Plesk for Linux services logs and configuration files

Question

Where to find Plesk for Linux services logs and configuration files?

Answer

This article's sole purpose is to provide information regarding the services that Plesk interacts with. Below you will find the configuration and log file locations of the services, which may be useful during a troubleshooting procedure.

For Plesk on Windows see this article.

Plesk company does NOT recommend manually editing or modifying the below-mentioned configuration or system files. If however, you decide to do it, please keep in mind that you do it at your own risk, and the changes may cause unexpected behavior.

Services

• Plesk
• Plesk Installer
• Plesk System Packages Update Manager (PUM)
• Web Presence Builder
• Backup Manager
• Plesk Migrator
• Plesk Migration Manager
• Website & Mail Import
• Health Monitor
• Health Monitor Notification Daemon
• MySQL
• PostgreSQL
• Apache
• nginx
• Tomcat
• FTP
• cron
• Task Manager
• Xinetd
• Named / BIND
• Courier-IMAP
• Dovecot
• Postfix
• qmail
• Horde
• RoundCube
• Mail forwarding
• Mailman
• SpamAssassin
• Premium Antivirus (Dr.Web)
• Kaspersky antivirus
• phpMyAdmin
• phpPgAdmin
• Logrotate
• Webalizer
• AWstats
• Watchdog (monit)
• Watchdog (rkhunter)
• Plesk Firewall
• Plesk Firewall (IP forwarding)
• IP Address Banning (Fail2Ban)
• ModSecurity
• Let's Encrypt
• Plesk-PHP
• Acronis Backup
• Node.JS
• WP Toolkit

Plesk

• Logs
  • Error log: /var/log/sw-cp-server/error_log and /var/log/sw-cp-server/sw-engine.log
  • Access log: /var/log/plesk/httpsd_access_log
  • Panel log: /var/log/plesk/panel.log
• Services
  • Stop: service psa stop
  • Start: service psa start
  • Restart: service psa restart
• Configuration
  • PHP config on RHEL-based: /usr/local/psa/admin/conf/php.ini
  • PHP config on Debian-based: /opt/psa/admin/conf/php.ini
  • Panel config on RHEL-based: /usr/local/psa/admin/conf/panel.ini
  • Panel config on Debian-based: /opt/psa/admin/conf/panel.ini
  • Web server config: /etc/sw-cp-server/conf.d/plesk.conf
• User actions logging:
  • Tools & Settings > Action log

Plesk Installer

• Logs
  • /var/log/plesk/install/autoinstaller3.log
  • /tmp/autoinstaller3.log

Plesk System Packages Update Manager (PUM)

• Logs
  • /var/log/plesk/systemupdatestool.log

Web Presence Builder

• Logs
  • Error log: /usr/local/psa/admin/logs/sitebuilder.log
  • Install/upgrade logs: /usr/local/sb/tmp/
• No service control (working via the sw-cp-server service)
• Configuration
  • /usr/local/sb/config
  • /etc/sw-cp-server/conf.d/plesk.conf
  • /usr/local/psa/admin/conf/php.ini

Backup Manager

• Logs
  • Backup logs: /usr/local/psa/PMM/logs/backup-<datetime> Plesk Onyx; /var/log/plesk/PMM/ Plesk Obsidian
  • Restore log: /usr/local/psa/PMM/logs/restore-<datetime> or /usr/local/psa/PMM/rsessions and /var/log/plesk/PMM/restore-TIMESTAMP
• Functionality is controlled by the Plesk control panel service
• Configuration
  • /etc/psa/psa.conf

Plesk Migrator

• Configuration
  • /usr/local/psa/var/modules/panel-migrator/conf/
  • /usr/local/psa/admin/plib/modules/panel-migrator/backend/conf/
• Logs
  • /usr/local/psa/var/modules/panel-migrator/logs/
  • /usr/local/psa/var/modules/panel-migrator/sessions/

Migration Manager

• Logs
  • /usr/local/psa/PMM/logs/migration-<datetime>
• Functionality is controlled by the Plesk control panel service.

Website & Mail Import

• Logs
  • /usr/local/psa/var/modules/site-import/sessions/

Task Manager

• Log
  • /var/log/plesk/task-manager.log
• Configuration
  • /usr/local/psa/admin/conf/task-manager.yml…