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Creating a web user allows you to give other people a small website from within your own, without having to give out your main FTP user and password.

5.1 Creating a web user

Once you are logged in to siteadmin as described in this tutorial, select the Web User option. You must next choose a name for your new web user. This name will become part of their FTP login and address for their site. For example:

If your web user is called mrwebuser and your domain is called mydomain.com. The address for the web user's site will be: mydomain.com/~mrwebuser.

The system must have a unique username for every user, so try to pick something both relevant and unique.

Once you have decided upon your name, select Add New Web User.

You must enter the name into the box marked Web user name. You also need to create a password for the web user. After you have done this select OK. The web user will be created and added to a list of total web users at the bottom of the screen.

You can also select to enable SSI support, PHP support, CGI support, mod_perl support and mod_python support for your web user.

For further assistance, please refer to this flash based tutorial
For Plesk 7 see -> http://support.34sp.com/control-panel-tutorials/plesk-7/setting-up-a-web-user
For Plesk 8 see -> http://support.34sp.com/control-panel-tutorials/plesk-8/setting-up-a-web-user

5.2 Troubleshooting

Q: When I try to add a new web user an error message states it already exists.

A: Each user in our system must be unique. If you receive this error message it means another account on the server already has a user named similar. This will not be permitted as every web user has their own FTP account. If two separate web users had the same username it would not be possible to give all web users their own FTP account.

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