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Windows Plesk Services and Logs locations and Configuration files Location

This article provide information about Most Plesk services including the log file location of the services and the configuration location and how to start/Stop or Restart the service using the command prompet

In all of the article we will use the %plesk_dir% “its indicate the system Plesk direcotry location that stored in the system” %plesk_vhosts% indicate plesk hosting folder location .

This article cover the following services with log locations ; configuration and manage the services command:

Services Index

Plesk SQL Server (MySQL)

  • Logs:
    • %plesk_dir%MySQL/Data/*.err
    • Windows Event Viewer
  • Service control:
    • Stop: net stop plesksqlserver
    • Start: net start plesksqlserver
    • Restart: net stop plesksqlserver && net start plesksqlserver
  • Configuration:
    • %plesk_dir%MySQL/Data/my.ini

Plesk Management Service

  • Logs:
    • Access log: %plesk_dir%admin/logs/W3SVC/ex.log
    • PHP errors log: %plesk_dir%admin/logs/php_error.log
    • Debug logs: %plesk_dir%admin/logs/plesklog_debugXXXXXXXX.log “To be enabled create DWORD value Debug=1 in the registery key HKLM\\SOFTWARE\\Wow6432Node\\PLESK\\PSA Config\\Config”
  • Service control:
    • Stop: net stop plesksrv /Y
    • Start: net start plesksrv && net start poppassd
    • Restart: net stop plesksrv /Y && net start plesksrv && net start poppassd
  • Configuration:
    • %plesk_dir%admin/conf/panel.ini
    • Also from IIS : IIS manager >> Sites/Application Pools >> PleskControlPanel

Named / BIND Service

  • Logs:
    • Windows Event Viewer for tracking the service log
  • Service control:
    • Stop: net stop named
    • Start: net start named
    • Restart: net stop named && net start named
  • Configuration:
    • %plesk_dir%dns

Web server Internet Information Services (IIS)

  • Logs:
    • Windows Event Viewer to check the IIS logs
    • Domain logs: %plesk_vhosts%/logs/iis
  • Service control:
    • Stop: iisreset /stop
    • Start: iisreset /start
    • Restart: iisreset
  • Configuration:
    • Configure on IIS Manager

Plesk Backup Manager

  • Logs:
    • Backup log : %plesk_dir%PMM/logs/backup-[datetime]/backup.log
    • Restore logs folder : %plesk_dir%PMM/logs/restore-[datetime]
    • Additional and another logs : %plesk_dir%PMM\\logs\\pmmcli.log , %plesk_dir%PMM\\logs\\pmmcli_daemon.log

Plesk Migrator

  • Logs:
    • %plesk_dir%var/modules/panel-migrator/logs/
  • Configuration:
    • %plesk_dir%var/modules/panel-migrator/conf

Plesk Health Monitor

  • Logs:
    • %plesk_dir%admin/logs/HealthMonitoring.log
    • %plesk_dir%admin/logs/health-alarm.log
  • Service control:
    • Stop: net stop ParallelsHealthMonitor
    • Start: net start ParallelsHealthMonitor
    • Restart: net stop ParallelsHealthMonitor && net start ParallelsHealthMonitor
  • Configuration:
    • %plesk_dir%admin/conf/health-config.xml
    • %plesk_dir%admin/conf/custom-health-config.xml

Health Monitor Notification Daemon

  • Logs:
    • %plesk_dir%admin/logs/HealthNotifier.log
  • Service control:
    • Stop: net stop ParallelsHealthNotifier
    • Start: net start ParallelsHealthNotifier
    • Restart: net stop ParallelsHealthNotifier && net start ParallelsHealthNotifier
  • Configuration:
    • %plesk_dir%admin/conf/health-config.xml
    • %plesk_dir%admin/conf/custom-health-config.xml

MailEnable Mail Server

  • Logs:
    • %plesk_dir%Mail Servers/Mail Enable/Logging
  • Service control:
    • Stop: net stop meimaps && net stop melcs && net stop memtas && net stop mepops && net stop mepocs && net stop mesptpcs
    • Start: net start meimaps && net start melcs && net start memtas && net start mepops && net start mepocs && net start mesptpcs
    • Restart: net stop meimaps && net stop melcs && net stop memtas && net stop mepops && net stop mepocs && net stop mesptpcs && net start meimaps && net start melcs && net start memtas && net start mepops && net start mepocs && net start mesptpcs
  • Configuration:
    • %plesk_dir%Mail Servers/Mail Enable/Bin/MailEnable.msc

Horde Webmail

  • Logs:
    • %plesk_dir%tmp/horde/horde.log
  • Configuration:
    • IIS manager >> Sites >> Webmail(horde)
    • %plesk_dir%webmail/horde/horde/config/conf.php
    • PHP configuration for horde: HKLM\\SOFTWARE\\PHP\\Per Directory Values\\...\\horde

FTP

  • Logs:
    • %plesk_vhosts%Servers//logs
  • Service control:
    • Stop: net stop iisadmin
    • Start: net start iisadmin
    • Restart: net stop iisadmin && net start iisadmin
  • Configuration:
    • IIS Manager >> Sites >> <IP_address>
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