Category: Plesk

Plesk 11.5 makes some changes in how Apache log files are handled. Here are some notes: 1) Plesk 11.5 moves several directories out of the old vhosts/domain.com/, to vhosts/system/domain.com/. This includes conf, etc, pd, and statistics 2) Apache now puts the logs in vhosts/system/domain.com/logs. It creates a symlink at vhosts/system/domain.com/statistics/logs. 3) Plesk creates hard links in vhosts/domain.com/logs/ to the logs in vhosts/system/domain.com/logs/.  This lets FTP users download the logs but keeps the “real” logs in a safe place (“real” is in quotes, because with hard links, both locations are equally real – but the FTP-user-visible ones are owned by root, so the user can’t delete or mess with them). 4) The moral of the story is – don’t delete logs files in either location, or it screws up the hard links. If you have to delete a log, delete it in both places, restart apache, then manually recreate the hard

There’s a cool new feature in Plesk ll.5 that provides a “canonical rewrite rule” that you can turn on off from the panel. To find the setting, login to Plesk, drill down on your domain and go to: Websites & Domains -> Hosting Settings   Notice the “Preferred domain” field.   There are three options for this field: “None” – do nothing “domain.tld” – redirect to remove the www “www.domain.tld” -redirect to add the www Just set this field to your preference and Plesk will configure the appropriate rewrite rule in Apache.