Plesk fails to generate web server configuration files: Argument 3 passed to Db_Table_Row_PhpSettings::getConfigurationText() must be of the type string

Symptoms

• There is this error on the home page of Plesk:

  PLESK_ERROR: Error: New configuration files for the Apache web server were not created due to the errors in configuration templates: Template processing failed: file = /opt/psa/admin/conf/templates/default/domainVhost.php, error = Template_Exception: Argument 3 passed to Db_Table_Row_PhpSettings::getConfigurationText() must be of the type string, array given, called in /opt/psa/admin/plib/Template/Variable/Domain/PhysicalHosting.php on line 556 file: /opt/psa/admin/plib/Template/Processor.php line: 28 code: 0 Previous error: Template_Exception: Argument 3 passed to Db_Table_Row_PhpSettings::getConfigurationText() must be of the type string, array given, called in /opt/psa/admin/plib/Template/Variable/Domain/PhysicalHosting.php on line 556 file: /opt/psa/admin/plib/Template/Processor.php line: 28 code: 0 Previous error: TypeError: Argument 3 passed to Db_Table_Row_PhpSettings::getConfigurationText() must be of the type string, array given, called in /opt/psa/admin/plib/Template/Variable/Domain/PhysicalHosting.php on line 556 file: /opt/psa/admin/plib/Db/Table/Row/PhpSettings.php line: 59 code: 0. Search in KB

• Some domains are not working on the server

• The server was upgraded from some old version of Plesk, e.g. 11 or even older, or the domains were migrated from

• There are entries in psa.hosting table where same_ssl is set to false:

  CONFIG_TEXT: # plesk db "select count(*) from hosting where same_ssl='false';"
  +----------+
  | count(*) |
  +----------+
  | 13 |
  +----------+

  which means that "Separate SSL/TLS and non-SSL/TLS content" option was enabled for some domains in their hosting settings on old Plesk server.

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