Technical Questions

Plesk Service/Interface

• Which directories should be added to antivirus exclusion on a Plesk for Windows server?
• Alt-php-fpm fails to start on CloudLinux: unable to bind listening socket for address '127.0.0.1:9000': Address already in use (98)
• Vulnerability CVE-2026-48614 in Plesk XML API
• Does CVE-2026-42167 affect ProFTPD in Plesk?
• What does Imunify notifications do in Plesk?
• PHP settings do not apply on a domain when CageFS is enabled in CloudLinux
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Other

• How to secure a Plesk server
• How to monitor usage of system resources in a period of time using atop
• How to diagnose a DoS/DDoS attack and find websites under attack on a Plesk server
• Vulnerability CVE-2026-9256
• Why does an SSL certificate expire before the subscription period ends?
• Vulnerability CVE-2026-43284: Dirty Frag
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Webserver

• Vulnerability CVE-2026-49975: HTTP/2 Bomb
• Vulnerability: CVE-2026-42945: DoS and RCE in nginx before 1.31.1/1.30.1
• Is Plesk affected by CVE-2026-23918? (Double Free and possible RCE in Apache http2 module)
• Preferred domain redirect does not work when Nginx is not installed in Plesk
• What do the HTTP status codes that you see in Plesk server logs mean in general?
• Plesk error: AH00526: Syntax error on line 15 of /etc/apache2/plesk.conf.d/server.conf: Invalid command 'plesklog'
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Applications & Extensions

• What DDoS protection tools are available in Plesk
• How to edit Plesk panel.ini
• 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
• Plesk Slave DNS Manager fails to propagate zones: 'site-name' element not expected error
• Notifications from Monitoring in Plesk: The bandwidth utilization status is critical!
• Vulnerability CVE-2026-56843: Cleartext FTP Password Exposure in Plesk's XML API
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Backup, Restore & Migration

• How to create a backup in Plesk
• How to sync a subscription between source and destination servers after Plesk migration
• How to restore a remote full server backup in a new Plesk server?
• Plesk backup task finishes with the warning: Could not back up all data from the directory '/var/qmail/mailnames/example.com'
• Best Practices for Plesk and Server Backups
• Plesk backups to cloud storage fails: Unable to create the remote backup: assign: Bad file descriptor
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Databases

• Vulnerability in Plesk’s MS SQL database user password update mechanism
• MSSQL 'sa' user locked out: Login failed for user 'sa'
• Can't install MariaDB in Plesk Windows: FATAL ERROR: Can't create data directory 'N:\MySQL-Data' (one or more intermediate directories do not exist)
• Unable to log in to Plesk: Table 'psa.smb_componentUpdates' doesn't exist in engine
• Cannot see remote MySQL/MariaDB database in Plesk Customer Panel
• MariaDB upgrade option is missing under Tools & Settings > Database Servers
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Installation & Upgrade

• How to install / uninstall Plesk components?
• How to upgrade Plesk to the next release
• How to make an in-place upgrade of a Plesk server from CloudLinux 7 to CloudLinux 8?
• How to make an in-place upgrade of a Plesk server from AlmaLinux 8 to AlmaLinux 9?
• Is Ubuntu 26.04 supported by Plesk?
• MariaDB upgrade via Plesk interface fails: curl: (28) Operation timed out after 15000 milliseconds with 0 bytes received
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Mail

• SpamAssassin rules can't be updated on CentOS 7 server with Plesk: config: SpamAssassin failed to parse line, is not valid for "util_rb_3tld"
• Is Roundcube 1.4 secured against CVE-2026-25916 and CVE-2026-26079 in Plesk?
• Integrating SmarterMail 100.0.9560 with Plesk fails: Login failure: Missing auth
• Dovecot IMAP crashes on a Plesk server with Ubuntu 24.04: Panic: file imap-sieve-storage.c: line 216 (imap_sieve_add_mailbox_event): assertion failed
• Unable to start Amavis: ERROR: MISSING REQUIRED ADDITIONAL MODULES: DBD::MariaDB
• Unable to send or receive email with Plesk Email Security extension installed
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DNS & Statistics

• How to remove AWStats component from Plesk?
• How to change statistics tool from AWStats to GoAccess for domains in Plesk?
• Why was AWStats deprecated, what tool replaces it, and what happens to existing servers and domains that still use AWStats?
• AWStats traffic significantly differs from Plesk traffic stats in a domain
• How to enable the local DNS zone for a Plesk domain?
• DNS bind service fails on a Plesk server after recent bind package update: loading from master file /var/named/chroot/var/0.13.203.in-addr.arpa.next failed: too many records
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Website Builder

• Plesk Sitejet domain fail to publish with permissions error for .well-known directory: filemng: Error occurred during /bin/rm command.
• Sitejet Builder can not be opened for a Plesk domain: Error: Could not connect to Website Builder API
• Error opening Site Builder: pm_Exception: You don't have permission to perform this action
• Plesk Sitejet Builder editing error: Can not access Sitejet Website Builder for this domain after migration.
• Unable to publish website created in Web Presence Builder: APIv1 is deprecated. Please, switch to the new APIv3
• Unable to find Web Presence Builder in Plesk Installer
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