How to change virtual hosts location in Plesk for Linux?

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Question

How to change virtual hosts locations in Plesk for Linux?

How to replicate website vhost and root document path during migration from a non-Plesk server?

Answer

Warning: These actions may incur on website downtime depending on the number of domains and data to be copied to the new location. It is recommended to apply this during maintenance hours.

Warning: Changing vhosts directory with the SELinux enabled on Plesk Onyx will break websites. This is due to SELinux limitation: it stores absolute paths in its policies.
As a workaround, set SELinux to permissive mode before applying steps below.
After changing vhosts folder, SELinux should be kept in the permissive mode for correct websites working capacity. As an alternative workaround, mount new partition as /var/www/vhosts.

Warning: Websites which have absolute file paths in the code might not work with the errors described in this article after vhosts location changing.

Check it before applying the steps below.

In Plesk for Linux, the transvhosts.pl utility can be used to change the location for all virtual hosts:

# plesk bin transvhosts.pl --help

In the following example, the location is changed to the /home directory:

# plesk bin transvhosts.pl --dest-dir /home --correct-scripts

Note: All the vhosts' content will be automatically moved into the new location.

Note: Changing virtual host location will not affect backup restore functionality. Content from backups will be restored to current custom location.

Comments

5 comments

web studio September 01, 2017 17:26 (Edited September 01, 2017 17:36)

hello i get error message 502 Bad Gateway and 503 on domains client after using this guide. Version Plesk Onyx v17.5.3_build1705170317.16 os_CentOS 7

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Artyom Baranov September 01, 2017 20:24

@web studio,

I suppose that you have faced the bug from the "Warning" message (Plesk Onyx, enabled SELinux).

Contact Plesk support to assist you in resolving the issue: https://www.plesk.com/contact-support

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Diego Alvarez September 06, 2017 14:45

Thank you!!! Muchas gracias, estaba buscando esta solución hace 1 mes, y con este script pude cambiar de carpeta el virtual host.

Thank You!!!

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Jean Poulain April 28, 2019 11:34

Hi !
Is this problem now corrected by updates ?

Thanks

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Nikita Nikushkin April 30, 2019 02:04 (Edited April 30, 2019 02:04)

Hi @Jean Poulain,

The bug "#PPPM-6521" is not fixed yet

As a workaround, before changing the vhosts folder, set SELinux to permissive mode:

How to enable/disable SELinux on a server?

For correct websites working capacity, SELinux has to be in the permissive mode even after changing websites vhosts directory

I also updated the article with this information

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