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Is DNS redirection scenario possible?

I have a question regarding DNS, assuming I have my domain register pointed to an external DNS, is it possible for me redirect it to another DNS if something isn't found. I am asking because of ACME ...
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Disable bounce in Postfix after failed mail forwarding

I have some mailboxes in Plesk/Postfix that redirect to some external addresses. If Postfix fails to forward a message to these addresses, it bounces back to the original sender, who is a fake address ...
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ProFTPd is listening on tcp6, I cannot connect through FTP, is because I try to connect to IPv4?

My server has an IPv4 address, and I cannot connect to FTP through ftp nor filezilla. I checked the configuration and all seems correct, the firewall is not blocking ports 21 or 22 but I cannot ...
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MariaDB is not starting [closed]

I using Plesk 17 onyx on CentOS 7. I have updated my server via plesk update manager and suddenly my database server stop working. I was using MariaDB as database server. Plesk is also not working. ...
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How plesk uses AWS for their storage?

Currently exploring the relation between Plesk and AWS As of now my AWS account showing the Memory Disk SSD Usage of 30GB of my account Where it says 40%+ of memory are being used out of 30GB and ...
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Detect spam sending script or user

I have been hired by a customer to secure his email server to prevent spam and so. They have Plesk Onyx with Postfix as MTA. I have installed incoming spam filters (barracuda, etc...), developed a ...
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Replacing PHP with version from another repo

I made a HUGE mistake a while ago and installed/enabled the remi repo to upgrade php. This has caused issues in our CRM package. I would like to be able to return to the previously installed php from ...
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GMail not receiving email sent via PostFix

I have a VPN configured with Plesk. (I have installed a SSL/TLS certificate, through Plesk, using Lets Encrypt. Everything seems good as far as I can tell, but I mention it as it also protects emails.)...
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Downloading EXE From Web Throws 403 Forbidden nginx

I have a file uploaded to our website under a /Downloads folder, which I created. The download link, similar to: A Sample Download Link had no issues downloading up until a few weeks ago. I am not ...
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On a Windows Server, how do you prevent FTP from requiring the machine name to be included in the username?

I have a Windows server, and I'm using Plesk to manage many of the IIS and FTP settings. The server's machine name is 9WTBVY, and any FTP accounts that are created on the system cannot login unless ...
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Configure GitLab Docker container with Plesk and LetsEncrypt

Hi I have an issue with my GitLab setup. What I'm trying to achieve: running GitLab inside a Docker container access GitLab through a subdomain (gitlab.mydomain.com) at ports 80 and 443 for https ...
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SSH connections getting refused after multiple connections [closed]

We have a Ubuntu 14.04 server which is running Plesk 12.5. I have an issue where SSH connections appear to get blocked, and I can't figure out why. If we do a dozen connections over a short time ...
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HSTS: Is includeSubDomains on main domain sufficient?

In my Plesk web admin edition I just activated HSTS on my main domain www.domain.tld with add_header Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains" always; The test on ssllabs.com ...
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How to restart proFTPD on a Fedora server with Plesk

I need to do this through the command line (SSH). Tried: /etc/init.d/proftpd restart service ftpd restart service proftpd restart /usr/sbin/proftpd restart They all show unrecognised or invalid ...
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can i disable ModSecurity rule via .htaccess?

On new server for my website, a centOS, when i try to upload an image via PHP and the file name contains a special character, like "my'file.jpg", i get a forbidden page and i can't even try to handle ...
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My website got 499 & 502 + php-fpm.sock failed (11: Resource temporarily unavailable) errors

My website playsongs.pk got 499, 502 and php-fpm.sock failed (11: Resource temporarily unavailable) errors when I received 300-400 active users on site. Sample/example error logs: 2017-02-27 14:56:...
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Cronjob unable to restart apache in CentOS 6 [duplicate]

