PHP Project

Here can manage php project, support the use of Nginx and Apache Openlitespeed.

It is recommended to use Cron to automatically back up website every day

PHP Project Overview

Function	Describe
Add site	Create new website, Can be created in batches
Default Page	Display the default page of the new site, click to configure the default page
Default Website	Setting the default site, all unbound domain names and IPs are directed to the default site. Can effectively prevent malicious analysis.
PHP CLI Version	Set the PHP version used when running PHP from the command line.
Site name	The domain name bound to the site. Click the site name of the current site to configure and modify the current site.
Status	Displays the running status of the current website. Click the running status of the current site to disable the current site.
Back up	Displays the backup status of the current site, click the current site backup status, can View, Restore, Download and backup the current site file.
Document Root	Displays the current site directory path, click the current site directory, it will directly jump to the current directory of Files management.
Quota	Displays the current site quota, click to modify the current site quota. (Only supports XFS filesystem)
Expired date	Displays the effective time of the current site, click to set the expiration time of the current site (default is permanent).
Note	The Remark is used to record the current site information, such as the purpose of the site, etc.
PHP	Displays the PHP version number of the current site, click to change the PHP version number of the current site
SSL	Displays the SSL status of the current site, click to bind SSL to the current site
Attack	The scanning website log displays the attack status of the current website. Click to view the attack scanning details.
Stats	Use Website statistics-v2 to view the current site’s traffic, connections, etc.
WAF	Set the WAF configuration of the current site
Conf	Set the configuration of the current site
Delete	Delete current site, after deletion, the website directory will be moved to the recycle bin of the Files interface.

Site name or Conf

When clicking Site name or Conf, can modify the site configuration, SSL, log, etc.

• Domain Manager: Add, delete domain/IP

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• Subdirectory binding: Bind to the specified directory under the site using a new subdomain

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• Site directory

  1. Site directory: Set the deployment directory of the current website

  2. Running directory: Specify the secondary directory as the running directory, such as Laravel

  3. Anti-XSS attack: Anti-cross-site attack (open_basedir), prevent hackers from conducting intrusion attacks through other site directories, that is, add and delete .user.ini files

  4. Write access log: Turn on/off the log of the current site and add access logs

  5. Password access: Turn on/off account and password access to the entire current site

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• Limit access
  1. Limit access: Specifying the site directory requires an account and password
  2. Deny access: Disable access to files in the specified directory of the site

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• Traffic control: Limit traffic control for the current site

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• URL rewrite: create or use an existing template. Through conversion, you can convert dynamic web pages into static pages to enhance the friendliness of the search engine

  If replace Apache with Nginx, you need to reset the URL rewrite to the Nginx configuration.

  

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• Default indexes: Set the default homepage of the current website, that is, the index file of the site

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• Config: View and modify the configuration of the current site.

Note that if there is a # comment, please do not delete or modify it.

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• SSL

  1. Curr, other Certs: View, disable, save (enable) the SSL certificate of the current site, or paste the SSL certificate content settings

  2. Business Certificate: aaPanel commercial certificates for cooperation with SSL providers

     If purchased Business Certificate, can check out this tutorial on how to verify it:

     • Business Certificate Tutorial

     

  3. Let's Encrypt:

     • File verification: Let's Encrypt servers verify domain ownership by accessing this website's files

       1. If an error occurs, please troubleshoot first and then verify. Multiple errors will be limited Let's Encrypt Rate Limits.

       2. If you encounter verification failure, please troubleshoot according to the prompts

          • Maybe the domain name resolution has not taken effect and no resolution has been added.
          • Let's Encrypt cannot access your website. You can check redirection and proxy issues. Try to access and see if the display is normal. Apply again after it is normal.

       3. If file verification is not available, use DNS verification

       4. If restrictions appear, use third-party website SSL

     • DNS verification (Wildcard support): Let's Encrypt server verifies domain name ownership by parsing DNS records. If DNS records are added manually, they will not be automatically renewed.

       1. If the domain name is in CloudFlare, you can use the DNS API, otherwise you can only manually add the TXT record according to the prompts.

       2. Adding a txt record takes a certain amount of time to take effect. During this period, do not close the txt recording window prompted by aapanel

       3. Manually adding a txt record will not automatically renew the Let's Encrypt SSL certificate.

       Click to view How to apply for a pan-domain name certificate

  4. Certificate holder: The SSL certificate that has been set will be saved here

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• PHP version: Set the PHP version of the current site, according to the version required by the current site, if you need to add the PHP version, you can add in the App Store

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• Composer: Composer is the mainstream dependency package manager for PHP. If your project uses Composer to manage dependency packages, you can upgrade or install the dependencies here.

