Introduction Securing sensitive website directories is an important part of website administration. If your website contains private documents, internal reports, development files, or restricted content, you may want to prevent unauthorized users from accessing them. Plesk provides a built-in feature called Password-Protected Directories that allows website administrators to restrict access to specific directories using a ..

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Introduction Plesk provides an easy-to-use interface for creating and managing databases for websites and applications. You can create a database, assign a database user, and configure the required permissions directly from the Plesk control panel. This guide explains how to create a database and database user in Plesk. Prerequisites Before creating a database, make sure ..

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Post Date: October 02, 2026Last Updated: October 02, 2026 Introduction The document root is the folder that contains a website’s files. When visitors open a domain, the web server uses this folder to display the website. Plesk usually sets httpdocs as the default document root. However, some websites use a different folder, such as httpdocs/public. ..

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Post Date: September 22, 2026Last Updated: September 22, 2026 Introduction Plesk provides a centralised interface for managing hosting accounts, subscriptions, domains, and user access. If a user needs to update their account password or an administrator needs to reset a user’s password, the password can be changed directly through the Plesk interface. Prerequisites Before changing ..

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Introduction Plesk provides user management features that allow administrators to create additional user accounts and assign appropriate access permissions. Creating separate user accounts helps administrators provide users with access to required subscriptions and domains without sharing the main Plesk administrator credentials. This document explains how to create a new user account in Plesk and assign ..

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Introduction Managing email accounts is a common task for cPanel administrators. While email accounts can be viewed through the cPanel interface, server administrators with root or SSH access can also list email accounts directly from the command line. This can be useful when managing multiple cPanel accounts, troubleshooting mailbox-related issues, or quickly verifying which email ..

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Introduction Managing multiple domain names for a single website is a common requirement for businesses and website owners. Whether you want to protect your brand, support multiple domain extensions, or redirect visitors from alternative domain names, WHM’s Park a Domain feature makes the process simple. A parked domain allows an additional domain name to point ..

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Introduction Shell Fork Bomb Protection is a security feature in WHM that helps protect the server from fork bombs. A fork bomb creates a large number of processes continuously, which can consume the server’s available resources. This feature helps prevent users with SSH or Telnet access from exhausting server resources. Prerequisites Before enabling Shell Fork ..

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