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Virtual Hosts and Hosting Types

 
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Depending on how you intend to use a site created in Plesk, for example,
to host web pages or to forward HTTP requests to another site, you can
choose from three hosting types that define the structure of a virtual
host created for this site. The hosting types are the following:

  • Website hosting. When you choose this type of hosting, Plesk
    creates a virtual host (disk space on the local server) for a
    customer. Customers store their files on a virtual host and run their
    websites without having to purchase a server or dedicated
    communication lines.
  • Standard forwarding. In this case, Plesk creates a reduced virtual
    host that does not store its owner’s files and directories. This host
    is used for redirecting requests to another network resource. When
    users try to access the domain, Plesk forwards them to another URL.
    This URL will be shown in their browsers.
  • Frame forwarding. In this case, Plesk creates a reduced virtual
    host that does not store its owner’s files and directories. Unlike
    standard forwarding, frame forwarding virtual hosts show the
    requested URL in a browser, not the actual one. Plesk uses HTML
    frames to show the pages of another site with the requested URL.

The virtual host structure differs depending on hosting type:

  • Domains with a website hosting type have a directory called document
    root
    where the website files are stored. The configuration of such a
    virtual host looks like this:

     <VirtualHost 10.0.69.4:80>
        ServerName "domainXX.tst:443"
            ServerAlias  "www.domainXX.tst"
            UseCanonicalName Off
    <IfModule mod_suexec.c>
        SuexecUserGroup "domainXX.tst" "psacln"
    </IfModule>
        ServerAdmin  "[email protected]"
        DocumentRoot "/var/www/vhosts/domainXX.tst/httpdocs"
        CustomLog /var/www/vhosts/domainXX.tst/statistics/logs/access_ssl_log plesklog
        ErrorLog  "/var/www/vhosts/domainXX.tst/statistics/logs/error_log"
    ........................................................................
    
  • Standard forwarding domains just contain a forwarding address in the
    configuration file. No space for storing files is allocated. The
    configuration of such a virtual host looks like this:

    <VirtualHost 10.0.69.2:80>
            ServerName "SFdomain.tst.tst"
                ServerAlias "www.SFdomain.tst.tst"
            ServerAdmin  "[email protected]"
            RedirectPermanent / "http://easytofinddomain.tst/"
    </VirtualHost>
    
  • Frame forwarding domains have a document root with a single file
    index.html with the <FRAMESET> tag that defines…

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