Web-server configuration repair fails in Plesk: failed to create file via template ‘example.com/conf/httpd.conf.XXXXXX’

Symptoms

• Websites show a Plesk login page, Web Server's Default Page or a "404 Not Found" error.

• The following error message is shown on the Home page in Plesk or when running the "plesk repair web" utility:

  PLESK_ERROR:: New configuration files for the Apache web server were not created due to the errors in configuration templates: mkdir: cannot create directory '/var/www/vhosts/system/example.com/conf': No such file or directory mktemp: failed to create file via template '/var/www/vhosts/system/example.com/conf/httpd.conf.XXXXXX': No such file or directory Can not create temporary file

• The directory mentioned in the error message does not exist:

  # ls -l /var/www/vhosts/system/example.com/
  ls: cannot access /var/www/vhosts/system/example.com/: No such file or directory

Cause

The domain was improperly renamed.

Resolution

1. Connect to the server via SSH.

2. Repair the virtual host structure:

   # plesk bin repair --update-vhosts-structure

3. Rebuild the web-server configuration: 

   # plesk repair web -y