Plesk services logs and configuration files

Plesk Logs

Error log: /var/log/sw-cp-server/error_log 

Access log: /var/log/plesk/httpsd_access_log

Panel log: /var/log/plesk/panel.log

Configuration

PHP config on RHEL-based: /usr/local/psa/admin/conf/php.ini

PHP config on Debian-based: /opt/psa/admin/conf/php.ini

Panel config on RHEL-based: /usr/local/psa/admin/conf/panel.ini

Panel config on Debian-based: /opt/psa/admin/conf/panel.ini

Web server config: /etc/sw-cp-server/conf.d/plesk.conf

User actions logging:

Tools & Settings > Action log

Backup Manager

Backup logs: 

Plesk Onyx;/usr/local/psa/PMM/logs/backup-<datetime> 

Plesk Obsidian/var/log/plesk/PMM/ 

Restore log: /usr/local/psa/PMM/logs/restore-<datetime> or /usr/local/psa/PMM/rsessions

Configuration /etc/psa/psa.conf

IP Address Banning (Fail2Ban)

Logs: /var/log/fail2ban.log

Service control

Stop: service fail2ban stop

Start: service fail2ban start

Restart: service fail2ban restart

ModSecurity

Logs: /var/www/vhosts/<domain_name>/logs/error_log

Services

Disable: /usr/local/psa/admin/bin/modsecurity_ctl -d

Enable: /usr/local/psa/admin/bin/modsecurity_ctl -e

FTP

Logs

/var/log/plesk/xferlog (or /var/log/xferlog)

/var/log/plesk/ftp_tls.log

Authentication logs

/var/log/secure - CentOS/RHEL-based distributions

/var/log/auth.log - Debian/Ubuntu-based distributions

No service control (works via the Xinetd service)

Configuration

/etc/xinetd.d/ftp_psa

/etc/proftpd.conf

/etc/proftpd.include

xinetd

Logs

/var/log/messages

Services

Stop: service xinetd stop

Start: service xinetd start

Restart: service xinetd restart

Configuration

/etc/xinetd.conf

/etc/xinetd.d/* (files with "." in the name are ignored)

Postfix

Logs: /var/log/maillog

Services

Stop: service postfix stop

Start: service postfix start

Restart: service postfix restart

Configuration

/etc/postfix/master.cf

/etc/postfix/main.cf

Plesk Firewall

Service control

Stop: service psa-firewall stop

Start: service psa-firewall start

Restart: service psa-firewall restart

Configuration

/usr/local/psa/var/modules/firewall/firewall-active.sh

/usr/local/psa/var/modules/firewall/firewall-emergency.sh

/usr/local/psa/var/modules/firewall/firewall-new.sh

BIND

Logs

/var/log/messages

/var/log/syslog

Services

Stop: service named stop

Start: service named start

Restart: service named restart

Configuration

/etc/named.conf

Note: The service is called bind9 on Debian/Ubuntu and named-chroot on CentOS 7.

Courier-IMAP

Logs

/var/log/maillog

Services

Stop: service courier-imap stop

Start: service courier-imap start

Restart: service courier-imap restart

Configuration

/etc/courier-imap/imapd

/etc/courier-imap/imapd-ssl

/etc/courier-imap/pop3d

/etc/courier-imap/pop3d-ssl

Dovecot

Logs

Logs can be found using the /usr/sbin/dovecot log find command

Services

Stop: service dovecot stop

Start: service dovecot start

Restart: service dovecot restart

Configuration

/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf

/etc/sysconfig/dovecot

/etc/dovecot/conf.d/11-plesk-security-ssl.conf

MySQL

Logs
Note: Log file location specified in my.cnf file:
Debian/Ubuntu

cat /etc/mysql/my.cnf | grep log_error

log_error = /var/log/mysql/error.log

CentOS/RHEL

cat /etc/my.cnf | grep log-error

og-error=/var/log/mariadb/mariadb.log
/var/log/mysqld.log

Services

Stop: service mysqld stop

Start: service mysqld start

Restart: service mysqld restart

Note: Service name differs on different Linux distributives:

mysqld on CentOS/RHEL 5 and 6

mariadb on CentOS/RHEL 7

mysql on Debian/Ubuntu

Configuration

/etc/my.cnf

/etc/mysql/my.cnf (Debian/Ubuntu)

PostgreSQL

Logs

/var/lib/pgsql/pgstartup.log

/var/log/postgresql/postgresql-x.x-main.log

Services

Stop: service postgresql stop

Start: service postgresql start

Restart: service postgresql restart

Configuration

/var/lib/pgsql/data/postgresql.conf

CentOS/CloudLinux
/var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_hba.conf

Ubuntu/Debian
/etc/postgresql/x.x/main/pg_hba.conf

Plesk Migrator

Configuration

/usr/local/psa/var/modules/panel-migrator/conf/

  /usr/local/psa/admin/plib/modules/panel-migrator/backend/conf/

Logs

/usr/local/psa/var/modules/panel-migrator/logs/

/usr/local/psa/var/modules/panel-migrator/sessions/

   

