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Managing Services from the Command Line and Viewing Service Logs

 
advanced administration guide linuxsystem maintenancedomainsinterfacephp

This section describes how to stop, start, and restart services managed
by Panel, and access their logs and configuration files.

Plesk web interface

To start the service through the command line:

/etc/init.d/psa start

To stop the service through the command line:

/etc/init.d/psa stop

To restart the service through the command line:

/etc/init.d/psa restart

Plesk log files are located in the following directories:

  • Error Log: /var/log/sw-cp-server/error_log
  • Access log: /var/log/plesk/httpsd_access_log

Panel configuration files are the following:

  • php: $PRODUCT_ROOT_D/admin/conf/php.ini
  • www: /etc/sw-cp-server/applications.d/plesk.conf

Presence Builder

Log files are located in:

  • Error log: /var/log/httpd/sitebuilder_error.log
  • Logs: /usr/local/sitebuilder/tmp/

Configuration files are accessible at:

  • /usr/local/sitebuilder/config
  • /usr/local/sitebuilder/etc/php.ini

phpMyAdmin

The error log is located in:

/var/log/sw-cp-server/error_log

The configuration file is accessible at:

/usr/local/psa/admin/htdocs/domains/databases/phpMyAdmin/libraries/config.default.php

phpPGAdmin

The error log is located in:

/var/log/sw-cp-server/error_log

The configuration file is accessible at:

/usr/local/psa/admin/htdocs/domains/databases/phpPgAdmin/conf/config.inc.php

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