Category: Plesk

Plesk mail not working 10024: Connection refused

On a Plesk mail server, when sending/reciving email, it fail with following error in /var/log/maillog

Aug 11 19:49:28 vmi274961 postfix/smtp[29276]: E413C3320265: to=, relay=none, delay=0.47, delays=0.47/0/0/0, dsn=4.4.1, status=deferred (connect to 127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1]:10024: Connection refused)

To fix, reinstall email-security extension.

plesk bin extension --uninstall  email-security

Verify mail works. If all good, you can reinstall the Plesk mail security extension from Plesk admin

root@vmi274961:~# plesk bin extension --list
advisor - Advisor
baqend - Speed Kit
composer - PHP Composer
configurations-troubleshooter - Webserver Configurations Troubleshooter
dgri - Imunify QuickPatch
digitalocean-spaces-backup - DigitalOcean Spaces Backup
diskspace-usage-viewer - Diskspace Usage Viewer
dnssec - Plesk DNSSEC
domain-connect - Domain Connect
email-security - Plesk Email Security
firewall - Firewall
git - Git
google-drive-backup - Google Drive Backup
grafana - Grafana
heavy-metal-skin - Skins and Color Schemes
kernelcare-plesk - KernelCare
letsencrypt - Let's Encrypt
monitoring - Advanced Monitoring
new-relic - New Relic - Application Performance Monitoring
pagespeed-insights - Google PageSpeed Insights
panel-migrator - Plesk Migrator
plesk-mobile - Plesk Mobile Center
repair-kit - Repair Kit
revisium-antivirus - ImunifyAV
site-import - Site Import
social-login - Social Login
sslit - SSL It!
symantec - DigiCert SSL
traffic-monitor - Domain Traffic Monitor
watchdog - Watchdog
wp-toolkit - WordPress Toolkit
xovi - SEO Toolkit
root@vmi274961:~# plesk bin extension --uninstall  email-security
The extension was successfully removed.
root@vmi274961:~#

If its mail configuration issue, you can run

plesk repair mail

Plesk Mail not working amavis error

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August 11, 2020

How to enable gzip on Plesk Nginx

To enable gzip on Plesk server with Nginx proxy, go to

Plesk > Domains

Click on the domain for which you need gzip compression enbaled.

Plesk Nginx

click on “Apache & nginx Settings”. On next page, scroll down, add following to “Additional nginx directives” text box.

gzip on;
gzip_http_version  1.1;
gzip_comp_level    5;
gzip_min_length    256;
gzip_proxied       any;
gzip_vary          on;
gzip_types
application/atom+xml
application/javascript
application/x-javascript
application/json
application/rss+xml
application/vnd.ms-fontobject
application/x-font-ttf
application/x-web-app-manifest+json
application/xhtml+xml
application/xml
font/opentype
image/svg+xml
image/x-icon
text/css
text/plain
text/x-component;

Plesk Additional nginx directives

To verify gzip is working, you can open a file directly in browser. Check response headers in browser develoer tool, you should see gzip.

verify gzip in chrome developer tools

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June 20, 2020

CentOS 7 Plesk server DNS not starting
On a CentOS 7 Plesk server DNS failed to start. Plesk on CentOS 7 use named-chroot.service for starting DNS.

I tried to start DNS with
```
systemctl restart named-chroot
```
On checking status, it shows DNS failed to start
```
systemctl status named-chroot
```
I removed Bind DNS server using command
```
plesk installer
```
Removed all bind related packages with yum. Removed all DNS configs from /etc and /var/named folder.

Reinstalled Bind DNS and run plesk repair to fix DNS entry
```
plesk repair dns
```
But it did not resolve the problem. I checked named.conf with
```
named-checkconf /etc/named.conf
```
It showned error is related with
```
acl common-allow-transfer {
        11.11.12.100/255.255.255.0;
        1637:4100:203:6664::/64;
};
```
Problem is fixed by removing the entry “11.11.12.100/255.255.255.0” from
```
Plesk > Tools & Settings > DNS Zone Template > Transfer Restrictions Template
```
You can use IP or CIDR here. But you don’t need this if you don’t have secondary DNS servers.
December 6, 2019
Plesk Change Backup Location
By default, Plesk store backups in folder /var/lib/psa/dumps/. To move this to a differnt partition or directory, create a folder
```
mkdir /backup
chown psaadm:psaadm /backup
chmod 750 /backup
```
Edit file
```
vi /etc/psa/psa.conf
```
Find
```
DUMP_D /var/lib/psa/dumps
```
Replace with
```
DUMP_D /backup
```
Move old backup to new location
```
rsync -avzP /var/lib/psa/dumps/ /backup/
```
Remove old backup directory, here i rename it to dumps-old, you can delete it.
```
cd /var/lib/psa
mv dumps dumps-old
ln -s /backup dumps
```
Restart Plesk
```
service sw-cp-server restart
```
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October 11, 2019
Plesk move vhosts folder
Plesk use /var/www/vhosts folder to store sites. On some servers this folder will be on smaller partition. Say you have all disk space on partition /home, in such cause, you can use following command to move web site files to /home folder with following command.
```
plesk bin transvhosts.pl --dest-dir /home/ --correct-scripts
```
/home/ = you can replace this any any folder you wish. Plesk will move the site files, update the configuration as required.

