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 :

%windir%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd set config “PleskControlPanel/” -section:requestFiltering -requestLimits.maxAllowedContentLength:104857600

which will set a 100MB limit for file uploads in plesk file manager.

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 list and push Secure control panel if you have Plesk 8.2 or later, or Install if you have older Plesk version.
Also, see Plesk documentation how to setup self-signed certificates.

After you created or uploaded new certificate into Plesk and wish to use it for domains you should set it for every IP you need, so domains use it when you access them via HTTPS.
It can be done on page Server -> IP Addresses -> “choose IP” by selecting needed Certificate in “SSL Certificate” drop down menu.

or

I use 1 SSL cert for plesk control-panel, pop3s, imaps and smtps.

After generating the new certificate in the administrator repository. make it your default certificate and mark it again and press setup to install it on your plesk admin server on port 8443. then put the certificate at your main ip-adresse in your ip-pool(maybee this step is not necessary).

copy /usr/local/psa/admin/conf/httpsd.pem
to
/usr/share/courier-imap/pop3d.pem, /usr/share/courier-imap/imapd.pem and /var/qmail/control/servercert.pem

please have a look that the owner(very important) and the chmod rights are the same of pop3d.pem, imapd.pem and servercert.pem. like before otherwhise qmail will for example not work/start, because it can’t read the file.

restart courier(imap,pop3) and qmail(smtp) in the plesk server service control panel.

after this plesk control-panel 8443, pop3s, imaps and smtps should work without warning messages and with only 1 ssl cert, if you use for all services the same main hostname.domain.com address like me.

(maybee you should also have a look, that the same hostname is configured in the qmail config file)

finally to test certificates :

openssl s_client -connect [host]:993

openssl s_client -connect [host]:995

openssl s_client -connect [host]:465

openssl s_client -connect [host]:8443

where for e.g. host=localhost

/usr/local/psa/bin/pre9-backup-convert -v convert -d /var/lib/psa/dumps/  /root/plesk8-backup-file

then go to plesk 9 panel and restore the backup from the client and/or precreated domain.

for example you can modify local delivery in .qmail to replace  “/usr/bin/deliverquota ./Maildir” with something like “/var/qmail/bin/preline -f /opt/libexec/dovecot/deliver -d user@domain”.

basically there are two ways to do that from plesk:

one is using event handlers: http://download1.swsoft.com/Plesk/Plesk8.6/Doc/en-US/plesk-8.6-unix-administrators-guide/22819.htm

second is using mail handlers: http://download1.parallels.com/Plesk/Plesk8.6/Doc/en-US/plesk-8.6-unix-mod-api/38611.htm

Unfortunately I did not find too many docs related to it so find out from Parallels that webmail is not running from “webmail” application pool but on plesk default application pool that can be found in plesk -> server-> IIS Application Pool . If this is not running so webmail will not work and you have to restart this application pool to start webmail.

<IfModule mod_tls.c>
TLSEngine on
TLSLog /var/log/tls.log
TLSProtocol SSLv23

# Are clients required to use FTP over TLS?
TLSRequired off

# Server’s certificate
TLSRSACertificateFile /usr/local/psa/admin/conf/httpsd.pem
TLSRSACertificateKeyFile /usr/local/psa/admin/conf/httpsd.pem

# Authenticate clients that want to use FTP over TLS?
TLSVerifyClient off

# Allow SSL/TLS renegotiations when the client requests them, but
# do not force the renegotations.  Some clients do not support
# SSL/TLS renegotiations; when mod_tls forces a renegotiation, these
# clients will close the data connection, or there will be a timeout
# on an idle data connection.
TLSRenegotiate required off
</IfModule>

As values in TLSRSACertificateFile and TLSRSACertificateKeyFile otion you can use as Plesk certificate, for example /usr/local/psa/admin/conf/httpsd.pem as your own one.

After that restart proftpd from xinetd : /etc/init.d/xinetd restart

1. Launch command prompt.

2. CD “%plesk_dir%Additional\Php\”.

Note: The folder can be different – e.g. in case of using PHP5.

3. Execute go-pear.bat and follow the on-screen instructions.

4. Add the path to the newly created pear.bat file into the PATH system variable after installation and reboot the machine for changes to take effect.

These actions will install the ‘pear’ command on your server including basic pear packages. You can use ‘pear’ command from the Windows command prompt to manage PEAR packages.

if you have cpanel on a virtuozzo node vps you really want to disable plesk install .

This cannot be done for selected VPSes, only for node-wide. In order to remove ‘Install Plesk’ link from the customer’s Parallels Power Panel, it is required to modify /vz/private/1/root/etc/vzcp/pp/menu.xml (on the node) file or /etc/vzcp/pp/menu.xml (in Service VPS).

There is an item looking like

item href=”$baseurl/panel/plesk” icon=”plesk” tip=”plesk_control_panel” cred=”plesk_use” svps=”deny”

<title>Install Plesk</title>

<screen id=”07.07.04.03″/>

<template cond=”version &gt;= 20040227″>plesk</template>

</item>

It should be completely removed and vzcp restarted:

# vzctl exec 1 /etc/init.d/vzcp restart

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web:

 /usr/local/psa/admin/logs

mail/ftp xfer

 /usr/local/psa/var/log/

Plesk FTP USER

I have included below the instructions for adding system FTP user account’s. First you will need to add the user, to do so simply issue the following command(s) as root:

 useradd -s /bin/false johndoe -d /home/johndoe

The “-s /bin/false” portion ensures this user can only ftp into the system and has no shell access. The “-d /home/johndoe” portion indicates that this users home directory should /home/johndoe. If you also want to restrict “johndoe” to his directory you should use the following command below instead:

 useradd -s /bin/false -G psacln johndoe -d /home/johndoe

The “-G psacln” switch automatically add’s the johndoe user to the psacln group, any user account’s that are part of that group automatically get restricted to their home directory.

