Plesk reinstall

[IulianOlaru]

Good day everyone,
I am dealing with the following situation:
While trying to upgrade plesk through shell, it seems i have uninstalled the plesk panel. The 2 websites that where on the server, seem to have the interface up and running with wordpress and i would like to avoid a complete reinstall of the whole server and loosing all data.

What is the solution to redo this situation in Centos 6.5 or reinstall plesk as it was before. Considering that i cannot back-up anything with plesk ...

Thank you in advance for the help.

 

[abdi]

Olaru, did you try re-running the autoinstaller it self? It should give you the option to re-install or upgrade Plesk (depending on what it detects)

The re-installation of plesk does not lead to loss of physical data for the respective websites. Never the less to be very safe, copy everything from /var/www/vhosts to some secure folder before re-installing plesk ..

 

[IulianOlaru]

The autoinstaller file was deleted and i downloaded it from the plesk website and managed to reinstall. However, the 2 websites i was hosting are not showing as a webspace in plesk. Is there any possibility to reinstate them ?

 

[abdi]

Reinstating them will not be possible, unless if you have a valid plesk backup of them in /var/lib/psa/dumps/* otherwise, you would have to re-create them (but first backup there respective contents and databases..)

 

[IulianOlaru]

And if i have a valid backup, what is the process to reinstate them?

 

[abdi]

Create the respective client / subscription in the newly installed plesk and then from plesk, navigate to backup manager ...You should see it listed there ..(hoping that it's at /var/lib/psa/dumps)

 

[IulianOlaru]

I appreciate your help very much abdi. One more question please... i am trying to create the subscription using the same user as before but plesk is giving me the error that the username already exists. What is there to do?

 

[abdi]

You might have to delete the user records from

/etc/shadow

and or

/etc/passwd

But before then, make sure you have backed up those files should anything go wrong ...

 

[IulianOlaru]

Everything was succesfull and i thank you again for your wonderful assistance abdi.

 

[IulianOlaru]

Abdi, when trying to restore content from back-up i am receiving the following errors:

Failed to restore the remote database wordpress_d (domain klaver2.eu). It cannot be restored for security reasons. Please contact your hosting provider to solve this issue

Execution of /usr/local/psa/admin/plib/api-cli/protdir.php --create wp-admin -domain klaver2.eu -type nonssl -title wp-admin -ignore-phosting-settings -ignore-nonexistent-options failed with return code 1.
Stderr is
Unable to create protected URL: Unable to create user protection directory:filemng: Error occurred during /bin/mkdir command.

Any ideas ?

LATE EDIT: Permissions for the folders in /var/www/vhosts where wrong and as well, all databases and users need to be deleted before restore

 

[IgorG]

Try to run this command manually

# /usr/local/psa/admin/plib/api-cli/protdir.php --create wp-admin -domain klaver2.eu -type nonssl -title wp-admin -ignore-phosting-settings -ignore-nonexistent-options

and check output and log file /usr/local/psa/admin/logs/panel.log