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## Prepackaging Applications Your Customers Can Use

Plesk comes with a number of free site applications that you can choose to provide to your customers or remove from the control panel script library (referred to as application vault). You can also obtain and install applications from third-party vendors through the application portal www.apsstandard.com.

You can set usage rules for any site application you add to the vault. For example, you can make a certain free application a commercial one that will be available to your customers only if you add it to their application pools under your conditions (for instance, after you received payment). When you change a free site application into a commercial one, it is withdrawn from the application pools of all clients. Now only you can add this application to your clients' application pools when needed. When you change a commercial application into a free one, it becomes free of charge for all clients.

The following table lists applications shipped with the Plesk application vault.

Application name | Description | Link to application developer's site
AdvancedPoll | Poll management system. | http://www.proxy2.de
AnyInventory | Inventory management program. | http://anyinventory.sourceforge.net/
AutoIndex | Web site directory indexing system. | http://autoindex.sourceforge.net
b2evolution | Blog. | http://b2evolution.net
bbclone | Counter. | http://www.bbclone.de
Brim | Personal online organizer. | http://www.brim-project.org/
Coppermine | Photogallery. | http://coppermine.sourceforge.net
CSLH | Customer support. | http://www.proxy2.de
Docbase | Knowledge base management system. | http://docbase.sourceforge.net/
Drupal | Content management system and blogging engine. | http://drupal.org/
eGroupWare | Application for coordination of group activities. | http://www.egroupware.org/
gallery | Photo gallery. | http://gallery.menalto.com
geeklog | Weblog. | http://www.geeklog.net/
gtchat | Chat. | http://www.gtchat.de
ilohamail | Webmail program. | http://ilohamail.org/
Joomla! | Content management system and Web application framework. | http://joomla.org/
Miva Merchant | Online store. | http://smallbusiness.miva.com/products/merchant/mm5/
Miva Fasttrack | Online store. | http://smallbusiness.miva.com/products/merchant/ft/
Mambo | Content management system. | http://www.mamboserver.com
Mantis | Issue tracking system. | http://www.mantisbt.org/
MediaWiki | Knowledgebase and content management system. | http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki
Moodle | Program for creating online education sites. | http://moodle.org/
MyOrgBook | Online organizer. | http://www.myorgbook.com
Noah's Classifieds | Classifieds system. | http://classifieds.phpoutsourcing.com/
openbiblio | Library. | http://obiblio.sourceforge.net
osCommerce | E-commerce system. | http://www.oscommerce.com
Owl | Knowledge base and documentation storage system. | http://owl.sourceforge.net
phpAdsNew (Openads) | Banner rotation management and tracking system for gathering statistics. | http://phpadsnew.com
phpBB | Forum. | http://www.phpbb.com
phpBook | Guestbook. | http://www.smartisoft.com
phpBugTracker | Bug tracking system. | http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpbt
phpDig | Search system. | http://www.phpdig.net
phpMyFamily | Genealogic system. | http://www.phpmyfamily.net
phpMyVisites | Web site statistics. | http://www.phpmyvisites.us/
MyPhpMoney | Personal finance management. | http://myphppmoney.sourceforge.net
PHProjekt | Application for coordination of group activities. | http://www.phprojekt.com/
PHP Surveyor | PHP Surveyor is a set of PHP scripts that interact with MySQL to develop surveys, publish surveys and collect responses to surveys. | http://phpsurveyor.sourceforge.net
phpWebsite | Content management system. | http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpwebsite/
phpWiki | Documentation storage and retrieval system where anyone can edit published pages. | http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net
pLog | Blog. | http://www.plogworld.net
pmachinefree | Web publishing platform. | http://pmachinepro.com/
PostNuke | Content management system. | http://www.postnuke.com
PPWSE | Plesk Professional Web Site Editor is a content management system developed by Parallels. It is a predecessor of Parallels Plesk Sitebuilder. | http://www.parallels.com/en/products/plesk75reloaded/addons/ppwse/
Serendipity | Content management system and blogging. | http://www.s9y.org/
Sitebar | Bookmark server. | http://sourceforge.net/projects/sitebar
Siteframe | Content management system. | http://siteframe.org/
SMF | Online forum. | http://www.simplemachines.org/
Tellme | Network services (whois, traceroute). | http://kimihia.org.nz/projects/tellme/
TikiWiki | Content management system. | http://tikiwiki.org/
TUTOS | Work process organization tool. Includes a calendar, address manager, bug tracking system, project task management, timetracking, etc. | http://www.tutos.org/homepage/index.html
Typo 3 | Content management system. | http://typo3.org
UebiMiau | Web mail client. | http://www.uebimiau.org/
WebCalendar | Calendar and schedule management system. | http://www.k5n.us/webcalendar.php
WebShopManager | The WebShopManager allows you to manage a fully functional online store from a centralized web-based administration system. | http://webshopmanager.com/
WordPress | Publishing platform (blog). | http://www.wordpress.org
XOOPS | Content management system. | http://www.xoops.org/
XRMS | Customer relations management. | http://xrms.sourceforge.net

All these packages (except for PPWSE, Miva Merchant and Miva Fasttrack) are free of charge open source applications. They are automatically added to application pools of all clients after installation of Plesk Control Panel.

To view the information about the application packages you have in the vault:

1. Click the Server shortcut in the navigation pane.
2. Click the Application Vault icon in the Services group.

   All application packages stored in the vault are listed in the Site Application Packages group.

   There are two icons next to the application name. The left icon denotes the following:

   - the application is shown in the list of applications available for installation.

   - the application is hidden from the list of applications available for installation.

   The icon in the right column denotes the site application usage rules you defined:

   - free of charge, automatically added to the application pools of all clients.

   - commercial application, can be added to a client application pool only by you under certain conditions.

   The Clients column shows the number of users using the site application.

3. To sort applications by category, select the category you need from the menu located next to the search box.

To add a new application to the application vault:

1. Click the Server shortcut in the navigation pane.
2. Click the Application Vault icon in the Services group.
3. Click Add New Application Package.
4. Click Browse and locate your application package in .rpm, .deb, .sh or .zip format, then click OK.

To make a certain free application a commercial one and to add it to application pools of selected customers:

1. Click the Server shortcut in the navigation pane.
2. Click the Application Vault icon in the Services group.
3. Click the icon next to the application name.

   Now the application was removed from application pools of all clients, and you can manually add this application to the pools of selected clients, as described in the following steps.

4. Go to Clients > client name > Application Pool.
5. Click Add an Application Package to Client's Pool.
6. Select a check box corresponding to the application you need and click OK.

To upgrade an application package:

1. Go to Server > Application Vault > Add New Application Package.
2. Click Browse and locate the updated distribution package in .rpm, .deb, .sh or .zip format, then click OK.
3. Go to Domains > domain name > Web Applications.
4. Click the corresponding shortcut in the U column.
5. Select the application version to which you want to upgrade, read the terms of the license agreement, and then click Upgrade.
6. Repeat the steps 3 to 6 for every domain/Web site hosted on your server, or inform your customers (site owners) who use this application that they can upgrade this application to the new version. To do so, they will need to click the Web Applications icon on their home pages in Plesk Control Panel, and then click a corresponding shortcut in the U column.

To remove from the application vault the applications that you do not want to provide to your customers:

1. Click the Server shortcut in the navigation pane.
2. Click the Application Vault icon in the Services group.
3. Select a check box corresponding to the application you want to remove and click Remove Selected.
4. Confirm removal and click OK.

   The application distribution package was removed from the server application vault. Note that the applications already installed on users' sites are not removed.

If you need to install an application on a site, refer to the section Installing Applications.