Manual modification of web-server's configuration files

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ISPmanager 5 uses its own database to store configuration of a WWW-domain. Very often, a server administrator modifies configuration files not in the domain's edit form, but directly in the configuration file. In this case when he edits a WWW-domain in ISPmanager, his manual changed will be lost.

To save manual changes, when the WWW-domain edit form opens, ISPmanager reads its configuration file and add modified values into its own database.

How it works

Sometimes it may happen that a value is modified in the Nginx configuration file, but is not changed in Apache, etc. In that case, take the note of the following information:

  1. The Nginx configuration file has the priority priority (except for values specific for Apache, such as "List of CGI extensions")
  2. The Server or VirtualHost section, which accepts SSL-connections, has the highest priority withing one file

When a user opens the WWW-domain edit form, he will be informed what fields have been changed.

List of parameters

The following parameters are added into the database:

Parameter name on the field Database field
Encoding charset
Index page dirindex
SSL-port ssl_port
CGI-scripts cgi
Files extensions (CGI) cgi_ext
Access log log_access
Error log log_error
SSL strict_ssl
SSI ssi
Compression srv_gzip
Compression level gzip_level
Caching srv_cache
Caching period expire_period
Period value expire_times

Disabling functionality

In order to disable the described functionality, use the Option DisableWebDBReadConf option in the ISPmanager configuration file.