Logging in to Plesk
To log in to your Plesk control panel:
1 Open your web browser, and in the address bar type the URL where
your Plesk control panel is located.
For example, https://your-domain.com:8443, where your-domain.com is the domain
name of your Web host.
2 Press ENTER. Plesk login screen will open.
3 Type the user name 'admin' and your password into the Login and
Password boxes, respectively. If this is your first login to the freshly
installed control panel, use the default password 'setup'.
4 If you log in for the first time, select the language for your control
panel from the Interface language menu. If you had previously specified
the interface language and saved it in your interface preferences,
leave the User default value selected.
5 Click Login.
After your first login, you should accept the license agreement and then specify the
host name and IP addresses to assign to the server.
6 Read carefully the terms of the License Agreement and, if you agree
to all the terms, select the I agree to the terms of this license agreement and
Do not show it again check boxes.
7 Click Accept to proceed to the post-install configuration.
8 In the Full hostname field, enter your server's host name. This should be
a fully qualified host name but without a trailing dot (for example,
host.domain.tld).
9 Specify the IP address that will be used as the default address of your
server. You have the following two options:
Select one of your existing IP address from the drop-down box. This list is
populated automatically and contains all IP addresses available on the server.
OR
Click the Add IP Address option button, select the network interface and enter the
new IP address and subnet mask in the IP address box.
Note: With Plesk you can mark all your IP addresses as shared or dedicated before
you assign them to your customers. This allows the control panel to distinguish
between them and not to let you assign a dedicated IP address to several
customers at once. A dedicated IP address can be assigned to a single customer,
while a shared IP address can be shared among several user accounts.
10 In the Shared IP section, specify the type for existing addresses: shared
or exclusive. Click the Shared and Exclusive buttons to change the types
of IP addresses.