After adding the user you simply need to setup a password for them using the following command:

 passwd johndoe

Qmail

qmail turn off reverse lookups.

 -Rt0 flag the to the beginning of the server_args line in the /etc/xinet.d/smtp_psa

Install new Plesk license

download correct license from ftp.rackspace.com

 /etc/init.d/psa stop
 mysql -u admin -p`cat /etc/psa/.psa.shadow` psa
 mysql> truncate key_history;
 mysql> truncate key_history_params;
 mysql> exit

 rpm -e --nodeps psa-key-custom

 rpm -Uvh plesk7.5_100_spamassassin  (or correct license)

 /etc/init.d/psa start

Qmail voodoo: (where spamblackhole is the domain or subject)

 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-qread | grep -B1  spamblackhole |grep GMT | awk '{print $6}'   | sed s/^#/-d/ > /home/rack/delete

Plesk FrontPage fixup: (from httpdocs dir)

disable frontpage in plesk

 find . -name .htaccess -type f | xargs rm -rf
 find . -name '_vti*' -type d | xargs rm -rf
 find . -name '_private' -type d | xargs rm -rf

enable and reset password in plesk

Change TTLs in Plesk

update the misc table to the value:

 update misc set val='86400' where param='SOA_TTL';

update the zone records:

 mysql -Ns -uadmin -p`cat /etc/psa/.psa.shadow` -D psa -e 'select name from domains' |
 awk '{print  /usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/dnsmng update " $1 }' | sh

Plesk user passwords

 select domains.name,domains.id,mail.mail_name,accounts.password from domains,mail,accounts where
 domains.id=mail.dom_id and accounts.id=mail.account_id and accounts.password='password';

Plesk FTP users

 mysql -uadmin -p`cat /etc/psa/.psa.shadow` psa -e "SELECT domains.name, sys_users.login, accounts.password FROM
 hosting, domains, sys_users, accounts WHERE hosting.dom_id = domains.id AND hosting.sys_user_id = sys_users.id AND
 sys_users.account_id = accounts.id ORDER BY domains.name;"

Upgrade to PHP5 on Plesk 8.1

 rpm -e `rpm -qa | grep -i sitebuilder`
 rpm -e php-sqlite2 sb-publish
 rpm -e PPWSE
 rpm -e --nodeps php-domxml
 rpm -Uvh *.rpm

 up2date --configure

Plesk mail mchk

 /usr/local/psa/admin/bin/mchk -v
 /usr/local/psa/admin/bin/mchk -v --with-spam

Kill Qmail queue

 #!/bin/sh
 # remove everything - STOP QMAIL FIRST!
 /sbin/service qmail stop
 for i in bounce info intd local mess remote todo;
 do find /var/qmail/queue/$i -type f -exec rm {} \;
 done
 /sbin/service qmail start

Plesk5 websrvmng (sort of)

 /usr/local/psa/admin/bin/my_apci_rst -v

Plesk UserDirs in 8+

Just create the file /etc/httpd/conf.d/userdir.conf and add in the following contents:

 <VirtualHost  the.primar.ip.address:80>
 ServerName default
 UseCanonicalName Off
 DocumentRoot /var/www/vhosts/default/htdocs
 UserDir httpdocs
 ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/var/www/vhosts/default/cgi-bin/"
 <Directory "/var/www/vhosts/">
        <IfModule sapi_apache2.c>
                php_admin_flag engine on
        </IfModule>
        Options +Includes +ExecCGI
        </Directory>
 <Directory "/home/httpd/vhosts/">
        <IfModule sapi_apache2.c>
                php_admin_flag engine on
        </IfModule>
                Options +Includes +ExecCGI
        </Directory>
 </VirtualHost>

More fun with qmail

 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-qread | grep "somethin@yourdomain.com" | awk '{print $6}' | sed 's/^/-d/g' |
 sed 's/#//g' > /home/rack/rmspam.sh

then just:

 qmHandle `cat rmspam.sh`

Plesk SPAM link

http://kb.swsoft.com/article_22_766_en.html

Add spell checking to Horde

You need to ADD the following line to

 /usr/share/psa-horde/imp/config/conf.php

 $conf['utils']['spellchecker'] = 'aspell';

Lower TTLs in Plesk

 insert into misc values ('soa_TTL','300');

 mysql -Ns -uadmin -p`cat /etc/psa/.psa.shadow` -D psa -e 'select name from domains' |
 awk '{print "/usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/dnsmng update " $1 }' | sh

ps -axo “%C %p” |sort -nr |head -5 |while read i p; do echo -n $i; /usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl fullstatus |grep -A 1 $p; done

there is also a python script for that : apache-top.py . you can donwload it from: http://www.fr3nd.net/projects/apache-top/. it’s a nice tool but still need some customization.