NOTE: In this example, i used /var/www/vhosts instead of /home/ as the server was using non default folder for vhosts, i am moving all sites back to default location (/var/www/vhosts).

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July 19, 2019

Install PHP 5.6 on Debian 9 Plesk Server

To install PHP 5.6 on Debian 9 Plesk Server, add sury.org repository

apt install apt-transport-https lsb-release ca-certificates -y
wget -O /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/php.gpg https://packages.sury.org/php/apt.gpg
echo "deb https://packages.sury.org/php/ $(lsb_release -sc) main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/php.list

Install PHP 5.6 with apt

apt-get update
apt-get install php5.6 php5.6-fpm php5.6-cgi php5.6-mysql php5.6-xsl php5.6-xml php5.6-tidy php5.6-recode php5.6-mcrypt php5.6-mbstring php5.6-intl php5.6-gd php5.6-curl php5.6-json php5.6-imagick php5.6-bcmath php5.6-readline php5.6-sqlite3

Optional: Enable PHP 5.6 as default CLI

update-alternatives --config php

This will show all available PHP version, select the default version for command line.

Enable PHP 5.6 in Plesk

plesk bin php_handler --add -displayname "5.6 by sury.org" -path /usr/bin/php-cgi5.6 -clipath /usr/bin/php5.6 -phpini /etc/php/5.6/cgi/etc/php.ini -type cgi -id "php56-cgi"
plesk bin php_handler --add -displayname "5.6 by sury.org" -path /usr/bin/php-cgi5.6 -clipath /usr/bin/php5.6 -phpini /etc/php/5.6/cgi/etc/php.ini -type fastcgi -id "php56-fastcgi"
plesk bin php_handler --add -displayname "5.6 by sury.org" -path /usr/sbin/php-fpm5.6 -clipath /usr/bin/php5.6 -phpini /etc/php/5.6/fpm/etc/php.ini -type fpm -service php5.6-fpm -poold /etc/php/5.6/fpm/pool.d -id "php56-fpm"

April 1, 2019

Install MagicSpam on Plesk
MagicSpam is an anti spam filter for Plesk and DirectAdmin servers. You can purchase MagicSpam from

https://www.magicspam.com

To install MagicSpam, upload the zip file you get to /root/ folder of your server and run
```
plesk bin extension --install /path/to/file.zip
```
Example
```
plesk bin extension --install /root/magicspam-plesk-2.0.18-1-Linux.zip
```
January 15, 2019
Install Redis on Plesk Debian Server
To install Redis on Plesk Debian/Ubuntu server, run
```
apt install -y redis-server redis-tools
```
Enable and restart redis-server
```
systemctl enable redis-server
systemctl restart redis-server
```
Now install PHP Modules
```
apt install -y plesk-php70-redis plesk-php71-redis plesk-php72-redis plesk-php73-redis plesk-php74-redis
```
After installing, you will see redis listed in phpinfo() page.
December 10, 2018

Find Plesk Version

To find Plesk version, login to server as user root SSH and run

plesk version

Example

root@root861:~# plesk version
Product version: Plesk Onyx 17.9.8
     Build date: 2018/11/16 16:00
     OS version: Debian 9.6
       Revision: 6af2ef23569cac03e01272676158a016ed0eea1a
   Architecture: 64-bit
Wrapper version: 1.2
root@root861:~#

December 8, 2018

List all installed extensions in Plesk
To list all installed extensions in Plesk server, run
```
plesk bin extension --list
```
October 16, 2018

Plesk Install PHP

To install differnt version of PHP in plesk server, run

plesk installer --select-release-current --show-components

This will list available PHP versions to install.

To install PHP 5.3, run

plesk installer --select-release-current --install-component php5.3

To install PHP 5.6, run

plesk installer --select-release-current --install-component php5.6

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October 6, 2018

Repair Plesk Server
To repair the Plesk server, run
```
plesk repair installation
```
repair all
```
plesk repair all -y
```
To fix file system permissions for a website
```
plesk repair fs example.com
```
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September 19, 2018