Plesk

Plesk

Location of the vhost in plesk

/var/www/vhosts/HoudiniESQ.com/conf

Turn off Safe_mode in plesk
NOTE-dont forget to replace <domain name>, with the actual domain name.
Create a “vhost.conf” file in “/var/www/vhosts/<domain name>/conf/”

cd /var/www/vhosts/<domain name>/conf/
vim vhost.conf

Insert the following into it.

<Directory /var/www/vhosts/<domain name>/httpdocs>
php_admin_value safe_mode off
php_admin_value open_basedir none
</Directory>

Now run the following to update the conf.

/usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/websrvmng -u --vhost-name=<domain name>

Now restart httpd

service httpd reload

Dumping Databases in Plesk

mysqldump -u admin -p database > .sql

Running Awstats in plesk

Notice: Aquired from the following:

Parallels Forum

update all domains

/usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/statistics --calculate-all

Update a single domain

/usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/statistics --calculate-one --domain-name=domain.tld

Email issues

If you ever find that emails are throwing this error on a plesk server while trying to be sent follow the steps below.

tail -f /usr/local/psa/var/log/maillog

I see this:

Nov 29 20:34:15 host X-Qmail-Scanner-2.08st:
[host.dokuga.com12910808557906501] clamdscan: corrupt or unknown clamd scanner
error or memory/resource/perms problem - exit status 512/2 

Nov 29 20:34:15 host X-Qmail-Scanner-2.08st: [host.dokuga.com12910808557906508] clamdscan:
corrupt or unknown clamd scanner error or memory/resource/perms problem - exit
status 512/2 

Nov 29 20:34:15 host X-Qmail-Scanner-2.08st:
[host.dokuga.com12910808557906516] clamdscan: corrupt or unknown clamd scanner
error or memory/resource/perms problem - exit status 512/2 

Nov 29 20:34:15 host X-Qmail-Scanner-2.08st: [host.dokuga.com12910808557906523] clamdscan:
corrupt or unknown clamd scanner error or memory/resource/perms problem - exit
status 512/2

Then try to update clamd with the following.

freshclam

If that returns this error do the next part if not find another solution.

ClamAV update process started at Mon Nov 29 21:04:07 2010
main.cld is up to date (version: 53, sigs: 846214, f-level: 53, builder: sven)
WARNING: Current functionality level = 44, recommended = 53
Please check if ClamAV tools are linked against the proper version of libclamav
DON'T PANIC! Read http://www.clamav.net/support/faq
ERROR: chdir_tmp: Can't create directory ./clamav-ba29cb18cefd7655eebdcc82d2f7401d
WARNING: Incremental update failed, trying to download daily.cvd
ERROR: getfile: Can't create new file /var/clamav/clamav-08bf3637d601dae2695c04b7fc08d9ea in /var/clamav
Hint: The database directory must be writable for UID 111 or GID 105
WARNING: Can't download daily.cvd from db.us.clamav.net

now do this

cd /var
ll | grep clamav

if the results look like this:

drwxr-xr-x  2 qscand qscand  4096 Nov 29 04:34 clamav

You will need to do the following

chown -R qscand. clamav
chmod 777 clamav/
freshclam
/etc/init.d/clamd restart

Now you should have the following:

drwxrwxrwx  2 qscand qscand  4096 Nov 29 21:22 clamav

And this should solve the problem, as well as have all up to date virus stuff's.

upgrade php in plesk

{notice|Due to recent changes at atomic repos this might not work, proceed to the does not work steps.}

atomics repo

All you have to do is the following.

wget -q -O - http://www.atomicorp.com/installers/atomic.sh | sh 
yum upgrade php
/etc/init.d/httpd restart
php -v

After you restart if the output gives you an error about ioncube just reinstall it.

yum search ioncube

now install whatever package it lists, make sure it matched your distro system bit (uname -a)

yum install php-ioncube-loader.x86_64
/etc/init.d/httpd restart
php -v

Now everything should work for you, and if this does not work for you do the following.

After you add the atomic repo, just run a:

yum update -y

now all of your php should be version 5.3, at this point if you need to install more modules please do them now.

EXAMPLE mcrypt.

yum search mcrypt

this provides me with this list.

libmcrypt.x86_64 : Encryption algorithms library
libmcrypt-devel.x86_64 : Development libraries and headers for libmcrypt
php-mcrypt.i386 : Standard PHP module provides mcrypt library support
php-mcrypt.x86_64 : Standard PHP module provides mcrypt library support

if you have trouble with mcrypt this is what saved me. http://www.kelvinwong.ca/2009/12/06/install-libmcrypt-and-php-mcrypt-on-centos-5-3-without-losing-too-much-hair/

Now run a uname -a and install all packages that match your systems bit.

yum install libmcrypt.x86_64 libmcrypt-devel.x86_64 php-mcrypt.x86_64

once this has completed you are ready to switch to php 5.2 assuming that you only need to add mcrypt.

now do the following.

rpm -qa | grep php-
php-common-5.3-1.el5.art
php-devel-5.3-1.el5.art
php-xml-5.3-1.el5.art
php-pdo-5.3-1.el5.art
php-5.3-1.el5.art
php-mbstring-5.3-1.el5.art
php-imap-5.3-1.el5.art
php-mcrypt-5.3-1.el5.art
php-cli-5.3-1.el5.art
php-mysql-5.3-1.el5.art
php-gd-5.3-1.el5.art

you should get the output of all the system php modules, now run the following to complete this task. List everything in the above output in your DOWNGRADE COMMAND.

yum downgrade php php-common php-devel php-xml php-pdo php-mbstring php-imap php-mcrypt php-cli php-mysql php-gd

After this fail of a method has completed please check you php -v and make sure everthing looks correct.