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How to connect to a Plesk server via SSH?

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Applicable to:

  • Plesk for Linux

Question

How to connect to a Plesk server via SSH?

Answer

Warning: If your Plesk server is managed by a hosting provider, please contact the company that hosts your server and ask for the SSH connection details. For any issues during the connection, contact your hosting support department.

Note: It is necessary to have root access to the Plesk server to apply the solutions described in the Plesk Knowledge Base.

 

From Plesk interface

 

  1. Log in to Plesk.

  2. Install SSH Terminal from the Extensions catalog.

  3. Access the SSH console from:

    • Plesk > Tools & Settings > SSH Terminal

      or

    • Plesk > Extensions > My Extensions > SSH Terminal

      Note: To insert the text from buffer into SSH terminal, use the key combination Shift + Insert.
      To copy the text from SSH Terminal, select it and use the combination Ctrl + Insert

From Linux

 

On Linux, use the Terminal console which is available in all Linux distributions:

  1. Open Terminal console at Applications > Terminal:

    Note: The location of the Terminal console depends on the installed Linux OS distribution.


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  2. Run the command below to establish an SSH connection:

    Note: Replace the username, the IP address 203.0.13.2, and port 22 with the corresponding SSH login credentials of the remote server.

    # ssh -p22 username@203.0.13.2

From Windows

 

Video Tutorial

Use one of the following programs for Windows OS to establish an SSH connection to a remote server:

From MacOS

 

Video Tutorial

On Mac OS, use the Terminal app which is available in every Mac OS distribution.

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  • This was not helpful at all. Just posting a short video with no instructions is not helpful.

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  • is not working . the fisrt commande doesn't work 

    find /tmp -type f -mtime +14 -exec rm {} \;

     

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  • Please I’m unable to login to plesk account and no link is sent to my email to reset my password please help

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  • Hello, GJEVAT KELMENDI

    If you do have access to the server via ssh, you can reset the admin password as described here:

    https://support.plesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/12377862129047

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