Unable to create or migrate a domain in Plesk: System error 2: No such file or directory webstatmng: Unable to copy the file /etc/awstats/awstats.model.conf

Symptoms

• An attempt to create a Domain in Plesk fails with:

  PLESK_ERROR: hosting update is failed: webstatmng: Unable to open file /opt/psa/etc/awstats/awstats.example.com-http.conf: No such file or directory
  System error 2: No such file or directory 
  webstatmng: Unable to copy the file /etc/awstats/awstats.model.conf to /opt/psa/etc/awstats/awstats.example.com-http.conf 
  
  System error 2: No such file or directory

• Plesk has been recently updated to 18.0.79 or later
• No domains are hosted on the server 
• A domain(s) migration fails with the same error if the target server was also updated and has no domain hosted on it.

Cause

An awstats required directory is missing on the affected Plesk server or from the target in case of a migration.

Resolution

1. Connect to the Plesk server via SSH.

2. Recreate the missing directory as follows:

   CentOS/RHEL:

   # mkdir /usr/local/psa/etc/awstats

   Debian/Ubuntu:

   # mkdir /opt/psa/etc/awstats