Plesk Extended For WHMCS

About Plesk Extended For WHMCS

Plesk Extended For WHMCS is a module which allows your customers to manage their web hosting accounts directly from the client area. Our product increases your comfort of management and simplifies web hosting account handling for your customers. Let your web hosting users manage their Plesk accounts in your own WHMCS. Achieve all of these and set it up within a few minutes time!

• Admin Area Features:

✔ Create/Suspend/Unsuspend/Terminate Account

✔ Change Package And Password Of Account

✔ Configure Client Area Features Per Product

✔ Define Service Plan Name Per Product

✔ Define Reseller Plan Name Per Product

✔ Enable Application Installer To Use Per Product

✔ View All plesk extended Products In One Place

• Client Area Features:

v Remote Access And Management Of:

✔ FTP Accounts

✔ Email Accounts

✔ Email Forwarders

✔ MySQL Databases

✔ Subdomains

✔ Addon Domains

✔ Domain Aliases

✔ DNS Records

✔ One Click Login To:

✔ Plesk

✔ Webmail

✔ Change Account Password

• Application Installer Features:

✔ Install New Applications

✔ View Installed Applications

• General Info:

✔ Utilizes Ajax Loaded Pages

✔ Integrated With Advanced Billing For WHMCS - Server Resource Usage Billing (read more)

✔ Multi-Language Support

✔ Supports Windows & Linux

✔ Supports Parallels Plesk Panel 9 and Later

✔ Supports WHMCS Templates Five and Six

✔ Supports WHMCS V5 and V6

Installation and Configuration

Installation

This tutorial will show you how to successfully install and configure Plesk Extended For WHMCS. We will guide you step by step through the whole installation and configuration process.

1. Log in to your client area and download Plesk Extended For WHMCS.

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2. Upload and extract the module into the main WHMCS directory. Files in your WHMCS directory should look like these.

3. When you install Plesk Extended for the first time you have to rename 'license_RENAME.php' file. File is located in 'modules/servers/pleskExtended/license_RENAME.php'. Rename it from 'license_RENAME.php' to 'license.php'.

4. In order to configure your license key you have to edit a previously renamed 'license.php' file. Enter your license key between quotation marks as presented on the following screen. You can find your license key in your client area → 'My Products'.

Activation of Addon

5. Now you have to activate the module in your WHMCS system. Login to your WHMCS admin area. Click 'Setup' then choose 'Addon Modules'. Afterwards, find 'Plesk Extended Center' and press 'Activate' button.

6. In next step you need to permit access to this module. To do so, press 'Configure'. Afterwards, select required administrator roles and press 'Save Changes'. Note: Here you can also define which system template you are using, '5' or '6'.

7. You have just successfully installed Plesk Extended For WHMCS!

Configuration of Server

8. Now, we will show you how to configure a new server. To do so, log in into your WHMCS. Press 'Setup' → 'Products/Services' → 'Servers'. Afterwards, press 'Add New Server'.

9. Next, enter your server name, IP address, username and password. Choose 'PleskExtended' from a dropdown menu and press 'Save Changes'. Here you can also provide other server details like nameservers or maximum number of accounts.

10. After you configure your server correctly, you will see a following screen. Now, you need to create a new group for your server. For that purpose press 'Create New Group'.

11. Enter name, click on your previously created server, press 'Add' then press 'Save Changes'.

Configuration of Product

12. In order to create and configure the product, click on 'Setup' → 'Products/Services' → 'Products/Services'. If you do not have a product group, 'Create a New Group'.

13. Enter product group name and press 'Save Changes'.

14. When you have a product group, you can create your product and assign it to Plesk Extended. To create a product press 'Create a New Product'.

15. Afterwards, choose your product type and product group from dropdown menus, enter your product name and press 'Save Changes'.

16. Now, move to 'Module Settings' section, choose both 'PleskExtended' and your previously created server group from dropdown menus. Remember to add your 'Client Template Name' or 'Service Plan Name'. Plesk Extended will not work properly without specified plan name. Don't forget to 'Save Changes'.

17. Good job! You have just correctly created and customized new product which will appear in Plesk Extended Center admin area.

Configuration of Addon

18. You have just correctly created and customized a new product. Go to 'Addons' → 'Plesk Extended Center' in your WHMCS. You will find there dashboard with precise data on available products and servers: see the number of active/suspended/terminated products check the number of active accounts log into panel (if configured in 'Module Settings') upgrade your Plesk products press 'Documentation' tab to be moved to this very site!

