Blank PHP and static sites
The two types that install nothing — an empty PHP-ready site, and a directory of plain HTML served as files.
Two types exist for code the panel should not touch: it creates the system user, the directory, the web-server configuration and the certificate, puts a placeholder page there, and stops.
Blank PHP site
An empty site — upload your own files.
A site with its own PHP-FPM pool, ready for anything you put in it: a legacy
application, a framework the catalog does not package, a single index.php.
The only question is the PHP version, because that is the only thing the panel has to decide for you. There is no version range — every installed version is offered.
Static site
Plain HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
No runtime at all. The web server hands out files from the directory, which makes it the fastest thing the panel can run and the one with the least to go wrong.
There is nothing to configure, so the section is empty apart from Advanced settings.
Web root
For both types this is the setting worth getting right. It is the directory
inside the application that the web server serves, and it defaults to / —
the application folder itself.
| You have | Set web root to |
|---|---|
index.php or index.html at the top level | / |
| A framework with a public directory | /public |
A generated site under dist/ or build/ | /dist, /build |
It is editable afterwards from the application's dashboard, so a wrong guess is not permanent.
Getting your files onto the server
Creating the application gives you somewhere to put files. Three ways in, all covered elsewhere in this guide:
- Files — the panel's own file browser, on the application.
- SFTP or SSH — as the system user the application was created with, using the password set during creation.
- Git — if the code is in a repository, deploy from Git instead and let the panel pull it.
Limits and caveats
- A static site has no PHP. If you later need PHP, that is a different application type, not a setting.
- The placeholder page is a real file in the web root. Delete or overwrite it when you upload your own.
- Nothing is deployed automatically. These two types never fetch, build or run anything on your behalf.