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Had a problem with webstats on some sites after migrating the sites from a Linux Plesk 8.x server to a Linux Plesk 9.x server.
First problem was it appears that a plesk-stat directory was in the httpdocs directory and empty, which, caused a problem for some reason.  Deleted this and re-ran the stats program which seemed [...]

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Was trying to install Plesk 9.3 onto CentOS 5.4.  Apparently you’re not meant to run “yum upgrade” and install all the latest packages on the system before running the Plesk installer as it breaks it.
The error we received was:
ERROR: Unable to install the “psa-9.3.0-cos5.build93091230.06.x86_64″ package
Not all packages were installed.
Please, contact product technical support.

Not a very [...]

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Lots of articles online talk about how to get Plesk to pass PCI compliance, especially the TCP port 8443 which Plesk listens on.
From Plesk 8.x (which most of the articles are written for) to Plesk 9.x Parallels changed to another webserver (away from apache), so,  adding the /usr/local/psa/admin/conf/httpsd.custom.include file and restarting psa does NOT help.
The [...]

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PCI was failing due to expired certificates on TCP ports: smtp (25), urd (465), imaps (993) and pop3s (995)
System running Plesk 9.2 and imaps and pop3s was handled by courier.
Updated the self signed certs for courier pop3s and imaps by:
[bash]# cd /usr/share/courier-imap
[bash]# cp imapd.pem imapd.pem.old
[bash]# cp pop3d.pem pop3d.pem.old
[bash]# ./mkimapdcert
[bash]# ./mkpop3dcert
[bash]# /etc/init.d/courier-imap restart
Stopping Courier-IMAP server:
$   Stopping [...]

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After migrating a full backup from one Plesk node to another Plesk node and restored on a fresh 8.6 installation horde webmail wasn’t working.
Going to Domains > testdomain.com > Mail > Preferences
WebMail was listed as “None” and couldn’t update it.
To fix this we needed to goto Server > Plesk Components Management > Webmail in the [...]

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