Resolved [Plesk Repair Utility] Unable to repair incorrect permissions

[Justin]

Hi guys,

I encounter these errors on one of my servers when I used the Plesk Repair Utility to repair permissions on some of the domains.

I did:

#plesk repair fs -verbose

Outputs on domains with permission errors:

#There are incorrect permissions on some items in the system

directory for the domain 'domain.com' ........................ [ERROR]

- Failed to stat

/var/www/vhosts/system/domain.com/conf/httpd.conf: No such

file or directory

Failed to stat

/var/www/vhosts/system/domain.com/conf/nginx.conf: No such

file or directory

Do you want to repair incorrect permissions? [Y/n] Y

Repairing incorrect permissions ................................. [FAILED]

- openat 'conf' failed: Too many levels of symbolic links

Failed to open safely

/var/www/vhosts/system/domain.com/conf: Too many levels of

symbolic links

open_basedir_with_nofollow: opeat failed: `conf', Too many

levels of symbolic links

open_basedir_with_nofollow failed

Failed to open safely

/var/www/vhosts/system/domain.com/conf/httpd.conf: Too

many levels of symbolic links

open_basedir_with_nofollow: opeat failed: `conf', Too many

levels of symbolic links

open_basedir_with_nofollow failed

Failed to open safely

/var/www/vhosts/system/domain.com/conf/nginx.conf: Too

many levels of symbolic links

Outputs on one of the domain:

Failed to stat /var/www/vhosts/domain2.com/httpdocs/./data/VERSION: Permission denied

Failed to stat /var/www/vhosts/domain2.com/httpdocs/./data/EMPTY: Permission denied

I tried using the transvhost.pl to correct the symbolic link stated in one of the plesk documentation [don't remember link].

I did:

perl transvhosts.pl --dest-dir /var/www/vhosts/ --correct-scripts

Output:

server is already configured.

How can I resolve this?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

[Bitpalast]

Are you saying that /httpdocs is a symbolic link instead of a real directory?

 

[Justin]

Geez, Peter, you saved the day again! That one sentence of yours inspired me to dig around and fixed the problem!

After digging around /var/www/vhosts/system/ for a while, I realized the 'conf' folder in all the domains became symbolic links instead of a real directory. The reason why this might have happened is that I used transvhosts.pl and moved the vhosts to the 'home' partition but then I moved it back to /var/www/vhosts/system/.

I move it back because all my production sites went down with a 500 Internal error. So I freaked out and moved everything back. Then it caused a whole new set of problems from corrupted vhosts structures to messed up permissions. The permission of the "system" folder in vhosts somehow changed to a user on one of my sites instead of root. (e.g jason:jason instead of root:root) Crazy stuff!

So I did
chown -R root:root /var/www/vhosts/system/

and

delete all 'conf' symbolic links and move the 'conf' folder from 'home' partition to each domain.

cd /home/www/vhost/system/domain.com/
mv * conf /var/www/vhosts/domains.com/

then

plesk repair fs -verbose

Everything is fixed!

Thanks, Peter! It was a good learning experience.