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Cannot restart MySQL service from Plesk administrator panel on Linux

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Alexander Tsmokalyuk
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Plesk for Linux kb: how-to ABT: Group A

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Question

Why is not it possible to restart MySQL service from Plesk administrator panel on Linux? How to restart it from the command line?

Answer

MySQL service is critical for the work of Plesk. If MySQL is stopped via Plesk administrator panel, Plesk will immediately get inaccessible and there will be no way to start it back from administrator panel. To avoid this, managing of MySQL service is only allowed from the command line.

In order to restart MySQL service:

  1. Connect to Plesk server via SSH

  2. Restart MySQL service:

    # service mysql restart || service mariadb restart || service mysqld restart 

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    Square Candy 
    # service mysqld restart

    this is what I had to use on Plesk 12.5

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    Ivan Postnikov

    @Square Candy

    Hi!
    Service name depends on the OS. For example, Plesk 12.5 installed on CentOS 7 has MariaDB service.
    ".service" in commands may be omitted. 

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    Daniel Mponda

    I'm getting an error "mysql.service: unit not found" when i try " #service mysql restart"

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