There are two types of sites in SiteBuilder:
With the Remote Admin for SiteBuilder 2 module, you can perform a variety of management operations on sites, such as add new trial and regular sites to the SiteBuilder administration panel, edit plans for sites, activate or deactivate them, delete selected sites from the SiteBuilder database, and transfer trial sites to regular ones.
To access site management functions and view a list of sites:
- The site is deactivated, which means that users cannot edit this site using the SiteBuilder Wizard. Click this icon to allow the user to edit this site.
- The site is activated, i.e. users can edit the content of this site using the SiteBuilder Wizard. Click this icon to deactivate the site.
To add a trial site:
To transfer a trial site to a regular one:
To add a regular site, do one of the following:
To edit properties of a regular site:
Note: When a regular site is created, a copy of the selected Template Plan (the so-called Plan revision or Inherited Plan) is created for this site. This means that any plan changes for a specific site will not affect the parent Template Plan. In the module interfaces, inherited plans are called Plan Revisions.
If you select the FTP mode, specify the following FTP settings required to establish connection with a remote server and transfer files:
FTP Host - From the drop-down list, select the name of the FTP host where to transfer files. This list is populated from the list of activated allowed hosts included in the plan associated with this site (to manage hosts, click Plan Management --> Hosts).
FTP Login and FTP Password - FTP user login and password used to authorize FTP transactions.
FTP Work Directory - The path to the directory where the web site files will be stored.
If you select the VPS publishing mode, specify the following VPS settings required to establish a connection with a VPS server:
VPS Domain - VPS domain name
VPS Service VE IP Address - IP address of the service machine
VPS Identifier - A unique 32-bit Virtual Private Server ID, also known as VPS ID
VPS Work Directory - the VPS work directory where site files will be stored
VPS Owner User and VPS Owner Group - parameters of the VPS owner.
At the bottom of the Site Properties tab, you can see subtabs on which you can edit properties of this site plan. On the General subtab, you can view the parent plan for this site plan and the revision number (in the figure below, the parent plan is Standard_Client and the revision number is 0.0). Each time you edit the properties of the site plan, the revision number will increase by 0.1 (i.e., next time the revision number will be 0.1). On this subtab, you can change the number of pages allowed for this site. If you exceed the maximum number of pages allowed by the SiteBuilder license, an error message will be displayed.
Click the Hosts subtab to select the hosts to which this site can be published. The allowed hosts displayed on this subtab include only the hosts allowed for the parent Template plan. To add a host to the site plan, select it in the list and click Add to Site Plan. To remove a host from the site plan, select it in the list and click Remove from Site Plan.
Click the Modules subtab to define the modules available for this site. To add a module to the site plan, select it in the list and click Add to Site Plan. To remove a module from the site plan, select it in the list and click Remove from Site Plan.
Click the Templates subtab to specify the templates included in the site plan. To add a template to the site plan, select it in the list and click Add to Site Plan. To remove a template from the site plan, select it in the list and click Remove from Site Plan.
To allow publishing of a regular site:
Note: By default, publishing is not available for regular sites. Therefore, you should allow publishing for the site as described above.