Plesk

Plesk shows 502 Bad Gateway error and service sw-engine is marked as stopped

Symptoms

Cause

sw-engine service is stopped. This may occur if the server has no free disk space, an upgrade attempt was unsuccessful or the service was stopped manually.

Resolution

  1. Free up disk space on the server

  2. Restart Plesk sw-engine service

    Using Plesk Repair Kit

    1. Click Open Repair Kit and log in with Plesk admin credentials.
      Repair Kit
    2. If it was successful, try starting sw-engine service by clicking Restart Processes
    3. If it was successfully started, click Log In to Plesk button

    Using SSH

    1. Connect to the server via SSH

    2. Start sw-engine service:

      # service sw-engine start

      Or start psa service:

      # service psa start

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