Plesk Control Panel
How to Install Plesk on Linux
Last Updated: January 5, 2025Plesk is a popular website control panel. It makes managing your website easy. Although it is easy to install, going through our tutorial will be very helpful and most likely save you time. Before proceeding with the installation, we recommend using the correct hostname. What are the requirements?– Fresh Ubuntu, RockyLinux, or AlmaLinux OS installed...
How to Update the Email Address of a Scheduled Task in Plesk
Last Updated: January 5, 2025Follow this tutorial to update the email address of Scheduled Tasks (Cron Jobs) in Plesk. 1. Log in to your Plesk account. 2. Click on Websites & Domains from the Sidebar Menu. 3. Click on the Pull icon in the right sidebar and choose Scheduled Tasks. 4. Under the Command list, locate your task and...
How to Edit or Delete Scheduled Tasks in Plesk
Last Updated: January 5, 2025Follow this tutorial to edit or delete Scheduled Tasks (Cron Jobs) in Plesk. How to Edit a Scheduled Task? 1. Log in to your Plesk account. 2. Click on Websites & Domains from the Sidebar Menu. 3. Click on the Pull icon in the right sidebar and choose Scheduled Tasks. 4. Under the Command list,...
How to Create Scheduled Tasks in Plesk
Last Updated: January 5, 2025Follow this tutorial to create Scheduled Tasks (Cron Jobs) in Plesk. 1. Log in to your Plesk account. 2. Click on Websites & Domains from the Sidebar Menu. 3. Click on the Pull icon in the right sidebar and choose Scheduled Tasks. 4. Under Scheduled Tasks, click on Add Task. 5. Enter the following details:...
How to Change View Mode in Plesk
Last Updated: January 5, 2025You can change View Mode in Plesk in the following way. 1. Log in to your Plesk account. 2. Click Websites & Domains from the Sidebar Menu. 3. If the view mode is Dynamic List, click on Set view on the right side and switch to your preferred mode. However, if the view mode is...
How to Create a Directory or Files in Plesk File Manager
Last Updated: January 5, 2025How to Create a Directory in Plesk File Manager 1. Log in to your Plesk account. 2. Click on Files from the Sidebar Menu. 3. Click on the appropriate domain in case of multiple domains. 4. Under File Manager, click on the httpdocs directory or any other directory where you want to create the directory....
How to Check Disk and Bandwidth Usage in Plesk
Last Updated: January 5, 2025You can quickly check disk and bandwidth usage in Plesk. 1. Log in to your Plesk account. 2. Click on Statistics from the Sidebar Menu. 3. Click on the appropriate domain in case of multiple domains. 4. You can see the disk usage from the left side. The right side displays your traffic/bandwidth usage. You...
How to Upload Files via the Plesk File Manager
Last Updated: January 5, 2025Follow these steps to upload files using the Plesk File Manager. 1. Log in to your Plesk account. 2. Click on Files from the Sidebar Menu. 3. Under File Manager, enter the httpdocs directory. 4. Click on the plus icon and choose Upload. Then select the file you want to upload from your computer. 5....
How to Change the Plesk Account’s Contact Details
Last Updated: January 5, 2025Follow these steps to change your Plesk account’s contact details. 1. Log in to your Plesk account. 2. Click on Account from the Sidebar Menu. 3. Click on My Profile. 4. Click on Contact Details. 5. Update the details as per your requirements. 6. Click Apply. You will see a success message signifying that your...
How to Change the Language of a Plesk Panel
Last Updated: January 5, 2025Follow these steps to change the language of the Plesk Panel. 1. Log in to your Plesk account. 2. Click on Account from the Sidebar Menu. 3. Click on My Profile. 4. Scroll down to the Plesk language and choose the appropriate language from the drop-down menu. 5. Click Apply. The language in your Plesk...
How to Update a Plesk Account’s Email Address
Last Updated: January 5, 2025Follow these steps to change your Plesk contact email address. 1. Log in to your Plesk account. 2. Click on Account from the Sidebar Menu. 3. Click on My Profile. 4. Enter the new primary email address in the Email Address field. Choose the appropriate domain from the drop-down menu if you have multiple domains....
How to Reset a Plesk’s Account Password
Last Updated: January 5, 2025Follow these steps to reset your Plesk account password. 1. Open your Plesk login URL. 2. Click on Forget your password. 3. On the Reset password page, enter your email address or choose the Username option. Then type your username, and click Send. 4. You should receive an email with the reset link. Please, open...
