With the Open Source Administration Tool ISPConfig you can manage all your important settings for your Webhosting like Website-Access & Databases per Browser.

Your Webhosting Packages from Medialekt are also managed with ISPConfig.

 

Create Website & Domain

After login with your access data, go to Sites → Website → Add new Website:

 

Here you can find 6 Tabs which are described here in short:

• Domain
  • Server
    According your Webhoster you can select different Server.
  • Domain
    Enter the Domain (without www.) connected from your Registrar to this Server.
  • Quota
    You have an available Web-Quota. Split it between all your Websites so you did not exceed.
  • Transfer Quota
    If your Webhoster limit your transfer, enter here your value.
  • Select the Options for your Hosting, on the Medialekt Server for example SuEXEC + Eigene Fehlerseiten are ok.
  • Auto-Subdomain
    Select www. if this is a independent Domain. If the site is already a Subdomain, choose None.
  • SSL
    Activate SSL, if you want to set a certificate.
  • Let´s Encrypt SSL
    If available you can generate automatically a Let´S Encrypt certifiacte.
  • PHP
    Select the PHP-Mode. On Medialekt Server normally Fast-CGI or FPM is ok.
  • PHP Version
    If you choosed Fast-CGI, you can set up from PHP 7.0.
• Redirect
  On the Medialekt Server normally used values are:
  
  • SEO Redirect
    www.domain-tld => domain.tld
    Decide only for one fixed variant.
  • Rewrite HTTP to HTTPS
    Redirect all requests to encrypted HTTPS.
• SSL
  If you have a own certifiacte, enter it here.
• Statistics
  On the Medialekt Server you can operate Matomo instances, which provide significantly more information and are more comfortable to use.
  But you can set here AWStats or Webalizer.
• Backup
  Choose your Backup options. We recommend:
  
  • Backup Intervall: Daily
  • Amount of Backups: min. 3
• Options
  You only see this Tab if you have the permissions. As an Administrator you can set individual PHP.INI values or Apache Directives.

 

Save your setup and wait about 1 minute so the server can process your changes.

 

Create a FTP-User

To create a new FTP-User, go to Sites → FTP-Accounts → Add new FTP-User:

 

Enter here for example follow fields:

• Domain
  Select the Website/Domain for this FTP-Account from before.
• Username
  Enter a Username. It´s possible that your Hoster add a Prefix to avoid conflicts with other clients on the server.
• Password
• Quota
  If you wish, you can enter a quota.

 

Create a Database-User

To create a new Database-User, go to Sites → Database Users → Add new Database User:

 

Enter for example following values:

• Database-User
  Enter a Username. It´s possible that your Hoster add a Prefix to avoid conflicts with other clients on the server.
• Database-Password

 

Create a Database and connect with User & Website

To create a new Database, got to Sites → Databases → Add new Database:

 

Enter following fields for example:

• Server
  According your Webhoster you can select different Database-Server.
• Webseite
  Select the Website/Domain to connect this Database from before.
• Database-Name
  Enter a Database-Name. It´s possible that your Hoster add a Prefix to avoid conflicts with other clients on the server.
• Database-User
  Select the Database-User from before.
• If required you can set optional permissions, Charset or Remote Access.

 

Now you should have all required Information and Accounts to install your own Website and possible Content Management Systems.