Manually create a website in FastPanel

After logging into your FastPanel, you'll have the option to create a new website:

Click on a plus sign above 'Create site'. After that, you will be given two options for creating a website - WordPress or a custom website. In this text, we'll go over manually creating a website.

Click on the button Proceed to creating below Create a site manually.

Now you will be prompted to enter your domain and some other information.

Option Add 'www' alias will create all the necessary settings for the www alias. Below that, there is an option to create an email domain if needed.

The DNS account option leave on the default setting Do not create a DNS zone since you already have a DNS zone in your portal.

After this, you can create your website with the default settings set by FastPanel or change them by clicking on a little pencil in the corner of the section you wish to change.

The first option you can change is for the system user.

You can select an existing user (fastuser) or create a new one.

The second option is to change PHP settings.

Here you can select which PHP mode and version you want to use(If you choose Module Apache for PHP mode, you can't change the PHP version).

The thirs option is for database settings.

Here, you can disable MySQL for that website if you don't need it or create a database and a database user. First, enter the database name, and after that Character set you wish to use, mysql server (localhost or remote). Below you can enter the username and password for the database user.

The fourth option is for FTP user.

If you don't need an FTP user, you can disable it here, also you can change the username and password for the FTP user.

After making all the changes you wanted, you can create the website and you'll get the following message:

Now you can look at the Site card, return to the main page or create more websites. Site Card contains all the information about that website:

Here, you can see information like the name of the system user, where is the root directory for that website, which PHP mode and version are being used and the size of your website and database.

Below, you have a section called Site managing:

These options are described in our other knowledgebase texts.


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