Prepackaging Applications Your Customers Can Use

Plesk comes with a number of free and paid site applications that you can choose to provide to your customers or remove from the control panel script library (referred to as application vault). You can also distribute your custom applications.

All free applications from the control panel's application vault are automatically added to the application pool of each customer you serve. However, paid applications can be added to the customer's pool only upon purchase.

You can set usage rules for any site application in the vault. For example, you can make a certain free application a commercial one that will be available to your customers only if you add it to their application pools under your conditions (for instance, after you received payment).

When you change a free site application into a commercial one, it is withdrawn from the application pools of all clients. Now only you can add this application to your clients' application pools when needed. When you change a commercial application into a free one, it becomes free of charge for all clients.

Table. The applications shipped with Plesk application vault.

To view the information on applications you have in the vault:

1. Click the Server shortcut in the navigation pane.
2. Click the Application Vault icon in the Services group.

   All applications stored in the vault are listed in the Site Application Packages group.

   The icon in the first left column indicates the type of the site application:

   - the free site application requiring no license key, included in the default installation of Plesk for free, automatically added to the application pool of each customer you serve.

   - the commercial site application requiring a license key, purchased from SWsoft additionally.

   - the commercial site application requiring a license key, purchased from SWsoft additionally, with no key installed at the moment.

   Note: if you wish to purchase and install a license key for a commercial application, such as Plesk Professional Web Site Editor, refer to the section Installing Additional License Keys for Plesk Add-ons.

   The icon in the second column left to the site application name indicates the site application usage rules you defined:

   - free of charge, automatically added to the application pools of all clients;

   - commercial, can be added to a client application pool only by you under certain conditions.

   The Name column displays the name of the site application.

   The Version column displays site application version.

   The Release column shows the site application release number.

   The Instances column denotes how many times the application was deployed on a web site.

   The Clients column shows the number of users using the site application.

   The Description column gives a brief description for each site application.

To add an application to the application vault:

1. Click the Server shortcut in the navigation pane.
2. Click the Application Vault icon in the Services group.
3. Click Add New Application Package.
4. Click Browse and locate your application in an RPM package or shell installation script format, then click OK.

   The application is now installed to the application vault and you can add it to the customer's application pool, or install on a site you need (this will automatically add the application to the customer's pool).

To remove an application from the application vault:

1. Click the Server shortcut in the navigation pane.
2. Click the Application Vault icon in the Services group.
3. Select a check box corresponding to the application you want to remove and click Remove Selected.
4. Confirm removal and click OK.

   The application package will be removed from the server application vault, however, the application instances installed on users' sites will not be deinstalled.

To make a certain free application a commercial one or vice versa:

1. Click the Server shortcut in the navigation pane.
2. Click the Application Vault icon in the Services group.
3. Click the icon in the second column left to the corresponding site application name.

To add a commercial application to a customer's application pool:

1. Click the Server shortcut in the navigation pane.
2. Click the Application Vault icon in the Services group.
3. Click a hyperlinked number in the Clients column.
4. Click Add New Client.
5. Select the user you need and click OK.

If you need to install an application on a site, refer to the Installing Applications section.