Archive for the ‘Plesk’ Category

Retrieving Files From Backup Archives

Monday, December 15th, 2008

To restore your data on a Plesk 8 machine, use the pleskrestore utility as described in the Restoring Your Data (on page 10) section of this guide. Plesk for Linux stores backup files in compressed GZIP archives. Only the server administrator with access to server shell can unpack these archives. To unpack ...

Open Source Support with public mirrors

Friday, December 12th, 2008

Connexeon provides services based on some open source software solutions. We want to support the open source community with free public mirrors. Following public mirrors are currently available on our network: Centos (full mirror): http://centos.mirror.connexeon.net Putty: http://putty.mirror.connexeon.net Following services are also available on our network: Plesk update mirror (CentOS latest 8 and 9 versions ...

Horde webmail agenda in Plesk is gone

Monday, December 8th, 2008

Suddenly the agenda option in horde (psa-horde) is gone. Cause: If you're using Atomick Rocket Turtle (ART) repository to update your server the agenda will not be available anymore, to solve this you have to remove it and update horde via the plesk updater available in the control panel. Solution: yum remove psa-kronolith Log on ...

Access Plesk databases

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

When using mySQL;Username for admin mySQL user is the same as the admin cp passwor.mysql -P8306 -uadmin -p mysql> use psa; When using MSDE;osql -E >use psa; >go When using MDB;Edit database using Access:C:\Program Files\SWsoft\Plesk\admin\db\psa.mdb

Move Plesk license key

Monday, August 4th, 2008

Download the plesk key from the old webserver. The location of the plesk key is /usr/local/psa/tmp/psa.key Logon to the Plesk interface of the new webserver and upload the file to the server. (Server > License management -> upload key) You can use /usr/local/psa/admin/bin/keymng but we prefer the procedure above.

Update Plesk statistics

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

Update the plesk web statistics on one domain: /usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/statistics –calculate-one –domain-name=mydomain.com Update the plesk web statistics for all domains: /usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/statistics

How to configure a smarthost (qmail)

Monday, May 5th, 2008

You can configure a smarthost in Plesk for linux (Qmail) by editing following file: /var/qmail/control/smtproutes The syntax is: <domainname>:<smart host> note: You have to disable the local e-mail in Plesk.

How to create catch-all subdomain in Plesk (linux)

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

Create a subdomain for the domain you wish with the name like 'zz-wildcard' in Plesk. This domain have to be the last in the subdomains' list ordered alpabetically, so we name it beginning from 'zz'. Add special configuration (catchall for all subdomains) to the vhost.conf file of this subdomain, for example ...

How to retrieve your Plesk admin password

Friday, April 11th, 2008

Retrieve your Plesk password on Windows: Log on to your webserver and go to start -> run -> cmd c:\cd "%plesk_bin%" The %plesk_bin% here stands for c:\program files\swsoft\plesk\admin\bin folder in case of 'by default' installation. By executing the command plesksrvclient -get you will get your Plesk password in a popup. Retrieve your Plesk password on ...

Backup & restore Linux Plesk 8 on domain level

Friday, March 21st, 2008

Backup Create backup /usr/local/psa/bin/pleskbackup -vvv domains domain.be /home/root/psabackup Move backup to another server sftp root@newserverip put /home/root/psabackup Restore Create map file /usr/local/psa/bin/pleskrestore --create-map /root/psabackup -map /root/backup.map Edit map file Edit /root/backup.map. The value between []'s should be replaced with the client name where you want to restore to. Change IP's by adding -> new IP. Example; [clientname] ...