S H R I . N E T
System Requirements:
- A windows Operating System with an ASP script enabled web server. Win 2000
Workstation or Server with IIS5.0 Web server preferred.
- CDONTS mail components installed for the email services.
- A system DSN for the Database
- MDAC 2.7
- Powerdns 2.9.6 windows binary version or better with GODBC Module
- Plenty of RAM Memory. Min of 256Mb for PDNS and This application when
installed on the same machine, for a lightly used server.
Setup Procedure:
- Manually Edit the settings.asp file to setup all of your Default variables.
- Copy the database to a location on your hard drive and make sure that this
location has the correct read and write permissions.
- Create a System DSN for the database, name it SHRI
- Edit the pdns.conf to setup the above godbc-datasource = shri and start
the pdns server.
- Copy all the Files into your web servers root directory, which can be
accessed directly using the IP address.
- Login to the application from the login page, using Username "admin",
"sales", "accounts", "support" & the "test" accounts, with the password "demo"
for all of the above and setup all of the relevant Account Details and also
change the passwords.
- Register yourself as a customer and then login.
Adding Domains & DNS Records:
- Login to the control panel using the customer email address and password
that you used to register yourself with.
- Add a Domain by clicking on the
button on the bottom.
- To add, edit or delete any DNS records, you need to select the correct
domain by either clicking on the View or the Edit Button.
- Then Proceed to the DNS Records Section.
- For a New Domain you need to enter the SOA and the Name server Records
first, Click on the and enter
the relevant details. Choose the Proper DNS Type. Add the Records in this
following order, SOA >> NS1 >> NS2
- The data for the SOA, NS1 & NS2 Data types is ALWAYS REPLACED with the
system generated Default data. Which you had configured in the settings.asp
file.
- The Data for NS, A, MX, TXT and all others are not replaced at all. The
user entered data for these Record Types is preserved in the database.
- DO NOT ENTER THE DOMAIN NAME IN THE HOST FIELD. The Application always
adds the Current Domain Name to the data in the HOST field to Create the Full
HOSTNAME. Ex: After selecting the domain example.com. You want to create a
host called "www.example.com". Then Enter
only the "www" is the host Field. The Domain Name "example.com is
automatically added while writing back to the database.
- To Change the SOA Serial Number, simply edit the SOA record for the
selected domain name. The SOA is updated to the Current serial Number in the
format YYYYMMDD01, where "01" is simply a number. The second SOA edit for that
day will NOT change the "01" to "02", this is a limitation of this present
versions code base.
Web Forwarding or URL Cloaking:
- After Making sure that you have followed the above Procedure to Create the
Dns Records. Please make sure that the A record to the Domain for which you
want to create a web forwarding entry is set to the IP ADDRESS of the web
server where this application is running from.
- Make sure that the default.asp is the default page type to display first
in your web server default page properties.
- Create the web forwarding entry for the domain you selected, and be sure
that all the fields are entered correctly. in the following format: "http://www.yourisp.com/homepages/"
or similar with the leading "http://" and the ending "/" if it is a directory.
The ending "/" is not required if you set up a page name here ex "http://www.yourisp.com/homepages/default.htm".
Contacts:
- As you see, it is nothing but an online address book for the logged in
user/customer. This can be used as it is now, with further expansion planned
with later releases and updates.
Disclaimer & Copy-right:
This application is copyright SHRI.NET. You agree to use this application at
your own risk. shri.net is not responsible for anything happening, with the use
and or the non-usage of this application. This application is provided to you as
is. without making any implications, that it will work at all for you. You
assume all responsibility for the usage of this application.
Any code and or names that have been used in the application is copyright of
their respective owners or principals.
This is version 1.00 of the Shri PowerDNS Domain Administration Tool. for
windows.