You seem to need to create the vhost.conf file first yourself in the same location as before:

/var/www/vhosts/yourdomain.com/conf/

You then need to run this new comand:

/usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/httpdmng –reconfigure-domain yourdomain.com

It takes a while to run so you just have to wait.

Warning: I have only just done it. It seems to work… but I may have missed something.

# ATTENTION!
# DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE OR ANY PART OF IT. THIS CAN RESULT IN IMPROPER PLESK
# FUNCTIONING OR FAILURE, CAUSE DAMAGE AND LOSS OF DATA. IF YOU REQUIRE CUSTOM
# MODIFICATIONS TO BE APPLIED TO THE CONFIGURATION, PLEASE, PERFORM THEM IN THE
# FOLLOWING FILE(S):
# /var/www/vhosts/example.com/conf/vhost.conf
# /var/www/vhosts/example.com/conf/vhost_ssl.conf
# /var/www/vhosts/example.com/subdomains//conf/vhost.conf

I was going crazy trying to figure out how to get plesk to see the new vhost.conf file. Restarting apache was not working and you were the online place out of many many websites and several hours of searching that mentioned saving the setup in plesk I would have never thought of that.

You saved me so much headache.!!

thanks for the helpfull informations. If I tried them out the first time I didn’t realize the fact that the vhost.conf was included inside the [VitualHost] directive. of my domain and not at the end of the httpd.include file:

[VirtualHost .... ]
…
…
Include …. /conf/vhost.conf
[/VirtualHost]

So I’ve got an error while restarting apache “[VirtualHost] inside [VirtualHost] not allowed” due to the .[VirtualHost] directive inside my vhost.conf.

Sorry

thanks for the helpfull informations. If I tried them out the first time I didn’t realize the fact that the vhost.conf was included inside the directive. of my domain and not at the end of the httpd.include file:

…
…
Include …. /conf/vhost.conf

So I’ve got an error while restarting apache “VirtualHost> inside not allowed” due to the . directive inside my vhost.conf.

should be:

/usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/websrvmng -–reconfigure-vhost -–vhost-name=domain.com

Thanks for telling me about the DocumentRoot overide. I gave this a go:

DocumentRoot /var/alternate

i.e. that is all that I added to vhost.conf and it worked!

The line to use vhost.conf appears just before in http.include for the relevant virtual host. So it would appear that early entries are over riden by later ones.

*phew*

Things with plesk are not normally that easy!

Thanks for that command. I have never tried that before but will certainly try it the next time I have a chance.

I haven’t tried it specifically in Plesk, but I just tried overriding a DocumentRoot via a similar mechanism on a standard Apache 2.0.52 install, and overriding the DocumentRoot via a vhost.conf appears that it would work. I don’t know that it applies to all settings though.

ie: This configuration would have the DocumentRoot as ‘/var/alternate/’ (and not /var/www/html)

<VirtualHost *:80>
   ServerName someserver.com
   DocumentRoot /var/www/html
   DocumentRoot /var/alternate
</VirtualHost>