Category Archives: Plesk

Plesk usually uses either Postfix (new versions) or Qmail (old ones). To find out which one you’re currently using, run the following command via SSH: # /usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/mailmng –features | grep SMTP_Server A QUICK COMMANDS GUIDE FOR POSTFIX Show the email messages in Queue: # postqueue -p | tail -n 1 | cut -d’ ‘ -f5 List …

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Getting annoyed by the error message displayed each time you forget to use https in your URL when trying to access th Plesk panel? The “400 Bad Request – The plain HTTP request was sent to HTTPS port” error is caused by a bug in the Parallels Plesk panel version 11.5, here is a quick fix for it: create …

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Vim is a text editor that you can use in Linux environments to create or edit files. There are two working modes in vim. One is the command mode and another is the insert mode. To enter text or edit any line, press the “i” key on your keyboard (the i stands for Insert). Once you’re …

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Tools & Settings -> Server settings -> Full hostname 1) 2) 3) The hostname that you should choose has to be relevant for your server. If you have more than one domain hosted on your server, then you should choose the most important/defining one.

Apache: #httpd –v If Ubuntu try: #apache2 -v MySQL: On a server running Plesk: #mysql -uadmin -p`cat /etc/psa/.psa.shadow` >SELECT version(); On a server running WHM/cPanel: #mysql SELECT version(); PHP: #php –v Perl: #perl -v Python: #python -v

There comes a time when the website you’ve built has grown to big or you’ve added some features to it that a shared type of hosting package simply cannot cope with. The next step in these situations is to have the website moved over to a more powerful platform, in most cases this would be …

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One of the main reasons that can cause upgrades to fail is “named” (the DNS Bind program), having its permissions changed so it cannot run. Check this and correct as below: [root@vps16505916 ~]# ls -la /etc/init.d/named -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7478 Jan 7 12:17 /etc/init.d/named [root@vps16505916 ~]# chmod 755 /etc/init.d/named Once done, try and run the …

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APPLIES TO: Parallels Plesk Panel 11.5 for Linux Services Control Panel Logs Error log: /var/log/sw-cp-server/error_log and /var/log/sw-cp-server/sw-engine.log Access log: /usr/local/psa/admin/logs/httpsd_access_log Panel log: /usr/local/psa/admin/logs/panel.log Services Stop: /etc/init.d/psa stop Start: /etc/init.d/psa start Restart: /etc/init.d/psa restart Configuration PHP config: /usr/local/psa/admin/conf/php.ini Panel config: /usr/local/psa/admin/conf/panel.ini Web server config: /etc/sw-cp-server/conf.d/plesk.conf Web Presence Builder Logs Error log: /usr/local/psa/admin/logs/sitebuilder.log Install/upgrade logs: /usr/local/sb/tmp/ No service control (working via sw-cp-server service) Configuration /usr/local/sb/config /etc/sw-cp-server/conf.d/plesk.conf /usr/local/psa/admin/conf/php.ini SSO Logs Error …

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