Comments on: The volatile Plesk / Apache relationship

By: Michel Sijmons

Michel Sijmons — Fri, 30 Jan 2015 15:20:03 +0000

See also ‘Appendix A: Web Server Configuration Files’ of the ‘Advanced Administration Guide, Parallels Plesk Panel 11.5 for Linux’: https://download1.parallels.com/Plesk/PP11/11.1/Doc/en-US/online/plesk-linux-advanced-administration-guide/index.htm?fileName=68678.htm

By: UK Tutor

UK Tutor — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 22:15:36 +0000

There is a new way of creating vhost.conf file in Plesk 10

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 â€“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.

By: mikosh

mikosh — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 08:17:41 +0000

thank you so much!
you solved my problem too !!
i stupidly didn’t see on top of httpd.include what follows:

# 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

By: Dane

Dane — Fri, 15 May 2009 05:54:15 +0000

THANK YOU SO MUCH.

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.!!

By: Brandon

Brandon — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:49:51 +0000

In reply to Michael Morawietz. @Michael You can't have a VirtualHost inside of a VirtualHost (ie: no VirtualHost inside the vhost.conf file).

By: Michael Morawietz

Michael Morawietz — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:10:29 +0000

Hi,

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 😐

By: Michael Morawietz

Michael Morawietz — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:06:23 +0000

Hi,

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.

By: sadara

sadara — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:57:55 +0000

/usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/websrvmng â€“reconfigure-vhost â€“vhost-name=domain.com

should be:

/usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/websrvmng -â€“reconfigure-vhost -â€“vhost-name=domain.com

By: Brandon

Brandon — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 17:25:19 +0000

I agree. It is usually not very easy to do things your own way.

By: UK Tutor

UK Tutor — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 13:12:38 +0000

Hi Brandon,

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!