PLESK

Repair and rebuild Qmail configuration files on PLESK

  If for some reasons you’re having problems with the mail issues related to qmail server, you can repair and rebuild the qmail configuration files on your linux plesk dedicated server and at the same time restore settings for all the mailboxes which are present on your server. To get this done, plesk have an utility named mchk and you can use it as below: Restore all settings except for SpamAssassin configuration root#...

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How to renew Plesk services SSL Certificates (Self-Signed)

For Parallels Plesk Panel version 7.x, 8.x: Server -> Certificates -> Add New Certificate For Parallels Plesk Panel version 9.x: Settings -> SSL Certificates -> Add SSL Certificate Fill in required preferences and click button {Self-Signed} New self-signed SSL certificate will be created in server certificate repository. To assign this SSL certificate for securing your Parallels Plesk Panel mark enabled new SSL certificate in the...

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Plesk windows file manager need to upload larger files

By default a client can’t upload files in plesk file manager larger then ~30MB . Unfortunately we have to let them upload bigger files because they like to use the  archive “uncompress” feature from file manager. The error received in plesk is: HTTP Error 404.13 – Not Found The request filtering module is configured to deny a request that exceeds the request content length. All you have to do to solve this...

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Courier-imap not working after plesk upgrade

After a plesk upgrade without error imap service did not start and found following in maillog: “IMAP service was down there, it could not start with error Aug 17 08:00:05 websvr imapd: Invalid -maxperip option. Aug 17 08:00:05 websvr imapd-ssl: Invalid -maxperip option.” The reason of the error was that MAXPERIP option was absent in /etc/courier-imap/imapd configuration file. I have added the missed line and restarted service. it  works OK...

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Plesk windows cannot add domain or update dns zone after last windows update

Symptoms MSDNS is used as DNS server. Every time when you try to update domain hosting or DNS settings of the domain, Parallels Plesk Panel hangs. Sometimes it can fails with the following error: Failed domain creation: Unable to update domain data: Unable to create dnsmng object: dnsmng failed: Empty error message from utility The following message can be found in event viewer: Faulting application DNSMng.exe, version 9.501.0.0, time stamp...

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Where are the plesk key files?

Where can we find the plesk key file (file containing the key)? Get the Key number/files from shell: 1. Parallels Panel 7.x – 8.x: # grep ‘Key number’ /etc/psa/psa.key 2. Parallels Panel 9.x: grep ‘key-number’ /etc/sw/keys/keys/key* Plesk for Windows: 1. In Plesk control panel go to Server, License Management and see the license number there. 2. Use the command in the command prompt: “%plesk_bin%\keymng.exe” –get-key-number key...

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