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General Settings ​

The General Settings page configures core system settings: organisation details, branding, networking, DNS, and web server defaults. Navigate to Settings > General > General Settings, or open Settings in the sidebar, which lands here.

General Settings

Overview ​

URL: /admin/settings/general-settings

The page is organised into five tabs: General, Branding, Networking, DNS, and Web Server.

Every tab has its own address, so you can link to one directly and reload the page without losing your place:

TabAddress
General/admin/settings/general-settings?tab=general
Branding/admin/settings/general-settings?tab=branding
Networking/admin/settings/general-settings?tab=networking
DNS/admin/settings/general-settings?tab=dns
Web Server/admin/settings/general-settings?tab=web-server

Opening the page without a tab value shows General. Each tab saves on its own, so use the button on the tab you edited.

1. General ​

Configure your organisation's basic information. The screenshot above shows this tab.

Organization Information ​

  • Contact Email (required) - The primary contact email address for the organization.
  • Organization Name (required) - The name of your organization.
  • Country - The country where the organization is located.
  • City/Locality - The city or locality of the organization.

Click Save Settings to apply changes.

2. Branding ​

Branding Tab

Customize the panel's visual identity.

  • Brand Name - The name displayed in the panel interface.
  • Brand Logo URL - URL to the logo image displayed in the panel. Recommended size is 200x50px.
  • Brand Logo URL (Dark Mode) - URL to the logo image used when dark mode is active.

Click Save Settings to apply changes.

3. Networking ​

Networking Tab

Manage hostname and SSL certificate settings.

Hostname Configuration ​

  • System Hostname - The fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of the server. Must contain at least 3 sections (e.g., host.example.com).

Click Change Hostname to apply a new hostname.

Issue SSL for Hostname ​

This section allows you to issue an SSL certificate for the configured hostname.

Click Issue SSL Certificate to request and install a certificate.

4. DNS ​

DNS Tab

Configure the default nameservers for the system and the default DMARC record for new mail zones.

Nameservers ​

  • Nameserver 1 - The primary nameserver address.
  • Nameserver 2 - The secondary nameserver address.

DMARC ​

The default DMARC record generated for new mail DNS zones. AdminBolt builds it as v=DMARC1; p=<policy>; rua=mailto:<address> and uses it both when provisioning mail DNS and in the DNS record templates.

  • DMARC Policy - what a receiving server should do with mail that fails authentication:
ValueMeaning
none (monitor only)Take no action; only send reports. The default, and the right starting point on a server whose mail flows are not yet fully authenticated.
quarantineTreat failing mail as suspicious, typically filing it as spam.
rejectRefuse failing mail outright.
  • Report Address - the aggregate report (rua) address that receiving servers send DMARC reports to. Leave it empty to default to postmaster@<domain> for each zone.

Note: A _dmarc record you created by hand is never overwritten or duplicated. These settings only supply the record AdminBolt generates for a zone that does not have one.

Click Save Settings to apply changes.

5. Web Server ​

Web Server Tab

Customize HTML content for system-generated web server pages.

Web Server Default Pages ​

  • Domain Created Page - HTML content shown when a domain is newly created. Default placeholder: <html><body><h1>Domain successfully created</h1></body></html>.
  • Domain Suspended Page - HTML content shown when a domain is suspended. Default placeholder: <html><body><h1>This domain has been suspended</h1></body></html>.

Click Save Settings to apply changes.

6. Redis instances ​

Bound what all account Redis instances on this server may take together. Each account's own instance is set up under Redis in the client panel, and its per-account memory ceiling comes from the hosting plan; this tab is the ceiling above all of them.

Account Redis instances ​

  • Memory budget (MB) - how much memory every enabled account instance may claim between them. An account can turn Redis on only while its ceiling still fits in the budget. Leave it at 0 to let the server work the budget out from its own installed memory.
  • Maximum instances - how many accounts may run an instance at once. An account that would exceed the count is told the server already runs as many instances as its administrator allows.
  • In use - read-only, showing how much of the budget the instances enabled today have reserved.

A suspended account's instance stays down until the account is unsuspended, a restart of the server included.

Click Save Settings to apply changes.