ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED on plesk and websites after upgrading to MariaDB.

[questionman23]

I upgraded to MariaDB following the correct steps on their website. However, after doing this and rebooting the server all my sites and the plesk panel return the same error:

ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED

While I am still able to access server by SSH.
I tried uninstalling MariaDB and installled MySQL again but it did not help. I also reset the iptables config file and opened all the recommended port including port 8443 which is used to access plesk. Still no luck. Anyone has any idea what went wrong? I did mess about a bit with the server, mysql_upgrade wasn't working so I changed some stuff to make it work. I doubt that is related though.

I tried

service httpd start

Returned following error:

Starting httpd: httpd: Syntax error on line 221 of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf: Syntax error on line 7 of /etc/httpd/conf.d/zz010_psa_httpd.conf: Include directory '/etc/httpd/conf/plesk.conf.d/forwarding' not found
                                                           [FAILED]

 

[Lloyd_mcse]

Hi questionman23,
Did you try creating the directory?

 mkdir /etc/httpd/conf/plesk.conf.d/forwarding

That should help start Apache.
Hope it helps
Kind regards

Lloyd