plesk notes

Getting Premature End of Script Errors?

Check out: http://forums.sw-soft.com/showthread.php?threadid=26939

Mailman Wrapper GID error

Getting this error?

Failure_to_exec_mailman_wrapper._WANTED_gid_110,_GOT_gid_101.__(Reconfigure_to_take_101?)/did_0+0+1/

Check the GID of user 'popuser' is 110 in /etc/passwd and /etc/group

Create a file mm_wrapper.c with the following content:

#include <errno.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdio.h>
int main(int argc, char** argv, char** env) {
if (setregid(110, 110) != 0) {
printf("Set right UID/GID for popuser in /etc/passd,/etc/groupn ");
return -1;
}
(void) execve("/usr/local/psa/qmail/bin/mm_wrapper-real", argv, env);
/* Should not get here */
}

Run these commands:

mv /usr/local/psa/qmail/bin/mm_wrapper /usr/local/psa/qmail/bin/mm_wrapper-real
gcc mm_wrapper.c -o /usr/local/psa/qmail/bin/mm_wrapper
chmod 6755 /usr/local/psa/qmail/bin/mm_wrapper

Taken from: http://7gen.com/personal-blog-entry/2005sep231516/computers/building-web-sites/brute-force-fix-for-mailman-integration-on-plesk-systems

See also: http://forum.plesk.com/showthread.php?threadid=27474

Plesk Mis-Detecting Distro Version On Update

Running WhiteBox Linux 3 and getting an error like:

Error: You are using Redhat Linux 3.0, but autoinstaller was compiled for Redhat Enterprise Linux 3.
Exiting autoinstaller.

Then Plesk is mis-detecting your distro version. Change your /etc/redhat-release filel from: White Box Enterprise Linux release 3.0 (Liberation Respin 2)

To: Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS release 3 (Taroon Update 5)

To fool Plesk.

Custom Apache Directives For Your Virtual Host

Run

/usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/websrvmng --reconfigure-vhost --vhost=yourdomain.com

Once you do that, you can happily edit the vhost.conf with anything you need.

Plesk IP Changes

Are you moving servers or changing IPs on your Plesk setup? Then you need to tell Plesk about the new IPs.

To do this:

cd /usr/local/psa/bin/
perl reconfigurator.pl mapfile

Then edit the mapfile to something like this (e.g. when going from 127.0.0.1 to 10.1.1.0)

eth0:127.0.0.1 255.255.255.0 -> eth0:10.1.1.0 255.255.255.128

Then rerun:

perl reconfigurator.pl mapfile

Plesk Mail Forwards

If you setup a mail forwarder in Plesk, it will also deliver a copy of the forwarded email to the original recipients mailbox. To stop this from happening, disable the original recipients mailbox. The mail will still be forwarded properly.

Forgotten Your Plesk Admin Password?

Plesk stores the password at /etc/psa/.psa.shadow The username is always admin. And the 'root' mysql user is renamed to 'admin' and has the same password used for the Plesk login. The plesk login url will be https://ip:8443/

Getting Horde Available At http://yourip/webmail

Create /etc/httpd/conf.d/horde.conf and put the following into it:

Alias /webmail /home/httpd/vhosts/webmail/horde
Alias /horde /home/httpd/vhosts/webmail/horde
<Directory /home/httpd/vhosts/webmail/horde>
  php_admin_flag engine on
  php_admin_flag magic_quotes_gpc off
  php_admin_flag safe_mode off
  php_admin_value open_basedir "/home/httpd/vhosts/webmail:/etc/psa:/tmp"
  php_admin_value include_path "/home/httpd/vhosts/webmail/horde/lib:/home/httpd/vhosts/webmail/horde/pear:."
</Directory>

And restart Apache: /etc/init.d/httpd restart

Using Plesk Behind A Firewall

Behind a firewall and can't use http://yourip:8443?

Create a subdomain e.g. plesk.yourdomain.com.

Then in /var/www/vhosts/yourdomain.com/subdomains/plesk/conf/vhost.conf, put:

ProxyRequests Off
ProxyPass / http://yourip:8880/
ProxyPassReverse / http://yourip:8880/

Then run: /usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/websrvmng reconfigure-vhost vhost=yourdomain.com

And restart Apache. http://plesk.yourdomain.com/ should then allow you to access the Plesk control panel over port 80.

Plesk and Apache ASP

If you're getting errors like these:

failed to resolve handler `Apache::ASP': Can't locate Apache2/RequestRec.pm in @INC

Try installing mod_perl 2.x (if you're using CentOS4/RHEL4, grab the package from CentOS Plus).

If you continue to get errors (e.g. Can't locate object method "get" via package "APR::Table") try removing ASP.pm files, and re-installing it:

# cpan
cpan> install Apache::ASP

If that doesn't help, try adding this to /etc/httpd/conf/startup.pl:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use Apache2::compat;
1;

And this to /etc/httpd/conf.d/perl.conf:

PerlRequire /etc/httpd/conf/startup.pl

Then restart Apache (/etc/init.d/httpd restart).

Plesk and AWStats

In Plesk 8.1.x, the option to use AWStats instead of Webalizer appeared. However, if you've upgraded to 8.1.x (rather than a fresh install), AWStats may not actually work.

Try running /usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/statistics and see if you get errors in /var/log/messages about it not being able to find the AWStats scripts like these:

statistics: Unable to execute /usr/share/awstats/tools/awstats_buildstaticpages.pl -awstatsprog=/usr/share/awstats/wwwroot/cgi-bin/awst ats.pl -configdir=/usr/local/psa/etc/awstats -config=yourdomain.com-anon_ftp -dir=/var/www/vhosts/yourdomain.com/statistics/anon_ftpstat/

If you do, you'll need to setup some symlinks to fix things:

mkdir -p /usr/share/awstats/tools/
cd /usr/share/awstats/tools/
ln -s /usr/bin/awstats_buildstaticpages.pl .
mkdir -p /usr/share/awstats/wwwroot/cgi-bin/
cd /usr/share/awstats/wwwroot/cgi-bin/
ln -sf /var/www/awstats/awstats.pl .

Now run this command and check if 'yourdomain.com' now has a AWStats page:

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