How to log into Plesk

Question

How to log into Plesk?

Answer

There are two ways to connect to Plesk:

1. Secure Login Page.

   Login to Plesk via https (secure connection) using port 8443, for example:

   CONFIG_TEXT: https://example.com:8443

2. Non-secure Login Page :

   Login to Plesk via http (non-secure connection) using port 8880, for example:

   CONFIG_TEXT: http://example.com:8880

Note: In both cases hostname can be replaced with IP address.

On the Login Page use the admin username and the corresponding password.

To log in to Plesk for the first time use the root username (on Linux), or the administrator username (on Windows), and the corresponding password.

To retrieve Plesk admin password use the following articles:

Windows : How to retrieve/change Plesk admin password on Windows

Linux : How to get or reset password for admin account in Plesk

For Plesk Onyx that is installed on the Amazone EC2 instance, to login Plesk for the first time the following actions are required:

1. Connect to the AWS EC2 instance via SSH
2. Generate session login link, it will have server's hostname in the URL:

   # plesk login
   https://aws_hostname:8443/login?secret=***

3. Replace hostname with public IP (203.0.113.2) of the instance in the generated session link, it should look like the following one: 

   CONFIG_TEXT: https://203.0.113.2:8443/login?secret=***