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Managing Services from the Command Line and Viewing Service Logs

 
advanced administration guide winsystem maintenanceinterfacephp

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

Plesk web interface

To stop the service through command line:

net stop plesksrv

To start the service through command line:

net start plesksrv
net start poppassd

To restart the service through command line:

net stop plesksrv
net start plesksrv
net start poppassd

Plesk’s log file is located in:

%plesk_dir%adminlogsW3SVC<IIS site ID>ex<date>.log

Plesk’s PHP configuration file is located in:

%plesk_dir%adminphp.ini

Internet Information Services log file is accessible at:

IIS manager > Sites or Application Pools >
PleskControlPanel

Presence Builder

%plesk_dir%SiteBuilder_logs

Configuration files are accessible at:

IIS manager > Sites or Application Pools >
sitebuilder(default) / SiteBuilderSitesWebAppPool

phpMyAdmin

Log files are located in:

%plesk_dir%adminlogsW3SVC<IIS site ID>ex<date>.log

Configuration files are accessible at:

%plesk_dir%adminhtdocsdomainsdatabasesphpMyAdminconfig.inc.php

ASP.Net Enterprise Manager

Configuration files are accessible at:

IIS manager > Sites > sqladmin(default) mssql

myLittleAdmin 2000/2005

Configuration files are accessible at:

IIS manager > Sites > sqladmin(default) myLittleAdmin

%plesk_vhosts%sqladminmyLittleAdmin2005config.xml

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