To create a subscription for the administrator’s customer with the username JDoe based on the hosting plan “Default Domain”, set up a site for the domain example.com, assign IP address 192.168.1.100 to the subscription, and set the username JDoe and password userpass for access to the subscription:

To limit the amount of disk space that example.com can occupy to 200 MB:

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Moves a main domain to an existing subscription.

To move the example.com domain to the target.com subscription:

To remove the subscription example.com:

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To display the list of subscriptions:

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To view information about the subscription example.com:

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Changes an owner of a subscription.

Requires the -owner options.

If the IP address assigned to the subscription is not shared between previous and new owner, you must specify it explicitly using the -map_ip option.

To make JDoe the owner of the subscription example.com:

To activate the subscription example.com:

To suspend the subscription example.com:

To lock the subscription example.com for syncing:

To unlock the subscription example.com for syncing:

To unbind the subscription example.com from service plan:

To associate the subscription example.com with the service plan megaplan:

To syncronize the subscription example.com with its associated service plan:

To associate the subscription example.com with an add-on plan super-add-on:

To unsubscribe example.com from the add-on plan Sample-addon:

Sets IIS application pool settings for the specified subscription.

The following settings can be specified:

-iis-app-pool-turned-on

This turns IIS application pool on or off.

-cpu-usage-state

This turns on or off monitoring of CPU usage by IIS application pool.

-cpu-usage-value

This sets the maximum allowed CPU usage rate for IIS application pool.

-cpu-usage-action

This sets the action that IIS takes when worker processes exceed the CPU usage limit.

-cpu-usage-interval

This sets the reset interval - the period of time when the CPU monitoring data is reset.

To switch on IIS application pool for the subscription example.com and limit CPU usage to 5 percent:

Enables the APS applications filter for the specified hosting plan or subscription. A filter restricts the number of applications available for installation on websites.

If an applications filter is not enabled (configured), then the subscription owner can install all applications available from the Application Catalog + those that were uploaded to the server by the administrator and marked as available for installation.

You can learn more about restricting access to applications in Administrator’s Guide > Web Applications.

To switch on the application filter and restricts the number of applications available for installation under subscription example.com to a single application named WordPress, use the following two commands:

Adds an application to the list of applications allowed for installation on websites under the specified subscription.

This command can be used with the following options:

-aps-filter-item-name

-aps-filter-item-value

To add an application AdvancedPoll identified by the system by a name “advancedpoll” to the list of applications allowed for installation under the subscription example.com:

To remove the application named “advancedpoll” from the list of applications available for installation under the subscription example.com:

To let the owner of the subscription example.com to install all available applications without restrictions:

To check if application filtering is enabled for the subscription example.com:

Adds a record about an additional service provided to the subscription or included into hosting plan. Before you assign a custom plan item to a subscription or a plan, you need to configure the plan item in Plesk. This can be done by means of the user interface, API or the custom_plan_items command-line utility.

You can read about custom plan items in Administrator’s Guide > Offer Additional Services.

To grant the owner of the subscription example.com with access to a custom application named “appname”:

To revoke access to the application “appname” from the owner of the subscription example.com:

To prohibit the owner of the subscription example.com to access all applications that were added as custom items:

To view all custom plan items provided to the subscription example.com:

To set one of 16 general PHP settings, prepare the file with the settings you want to change.

Then apply the settings to the site (example.com):

If you cannot find a certain PHP parameter among 16 general settings, add it as an additional directive to a file and apply the changes to the site (example.com):

To view the PHP configuration information for the website example.com:

To update the web server settings for the domain example.com:

To view the current settings for the website example.com:

To turn on the web application firewall settings for the website example.com:

To view the current web application firewall settings for the website example.com:

To suspend the website example.com:

To output the help info on the use of this utility:

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To rename the domain from example.com to sample.com:

Enables/Disables DNS zone.

By default, settings from the current server-wide DNS template are used.

To enable the DNS zone for example.com:

Allows/Prohibits accessing the domain using URL with the www prefix.

Is true by default.

To remove the www prefix from example.com:

Enables/Disables hosting.

Is false by default.

To enable hosting -ip, -login options are required.

To enable hosting for the domain example.com:

Sets up the type of hosting.

Here, phys means physical hosting, std standard forwarding hosting, and frm frame forwarding hosting.

Default value is phys.

The -ip option is required.

To set up standard forwarding hosting on the domain example.com:

To use the 302 code for forwarding on the domain example.com, which has the standard forwarding type of hosting:

To turn on redirection for the domain example.com to www.example.com:

Sets the target URL for forwarding hosting types.

Required if the -hst_type option is set to std or frm.

