Plesk Control Panel Service refuses to start

[user32]

Just installed Plesk 7.0 on my server but the 'Plesk Control Panel' service refuses to start. It's giving me the following error.

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Apache Service
Event Category: None
Event ID: 3299
Date: 9/24/2004
Time: 4:55:01 AM
User: N/A
Computer: USER32COM
Description:
The Apache service named reported the following error:
>>> (20024)The given path misformatted or contained invalid characters: Invalid config file path H:\\Program Files\\SWsoft\\Plesk\\admin\\conf\\httpd.conf .

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Tried to check out the registry but this config. isn't anywhere. I'll appreciate any sort of help .

 

[user32]

Plesk 7.0.1 patch also says that it couldn't start the apache2 service and hence doesn't complete successfully.

 

[user32]

FollowUp:

I started apache from the command line and then opened the browser and pointed it to 'https://localhost:8443/', it says:

Unable to read control panel configuration file:

I think this can help a lot to understand the problem that's being faced by me.

 

[user32]

Fixed by myself .

I uninstalled plesk control panel service and installed it again and it now work Ok for me.

apache -uinstall
apache -install

 

[user32]

it follows that the support on these forums was not good enough for me to find a reply in almost two days.

Anyhow, Thanks all.

 

[IPaddress]

Same Problem

And no resolve for me whit uninstall and install plesk.
any idea?

 

[visupport]

Generally Apache failed to start because of corrupted permissions for %plesk_dir% folder and below.
As Apache starts with credentials of user psaadm this user should have modify access to apache configuration file, temp and session folders.

Good news!
Plesk reconfugurator can fix Plesk permissions. Just run it (reconfigurator.exe) ,check&repair these folders and restart Plesk.