Easiest way to disable Plesk

[matthewbaynham]

I have Plesk on my VPS and everything was going fantastic until I installed php5-mysqlnd and now everything has stopped working.

I need php5-mysqlnd but I don't need Plesk.

Now my apache server won't start because Plesk is doing a configtest before it'll start and so my website is down.

I don't want to go through any lengthy process to uninstall Plesk unless I have to, I just want the easiest way to stop the apache server from doing it's configtest for plesk? So that I can have apache working even if Plesk is not working.

 

[UFHH01]

Hi matthewbaynham,

the init - script from your apache is not shipped with Plesk, it's part of your apache - webserver - installation. Please have a look at your file "/etc/init.d/apache" ( or "/etc/init.d/httpd" ) and have a closer look to this init - script.
If you desire a startup - script for your apache - webserver without tests, please have look around with Google and replace the one on your server. Be aware that the tests are done to make sure that your apache - service is able to be started for example and if not, to report failures/issues/problems, which should direct you to the right direction to solve such issues. The tests itself will help you to investigate the issues/problems/failures and are not preventing to start the apache - service. A non-starting apache-service results of a incorrect configuration.

 

[Sergey L]

You can probably remove Plesk and remove configtest from Apache start script, but it will probably only result in a broken server. If configtest is failing, then Apache probably won't work anyway. I think you real problem is in php5-mysqlnd - either it was not installed correctly or it is not working and thus it breaks Apache starting. You probably need to focus on a root cause which is php5-mysqlnd.

If Plesk later conflicts with php5-mysqlnd, then you can remove Plesk later.