To set up standard forwarding to the target URL sample.com for the domain example.com:

Specifies service plan for

subscription creation and other operations. This option can be used only with the following commands:

--create

--add-subscription

--switch-subscription

--remove-subscription

To associate the subscription example.com with an add-on plan super-add-on:

To create the subscription example.com for the customer with the username JDoe:

To create the subscription example.com for the customer with the username JDoe and lock for syncing:

To set up a website example.com within the directory site2 within the subscription:

To add a domain named example2.com to the existing subscription example.com:

To add a subdomain named test to the existing subscription example.com:

To remove subdomains test1.example.com and test2.example.com:

To set up a website example.com and specify that it should use resources of the user reseller1:

Sets the domain creation date.

Used with the --create only.

To set the creation date for domain example.com to 2009-12-30:

Limits the number of available connections.

Unlimited is set to -1.

To limit the maximum number of connections available for the domain example.com to 10:

Limits the network use.

Unlimited is set to -1.

To limit the maximum network use on the domain example.com to 500 KB/S:

Sets a new IP address for a domain.

Used with --change-owner only.

Required with --change-owner.

To set the IP address 192.0.2.87 for the domain example.com when changing the owner of the domain to Plesk client with the login name JaneDoe:

Specifies the IP addresses of a domain that is created or updated. May be used twice to specify both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses for a subscription.

For subscriptions with physical hosting, the option also specifies the IP address at which domain content is hosted.

Required with -hosting option and with -hst_type option when phys parameter is specified.

To associate IPv4 address 192.0.2.33 with example.com configured for physical hosting:

To associate IPv4 address 192.0.2.33 and IPv6 address 2001:db8:85a3:0:0:8a2e:370:7334 with example.com configured for physical hosting:

To assign the mail service for the domain example.com the IP address 192.168.1.2:

To create the FTP user’s login for the example.com user, provided that the domain is configured to use physical hosting:

To change the FTP user password on the subscription example.com to sample:

Enables/Disables access to the system via remote desktop panel (RDP).

Is "Login Disabled" by default.

To enable access to the system via RDP:

Sets the maximum amount of disk space available for the domain files.

Unlimited if set to 0.

To set the 100 MB disk quota for example.com:

Enables/Disables the creation and publishing of an empty site by Presence Builder when creating a new domain for the client with SB support.

Is true by default.

Not to create and publish an empty site when updating example.com:

Enables/Disables SSI support.

Is false by default.

To enable SSI support on example.com:

Enables/Disables SSI support for HTML and HTM files.

Is false by default.

To enable SSI support for HTML and HTM files on example.com:

Enables/Disables PHP support.

Is false by default.

To enable PHP support on example.com:

cgi-5|cgi-5.3|cgi-5.4|

fastcgi-5|fastcgi-5.3|fastcgi-5.4|

isapi-5

To enable running PHP of version5 as ISAPI extension on example.com:

Enables/Disables CGI support.

Is false by default.

To enable CGI support on example.com:

To place the cgi-bin directory in the www-root:

Enables/Disables Perl support.

Is false by default.

To enable Perl support on example.com:

Enables/Disables ASP support.

Is false by default.

To enable ASP support on example.com:

Enables/Disables Python support.

Is false by default.

To enable Python support on example.com:

Enables/Disables accessing a domain via SSL/TLS.

Is true by default.

To disable SSL/TLS support on example.com:

Enables/Disables SEO-safe 301 redirection from HTTP to HTTPS.

Is true by default.

To disable redirection from HTTP to HTTPS on the domain example.net:

none|webalizer|

awstats|smarterstats

Sets up which web statistics tool should be used on a domain.

Is none by default.

To set Webalizer used on example.com:

Enables/Disables access to web statistics data through password- protected directory /plesk-stat.

Is false by default.

To enable access to web statistics data through password- protected directory /plesk-stat on the domain example.com:

Allows/Prohibits using custom HTTP error messages on a domain.

Is false by default (meaning standard error messages).

To allow custom error documents on example.com:

Enables/Disables log rotation.

Is false by default.

To enable log rotation on the domain example.com:

To enable log rotation on the domain example.com once the current log file reaches the 200 KB size:

Enables/Disables log rotation by time.

Is daily by default.

To enable weekly log rotation on the domain example.com:

Limits the number of log files parameter.

Is 3 by default.

To restrict the maximum number of log files (current and rotated) on the domain example.com to 10:

Enables/Disables log file compression.

Is true by default.

To disable log file compression on the domain example.com:

To enable automatic sending of rotated log files on the domain example.com to email address admin@example.com:

Allows or prohibits granting the Plesk IIS user and IIS application pool user the full access permission for the domain’s httpdocs/ and httpsdocs/ files and subfolders. Is false by default.

