Parallels Plesk Panel - 8.6 - Unix Installation Manual
Parallels® Plesk Control Panel
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Contents
Preface 4
Typographical Conventions ........................................................................................................... 4
Feedback ....................................................................................................................................... 5
Installing Plesk on Linux and FreeBSD 6
Upgrading Plesk on Linux and FreeBSD 9
Installing Plesk on Numerous Servers 11
Setting Up Mirrors........................................................................................................................ 12
Setting Up Mirrors with Auto-installer Utility ...................................................................... 13
Setting Up Mirrors with Rsync Utility ................................................................................. 17
Simplifying Installation and Upgrade of Plesk on Numerous Servers with Auto-installer
Configuration File ........................................................................................................................ 18
Installing Plesk Remotely on a Number of Servers ..................................................................... 22
Installing License Keys 25
Upgrading the Trial License Key Through the Control Panel ...................................................... 26
Installing License Keys Through the Control Panel .................................................................... 27
Installing License Keys Through the Command Line .................................................................. 27
Configuring Access to Vendor Updates for Your Server’s Operating System 28
Removing Plesk from Linux Systems 29
Removing Plesk from FreeBSD Systems 33
Appendix: Plesk Auto-installer Utility Command Line Options 34
4 Preface
In this section:
Typographical Conventions ............................................................................... 4
Feedback .......................................................................................................... 5
Formatting
convention
Type of Information
Example
Special Bold
Items you must select,
such as menu options,
command buttons, or items
in a list.
Go to the System tab.
Titles of chapters, sections,
and subsections.
Read the Basic
Administration chapter.
Italics
Used to emphasize the
importance of a point, to
introduce a term or to
designate a command line
placeholder, which is to be
replaced with a real name
or value.
The system supports the
so called wildcard
character search.
Monospace
The names of commands,
files, and directories.
The license file is located
in the
http://docs/common
/licenses directory.
Preface
Typographical Conventions
Before you start using this guide, it is important to understand the documentation
conventions used in it.
The following kinds of formatting in the text identify special information.
Preface 5
Preformatted
On-screen computer output
in your command-line
sessions; source code in
XML, C++, or other
programming languages.
# ls –al /files
total 14470
Preformatted
Bold
What you type, contrasted
with on-screen computer
output.
# cd
/root/rpms/php
CAPITALS
Names of keys on the
keyboard.
SHIFT, CTRL, ALT
KEY+KEY
Key combinations for which
the user must press and
hold down one key and
then press another.
CTRL+P, ALT+F4
Feedback
If you have found a mistake in this guide, or if you have suggestions or ideas on how to
improve this guide, please send your feedback using the online form at
http://www.parallels.com/en/support/usersdoc/. Please include in your report the guide‟s title,
chapter and section titles, and the fragment of text in which you have found an error.
If you have one or few servers to which you wish to install Plesk, you should follow the
C H A P T E R 1
Installing Plesk on Linux and FreeBSD
instructions provided below in this section. If you need to install Plesk on numerous
servers, please refer to the chapter Installing Plesk on Numerous Servers (on page
11).
If you have not partitioned your hard drive yet, see the article at
http://kb.parallels.com/article_17_819_en.html on partitioning tips.
Prior to installing Plesk on FreeBSD, you should add the
„kern_securelevel_enable=”NO”‟ entry to the /etc/rc.conf file on your server‟s file
system, and then restart your server.
To install Plesk software on a server:
1 Download the Auto-installer utility that suits your operating system
from http://www.parallels.com/en/download/plesk8/ and save it on
your server‟s hard drive.
2 Change your working directory to the directory where the Auto-
installer utility resides, for instance:
# cd /root/plesk
3 Set the execution permission for Auto-installer:
# chmod +x plesk_auto_installer_file_name
4 Run the Auto-installer:
# ./plesk_auto_installer_file_name
5 Read installation notes displayed on the screen and type „n‟ to
proceed to the next screen. Press ENTER.
6 Specify the source of Plesk distribution package.
You can choose to install from a local medium, the official Plesk Update server, or
another site. By default, the official Plesk Update server is selected.
If you wish to retrieve installation files from a local medium or network storage:
a Type „s‟ and press ENTER.
b To choose a local medium, type 1. To choose a network storage device, type 3.
Press ENTER.
c If you chose a local medium, specify the location of psa.inf configuration file. If
you chose a network storage, specify the address. For example,
http://example.com, http://192.168.10.10, ftp://192.168.10.10.
Installing Plesk on Linux and FreeBSD 7
d When finished selecting the source, type „n‟ to proceed to the next step and
press ENTER.
7 If you use a proxy server, specify the following settings:
a Proxy host name and port number. To specify them, type „s‟, type the host name,
type the port number, press ENTER to continue.
b User name and password. If this proxy server requires authentication, type „a‟,
press ENTER, type user name and press ENTER, type password and press
ENTER.
c When finished with specifying proxy settings, type „n‟ and press ENTER to
continue with installation.
8 Select the product versions that you want to install: type the number
corresponding to the product version you need and press ENTER,
then type „n‟ and press ENTER to continue. By default, the latest
versions of Plesk control panel, Sitebuilder Web site creation and
management system, and Single Sign-on support components are
selected.
9 Select the components that you wish to install.
By default, typical installation is selected. It includes a minimal number of packages
required for Plesk to work.
To install all components of Plesk including all Plesk modules and Web
applications, select Full installation: type the corresponding number and press
ENTER.
To install only selected components, select Custom installation: type the
corresponding number and press ENTER.
