CPX Control Panel System Administration
The System Administration module of your control panel enables you to manage many functions related to your account. The System
Administration features of your control panel are listed here:
Managing Services
The Manage Services window enables you to perform various actions on services used with your account. Depending on the service, you can stop, start/restart, or reboot these functions:
- ftp: The program that controls file transfers to and from the server.
- httpd: The Web server that answers web page requests.
- imap: The email protocol that provides remote email access.
- imaps: The email protocol that provides secure (over TLS/SSL) access to your email.
- pop3: The email protocol that provides the ability to retrieve email messages from server.
- pop3s: The email protocol that provides the ability to retrieve email messages from a server with secure (over TLS/SSL) access.
- sendmail: The program that manages email messages on the server.
- server: The server that runs all of your processes.
- sshd: The program that controls secure remote shell connections.
- telnet: The program that controls unencrypted remote shell connections.
These services have two states: running or stopped. You have the option of stopping or restarting a service. The exception is your server, where you can only reboot it.
Various services have different capabilities, so you can not perform all of these actions on all of these services.
Rebooting your server may take several minutes. During this reboot time, you will not have access to any server functions, including access to the control panel. If you reboot your server, and then try to do anything with your account too quickly, you may get an error message. Wait a few minutes before working on your account after rebooting your server.
To Stop a Service:
- If you want to stop a service, click stop for the service you want to stop. A pop up window appears, asking if you are sure you want to stop the service.
- Click OK. A confirmation message appears. The stop link changes to start.
To Start or Restart a Service:
- If you have stopped a service or want to restart a running service, you can start it again by clicking start or restart in the Actions column for the service you want. When you try to restart a service a pop up window appears, asking if you are sure you want to restart the service.
- Click OK. The window refreshes, with a message telling you that the service was started. The stop link changes to start.
To Reboot Your Server:
- To reboot your server, click reboot on the server line. A pop up window appears, asking if you are sure you want to reboot your server.
- Click OK. A "success" message appears.
Creating Editing Disabling and Deleting Tasks
You can create, edit, disable and delete crontab tasks in the Schedule Tasks section of your System Administration tool. Creating tasks and scheduling them using this tool enables you to automatically execute commands regularly on your VPS to avoid manually executing them every day, week, or month. You can delete, disable or enable a crontab task by selecting the checkbox next to the task and clicking the appropriate button, or by clicking the appropriate link in the Actions column.
You cannot disable task descriptions.
To Create a New Task:
From the Schedule Tasks window, click Create New Task.
- The Create Task window appears. Click the Use Existing drop down menu and select a task. Or, you can create a completely new task description.
- After you name the task, set the time and frequency of the task by selecting the Select Date & Time: option and clicking on the times the task should run, or select the Select a Template: radio button and choosing a regular schedule from the Run job: drop down menu.
- Type the command line instruction in the Command: text box.
- Click Save to save the task and return to the Schedule Tasks window.
Or, click Save/Create New Task to save the task and refresh the current window to enter a new task.
Or, click Clear/Reset to refresh the current window with clear fields.
Or, click Cancel to return the Schedule Tasks window without saving the task.
To Edit a Task:
- Find the task you want, and click edit. The Edit a Task window appears.
- After you find the task, set the time and frequency of the task by selecting the Select Date & Time: option and clicking on the times the task should run, or select the Select a Template: radio button and choosing a regular schedule from the Run job: drop down menu.
- Type the command line instruction in the Command: text box.
- Click Save to save the task and return to the Schedule Tasks window.
Or, click Save/Create New Task to save the task and refresh the current window to enter a new task.
Or, click Clear/Reset to refresh the current window with clear fields.
Or, click Cancel to return the Schedule Tasks window without saving the task.
To Disable a Task:
- Find the task you want, and click disable. A pop up window appears asking if you are sure you want to disable the task.
- Click OK. A confirmation message appears.
- The disable link changes to enable in the Actions column.
To Delete a Task:
- Find the task you want, and click delete. A pop up window appears asking if you are sure you want to delete the task.
- Click OK. A confirmation message appears.
Viewing Apache Log Files
Viewing Apache log files may require slightly different steps if you are not using Internet Explorer. If you have a different browser, consult the help file for that browser if you need further information. If you run a Macintosh or Linux operating system, these instructions may not be complete. Check the help files of those operating systems for more information about downloading files. Your Apache log files provide valuable information about your Web server activity.
