DirectAdmin is a lightweight Linux-based web hosting control panel that offers a straightforward graphical interface for managing domains, files, emails, databases, security, and server backups without requiring command-line knowledge, making it ideal for small to medium servers due to its low resource usage and affordable pricing.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of how to customize user behavior and capabilities in DirectAdmin. It covers the use of all_pre.sh for command-level control, preventing subdomain creation, limiting the number of domains on a server, customizing default index pages, running embedded scripts, editing templates safely, creating custom subdomain index pages, and restricting password changes.
This article provides a comprehensive guide to customizing user behavior in DirectAdmin. It covers limiting the number of backups per user, enforcing email quota restrictions, blocking specific email usernames, customizing IMAP/POP/SMTP settings, managing daily email limits through packages, and building an email only hosting environment using DirectAdmin’s hooks, templates, and API.
This article provides a comprehensive guide to customizing and extending the behavior of the DirectAdmin FileManager. It covers preventing deletion of critical paths, adding custom file extensions to the EDIT button, modifying permissions of uploaded files, troubleshooting file download issues related to MIME types, and using head/tail parameters to preview parts of a file directly from the FileManager.
This article provides a comprehensive guide to managing and customizing website statistics in DirectAdmin. It covers enabling AWStats, customizing Webalizer output, enabling country-based statistics, rebuilding AWStats reports for previous months, and resolving AWStats issues when using CageFS.
This article provides a comprehensive guide to creating plugins in DirectAdmin. It explains how the plugin system works, how to structure plugin files, how to run PHP with a custom php.ini, how to properly handle GET and POST variables inside plugin scripts, and how to use optional templates such as plugin_iframe.html for custom iframe output.
This article provides a comprehensive guide to accessing DirectAdmin, running the panel through Apache, Nginx, or LiteSpeed using reverse proxy, configuring proper client IP logging, troubleshooting login issues, and actively testing DirectAdmin connectivity using login keys and curl.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of how to configure DirectAdmin at the system level. It covers managing the main configuration file (directadmin.conf), using da config-set for safe updates, changing the server hostname, customizing the Return Path for diradmin emails, enabling user suspension based on disk usage, and selecting the correct quota partition for accurate disk reporting.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of DirectAdmin configuration. It explains how to manage the main configuration file (directadmin.conf), use da config-set for safe updates, change the server hostname, customize the Return Path for diradmin emails, enable user suspension based on disk usage, and choose the correct quota partition for accurate disk reporting.
DirectAdmin is one of the most secure and flexible hosting control panels available. This guide covers essential security features including SSL on port 2222, Login Keys, Two-Factor Authentication, Security Questions, Brute Force Protection, and advanced customization options for securing your server.
Brute Force attacks are among the most common intrusion methods used by attackers to guess passwords through repeated login attempts. DirectAdmin’s Brute Force Monitor (BFM) provides an intelligent, automated system to detect, block, and report these attacks across multiple services. This guide explains how BFM works, how to configure it properly, how to integrate it with CSF firewall, and how to troubleshoot common issues.
This comprehensive guide covers advanced administrative operations in DirectAdmin, including renaming domains, changing usernames, transferring domains between users, merging accounts, resolving “Domain Already Exists” errors, sending system-wide messages, modifying user packages, disabling mail_sni, and more.
DirectAdmin provides powerful and intuitive tools for managing domains, users, and resellers. This guide covers essential administrative operations such as renaming domains, changing usernames, transferring domains between users, merging accounts, resolving “Domain already exists” errors, sending system-wide messages, modifying packages, disabling mail_sni, and more.
