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How to customize Plesk URL

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Kuzma Ivanov
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Applicable to:

  • Plesk for Linux
  • Plesk for Windows

Question

  • How to customize Plesk URL?

  • How to make Plesk interface accessible over a hostname without entering the port number? For example, https://server.example.com.

Answer

Note: If an existing in Plesk domain is going to be used as an entry point to Plesk, make sure that the option Permanent SEO-safe 301 redirect from HTTP to HTTPS is enabled at Domains > example.com > Hosting Settings and a valid SSL certificate is used. For more information, see this KB article.

  1. Log in to Plesk.

  2. Go to Tools & Settings > Customize Plesk URL.

  3. Specify the domain that will be used as an entry point to Plesk.

  4. Save the changes.


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Customizing Plesk URL via a command-line interface

 

  1. Connect to the Plesk server via SSH (Linux) / RDP (Windows Server).

  2. Use these commands (on Windows Server, use a command prompt as an Administrator):

    • In this case, if there is a website with the specified name, it will become inaccessible because Plesk panel will be shown.

      # plesk bin admin --enable-access-domain "server.example.com"

    • In this case, the panel will be accessible on any domain hosted on Plesk and not having website and via IP address on HTTPS.

      # plesk bin admin --enable-access-domain ""

    • In this case, the feature will be disabled. Plesk will be accessible via default port 8443 only.

      # plesk bin admin --disable-access-domain

via a command-line interface (Plesk Onyx for Linux)

 

Notes: If Plesk is used under WHMCS and configuration described below is applied, then login from WHMCS to Plesk will not work.

Warning: Fail2ban will be unable to prevent brute-force attempts because an IP address of a client will be 127.0.0.1, which is white-listed by default in Fail2ban configuration.

 

  1. Enable nginx as a reverse-proxy web-server.

  2. In Plesk, create a subscription with desired domain name (usually, the hostname). This domain should be resolved from the Internet. In this example, 'server.example.com' is used.

  3. Enable the option Permanent SEO-safe 301 redirect from HTTP to HTTPS at Domains > server.example.com > Hosting Settings:


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  4. Un-check PHP support at Domains > server.example.com > PHP Settings and apply the changes.


    Screenshot_2019-03-22_PHP_Settings_for_server_example_com_-_Plesk_Onyx_17_8_11.png

  5. Go to Domains > server.example.com > Apache & nginx setting > scroll down to the Additional nginx directives field and add the following lines:

    Note: The proxy_pass directive should contain an IP address of the domain.

    CONFIG_TEXT: location ~ ^/(?!.well-known).*$ {
    proxy_pass https://203.0.113.2:8443;
    port_in_redirect off;
    proxy_set_header Host $host;
    client_max_body_size 2048m;
    }
    proxy_buffer_size 128k;
    proxy_buffers 4 256k;
    proxy_busy_buffers_size 256k;

  6. Apply the changes.

 

 

 

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    Thomas van der Woude

    Do I understand correctly that: if I select the second option, I'm still able to login via the main hostname. Correct?

    So, if I want to use for example plesk.mycompanyurl.com to login I can just fill in the url and it works? Given that I have a dns a record to point the traffic to the server url.   

    How do I install ssl/tls certificates for this domain and is the http traffic forced to https?

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    chipmun kencode

    @Thomas van der Woude basketball stars

    What are the steps to configure SSH keys for the Plesk server?

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