Author Archives: cfoe

Adding a new user

Posted on June 28, 2012 by cfoe

Author: David Boutcher (http://www.badbison.com/) A Brief Explaination Adding control panel users is like setting up your team to help you manage your server. Your control panel users sit at so many levels, there could be your second in command who has … Continue reading →

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Usergroups

Posted on June 28, 2012 by cfoe

All About ISPConfig3 Clients Author: David Boutcher (http://www.badbison.com/) ISPConfig3 is a complete hosting solutions and has a number of levels of users as such, all which are fully customisable. As far as ISPConfig3 is concerned the highest user is the … Continue reading →

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Catchall Email configuration

Posted on June 28, 2012 by cfoe

This article shows how you can have all email sent to any user at one domain, caught by just one real email box. Author: David Boutcher (http://www.badbison.com/) First you need to click on the ‘Email’ tab from the control panel. … Continue reading →

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Basic Email Configuration

Posted on June 28, 2012 by cfoe

Author: David Boutcher (http://www.badbison.com/) Having set up the DNS records with the DNS wizard, all mails for your domain are now being sent to your ISPConfig3 server, but without having set up an email domain and mailbox it simply doesn’t … Continue reading →

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Subdomains

Posted on June 28, 2012 by cfoe

Author: David Boutcher (http://www.badbison.com/) The first thing you need to understand when creating subdomains is what you are trying to achieve and what each of the different option ISPConfig 3 will give you. There are two ways to create subdomains … Continue reading →

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Alias Web Domain

Posted on June 28, 2012 by cfoe

Author: David Boutcher (http://www.badbison.com/) To add a simple web domain alias is straight forward. This can be useful if you have have more than one domain name for a site – a browser can type either url and will still … Continue reading →

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Site Statistics with ISPConfig 3

Posted on June 28, 2012 by cfoe

Author: David Boutcher (http://www.badbison.com/) If you followed the recommended Perfect Server Debian guides then you will have already install Webalizer Version 2.01 The stats are collecting since you added your site. To access the stats click the ‘Sites’ tab, then … Continue reading →

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The basics of setting up your first site

Posted on June 28, 2012 by cfoe

Author: David Boutcher (http://www.badbison.com/) The first thing you need to do is set up DNS records. This is so anyone browsing from the internet can find your site using it’s domain name. Preferably you are running your own name server … Continue reading →

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Record type CNAME

Posted on June 28, 2012 by cfoe

Canonical DNS Record Author: David Boutcher (http://www.badbison.com/) This type of record can be used to to create the prefix part of a domain name, like this: thispart.yourdomain.com You could be creating these types of records for many reason such as … Continue reading →

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DNS Basics

Posted on June 28, 2012 by cfoe

Author: David Boutcher (http://www.badbison.com/) This page will give guidance on how to set up DNS records in ISPConfig3 We will assume you have followed this guide to have ISPConfig3 acting as your name server http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-run-your-own-name-server-with-ispconfig-3-and-fast-hosts http://www.howtoforge.com/ispconfig_dns_providerdomain_schlund http://www.howtoforge.com/ispconfig_dns_godaddy According to howtoforge … Continue reading →

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