The Access Log records all requests processed by the Web server. This usually includes the IP address of the requestor, time of request, page requested, and program or browser making the request. However, the Access Log can be configured in many different ways to record a broad range of information. The Error Log contains information valuable when diagnosing problems and troubleshooting new pages or scripts. It records errors the Web server encounters while processing requests. When there are problems with the Web server, it is suggested to begin troubleshooting by analyzing the Error Log.
If you decide to use the Archive Now feature, you may create a conflict with settings for web site log rotation that the system has in place for your domain under Domain Management. It may also create problems for any program that may be analyzing the Web server logs.
For more information about Apache Web Logs, see http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/logs.html
To View Your Apache Log Files:
- Click View Apache Log Files. The View Apache Log Files window appears.
- Select the appropriate domain from the View and manage Apache log files for: drop-down menu. The information for the log files of the selected domain appear.
- If this domain has logs enabled you see the path to the log file, its current size, the number of archived logs, and possible actions. If this domain does not have logs enabled, then you will see the Name displayed as /dev/null with a size of 0.
To View the Last 200 Lines of a Log File:
- From the View Apache Log Files window, select the appropriate domain from the View and manage Apache log files for: drop-down menu.
- If the domain has an active log file, click view last 200 lines in the Actions column. A new window opens, displaying the last 200 lines written to the log file and action buttons.
- To archive the log, click Archive Now.
- To download the entire log file to your computer, click Download Entire Log. A dialog box appears, asking if you want to save the file.
- Click Yes. Save the file as needed.
- To close the window, click Close Window.
To Download a Log File to Your Computer:
- From the View Apache Log Files window, select the appropriate domain from the View and manage Apache log files for: drop-down menu.
- Click download entire file for the file you want. A dialog box appears, asking if you want to save the file.
- Click Yes. Save the file as needed.
To Archive a Log Manually:
- From the View Apache Log Files window, select the appropriate domain from the View and manage Apache log files for: drop-down menu.
- Click archive now for the file you want to archive. The window refreshes with the message stating that you have successfully archived the log.
To View Archived Log Files:
- From the View Apache Log Files window, select the appropriate domain from the View and manage Apache log files for: drop-down menu.
- Click view archive for the file you want. The View Archived Apache Log Files window appears, displaying the archived files, their size, and possible actions.
- To download an archived file, click download entire file for the file you want. A dialog box appears, asking if you want to save the file.
- Click Yes. Save the file as needed.
- To delete a file, click delete. A dialog box appears, asking if you are sure you want to delete the file.
- Click OK. The window refreshes with a message that you have successfully deleted the archive.
- To delete multiple archived log files, select the appropriate checkboxes for the file, then click Delete. A dialog box appears, asking if you are sure you want to delete the files.
- Click OK. The window refreshes with a message that you have successfully deleted the archives.
Viewing Account Information
Your Account Information window provides you with the following information:
- Your Server Name: Displays the name you have assigned to this server.
- The server I.P. Address: Displays the location of the server on the Internet.
- Disk Usage figure: Displays how much disk space you have used and have left.
- Number of Open Files: Displays number of open file descriptors currently in use by processes.
- Number of Processes: Displays the number of programs running on your VPS.
- Number of Virtual Hosts: Describes how many virtual hosts you have set up.
- Number of Users: Describes how many users you have set up.
To View Your Account Information:
From your control panel, click View Account Information. The View Account information window appears, displaying your account information.
Setting Your Server Time Zone
Many time-sensitive tasks and records are tied to your server time zone.
Greenwich Mean Time is the default setting for VPS servers. If you change the server time from GMT, you should ensure that you have the appropriate time zone set for your cron jobs or other processes. Setting the time zone under System Administration changes the time zone for the server itself. Any script or process that asks the server what time it is will receive the time in the time zone set here. Setting the time zone under My Preferences sets the time zone displayed to the end user in the control panel interface, but actually doesn't change anything on the server.
To Set Your Server Time Zone:
- From your control panel, click Set Server Time Zone. The Set Server Time Zone window appears.
- Click the Time Zone drop down menu to view a list of time zones.
- Select the time zone you want.
- Click Save. Your VPS sets the time zone when you reboot the server.
- To reboot your VPS, click Manage Services. The Manage Services window appears.
- Click reboot in the server line.
- It takes a while for the server to reboot. You will see a message stating that the server is rebooting. Afterward, the window refreshes. The server uses your new time zone going forward.
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