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• Redirect: Set the current site's specified domain name or directory 301/302 jump specified address

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• Reverse proxy: Set the current website proxy to access resources of other sites

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• Hotlink Protection: Only the specified domain name can be used to access the resources of the current site. If it is not the specified domain name, an error will be returned.

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• Response log:
  1. Access log: Access log of current site
  2. Error log: Error log for current site
  3. Log Security Analysis: Scan the log files of the current site for requests containing attack types (types include: xss, sql, san, php)

Add site -- Create site

Function	Describe
Domain name	Fill in the domain name and port to be bound.(www hostname is not automatically created)
Description	Describe the role of the website
Website Path	The path of the current website file, you can choose the creation point yourself, try to use the default path /www/wwwroot/ for easy management.
FTP	When creating a website, you can choose whether to also create an FTP account when creating a website
Database	When creating a website, you can choose whether to create a Mysql database at the same time when creating a website
PHP version	Choose your website needs to be executed with a version of PHP, need to get more PHP version can be installed in the app store of the panel
Site category	Used to classify websites to make management more convenient

Add site -- Batch create

Create sites in batches

• Batch format: Domain|Document Root|FTP|Database|PHP version

  Example:

  aapanel.com|/www/wwwroot/aapanel.com|1|1|83
  aapanel.store|/www/wwwroot/aapanel.store|1|1|83

  

Add site -- Wordpress deploy

CAUTION

Deprecated, Old Wordpress deploy, Please use WP Toolkit

Default Page

The default page for newly created sites. Existing sites will not be modified.

Function	Describe
Default page	The site creates a prompt page generated by default.
404 page	The status code is 404, the error prompt page returned by the server.
Unbound domain page	Nginx blank page / Apache blank page: The server cannot find the corresponding site, the error page prompted.
Stop page	a page used to feed back site stop information. If there is no related requirement, please do not modify it.

Default WebSite

After setting the default site, all unbound domain names and IPs are directed to the default site. Can effectively prevent malicious analysis.

PHP CLI version

Set the PHP version used when running PHP from the command line. This needs to be reset after installing a new PHP version.

Web program management

Manage the web program support Nginx or Apache or OpenLiteSpeed

All categories

Add, Settings, Delete website categories

How to use categories

First select the site and then select Set category in the lower left corner to set the category.

Back up

View, restore, backup, delete, download backup files of the specified site

Quota

View and modify the space quota of the specified site

Expired date　

View and modify the expiration date of the specified site

Search box

• Quickly find websites through Domain or Remarks

Batch operation

Can be used when selecting one or more websites

Function	Describe
Enable website	Enable sites in batches
Disable website	Stop sites in batches
Backup website	Backup sites in batches
Set expired date	Set site expiration time in batches
Set php version	Set site PHP version in batches
Set category	Set site categories in batches
Delete website	Delete sites in batches

Usage example

• If own the domain testphpbb.com and want to deploy a phpBB website in aaPanel using the subdomain: www.testphpbb.com?

1. In the domain provider, point the IP of the A record of www.testphpbb.com to the server IP of aaPanel, such as 1.2.3.4

2. Add the www.testphpbb.com domain to aaPanel, create a database, and record the created database account and password.

3. Check out phpBB’s deployment software requirements:

   • Find the deployment requirements from Official Documentation. This example uses PHP 8.3, mysql 5.7
   • If the corresponding software is not installed in your aaPanel, you can install it in the App Store

4. Downloaded phpBB package file

   • Download directly from the Files interface of aaPanel Software package link
   • You can first download it from the official website to your local computer and then upload it to /www/wwwroot/

5. Select phpBB-3.3.13.zip and unzip the file to /www/wwwroot/www.testphpbb.com

6. Find the www.testphpbb.com directory, click it to enter the directory, and view the decompressed directory structure

7. After decompression, the directory of the website program is under phpBB3, so the default directory of the site needs to be modified to phpBB3

   The software package directory of different programs may be different, please modify it according to the actual situation.

8. Set SSL for the site. If SSL is not set, it can only be accessed using http

9. Use a browser to visit http://www.testphpbb.com

10. Click Install and enter the information as prompted.

    • Enter administrator information
    • Enter database information
      1. If you have not recorded the database account and password, you can view them in the Databases interface.
    • Continue to follow the prompts to complete the installation until it is complete

11. After the installation is complete, visit again http://www.testphpbb.com

    • At this point, the deployment of phpBB has been completed. For more usage settings of phpBB, please refer to the official documentation.

Feedback or Suggestions

If you encounter problems or suggestions during use, please contact us through the following methods:

• (Please describe in detail or provide screenshots)

1. Forum: https://www.aapanel.com/forum
2. Email: [email protected]