How to Change the Password of a Plesk Account
Last Updated: January 5, 2025Follow these steps to change your Plesk account password. 1. Log in to your Plesk account. 2. Click on Account from the Sidebar Menu. 3. Click on My Profile. 4. In the password field, enter your password or click Generate to generate one. 5. Click OK to confirm the changes. You can now log in...
How to Log in to Plesk
Last Updated: January 5, 2025A tutorial on how to access the Plesk Control Panel. After you place an order and make a successful payment, you will receive a welcome email containing login details. Permanent URL: https://$hostname.com:8443 (SSL Protected). http://$hostname.com:8880 (Non-SSL – Insecure). Login using the IP Address: https://$ip-here:8443 (SSL Protected Need Exception). After your domain is propagated, you can...
How to Edit a File in the Plesk File Manager
Last Updated: January 5, 20251. Log in to your Plesk account. 2. Click on Files from the Sidebar Menu. 3. Under File Manager, enter the httpdocs directory. 4. Hover over the file. The corresponding line will be highlighted. Next, click on the Menu Icon , located at the end of the line, and the Context Menu will open. Click...
How to Remove an FTP Account in Plesk
Last Updated: January 5, 2025If you have created too many FTP User accounts and some have not been used, and you want to remove certain accounts, you can accomplish it by following this tutorial. 1. Log in to your Plesk account. 2. Click on Websites & Domains from the Sidebar Menu. 3. Under the list of Domain names, click...
How to Rename an FTP Username in Plesk
Last Updated: January 5, 20251. Log in to your Plesk account. 2. Click on Websites & Domains from the Sidebar Menu. 3. Under the list of Domain names, click on the appropriate domain name. 4. From the Dashboard, under the Files & Databases section, click on FTP. 5. Click on the appropriate FTP account. 6. Enter the new FTP...
How to Change an FTP Account Password in Plesk
Last Updated: January 5, 2025To change the main root FTP account, you have to change the password of your Plesk account. However, if you need to change the password of a specific FTP account, follow this instruction. 1. Log in to your Plesk account. 2. Click on Websites & Domains from the Sidebar Menu. 3. Under the list of...
How to Create an FTP Account in Plesk
Last Updated: January 5, 2025You can access the FTP account using the Plesk login details, which gives you full access to the home directory. However, if you want to create an FTP user account for a specific directory, you can create a separate FTP account. 1. Log in to your Plesk account. 2. Click on Websites & Domains from...
How to Rename an Email Address in Plesk
Last Updated: January 5, 20251. Log in to your Plesk account. 2. Click on Mail from the Sidebar Menu. 3. From the email list, click on the email account you want to rename. 4. Enter the new email name in the email address field. 5. Scroll down and click OK.
How to Change Email Account Password in Plesk
Last Updated: January 5, 2025You can change your email password in Plesk through the following steps: 1. Log in to your Plesk account. 2. Click on Mail from the Sidebar Menu. 3. Under the email list, click the email account whose password you want to change. 4. In the Password field, enter a password or click on Generate to...
How to Access Email from Plesk Webmail
Last Updated: January 5, 2025You can access your Email directly from Webmail. Open https://webmail.example.com, and replace example.com with your domain name. Enter your full email address and password. Then click on Login. After successful login, you can manage emails.
How to Create an Email Account in Plesk
Last Updated: January 5, 2025Follow this tutorial to create an email account in Plesk. 1. Log in to your Plesk account. 2. Click on Mail from the Sidebar Menu. 3. Click on Create Email Address. 4. Under the General tab, fill up the following details: Email Address: Enter an email, and should you have multiple domains, choose the appropriate...
How to Remove a Subdomain Redirect in Plesk
Last Updated: January 5, 20251. Log in to your Plesk account. 2. Click on Websites & Domains from the Sidebar Menu. 3. Under the list of Domain names, click on the Hosting Settings icon appearing in the same row of the subdomain. 4. Under Hosting Type, select the Website option from the drop-down menu. Click Next, then click Save....
How to Redirect a Subdomain to an External URL in Plesk
Last Updated: January 5, 20251. Log in to your Plesk account. 2. Click on Websites & Domains from the Sidebar Menu. 3. Under the list of Domain names, click on the Hosting Settings icon appearing in the same row of the subdomain. 4. Enter the following details: Hosting Type: Choose the Forwarding option from the drop-down menu. Forward visitors...
