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Backing up is important, and you should do it regularly. Follow this tutorial to make a full backup of your website with Plesk. How to Generate a Backup of your Plesk Account? Log in to your Plesk account. Go to Websites & Domains > Click on the Pull icon > Choose Backup & Restore. Under Backup Manager, click Back Up. Choose Full as the backup type and FTP(s) in Store in option. If you wish to receive a notification on backup completion, you can checkmark the “When a backup task is completed, send a notification email to” option. Confirm with OK. The backup will start generating in the background. At this point, you can navigate away. How to Download a Backup of Your Plesk Account? Go to Websites & Domains > Click on the Pull icon > Choose Backup & Restore. From the backup list, click the download icon. If

Obtaining a certificate from a trusted SSL provider requires a Certificate Signing Request (CSR). CSR is also needed for generating self-signed SSL certificates. Follow this tutorial to generate a CSR. Log in to your cPanel account. In the Security section, click on SSL/TLS. Under Certificate Signing Request, click on Generate, View or Delete CSR Link. Scroll down and enter the following details: Domains: Enter your domain name, such as www.example.com (domains with www cover both non-www and www domains) City: Your city name. State: Your state name. Country: Choose your country name from the drop-down menu. Company: Your Company name or leave it blank. Company Division: Name of your company division. Email: Enter your email address. Passphrase: Enter a passphrase (maximum 20 characters) and do not use special characters. Finally, click on Generate. Copy the generated CSR code and save it to your computer. You can use your CSR while

How to forward an email? Log in to your cPanel account. In the Email section, click on Forwarders and then click on Add Forwarder. Enter the following details: Address to Forward: Enter the email address you want to forward. If you’re going to forward your myemail@example.com to a custom e-mail address, enter myemail in this field. Domain: Select the appropriate domain from the Domain drop-down list if you have multiple domains. In the Destination field, select Forward to email address and enter your custom e-mail address on which you want to receive forwarded emails. Click on Add Forwarder. How to forward an email to a mail pipe script/program? In the Email section, click on Forwarders and then choose Add Forwarder. Enter the following details: Address to Forward: Enter the email address you want to forward. Domain: Select the appropriate domain from the Domain drop-down list if you have multiple domains.

The WordPress plugin is not working correctly, or you want to reinstall it without losing data or removing the plugin. You can do this with both active and inactive plugins. Log in to the WordPress dashboard. From the Dashboard menu, go to Plugins and click on Plugin File Editor. From the drop-down menu of Select plugin to edit, choose the plugin and click on Select. In the file editor, locate the version line: Version: 1.7.2 Change it to: Version: 1.7.1 Only change the version from a higher to a lower number. Scroll down and click on Update File. Then go back to the Installed Plugins list. There should be an update for the plugin you edited. Click on Update now. You have forcefully updated/reinstalled the plugin without losing data.

Log in to your cPanel account. In the Databases section, click on phpMyAdmin. From the navigation tree in the left sidebar. Please select an appropriate database that you want to export to your computer Click on Export. Select SQL format and then click on Go. SQL file will be downloaded within a few seconds, depending on the size of the file.