Activate / Upgrade Website Licenses
- You should have obtained paid or trial licenses from your hosting service provider. Only unused licenses can be associated with a website.
- If you do not have any unused licenses then you will be directed to the license purchase page.
Activate license on a site
- Click the 'cWatch' link in the list of enabled services (top-right) to open the cWatch extension page
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Click 'Activate Now' on a website tile:
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Choose the type of license you want to activate on the site.
- cWatch features vary according to license type. See Membership Plans for more details.
- Select the license type you wish to activate:
- Choose the type of license you want to associate with the site then click 'Continue'
- The license is activated for the domain
- The license you applied is shown at the top-left corner of the site tile:
You can now set the security mode, run scans on the site and more.
- Enable CDN - Activates the content delivery service for the site. Auto-configures the necessary DNS 'A' and 'CNAME' changes to facilitate this.
- Enable Auto Malware Removal - Activates automatic cleaning of malware identified by scans. Enabled by default for 'Pro' and 'Premium' license types.
- Enable WAF - Activates the web application firewall for the domain. Available only for 'Pro' and 'Premium' license types. You must enable the CDN to enable the WAF.
- See Membership Plans for features / services covered by different license types.
Upgrade license on a site
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You can upgrade the license on a website at anytime to improve its protection levels. For example, if you want to enable protection or detection mode on a site.
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A free basic license can be upgraded to a paid 'Starter', Pro' or 'Premium' license.
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See Membership Plans for more details on features on each license.
Upgrade a license
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Open the cWatch customer interface as described above
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Click 'Upgrade' or 'Upgrade to Enable Security' in a website tile
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You will be taken to the license purchase page set by your hosting service provider.
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Complete the purchase process to add licenses to your account and then start the license upgrade process.