Plesk 12 on Ubuntu: How to enable Apache ASP support? [solved]

[chris-taylor]

Hello everybody,

I just have started to setup a web-environment using Plesk 12 on Ubuntu 14.04LTS.

I have the following problem:

I have setup a service-plan that enables Apache ASP.
When I try to create a webhosting using this service-plan
I run into a message saying that the service-plan tries to ENABLE ASPs,
but the available setting is DISABLED (only option) and the webhosting will be setup
with ASP DISABLED (and the webhosting will be out of sync with the service-plan).

Trying to figure out the reason for this behaviour I checked the
site_isolation_settings.ini (in /usr/local/psa/admin/conf/).
In this file asp is set to on (no comment sign on start of the line).

Then I looked for the custom view settings for the power user view
(which I am currently not using - I use the service provider view):
In the hosting parameters ASP is ticked.

After that I checked the installed (and installable) features of Plesk;
especially the Web-Hosting-Features.
Surprisingly I noticed there is no option to install Apache ASP support!!!

Why is this option not available?
Remark:
I installed Ubuntu 14.04LTS Server in minimal configuration (SSH-Server configuration)
directly after that I started the Plesk installation...(might this be the reason?)

How can I make Apache ASP work?

Any help / hint is welcome!

Kind regards

Christian

P.S.
I tried the forum search but "ASP" is to short as search term...
...and Apache ASP gave lots of apache results but no ASP result... :-(

 

[IgorG]

Run /usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/autounstaller follow to menu, select Web hosting features and then Apache ASP support for installation.

 

[chris-taylor]

Hello Igor,

thank you very much for your speedy reply!
You are always so helpful and you have such an in-depth knowledge...

I am very sorry to say that the ASP Module does not appear in the list of installable modules.
I started the autoinstaller and followed the dialogues up to the point where the installable modules are selectable.

The menu for webhosting features looks like this (Copy&Paste from command line):

Primary components list / hosting
============================================

Select the components you want to install:

1. [=] Plesk Web hosting
2. [=] Apache mod_fcgid module
3. [=] Apache mod_perl module
4. [=] ProFTPD ftpserver
5. [ ] Bandwidth Limiter For Apache support (mod_bw)
6. [ ] Tomcat Java Servlets support
7. [=] Apache mod_python module
8. [ ] ColdFusion support for Plesk
9. [=] Webalizer webstat
10. [=] AWStats webstat
11. [ ] ModSecurity Web Application Firewall for Apache
12. [=] <+> Nginx web server and reverse proxy support // 2 of 2 components selected
13. [=] PHP5 support
14. [=] Apache web server support

(A) Select all, (D) Deselect all,
(L) Back to primary components list, (Q) Cancel installing
Enter number to toggle the component or to view the group;
Type a number or a character of desired action [L]:

Item 12 (Nginx web server and reverse proxy) has two sub items which are selected...
...but there is no item "ASP support"...

Dear Igor, do you have a clue why this item is missing?

Thank you once again for taking care...

Christian

 

[IgorG]

According to our statistics, Apache ASP was so unpopular with our customers that we decided to stop shipping it with Plesk. You can install it manually by following command:

# apt-get install libapache-asp-perl

However, note that we did not test whether this command can break something in Plesk or not, so unfortunately you'll have to use it at your own risk.

 

[chris-taylor]

So for the moment it will be best to disable ASP support everywhere
(site_isolation_settings.ini, service-plans and customized power user view).

As long as no one of my clients asks for it, it will be okay...

I just disabled it and now the message about the non-congruent setting for ASP is gone, GREAT!!!
And even more the webhosting is in sync with the service-plan, SUPERB!!!

Thank you very much for this constructive help Igor!!!

Have a nice day

Christian