How to Remove a Subdomain in Plesk
Last Updated: January 5, 2025A subdomain is an additional part of your primary domain. Please, follow this tutorial to remove a subdomain in Plesk. 1. Log in to your Plesk account. 2. Click on Websites & Domains from the Sidebar Menu. 3. Under the list of Domain names, click on the More icon in front of the subdomain and...
How to Add a Subdomain in Plesk
Last Updated: January 5, 20251. Log in to your Plesk account. 2. Click on Websites & Domains from the Sidebar Menu. 3. Click on Add Subdomain. 4. Enter a subdomain name and select a domain from the Domain field. 5. Click OK. Once your Subdomain is added, you can manage it from Websites & Domains.
How to Remove a Domain in Plesk
Last Updated: January 5, 2025You can remove a domain in Plesk by following this tutorial. 1. Log in to your Plesk account. 2. Click on Websites & Domains from the Sidebar Menu. 3. Under the list of domains, click on the More icon in front of the domain and select Remove website. 4. Confirm with Yes to remove the...
How to Add a New Domain in Plesk
Last Updated: January 5, 2025Follow this tutorial to add a new domain to your Plesk account. 1. Log in to your Plesk account. 2. Click on Websites & Domains from the Sidebar Menu. 3. Click on Add Domain. 4. Please, choose Blank Website as an option. 5. In Adding New Domain, enter the following details: Domain name: Enter your...
How to Remove a Database User in Plesk
Last Updated: January 5, 20251. Log in to your Plesk account. 2. Click on Databases from the Sidebar Menu. 3. Click on User Management from the right sidebar. 4. Under Database Users, checkmark the appropriate database user you want to remove and click on Remove. 5. A confirmation box will appear. Confirm with Yes to remove the user.
How to Create a New Database User in Plesk
Last Updated: January 5, 20251. Log in to your Plesk account. 2. Click on Databases from the Sidebar Menu. 3. Click on User Management from the right sidebar. 4. Under Database Users, click on Add Database User. 5. Under Adding Database User, fill in the following details: Database user name: Enter a database username such as blog. Password: Enter...
How to Download a Dump of a Database in Plesk
Last Updated: January 5, 2025You can generate a backup of your database and download it to your computer using Plesk. 1. Log in to your Plesk account. 2. Click on Databases from the Sidebar Menu. 3. Choose the database you want to download from the list of databases. 4. Proceed with Export Dump, and a popup box will appear....
How to Delete a Database in Plesk
Last Updated: January 5, 20251. Log in to your Plesk account. 2. Click on Databases from the Sidebar Menu. 3. Choose the database you want to remove from the list of databases. 4. Proceed with Remove Database. A confirmation box will appear. Confirm with Yes. Your database will be removed.
How to Create a Database in Plesk
Last Updated: January 5, 2025You can create a database in Plesk by following this tutorial. 1. Log in to your Plesk account. 2. Click on Databases from the Sidebar Menu. 3. Click on Add Database. 4. Under Add a Database, fill in the following details: Database Name: Your database name, such as blog. Related Site: Choose an appropriate website...
How to Increase PHP’s upload_max_filesize Value Using CloudLinux Selector in Plesk
Last Updated: January 5, 2025You can modify PHP’s upload_max_filesize as per your needs using CloudLinux’s PHP Selector in Plesk. 1. Log in to your Plesk account. 2. Click on the Pull icon in the right sidebar and choose PHP Selector. 3. Click on the Options menu. Note: If the Options page shows an error related to the native PHP...
How to Increase or Decrease PHP Memory Limit via CloudLinux Selector in Plesk
Last Updated: January 5, 2025You can modify PHP Memory Limit as per your needs using CloudLinux PHP Selector in Plesk. 1. Log in to your Plesk account. 2. In the right-hand sidebar, click on PHP Selector. 3. Click on the Options menu. Note: If the Options page shows an error related to the native PHP version, change it to...
How to Increase PHP’s post_max_size Value Using CloudLinux’s Selector in Plesk
Last Updated: January 5, 2025You can modify PHP post_max_size as per your needs using CloudLinux PHP Selector in Plesk. 1. Log in to your Plesk account. 2. Click on the Pull icon in the right sidebar and choose PHP Selector. 3. Click on the Options menu. Note: If the Options page shows an error related to the native PHP...
How to Enable or Disable PHP’s display_errors via CloudLinux Selector in Plesk
Last Updated: January 5, 2025Sometimes, we need to debug PHP. Hence, we need to enable display_errors or disable them for security reasons. You can do this using the CloudLinux Selector to enable or disable PHP’s display_errors in Plesk. 1. Log in to your Plesk account. 2. Click on the Pull icon in the right sidebar and choose PHP Selector....
How to Enable or Disable PHP’s allow_url_fopen Using CloudLinux Selector in Plesk
Last Updated: January 5, 2025You can use CloudLinux Selector to enable or disable the allow_url_fopen directive in Plesk. 1. Log in to your Plesk account. 2. Click on the Pull icon in the right sidebar and choose PHP Selector. 3. Click on the Options menu. Note: If the Options page shows an error related to the native PHP version,...
How to Enable or Disable PHP Extensions Using the CloudLinux Selector in Plesk
Last Updated: January 5, 2025You can use CloudLinux Selector to enable or disable available PHP extensions in Plesk. 1. Log in to your Plesk account. 2. Click on the Pull icon in the right sidebar and choose PHP Selector. 3. Click on the Extensions menu. Note: If the Extensions page shows an error related to the native PHP version,...
How to Enable the Mailparse Extension of PHP Using CloudLinux Selector in Plesk
Last Updated: January 5, 2025You can use CloudLinux Selector to enable the Mailparse extension in PHP via Plesk. 1. Log in to your Plesk account. 2. In the right-hand sidebar, click on PHP Selector. 3. Click on the Extensions menu. Note: If the Extensions page shows an error related to the native PHP version, change it to a non-native...
How to Enable the GD Extension of PHP Using CloudLinux Selector in Plesk
Last Updated: January 5, 2025You can use CloudLinux Selector to enable GD extension in PHP via Plesk. 1. Log in to your Plesk account. 2. Click on the Pull icon in the right sidebar and choose PHP Selector. 3. Click on the Extensions menu. Note: If the Extensions page shows an error related to the native PHP version, change...
How to Enable ionCube Loader Using CloudLinux Selector in Plesk
Last Updated: January 5, 2025You can use CloudLinux Selector to enable ionCube Loader in Plesk. 1. Log in to your Plesk account. 2. Click on the Pull icon in the right sidebar and choose PHP Selector. 3. Click on the Extensions menu. Note: If the Extensions page shows an error related to the native PHP version, change it to...
How to Change the PHP Version via CloudLinux Selector in Plesk
Last Updated: January 5, 2025You can use CloudLinux’s Select PHP Version to change your website’s PHP Version. CloudLinux provides various PHP Versions to choose from. 1. Log in to your Plesk account. 2. Click on the Pull icon in the right sidebar and choose PHP Selector. 3. To the right side of the Current PHP version, click on the...
How to Encrypt Database Password in Plesk Backup
Last Updated: January 5, 20251. Log in to your Plesk account. 2. Go to Websites & Domains > Click on the Pull icon > Choose Backup & Restore. 3. Click on Remote Storage Settings. 4. On the right side of Password Protection, if it displays Disabled, click on change. 5. Checkmark Use password protection and enter a password. Then...
How to Configure an FTP Backup in Plesk
Last Updated: January 5, 20251. Log in to your Plesk account. 2. Go to Websites & Domains > Click on the Pull icon >> Choose Backup & Restore. 3. Click on Remote Storage Settings. 4. Click on FTP(S). 5. Fill in the following details: – Make sure that Use FTP(S) storage is marked as enabled. – FTP server hostname...
How to Exclude Specific Files/Folders from the Plesk Backup
Last Updated: January 5, 20251. Log in to your Plesk account. 2. Go to Websites & Domains > Click on the Pull icon >> Choose Backup & Restore. 3. Under Backup Manager, click on Back Up. 4. Choose the backup type. 5. Checkmark Exclude specific files from the backup. Enter the path of the file you want to exclude,...
How to Generate a Full Backup in Plesk
Last Updated: January 5, 2025Backing up is important, and you should do it regularly. Follow this tutorial to make a full backup of your website with Plesk. How to Generate a Backup of your Plesk Account? 1. Log in to your Plesk account. 2. Go to Websites & Domains > Click on the Pull icon > Choose Backup &...
