Well it’s Jan 2008 and I decided to run the Plesk 8.3 update and try out the new patch for AWStats previous month history. To my surprise, (well not really) none of the previous month statistics were available, only the current month. So I set out to find a way to generate the history [...]

As you may or may not know, Plesk likes to overwrite the .qmail file in each mail folder whenever you make changes. And as of this writing, Plesk 8.2 does not offer any .qmail template files in order for you to control it’s behavior.
Here’s a handy script that will generate a .qmail and a [...]

By default, your MySQL server can be wide open to the internet accepting connections from everyone. With some brute force and bad passwords on your part, there will be a hack party in your database. The best thing to do is to block all external connections to your MySQL port (3306) and allow [...]

On a typical Unix Plesk installation, you will find your mailbox settings under this folder
/var/qmail/mailnames/(yourdomain)/(yourmailuser)
Each mail account folder will have a directory listing similar to the following:

drwx—— 5 popuser popuser 4096 Apr 4 13:55 .
drwx—— 5 popuser popuser [...]

This article describes how to upgrade Tomcat running under Plesk and how to disconnect the control Plesk has over the Tomcat server. This may not be the ideal configuration for you if you have many clients using JSP webapps. Your clients will no longer have the ability to use the Plesk war upload [...]

Upgrading Spamassassin on a Plesk server is not difficult and can take only a few minutes. This example describes upgrading from Spamassassin version 2.64 to version 3.1.7 on Plesk 7.5
To get the current version of Spamassassin on your server type:
spamassassin –version
To get the latest version of Spamassassin go here http://spamassassin.apache.org/
Once you have downloaded the [...]

Plesk loves to overwrite all manual changes to the httpd.include file for your vhost. In fact, this is the normal behavior of Plesk, and you must place all changes in a separate file, vhost.conf (notice the warning inside of httpd.include)

# ATTENTION!
# DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE OR ANY PART OF IT. THIS CAN RESULT [...]