Qmail

Logs

/var/log/maillog

Services

Stop: service qmail stop

Start: service qmail start

Restart: service qmail restart

Configuration

Control files in /var/qmail/control/

/etc/xinetd.d/smtp_psa

/etc/xinetd.d/smtps_psa

/etc/xinetd.d/submission_psa

Apache

1.RHEL/CentOS

Global logs:

Access log: /var/log/httpd/access_log

Error log: /var/log/httpd/error_log

Domain logs:

Access logs:

HTTP log: /var/www/vhosts/system/<domain_name>/logs/access_log

HTTPS log: /var/www/vhosts/system/<domain_name>/logs/access_ssl_log

Error log: /var/www/vhosts/system/<domain_name>/logs/error_log

Services

Stop: service httpd stop

Start: service httpd start

Restart: service httpd restart

Configuration

/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

/etc/httpd/conf.d/zz010_psa_httpd.conf (includes generated configuration files with the rest of the vhosts and the server configuration)

/etc/httpd/conf/plesk.conf.d/

2.Debian/Ubuntu

Global logs:

Access log: /var/log/apache2/access.log

Error log: /var/log/apache2/error.log

Domain logs:

Access logs:

HTTP log: /var/www/vhosts/system/<domain_name>/logs/access_log

HTTPS log: /var/www/vhosts/system/<domain_name>/access_ssl_log

Error log: /var/www/vhosts/system/<domain_name>/error_log

Services

Stop: service apache2 stop

Start: service apache2 start

Restart: service apache2 restart

Configuration

/etc/apache2/apache2.conf

/etc/apache2/conf-enabled/zz010_psa_httpd.conf(includes generated configuration files with the rest of the vhosts and the server configuration)

/etc/apache2/plesk.conf.d/

nginx

Global logs:

Access log: /var/log/nginx/access.log

Error log: /var/log/nginx/error.log

Domain logs:

HTTP log: /var/www/vhosts/system/<domain_name>/logs/proxy_access_log

HTTPS log: /var/www/vhosts/system/<domain_name>/proxy_access_ssl_log

Error log: /var/www/vhosts/system/<domain_name>/proxy_error_log

nginx Services

Stop: service nginx stop

Start: service nginx start

Restart: service nginx restart

nginx as a reverse-proxy

Stop: /usr/local/psa/admin/bin/nginxmng --disable

Start: /usr/local/psa/admin/bin/nginxmng --enable

Status: /usr/local/psa/admin/bin/nginxmng --status

Configuration

/etc/nginx/nginx.conf

/etc/nginx/conf.d/zz010_psa_nginx.conf (includes generated configuration files with the rest of the vhosts' and server configuration)

Horde

Logs

Error log: /var/log/psa-horde/psa-horde.log

No service control (works via the Apache web-server)

Configuration

/etc/psa-webmail/horde/horde.conf

/etc/psa-webmail/horde/horde/conf.php

Roundcube

Logs

Error log: /var/log/plesk-roundcube/errors

No service control (works via the Apache web-server)

Configuration

/etc/psa-webmail/roundcube/*

/usr/share/psa-roundcube/config/defaults.inc.php

Customizations: /usr/share/psa-roundcube/config/config.inc.php

Mail forwarding

Configuration

/var/qmail/mailnames/<domain_name>/<user_name>/.qmail

SpamAssassin

Logs

/var/log/maillog

Services

Stop: service spamassassin stop

Start: service spamassassin start

Restart: service spamassassin restart

Configuration

/etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf

/var/qmail/mailnames/<domain_name>/<mailbox>/.spamassassin/user_prefs

Watchdog (rkhunter)

Logs: /var/log/rkhunter.log

Service control:

Start: /usr/local/psa/admin/bin/modules/watchdog/rkhunter

Configration: /usr/local/psa/etc/modules/watchdog/rkhunter.conf

phpMyAdmin

Logs

Error log: /var/log/sw-cp-server/error_log

No service control (working via the sw-cp-server service).

Configuration

/usr/local/psa/admin/htdocs/domains/databases/phpMyAdmin/libraries/config.default.php

Starting from Plesk 18.0.30: /usr/local/psa/phpMyAdmin/libraries/vendor_config.php

phpPgAdmin

Logs

Error log: /var/log/sw-cp-server/error_log

No service control (working via the sw-cp-server service).

Configuration

/usr/local/psa/admin/htdocs/domains/databases/phpPgAdmin/conf/config.inc.php

Logrotate

No service control. Executed by the daily maintenance task: /etc/cron.daily/50plesk-daily

Configuration

/usr/local/psa/etc/logrotate.conf

/usr/local/psa/etc/logrotate.d/*

/etc/logrotate.conf

/etc/logrotate.d/*

Webalizer

No service control. Executed by the daily maintenance task: /etc/cron.daily/50plesk-daily

Configuration

/srv/www/vhosts/system/<domain_name>/conf/webalizer.conf

AWstats

No service control. Executed by the daily maintenance task: /etc/cron.daily/50plesk-daily

Configuration

/usr/local/psa/etc/awstats/awstats.<domain_name>-*.conf