This permission might be required for correct functioning of web applications. Note that this permission, when granted, might seriously compromise website security.

Is false by default.

To allow the Plesk IIS User and IIS application pool user to write and modify files and subfolders in httpdocs/ and httpsdocs/ folders of example.com:

Allows or prohibits web deploy publishing.

Is false by default.

To enable web deploy publishing for example.com:

Allows/Prohibits using dedicated IIS application pool for a domain. Is used with the --update command.

Is false by default.

To allow using dedicated IIS application pool on example.com:

Defines the maximum CPU usage by domain (in %).

Is used with the --update command.

To limit the maximum CPU usage by example.com to 3 %:

To set up the following CPU usage settings for the IIS application pool of the subscription example.com:

• limit the maximum CPU usage by worker processes to 3%,

• shut down the IIS application pool for the rest of the reset interval if the processes have exceeded the limit,

• reset monitoring data every 5 minutes:

  plesk bin subscription.exe --set-iis-app-pool-settings example.com -iis-app-pool-turned-on true -cpu-usage-state true -cpu-usage-value 3 -cpu-usage-action KillW3wp -cpu-usage-interval 5 -max-worker-processes 3 -idle-timeout 5 -managed-pipeline-mode Integrated -recycling-by-time 60 -recycling-by-requests 1000 -recycling-by-virtual-memory 5120 -recycling-by-private-memory 10240

Specifies the maximum percentage of CPU time that worker processes in an application pool are allowed to consume over a period of time specified by the -cpu-usage-interval option.

If the limit is exceeded, the event is written to the event log and an optional set of events can be triggered. These optional events are determined by the -cpu-usage-action option.

Specifies the action that IIS takes when worker processes exceed the limit on CPU time usage.

• NoAction - no action is taken when the CPU limit is exceeded. A warning is written to the event log.
• KillW3wp - processes that exceed their CPU limit will be forced to shut down.

Enables/Disables log rotation.

Is true by default.

To disable log rotation on example.com:

To enable the processing of example.com log files when their size comes up to 200 KB:

daily|weekly

|monthly

Enables the processing of log files by time.

Is daily by default.

To set up weekly log rotation on example.com:

Specifies the maximum number of stored log files.

Is 3 by default.

To set the maximum number of log files on example.com to 5:

Enables/Disables log file compression.

Is true by default.

To disable log file compression on example.com:

To enable sending the log file of example.com to JohnDoe@example.com:

Enables/Disables running mail service.

Is false by default.

To disable mail service on example.com:

To set the local Plesk mail server as the mail service provider for the subscription example.com:

Enables/Disables sending the ‘domain created’ notification to Plesk administrator.

Is true by default.

To disable sending the notification:

Enables/Disables supporting Microsoft ASP.NET framework.

Is false by default.

To enable Microsoft ASP.NET framework support on example.com:

Sets the default version of Microsoft ASP.NET framework.

Is 2.0 by default.

To make .NET v.4.0.x default on example.com:

To assign the SSL/TLS certificate named Site Certificate to the domain example.com:

-owner

To assign ownership of the subscription example.com to a user with the login name JDoe, and assign the 192.0.2.78 ip address to the subscription:

Specifies identifier of APS applications filter item: whether the filtered app is identified in Plesk by name or URL.

The option to identify an application by URL is reserved for future uses and is not currently available.

To add an application AdvancedPoll identified by the system by a name “advancedpoll” to the list of applications allowed for installation under the subscription example.com:

To grant the owner of the subscription example.com with access to a custom application named “appname”:

Sets the file containing custom PHP settings for a site. The file can include only 16 general PHP settings exposed to the Plesk GUI.

Used with --update-php-settings only.

To set custom PHP configuration from the file my_file to the site example.com:

Sets the file containing custom PHP settings for a site. The file can include any PHP directive except 16 general PHP settings exposed to the Plesk GUI.

Used with --update-php-settings only.

To add directives to custom PHP configuration from the file my_file_add (example.com):

To forbid the IP address 192.168.1.2 access to the site example.com:

To allow the IP address 192.168.1.2 access to the site example.com:

disabled|suspended|

active

Sets the status that all websites in the specified subscription will receive when the subscription becomes suspended.

The default value is suspended.

To make websites receive the disabled status when the subscription example.com becomes suspended:

To create a description of the subscription example.com:

To create a description of the subscription example.com that will be visible to the administrator only:

To create a description of the subscription example.com that will be visible to the reseller and administrator:

To create a subscription with empty document root: