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Website example.com shows webmail content instead of website content on Plesk server

 
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Symptoms

  • Website example.com shows webmail content instead of website content.
  • example.com is set as  Default site for Plesk IP under Plesk > Tools & Settings > IP Addresses:
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  • Only webmail configuration files are existing for the domain:

    Debian/Ubuntu:

    # apache2ctl -S | grep example.com
    port 7081 namevhost webmail.example.com (/etc/httpd/conf/plesk.conf.d/webmails/example.com_webmail.conf:39)
    port 7080 namevhost webmail.example.com (/etc/httpd/conf/plesk.conf.d/webmails/example.com_webmail.conf:5)

    RHEL/CentOS:

    # find /etc/httpd/ -name "example.com*"
    /etc/httpd/conf/plesk.conf.d/webmails/example.com_webmail.conf
    /etc/httpd/conf/plesk.conf.d/webmails/example.com_webmail.conf.bak

  • Apache access logs are being filled with "plesklog" entries:

    # tail /var/www/vhosts/example.com/logs/access_log
    plesklog
    plesklog
    plesklog

Cause

The server.conf file is not specified in the Apache2zz010_psa_httpd.conf file:

Debian/Ubuntu:

# grep server.conf /etc/apache2/conf-enabled/zz010_psa_httpd.conf
#

RHEL/CentOS:

# grep server.conf /etc/httpd/conf.d/zz010_psa_httpd.conf
#

Resolution

Solution via GUI

  1. Log into Plesk

  2. Open Extensions > My extensions > Webserver configuration troubleshooter select and recreate vhost and webmail configuration files for affected domain example.com

Solution via CLI

  1. Connect to the server via SSH.

  2. Run the following command:

    # plesk sbin httpdmng --reconfigure-server

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