Error: date_default_timezone_get() when attempting to update the "Hosting Settings"

[Nebhead]

Hi all,

I've just installed Plesk on a brand new server, and am attempting to update the settings of the default website that was created at /smb/web/settings/id/1

When I do so, I get the following error displayed at the top of the page:

Error: date_default_timezone_get(): It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'Europe/London' for 'BST/1.0/DST' instead

I've taken a look at other articles/posts, but none of them seem to address this particular issue; the plesk conf files have the correct settings, and I tried updating the php.ini file at /etc/php5/cli/php.ini to manually set the date.timezone setting to 'Europe/London', all to no avail.

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[abdi]

Have you checked and set it at

/usr/local/psa/admin/conf/php.ini

That is the php.ini config file that plesk uses!

 

[Nebhead]

Hi Abdi,

Thanks for the reply. I have updated the config file as you suggested, but I will still frequently (but not always!) get the same error. Sometimes it appears in a red box at the top of the page, sometimes as a full page error.

I've done a basic install, with no custom configuration or manual intervention/changes apart from adding the date.timezone setting to two conf files as described above, on a brand new instance of a server, so I'm really confused as to why this system-breaking issue should be occuring.

 

[abdi]

I've done a basic install, with no custom configuration or manual intervention/changes apart from adding the date.timezone setting to two conf files as described above, on a brand new instance of a server, so I'm really confused as to why this system-breaking issue should be occuring.

When you did this, did the error also occur on the new installation?

 

[Nebhead]

When you did this, did the error also occur on the new installation?

Yes; it is this new installation that I'm talking about. It's a brand new "out-the-box" server that I've installed Plesk on. I don't understand why this issue keeps arising as it prevents me from doing almost anything with the system.