I'm using Plesk 12 + CentOS 6. I ssh into root account and use crontab -e to create the following entry: * * * * * service httpd restart I expect it to restart apache every minute (just to test/...
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Multiple long running mysqld processes

today i've checked our server status with htop and i saw somethig that i could not believe. Could someone please answer me the following questions? Why are there so much mysqld processes? Why they ...
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qmail couldn't find any host named [closed]

System: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (fresh install) qmail dovecot Plesk 17 Mail configuration was done with plesk. It is not possible to send any mail to any reciepents on different domains. Log contains: ...
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Automation to spin up EC2 Volumes (dedicated machines) for each webproject

I'm planning to set up a sort of private hosting environment for me and my webprojects and am wondering if there is a great/easy solution to spin up new ec2 volumes (always a dedicated volume/machine) ...
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Should i use different ipv6 adresses for different domains

On my Plesk virtual host I get a single IPv4 address and a /64 of IPv6 addresses. When hosting multiple domains on this server, would there be any advantage to using a separate IPv6 address for each ...
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Let's Encrypt plesk extension creates invalid vhost config [closed]

I've installed the Let's Encrypt extension in Plesk, which automatically renews the certificates served to Apache. But today I've received the following email which reminds me to renew my certificate: ...
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Sync secondary name server zones to primary server

I have two servers with Plesk, unfortunately I'm not a pro, so sorry if my question is stupid. The first server functions as a primary server with with many domains. Before that this server was the ...
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Amazon SES and Apple private relay bounce

When I send emails to Apple private relay addresses,they always bounce when sending via Amazon ses. No other emails have this problem. I have SPF DKIM and DMARC all configured correctly. But Amazon ...
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SSL certificate mismatches not using domain ssl but plesk default ssl certificate

Since last night, somehow there is something wrong with the SSL certificates. https://mail.domainfromclient.com was working fine, but now the domain try's to load the default server certificate plesk....
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Should I use Centos 7 or Centos 8 on my VPS Server for Plesk? [closed]

I'm going to buy a VPS from a company. It asks me if you want to choose Centos 7 or Centos 8 when purchasing VPS. From what I've researched on the internet, there is no difference between the two. But ...
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IIS stops sub-domain's application pool?

I have a website with one sub-domain like this: my domain name is "a.com" and sub-domain name is "api.a.com". I published a service in sub-domain. It works fine on Get requests. but before getting ...
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Having issues with my websites htaccess

I recently uploaded a PHP theme on my server. It's working fine on any other sections except my home page. For example, when accessing www.mywebsite.com/anything the theme is working but when on ...
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No SPF record on secondary DNS

Although I have a specific problem, I am trying to implement a good strategy for the domains I manage. Current setup: A VPS managed with Plesk with multiple domains. (I do have a failover IPv4.) The ...
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Sending emails through port 587 in Postfix doesn't work [closed]

I installed Plesk Obsidian in Ubuntu 18.04.3. Trying to send messages through the port 587 I'm getting the following error: postfix/smtp[116387]: connect to alt1.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com[209.85.233....
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Plesk Migrator Incompatible ssh peer (no acceptable kex algorithm) [closed]

I'm trying to use Plesk Migrator to transfer data from a cpanel server. I'm using the command line version however I'm receiving an error I can't seem to fix. The same error also shows from Plesk's ...
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Apache MaxRequestWorkers issue not resolving

My website generate when I tried to hit 1000 requests per second on it. I am seeing the following errors in my apache logs Apr 06 00:00:33 ns503772******100.net httpd[9585]: AH00515: WARNING: ...
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php files(Symlink) are displaying as text

This is not same other question like "php file is displaying text or not executing". In my case, the php files are indeed working fine. However the files(symlink) to the php files are not working. ...
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Full /usr directory, but can only account for 1/8th of space

Having trouble finding the files causing space issues on my server. Running the "df -h" command results in: /dev/xvda1 ext3 4.0G 693M 3.3G 18% / /dev/mapper/vg00-usr ext4 8.9G 8.9G ...
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I to host a static website with nginx on Plesk server which is running Apache

