• Please be aware: Kaspersky Anti-Virus has been deprecated
    With the upgrade to Plesk Obsidian 18.0.64, "Kaspersky Anti-Virus for Servers" will be automatically removed from the servers it is installed on. We recommend that you migrate to Sophos Anti-Virus for Servers.
  • The Horde webmail has been deprecated. Its complete removal is scheduled for April 2025. For details and recommended actions, see the Feature and Deprecation Plan.
  • We’re working on enhancing the Monitoring feature in Plesk, and we could really use your expertise! If you’re open to sharing your experiences with server and website monitoring or providing feedback, we’d love to have a one-hour online meeting with you.

Question How can I enable shell_exec

By default, the function shell_exec is available for customers. If this function is not listed in the disable_functions parameter value field, it is enabled.

This can be checked in Plesk > Domains > example.com > PHP Settings > View phpinfo() page, as described in this article.

However, FFmpeg is not shipped by default within Plesk, but it can be installed for PHP 5.6 provided by Plesk only. It cannot be installed for PHP 7.x provided by Plesk due to conflicts with Zend, as per this article.

For other conditions, it could be installed following the FFmpeg instructions in their official guide or this external guide, but it is considered a third-party application and should be installed on your own.
 
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