Domain in Plesk shows Web Server’s Default page

Symptoms

• Website is showing web server default page.

• There are both index.html file generated by Plesk, and index.php in the document root of example.com :

  # ls /var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs/ | grep index
  index.html
  index.php

Cause

In the Apache configuration file of this domain index.html is set to have higher priority and, therefore, is displayed:

# cat /var/www/vhosts/system/example.com/conf/httpd.conf |grep DirectoryIndex
DirectoryIndex “index.html” “index.cgi” “index.pl” “index.php” “index.xhtml” “index.htm” “index.shtml”

Resolution

1. Connect to a Plesk server via SSH.

2. Rename or remove index.html:

   # mv /var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs/index.html /var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs/index.html.bak