19. Proceed to 'Features' section and find the product you are interested in and press 'Configuration' button next to it.

20. You should find there boxes dedicated to 'Features' and 'Settings'. If you have already another product configured, you may copy its configuration now. Find one more box 'Copy Configuration From' and choose product from dropdown menu. To show you an example, we will set the configuration from the beginning, we will not use other product's configuration. Select the features you would like to activate for your customers.

21. Enter proper domains or IP addresses to allow connection with Pelsk Panel and Webmail accordingly. Do not forget to 'Save' changes once product configuration is ready!

22. From now on, all your clients who ordered a previously created product will be able to manage their Plesk accounts via your WHMCS system. Here is a view of the ordered product summary in admin area. Available actions: Log In To Control Panel Use Module Commands: 'Create', 'Suspend', 'Unsuspend', 'Terminate' the product; 'Change Package' and 'Change Password'

Client area view:

Management

Plesk Extended allows your customers to manage their accounts via client area in your WHMCS system. In this short guide we will present you the management possibilities of our module.

Client Area

FTP Accounts

In the very first section you are given the possibility to manage your FTP accounts. Management of FTP accounts is dependent on the system your Plesk panel is set up on. In case of Windows system used, you may add new accounts, change passwords and delete old account. However, in case of Linux system only changing passwords is allowed.

Emails

You can manage all aspects related to e-mail accounts. Add new accounts, search through accounts and remove useless ones.

Email Forwarders

Take any advantage of 'Email Forwarders' functionality. Send a copy of all mail from one email address to another.

Databases

Owing to 'MySQL Databases Management' you can create/delete new databases and users. You can also add users to particular databases.

Subdomains

Create subdomains to access different parts of your website. Choose domain from your list of available and provide document root.

Addon Domains

You can also add and manage addon domains. Make sure this feature is allowed for your account before using!

Domain Aliases

Add and manage domain aliases to allow redirections and web contents display on other webpage.

DNS Settings

Your customers are going to love this feature! Add records by providing their hostname and value, select type of such record.

Applications

Use Plesk Extended For WHMCS to install your favorite applications in a few seconds without even accessing Plesk panel! To start, simply proceed to 'Applications' then find 'Install New' section.

Afterwards, you will see an extensive list of available applications. For presentation purposes we will install 'PrestaShop'. Find 'PrestaShop' and press it.

Now, you have to enter necessary installation details and then press 'Install Application' to follow. Wait for 'Success' message.

View the list of your installed applications by clicking 'Installed Applications' tab and manage the application. You will find there the name of the application and its version.

One Click Login

Log In To Panel

With a single click of a button 'Log In To Panel' you can be redirected to your Plesk Panel account. Note that you must have a proper IP address or domain entered in admin area panel to use this button.

Log In To Webmail

You can quickly access your webmail through pressing 'Log In To Webmail' button. Note that you must have a proper IP address or domain entered in admin area panel to use this button.

Management of Existing Products

You can easily use Plesk Extended module with your already configured Plesk products. To do so change the type of servers and module names of products from 'Plesk' to 'PleskExtended'. Additional information about how to correctly configure your servers and products can be found at points 8-16 of 'Installation and Configuration' section.

Billing Management

When you combine Plesk Extended For WHMCS with Advanced Billing For WHMCS, you will be able to set up additional billing options. The module allows you to charge your customers basing on the server resources used by them.

With Advanced Billing module, you can also display your customers the current server resource usage and their cost.

Tips

1. 'Login To Webmail' button address: 'http(s)://webmail.{domain_from_order}'.

2. To set up an existing customer's account in your Plesk Extended, create a new WHMCS order with the same username, password and email address. Then set the account status to active.

Common Problems

1. When you have problems with connection, check whether your SELinux or firewall does not block ports.

2. If you see an error as shown on the screen below, it means that you haven't provided your service plan name or reseller plan name in product's 'Module Settings'. Once you enter the name, the problem will disappear.

3. If you are unable to connect with your Plesk Panel server or client area functionalities don't work properly, then make sure that you are connecting with your server on port 8443. Here you can find more information on how to change default port in Linux and Windows

4. Unable to get the version number from the server. CURL Error: 7 - couldn't connect to host. Check server connection details. Check connection details and connection between WHMCS and server.

5. Unable to get the version number from the server. Permission denied. You have to set admin account access details. You need admin account access to use PPPE module, reseller account API is not supported.

6. Blank page at 'Install Apps'. Reason: Some libraries may be missing. Solution: Make sure you have installed php-xml library.