Change port and IP of Plesk Panel 11

[King555]

I want to change the port and the IP address where my Plesk Panel 11 can be accessed. Recently I used Plesk 10 and there I could edit the file /etc/sw-cp-server/applications.d/plesk.conf and change the value '$SERVER["socket"]' to the desired IP : port combination.

But Plesk 11 does not seem to have this setting (but the file exists).

I want Plesk to be available only under one specific IP, which is not known to anyone. How can I achieve this? I think this was an important security feature in previous Plesk versions.

 

[Alexey.Plotnitsky]

Hi King555,

It is possible to change Plesk control panel port. You should set desired port (say, 9443 and 9880) both for IPv4 and IPv6:
/etc/sw-cp-server/applications.d/plesk.conf
include_shell "/etc/sw-cp-server/applications.d/plesk.socket.sh 9443 ssl"
include_shell "/etc/sw-cp-server/applications.d/plesk.socket.sh 9880"
include_shell "/etc/sw-cp-server/applications.d/plesk.socket.sh 9443 ipv6 ssl"
include_shell "/etc/sw-cp-server/applications.d/plesk.socket.sh 9880 ipv6"

Then restart Plesk UI panel:
service sw-cp-server restart


My Plesk is 11.0.9 Update #41

 

[King555]

Thanks for your reply.

So changing the IP ist not possible anymore?

 

[Marco.e]

How can I bind the panel to a single ip with standart ssl port ?

 

[Alexey.Plotnitsky]

King555, Marco.e,

Currently Plesk11 does not have ability to change Panel IP. Only Panel port could be changed.
However, if one would like to do it manually, there is a shell script that can be adjusted:
/etc/sw-cp-server/applications.d/plesk.socket.sh
There $SERVER["socket"] == ":$PORT" should be changed to $SERVER["socket"] == "YOUR_IP:$PORT"
as per
http://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/lighttpd/wiki/Docs_Configuration
http://redmine.lighttpd.net/project...stions#How-do-I-bind-to-more-than-one-address

 

[King555]

Thank you very much, this works!

BUT: I had to comment the line "server.use-ipv6 = "enable"" out (with "#"), because I get an error message when restarting the Plesk server.

Does anybody know why? I'm not using IPv6 to access Plesk at this moment, but in future it could happen. Maybe it's because I did not add any IPv6 addresses in Plesk yet? I can't do it at the moment, because I get an error message (already started a thread about this).