To review the components that will be installed, type L and then press ENTER.
The selected packages are marked with [*] symbols. The packages that are
already installed and do not require updating are marked with [=] symbols. To
select or deselect a package, type the corresponding number and press
ENTER.
Note: When there are several versions of a component available for installing,
for example, PHP v. 4 and PHP v.5, then you can choose the version that
you want to install.
10 To continue with installation, type „n‟ and press ENTER. When
prompted, confirm installing: type „n‟ and press ENTER again.
The packages will be downloaded and installed. When the installation is finished,
Plesk will have started automatically.
11 Now to complete the initial configuration, log in to the Plesk control
panel running on your host at https://machine.domain.name:8443/ or
https://IP-address:8443/. Use the username „admin‟ and password
„setup‟ (both are case sensitive). For security reasons, change the
password upon initial login.
8 Installing Plesk on Linux and FreeBSD
Once the installation is completed, a trial license key is installed for evaluation
purposes. See the chapter Installing License Keys (on page 25) to learn how to obtain
and install a new fully functional license key for your Plesk.
To install a license key for Sitebuilder, refer to the Plesk Administrator‟s Guide, section
Enabling Integration with Sitebuilder.
You can upgrade Plesk in either of the following ways:
C H A P T E R 2
Upgrading Plesk on Linux and FreeBSD
Using the friendly interface of your Plesk control panel. You log in to your Plesk
control panel as administrator, go to the Server > Updater section of the control
panel, choose the product version and the components to install, and simply wait
until the installation is completed. This is recommended for most users.
Using the Auto-installer console utility. You can find it in your Plesk distribution or
download from the Parallels download site. After you run it, you are taken through
the upgrade procedure step by step. This will take more time as you will be
prompted to choose the options and packages to install at each step.
To update or upgrade your Plesk software from the control panel:
1 Log in to Plesk as administrator, and click the Server shortcut in the
left side navigation pane.
2 Click the Updater icon in the Services group.
The control panel connects to the Plesk Update server, retrieves information on the
available releases, then analyses the components installed in your system, and
displays the lists of available releases and component updates. For each Plesk
version released a brief description of available operations is displayed.
Note: If you want to update/upgrade from a locally stored Plesk distribution or Plesk
update server mirror inside your network, click Preferences, select the “Network
storage” source type, specify the URL and click OK.
3 Select the Plesk version that you want to update, or upgrade to. A list
of available components appears.
4 Select the check boxes corresponding to the components you wish to
install and click Install.
5 Specify your e-mail address. You will be sent a notice by e-mail once
update is completed.
6 To confirm installation of the selected components, select the check
box and click OK. The components or updates you selected will be
downloaded and automatically installed in the background mode.
To update or upgrade your Plesk software by means of the Auto-installer utility:
1 Run the autoinstaller binary file, which is located in the directory
/usr/local/psa/admin/bin/ on RPM-based Linux, FreeBSD and
Mac OS systems, and /opt/psa/admin/bin/ on deb-based Linux
systems.
10 Upgrading Plesk on Linux and FreeBSD
2 Read the installation instructions displayed on the screen, and then
type „n‟ and press ENTER to continue. The Auto-installer will detect
your existing installation of Plesk and ask if you want to upgrade it.
3 To confirm upgrade, type „y‟ and press ENTER.
4 Specify the source of Plesk distribution package.
You can choose to upgrade from a local medium, the official Plesk update server,
or another site. By default, the official Plesk update server is selected. If you wish to
retrieve installation files from a local medium or network storage:
a Type „s‟ and press ENTER.
b To choose a local medium, type 1. To choose a network storage device, type 3.
Press ENTER.
c If you chose a local medium, specify the location of psa.inf configuration file. If
you chose a network storage, specify the address. For example,
http://example.com, http://192.168.10.10, ftp://192.168.10.10.
5 If you use a proxy server, specify the following settings:
a Proxy host name and port number. To specify them, type „s‟, type the host name,
type the port number, and press ENTER to continue.
b User name and password. If this proxy server requires authentication, type „a‟,
press ENTER, type user name and press ENTER, type password and press
ENTER.
c When finished with specifying proxy settings, type „n‟ and press ENTER to
continue with installation.
6 Select the product version that you wish to upgrade to: type the
number corresponding to the product version you need and press
ENTER, then type „n‟ and press ENTER to continue.
7 Select the components that you wish to install or upgrade.
Type „L‟ and press ENTER. The selected packages are marked with [*] symbols.
The packages that are already installed and do not require updating are marked
with [=] symbols. To select or deselect a package, type the respective number and
press ENTER.
8 To continue with the upgrade, type „n‟ and press ENTER. When
prompted, confirm upgrading: type „n‟ and press ENTER again.
The packages will be downloaded and installed.
To install Plesk on a number of servers, you may want to set up a mirror of the official
In this chapter:
Setting Up Mirrors ............................................................................................. 12
Simplifying Installation and Upgrade of Plesk on Numerous Servers with Auto-
installer Configuration File ................................................................................. 18
Installing Plesk Remotely on a Number of Servers ............................................ 22
C H A P T E R 3
Installing Plesk on Numerous Servers
Plesk update server (http://autoinstall.plesk.com) inside your network so as not to
download the distribution files through the Internet each time, and then install Plesk as
described in the Installing Plesk Remotely on a Number of Servers (on page 22)
section.
If you do not want to set up a mirror, you can skip the Setting Up Mirrors (on page 13)
section and go on to the Installing Plesk Remotely on a Number of Servers (on page
22) section.
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