If you have a Virtual Private Server [VPS] on a CentOS and use Plesk as a control panel and want to add Wildard “*” DNS entry while still maintaining webmail.domain.com, then you have come to the right place.<\/p>\n
Throughout the steps, replace domain.com<\/span> with your actual <\/span>domain name.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n When you add ServerAlias *.domain.com to the vhost.conf file, the already working webmail.domain.com will no longer work, as the wildcard will catch that.<\/p>\n How to add Wildcard “*” DNS entry<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n In your domain, select DNS Settings<\/p>\n Click Add Record<\/p>\n Select CNAME for Record Type; put * into domain name and domain.com for the canonical name. [You may use A record type too]<\/p>\n Login to PowerPanel [Parallels Power Panel] as root<\/p>\n – click File Manager ServerAlias *.domain.com<\/p>\n – do not enter <VirtualHost inside the file.\u00a0 this file will be included inside httpd.include.\u00a0 So that syntax already exists.<\/p>\n To run commands, you can use SSH Client. In PowerPanel, click “SSH Connection” and Login.<\/em><\/p>\n – after the creation of vhost.conf file, we need to run the update. run the following. If no error message is displayed, then all is good.<\/p>\n – # \/usr\/local\/psa\/admin\/bin\/websrvmng -av<\/p>\n – whether the vhost.conf was new or not, you will need to reload the Apache configuration:<\/p>\n – # \/etc\/init.d\/httpd reload<\/p>\n If you want, you can restart Apache using the command:<\/p>\n – # \/sbin\/service httpd restart<\/p>\n Now you have added the Wildcard “*” DNS Entry in both DNS Settings and vhost.conf. Let’s make sure AtMail is working.<\/p>\n How to make AtMail working even after adding Wildcard “*” DNS entry<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Click File Manager<\/p>\n – go to \/ etc\/ httpd\/ conf.d\/<\/p>\n You’ll see a file called<\/p>\n zz_atmail_vhost.conf<\/p>\n This is the AtMail configuration file. Because the filename starts with “zz” it is at the bottom of sort order. It is this order Apache processes the configuration. So we need to put this file just above zz010_psa_httpd.conf [in your server, you may not find exactly this file. You should find something similar to this name<\/em>].<\/p>\n So I just renamed our zz_atmail_vhost.conf<\/em><\/strong> to zz001_atmail_vhost.conf<\/strong><\/em> Now you need to restart qmail. Even after this, if you still not able to view received emails, just restart your container [PowerPanel].<\/p>\n This is not necessary but you can rebuild Qmail configuration files using \/usr\/local\/psa\/admin\/sbin\/mchk utility. <\/em><\/p>\n Test:<\/em><\/p>\n check webmail.domain.com is working [make sure sending, receiving and able to read received emails<\/strong><\/em> working] Thanks to:<\/em><\/p>\n http:\/\/forum.parallels.com\/showthread.php?t=91870 If you have a Virtual Private Server [VPS] on a CentOS and use Plesk as a control panel and want to add Wildard “*” DNS entry while still maintaining Webmail.domain.com, then you have come to the right place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9,15,16],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-atmail","tag-webmail","tag-wildcard-dns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adadaa.net\/1uthavi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adadaa.net\/1uthavi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adadaa.net\/1uthavi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adadaa.net\/1uthavi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adadaa.net\/1uthavi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adadaa.net\/1uthavi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adadaa.net\/1uthavi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adadaa.net\/1uthavi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adadaa.net\/1uthavi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n– go to \/ var\/ www\/ vhosts\/ domain.com\/ conf\/
\n– there you’ll find httpd.include<\/em> do not edit this. This is automatically updated by Plesk.
\n– create\/update another file vhost.conf<\/em>
\n– enter only<\/p>\n
\nThis put the file just above our zz010_psa_httpd.conf [note: I tried putting atmail_vhost.conf, which put it at the top, but that made viewing received emails <\/em>impossible]<\/p>\n
\nYou can restart qmail using Plesk under Server -> Service Management. You can use ‘service qmail restart’ on CentOS.<\/p>\n
\ncheck your wildcard dns working [that is your dynamic subdomains you may already have working]
\ncheck any domain alias you may have working.
\ncheck your main domain.com working<\/p>\n
\nhttp:\/\/rackerhacker.com\/2007\/08\/10\/using-wildcard-subdomains-in-plesk\/
\nhttp:\/\/kb.parallels.com\/en\/1380
\nhttp:\/\/forum.parallels.com\/showthread.php?t=74996<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"