Plesk installation steps

You can install via browser using the Plesk Installer. You can use a One-Click installation or you can even do an Unattended Installation. The installation process should take about 30 minutes. During the process you will select components to install. Components can always be added or removed after the initial install. Installation via a browser is easy and gives you the advantage of selecting what components you want to install from a graphical interface.

The One-Click installation is quick, but will install a default set of components. This will be fine for most users. The unattended install gives you the greatest level of customization and may be necessary if the default release ran into issues on your specific server configuration. After installation you will want to complete some basic set up. Login using Administrator and your server administrator password.

Complete the installation by setting a new password for the Plesk admin user. Enter your Plesk license activation code. You can also choose to do a free trial for 14 days. You will be prompted to agree to an End-User License Agreement. Plesk will then initialize. There are two different user interface types included with Plesk called views. Power User view is best for someone running a personal website. Moreover, if you are going to perform mass deployment of Plesk for Linux, you can write a script that automatically copies and runs Installer on a specified group of servers.

See the script examples in the section Installation Script Examples Linux. On Windows systems, scripts with the remote commands execution are also possible but require additional tools such as PsExec. Thus, we do not give examples of such scripts for Windows. After a typical manual installation is finished, you should log in to Plesk to perform some post-installation operations initialize Plesk, install a license key, and so on.

If you have multiple Plesk installations, this process can be automated as well. If you want to avoid user input in the Plesk interface, the best approach is to perform the same operations either from the command-line interface or with the remote API also known as XML API. To learn more about how to complete Plesk installation in an automated manner, refer to the corresponding sub-sections of After Installing Plesk.

If you want Plesk to provide such services, you must install them after all post-installation steps are finished. Moreover, you can significantly extend Plesk functionality by installing Plesk extensions. You can access such extensions directly from the Plesk GUI and gain control over many additional and handy features.

Before Installing Plesk. Manual Installation. Advanced Automated Installation. Advanced Installation to Virtuozzo. Advanced Cloning Plesk in Virtual Environment. Advanced Deployment on Amazon EC2. After Installing Plesk. Yes No. Thank you for the feedback! Please tell us if we can improve further. Once Plesk is installed, you need to do a little bit of setting up before you can get to work. The following instructions describe the process.

This is the Plesk login page. Then you will be redirected to the Plesk welcome screen. The way it looks and the information it asks you to provide differs between Plesk Onyx To better suit the needs of different types of users, Plesk offers two different user interface types, called views :. The View Selector page lists a number of different roles. For each role, one of the views is suggested as the more appropriate.

However, you are free to select any view or any role, or select Other if you are not sure.