I migrated my WordPress websites from shared hosting to a single VPS. I am hosting the websites with a Plesk server. The Plesk is configured to serve the request with an Apache web server and Nginx as ...
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IP-Filtering on Apache-nginx-Combo

we have the request to secure a domain by restricting access to the ip-ranges of a WAF-Cloud. The server runs Apache for PHP and nginx as reverse-proxy-server, so the chain from browser to website is ...
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Create user that has SFTP access to everything under vhosts, using Plesk [closed]

I have a Centos 7 server running the latest version of Plesk. I want to create a user called all_sftp that has sftp only access to everything under /var/www/vhosts/ I've made the user, chrooted so ...
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Recursive chmod of all vhosts httpdocs directories on CentOS/Plesk [closed]

A shared web hosting server running CentOS 7.8 with Plesk has the following directory structure for a few hundred vhosts: /var/www/vhosts/domain1.com/httpdocs/ /var/www/vhosts/domain2.com/httpdocs/ /...
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WordPress - phpMyAdmin - Database has been wiped [closed]

This morning I got a message from an editor of a WordPress site on a domain that I manage. The wordpress site had reset to default. I logged into the Plesk panel and the media content is still there ...
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Cannot create or delete db on Plesk server

Today I came to the realization that I cannot add or delete any of the databases that belong to any of my clients on my Plesk server. I had been receiving this error: Error: Unable to remove some ...
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Upgrading MySQL 5.5 to 5.7 on Plesk-managed Ubuntu 14.4 [closed]

I'm trying to upgrade MySQL on my Plesk-managed Virtual Server (Ubuntu 14.4) from version 5.5 to 5.7. On the Plesk support sites and on the Internet I found the same sequence of steps. It goes like: ...
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Changing PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS

I cannot find the location of the conf file where I can change the value of PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS. Info about the system: Debian, php7, FAST-CGI, Apache 2.4, Plesk Onyx 17. There are similar ...
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After updating php.ini via Plesk my htaccess file stopped working [closed]

I need help remembering what I did to allow Plesk to use .htaccess. I recently changed the PHP upload file size on a domain and suddenly my .htaccess directives stopped working. That means I "fixed" ...
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Correct CNAME Administration [closed]

first time posting here! So usually I do not have any issues resolving problems or questions due to the huge collection of KB articles and forum posts. However, either I am totally misunderstanding ...
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VirtualHost with SVN + HTML

We are providing an SVN repository under svn.example.org. Now we want to add a Let's Encrypt certificate for that domain - however there is a problem now. Let's Encrypt verifies the domain by putting ...
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Gitlab error 502 on plesk server

On a VPS running on CentOS 6.8 with Plesk 12.0.18 I installed Gitlab Omnibus 8.12.7 - after few configuration it worked great for Plesk and Git (I was able to access plesk and websites managed by it, ...
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Not within allowed paths: /usr/bin/gpg / CentOS 6

Trying to use the PHP filter_var function, but am getting the following in the error_log when it executes: [Wed May 11 10:56:22 2016] [warn] [client 24.69.156.92] mod_fcgid: stderr: PHP Warning: ...
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CentOS issue extracting Plesk backup tar

I am currently moving to a new server and have a Plesk backup file in Dropbox made with the Plesk Dropbox Backup extension, the .tar file is around 55GB in size. I have downloaded it to the server ...
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Increasing FcgidMaxProcesses does not help to solve "mod_fcgid: can't apply process slot" error

I have a dedicated apache server with high resources. RAM - 64GB Cores - 20 with CentOS 6.7 x64 and Image - FCGI statistics with phpinfo I run Magento application with MySQL as database engine ...
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I am running nodejs App in my main domain in the plesk does any one know how to allow the subdomain to host the nodejs app as well?

does any one know how to allow the subdomain to host the nodejs app as well ? currently I have main domain that is hosting nodejs application on the plesk , but I want to create subdomain under that ...
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