OK,

I've read the tutorials, read the Plesk manual (as much as I could figure out) and read almost every post here with the subject or topic of newbie, and I'm a little lost.

The whole idea of getting a server was to consolidate a lot of our sites onto one box - less cost, easier admin, easier backup ets. These are for the simple ones. I'll leave the complex ones to the experts like Nighthawk

So I have Site1.com, Site2.com etc

I set up the client (us) and the domains (site1.com, site2.com) etc for each site under the client. So far so good.

I would like directories site1.com, site2.com etc under a sites or users directory. (for easy backups) How and or where do I specify that site1.com goes to sitessite1, site2 goes to sitessites2 etc.

I must be missing something.

Thanks

hjb

I am not sure that I understand what you ask, but anyway I will try to answer. In Plesk all sites go under one directory, everytime you create one. The name of the site directory is the same with the site name. Under the public directories for every site all the other directories are created with FTP (most likely) by the end user. It's mot possible to tell Plesk where you want it to place the sites because all it's handled automatically.

What a dumb question this is --- just kidding

I don't have a Plesk, but it should be the same and will depend on the order you set your sites up.
so, the first domain you set up will be /sites1, the second domain you set up will be /sites2 and so on.

By default all your sites (domains) will be located in ./home/httpd/vhosts/site1.com; site2.com; site3.org; site4.net; etc...

For each domain if you have users their personal sites, /~username will be located in the sitename/web_users directory.

From there you can tar, backup using the new Plesk6 backup utility or just ftp the sites off to a different location.

Hope this helps.