnet/shell access, FrontPage user Web and Secure POP3 (APOP), if the Administrator has enabled them for the virtual site.
	Click Save Changes.

Once you have configured the default settings, you can adjust the settings for each site user that you add.

Adding a site user

To add a site user or Site Administrator:

	On the Site Management screen, click Add User.
	Enter the information for the site user
	Enter the site user’s name and password, set the allocation of total disk space for the user and, if appropriate, enable telnet/shell access, make them a Site Administrator, enable FrontPage user Web and enable Secure POP3 (APOP). You can also enter e-mail aliases for this user.
	Click Confirm New User

Search and sort functions

The User List table offers a search function and a sort function. These functions are useful if you have a large number of site users and you want to restrict the display to certain site users.

You can search the list of site users according to the following criteria:

• by user name, full name or email alias
• whether the user name, full name or email alias is equal to the search string, is contained in the search string or is not contained in the search string
  

The screen is refreshed and the results of the search are displayed in a table with the same five columns. The heading of the table now states “Search Results”( Users found). To return to the full list of site users, click User Management on the left.

You can sort the list of site users according to the following criteria:

• by full name, in ascending or descending order
• by user name, in ascending or descending order

To search the list of site users :

	In the first field of the Search User List window, select 'User Name', 'Full Name' or 'Email Alias' from the pull-down menu.
	In the second field, select 'is', 'contains' or 'does not contain' from the pull-down menu.
	In the third field, enter the string of characters for which you want to search.
	Click Search. The screen is refreshed and displays the results in a table with the same five columns.

To sort the list of site users:

	To sort according to Full Name, click on the blue arrow icon in the heading of the Full Name column. To sort according to User Name, click on the blue arrow icon in the heading of the User Name column.
	To sort in ascending (up arrow icon) or descending order (down arrow icon), click on the blue arrow icon so that it points in the correct direction.
	The screen regenerates and displays the result in a table with the same five columns.

Remove a site user:

To remove a site user:

	In the User List table on the Site Management screen, locate the site user that you want to remove.
	Click the brown trashcan icon next to the site user. A confirmation dialog box appears.
	Click OK to delete the site user’s account and files.

Entering user e-mail settings and aliases

Mail Forwarding and Vacation Reply

Individual site users can choose to have their e-mail forwarded to another e-mail account. Site users can also choose to enable a vacation-reply message that is automatically sent to each person who sends the user an e-mail. This is useful when users know they will not be reading or responding to incoming e-mail messages for a period of time.

As Site Administrator, you can enter these e-mail settings for site users (at their request)

Note: A vacation-reply e-mail is sent only once a week to each sender.

E-mail aliases

The E-mail Alias feature allows you to create an arbitrary number of e-mail addresses without creating a user account. An e-mail message addressed to the alias is forwarded to an existing e-mail address.

Each registered user must have a username that is unique across all virtual sites. You can not create two users with the same name. Usernames can be similar: mary1, maryB1, mary4, mary2.
An e-mail alias is a way to create an account so that more than one user can have the same e-mail name on different virtual sites. A site user can have several aliases that point to a unique username.
A Site Administrator can also set up aliases as webmaster@abc.com, info@abc.com, sales@abc.com that point to a specific username.

To enable an e-mail alias:

To enable an alias for a site user:

	On the Site Management screen, click Site settings.
	Click the check box for “Accept e-mail for domain”.

To add an e-mail alias for site users:

To add an e-mail alias for a site user, see “Modify e-mail options for a site user”.

Changing user settings

Modify settings for a site user

To modify the settings for a user (to change the name, password, disk space, allocation or telnet access for an existing user, to make an existing user the Site Administrator or to suspend a site user)

	On the Site Management screen, click User Management on the left.
	Click the green pencil icon for the site user. The Modify User table appears.
	Enter the changes in the Modify User table.
	Click Confirm Modify.

Modify e-mail options for a site user

	On the Site Management screen, click User Management on the left.
	Click the blue envelope icon for the site user. The Modify User table appears.
	Enter the changes in the Modify User table.
	To add an e-mail alias, enter the additional names in the E-mail Aliases field. Enter multiple aliases on new lines or separated by spaces.
	Click Save Changes.

Mailing list management

In the List Management section of the Site Management screen, you can create and manage mailing lists for the virtual site. A mailing list allows a discussion by email between a group of people; the e-mail address of the people in the group make up the list. The mailing list is given a name. The mailing list can include internal users as well as external users. A message addressed to the name of the mailing list is delivered to each person on the list. If one person replies to the message, the reply is also delivered to each person on the list (not just to the original sender).

To create a mail list in which a person’s reply is delivered only to the original sender, you must create a group mail list.

