Following are the steps to recover Plesk Control Panel Password. 1. SSH to the server as root user. 2. For Plesk version 10.1 and below, you can use following command to check/retrieve password. cat /etc/psa/.psa.shadow   This file contains your admin Parallels Plesk Panel password Parallels Plesk Panel 10.2, however, encrypts this file. To view …

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  This error is mainly caused when database size is more and you are trying to backup it up using phpmyadmin.   Increase memory_limit in /usr/local/psa/admin/conf/php.ini to higher value and restart Plesk Control Panel after that. Ideally 512M of memory_limit should fix the issue. contact@webhostingsupport.info

Unable to connect SFTP  via FTP client on Plesk server. FTP logs show following: As mentioned in the error, file /usr/libexec/sftp-server was not present. To fix this problem you can refer to following steps: 1) root@office1 [~]#locate sftp-server /usr/libexec/openssh/sftp-server 2) Edit ssh configuration file /etc/ssh/sshd_config and comment the line containing “/usr/libexec/sftp-server” and add new line which …

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while starting mysql service on plesk server I was getting above error.   /var/log/mysqld.log was showing logs 101114 12:43:42 mysqld started 101114 12:43:42 InnoDB: Started; log sequence number 9 2286522967 101114 12:43:42 [ERROR] /usr/libexec/mysqld: Can’t create/write to file ‘/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid’ (Errcode: 13) 101114 12:43:42 [ERROR] Can’t start server: can’t create PID file: Permission denied 101114 12:43:42 mysqld …

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While connecting FTP from FTP client show Resolving address of ftp.domain.comStatus: Connecting to IP:21…Status: Connection attempt failed with “ECONNREFUSED – Connection refused by server”.Error: Could not connect to server   Also when you restart xinetd service, it does not give any output. To fix the issue:   Edit file /etc/init.d/xinetd and comment line   #[ …

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