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Direct Admin

Direct Admin

Sept 26, 2024

Overview

DirectAdmin is an easy to use yet effective web hosting control panel. With the DirectAdmin module for Hostbill you can now provide your customers with the best performance allowing them to manage all vital aspects of their hosting account directly from HostBill client portal: manage Domains, FTP, SSL certificates, setup email accounts, manage databases and much more.

Activating the module

  1. If the module is included in your HostBill edition you can download it from your client portal.

  2. If the module is not included in your HostBill edition you can purchase it from our marketplace and then download it from the client area.

  3. Once you download the module extract it in the main HostBill directory.

  4. Go to Settings → Modules → Hosting Modules, find and activate Direct Admin module.

Connecting HostBill with Direct Admin

  1. Proceed to Settings → Apps → Add new App

  2. From Applications list select Direct Admin

  3. Enter:

      4. Verify entered credentials by clicking Test Connection to check if HostBill can connect
      5. Save Changes

 

Adding Direct Admin product

  1. In HostBill go to Settings → Products & Services, and Add new order page

  2. From Order Types select Shared Accounts

  3. Enter your orderpage name, select orderpage template. Save Changes

  4. Add new product in the new orderpage. Provide product name and setup price and then Save Changes.

  5. In product configuration section proceed to Connect with App, select Direct Admin and App server created in previous steps.

 

For more generic product configuration details including price, automation, emails settings refer to Product Configuration article.

Configuring Metered Billing

Direct Admin module supports metered billing feature. To configure your metered billing package in product configuration in "General" tab select "Metered" under Price. Following variables can be measured and bill automatically:

  • Badwidth

  • Disk usage

  • Domain Pointers

  • FTP Accounts

  • Databases

  • Email Forwarders

  • Mailing Lists

  • Autoresponders

  • Subdomains

  • Domains

Configuring Client Functions: Unblock IP Address

In Products & Services → Your Order Page → Your Product → Client Functions you can enable Unblock IP Address function to allow client to unblock/whitelist IP address of his (or other if allowed) in CSF installed on direct admin

Important CSF info

For this feature to work, ensure to create empty touch file on your DirectAdmin server:

 /var/lib/csf/csf.da.skip

 

When enabled, this function comes with configuration options:

  • Widget description: enter description of function visible in client portal once customer access it

  • Max recent unblocks: Limits number of unblocks a single user can request in certain interval

  • Custom IP address: When enabled client will have option to unblock/whitelist ANY ip address

  • Whitelist IPs: When enabled, client will have option to whitelist his IP address

  • Protect ip addresses with specific comment - when enabled and comment set, addresses with configured CSF comments cannot be removed

Configuring Client Functions   

In Products & Services → Your Order Page → Your Product → Client Functions you can control what features customer will have access to in client portal, by clicking Enable/Disable next to the given option.
Use Edit button to adjust function appearance in the client portal.

For Direct Admin you can enable the following client functions dedicated to this module:

  1. Unblock IP Address

  2. Access Control Panel

  3. Access WebMail

  4. Account Usage/Info

  5. Add-on Domains

  6. Backup Management

  7. Cron Jobs

  8. Database Management

  9. Domain Aliases

  10. Domain Redirects

  11. Email Management

  12. Email Forwarding

  13. FTP Management

  14. Login to File Manager

  15. Login to phpMyAdmin

  16. SSL Certificates

  17. Sub-domain Management

  18. CloudLinux PHP Selector

  19. CloudLinux Node.js apps

  20. CloudLinux Resource usage

  21. CloudLinux Python apps

  22. SSH Keys management

  23. Custom Error pages management

  24. Installed Perl modules listing

  25. Lets encrypt support in SSL Management

  26. Apache Handlers management

  27. DNS management

  28. Domain Pointers management

  29. Logs Browser

As well as number of standard client functions, such as 

  1. Change Billing Cycle

  2. Change Label

  3. Change Ownership

  4. Edit Forms

  5. Graphs

  6. Login Details

  7. Manual Service Renew

  8. New Direct Link

  9. Related Services

  10. Service Auto Renewal