To add a mailing list:

	On the Site Management screen, click List Management. The Mailing List table appears.
	Click Add Mailing List. The Add Mailing List table appears.
	Enter a name for the mailing list.
	Enter a password for the mailing list. You need the password for managing the mailing list.
	To accept e-mail addressed to the mailing list from an e-mail address that is not a member of the list, click the check box next to Allow mail from unsubscribed addresses.

Add recipients to the mailing list.

	To add external recipients to the mailing list, enter the e-mail addresses in the “External Recipients” field.
	To include existing registered site users in the list, click the username in the scrolling window. If you have selected the option that only list members can send e-mail to the mail list, be sure to include your aliases in the external recipients list. To select all registered site users, click Select All. To select individual recipients in the scrolling window, hold down the Control key (Windows) or the Apple key (Macintosh)
	Click Confirm New Mailing List.

To modify a mailing list:

	On the Site Management screen, click List Management. The Mailing List table appears.
	Click the green pencil icon next to the mailing list you want to modify. The Modify Mailing List table appears.
	Modify the information as necessary.
	Click Confirm Modify.

To remove a mailing list:

	On the Site Management screen, click List Management. The Mailing List table appears.
	Click the brown trashcan icon next to the mailing list you want to delete. A confirmation dialog box appears.
	Click OK to delete the mailing list.

Restore

The Site Settings screen shows the allocated disk space, the maximum number of users and the enabled options.
These settings can only be changed by the server administrator.

Statistics

The Site Usage statistics allow the Site Administrator to monitor the amount of bandwidth consumed by Web, email and FTP traffic generated by a virtual site as well as disk usage for the virtual site. Reports graphs for the traffic are generated on a daily, weekly and monthly basis. The reports are generated each night at 1:00 am and the statistics are updated once daily for all services. The results are presented in bar graphs and can be viewed according to the following criteria:

• Hourly reports are generated from the traffic of the previous day.
• Daily reports provide the average number of hits on each Monday for the length of the report.
• Weekly reports are generated from the traffic of the previous six to eight weeks.
• Monthly reports are generated from the traffic of the previous 12 months.
  

To use the Site Usage function:

On the Site Management screen, click Statistics.

A table for the type of usage summary appears.

• Web displays Web usage for the virtual site.
• FTP displays FTP usage for the virtual site.
• E-mail displays e-mail usage for the virtual site
• Disk displays information concerning the disk usage for the virtual site as a whole, as well as the disk usage for each site user.
  

Each option also displays a table for other usage statistics. Click on any of the links in the table for more detailed information.

Backup

A backup captures data only (for example, e-mail messages or files). It does NOT backup the settings for virtual sites or users.

Since UniWeb performs regular backups of the server contents, you do not need to backup your site frequently. It is recommended to
backup your files, when you intend to make major changes to some files.

A Site Administrator can perform different types of backups:

Manual backup

A Site Administrator can manually back up data.

	On the Site Management screen, Click Backup. The File Backup table appears.
	In “Data to Backup”, select the type of backup:
	All e-mail, Web and user files on this site. This option backs up the files for all the site users.
	Files and e-mail of user. This option backs up the files and email in-box for a specific user on this site.
	To back up all files or to back up files changed within a certain time frame, choose from the pull-down menu adjacent to “Backup files modified in the last”. You can choose “Backup all Files”, 31 days, 14 days, 7 days, 2 days or 1 day.
	Click Start Backup.
	Assign a path and a file name on your computer for storing the backup data. Click Save.

The file transfer takes several seconds to several minutes.

Scheduled backup

A Site Administrator can schedule regular automatic backups.

To schedule regular, automatic backups:

	Click Backup on the Site Management screen.
	Click Scheduled Backup. The Scheduled File Backup table appears.
	In “Data to Backup”; select the type of Backup, as described in step 2 in “Manual Backup”.
	To back up all files or to back up files changed within a certain time frame, choose from the pull-down menu adjacent to “Backup files modified in the last”.
	Choose the frequency of the automatic backup: Daily means nightly at 1 a.m. Weekly means every Sunday morning at 1 a.m. Monthly means on the first of every month at 1 a.m
	Choose a backup method. FTP Server writes the backup file to an FTP server. NFS places the backup file on a mountable NFS resource. SMB Server (Windows File Sharing) places the backup file onto a directory shared from a Windows machine.
	Enter a location for storing the backup data.
	Click Save Changes.

Restore

You must restore data from the same machine on which the data was backed up. Site Administrators can restore files only to their own site.

To restore a backup file

	On the Site Management screen, click Restore on the left. The File Restore table appears.
	Enter the path and filename of the backup file, or click Browse and select the file to restore.
	If you want to restore only some of the files, click Selective Restore.
	Click Restore A Backup File below the File Restore table.