How to create additional FTP accounts in Direct Admin Click the FTP Management link This demo assumes you've already logged in to Direct Admin Now let's learn how to create a new FTP account As you can see here, there is already one FTP account, and it is the main (default) FTP account of this hosting account; this default FTP account cannot be deleted Let's go ahead and create a new FTP account.... click here Enter a new FTP username Then enter and confirm a password for this new FTP account Scroll down..... Then click Create Choose the extent of access you wish to grant this new FTP user Success! The new FTP account has been setup, and can be seen here You can change FTP passwords for your FTP accounts from here Now let's delete the FTP account we just created The FTP account has been deleted Click the Home icon here This is the end of the tutorial. You now know how to setup additional FTP accounts, change their passwords, and delete them altogether
How to setup email forwarding in Direct Admin This demo assumes you've already logged in to Direct Admin Now let's learn how to setup an email forwarder (or redirect) Scroll down... Click the Forwarders link Click the Create new E-Mail Forwarder link An email forwarder is a way to forward emails that are sent to one address, automatically to another address Enter the email prefix in this box Then enter the email address where you want these emails to be forwarded to Click Create when finished Let's return to the email forwarders list That's it! The email forwarder has been setup, and now whenever email is sent to john@demo1234.com, that email will automatically be forwarded to john@yahoo.com Let's delete the forwarder we just created..... click here From this screen you can add new email forwarders, modify existing ones, or delete them altogether Then click Delete Selected The email forwarder has been deleted Click the Home icon here This is the end of the tutorial. You now know how to create new email forwarders in Direct Admin, as well as delete them
How to install FrontPage extensions in Direct Admin Click the Frontpage Extensions link This demo assumes you've already logged in to Direct Admin Now let's learn how to install FrontPage extensions in our hosting account Remember that FrontPage extensions should only be installed if you are using Microsoft's FrontPage to build your website If you're not using FrontPage, then do not install the FrontPage extensions Let's assume we're using FrontPage, and need the extensions installed..... you can see here that FrontPage extensions are not currently installed in this account Let's go ahead and install them..... you first need to enter your account password..... a step for added security Then click the Enable button To uninstall FrontPage extensions, simply click Disable here That's all there is to it! The FrontPage extensions have been installed in the hosting account, as you can see here Uninstalling FrontPage extensions is just as easy, and doesn't require you to enter your password The FrontPage extensions have been removed from the account Click the Home icon here This is the end of the tutorial. You now know how to install and/or uninstall FrontPage extensions from your hosting account
How to create a mailing list in Direct Admin This demo assumes you've already logged in to Direct Admin Now let's learn how to create a mailing list Scroll down... Click the Mailing Lists link Then click Create Mailing List Enter an address for the new mailing list When creating a mailing list, remember that you cannot use an email address that's already setup as a POP account, an email forwarder, or an autoresponder Then click Create Now let's see how to manage this mailing list..... click View The mailing list bulletin@demo1234.com has been created Let's manually add a new subscriber to the digest form of this mailing list. This means that the messages are stored for a period of time (i.e. weekly or monthly), and then sent out as one large message all at once Let's go ahead and add a subscriber to the digest list Click Add Let's see how to change the mailing list settings..... click here The new subscriber has been added as a digest subscriber, and is listed here Scroll down... You have complete control over the mailing list, including setting the list description, digest settings, subscribe policy, maximum message length, moderators, and much more Scroll down some more... When finished making changes to the mailing list settings, click Save Click the Home icon here This is the end of the tutorial. You should now be familiar with mailing lists, how to create them, how to manually add subscribers, and the types of settings you can modify
Becoming familiar and Navigating around in Direct Admin This demo assumes you've already logged in to Direct Admin Now let's familiarize ourselves with Direct Admin Across the top of the main Direct Admin screen, there are icons available for easy access to the most popular tools The Webmail icon will take you directly to your webmail application..... The Password icon is a quick link to where you can change or reset your account password..... The Help icon will take you to complete documentation on using Direct Admin..... The Files icon takes you directly to File Manager Let's go take a look at the available Help documentation..... click the Help icon ... and the Logout icon is what you click when you are finished with Direct Admin. You should always logout when you are finished Click the editing HTML link here This is the main Help page, and it has dozens of helpful links for learning how to use Direct Admin We get taken to a page that explains exactly how to edit HTML pages, complete with additional links you can click to get more information Now click the Creating e-mail accounts link Here's a page that explain how to create email accounts This help page is a terrific source of information on using Direct Admin On the right of the screen is some general account information You can see how much disk space you've used, and how much you have available to you..... ..... and same with Bandwidth (or data transfer), E-mails, FTP accounts and MySQL Databases Scroll down... Now back at the main Direct Admin page..... Click the Server Information link here ... and if we scroll down... Here we can see detailed information about the server..... Scroll back to the top of the page..... We can see if all the services in the server (Exim, MySQL, Apache, etc) are running properly Click the Home icon Now let's take a look at the Installed Perl Modules..... click here This page lists every Perl module that's installed in the server. You may need to consult this page if you're installing a script that needs a certain Perl module, and you're unsure if it's installed Scroll down... This list is very long..... Click the Home icon here This is the end of the tutorial. You should now be more familiar with navigating around in Direct Admin. To learn more about the various features of Direct Admin, you can return to the Help link on this main page
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