Issue SSHFS mount makes Plesk-hosted sites unreachable :(

[stevland]

Yesterday I used SSHFS to mount a directory on another server with my CentOS 7 / Plesk web server.

I then added an entry to /etc/fstab/ to make the mount persistent

sshfs#[email protected]:/var/www/html/ /mnt/html fuse defaults,allow_other 0 0

This setup works great and allows me to quickly transfer files to a testing server for a project I am developing.

That is, until today when I went to add a new domain to Plesk. After adding the domain I recieved and email with this:

Template_Exception: AH00526: Syntax error on line 124 of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:
DocumentRoot '/var/www/html' is not a directory, or is not readable

file: /usr/local/psa/admin/plib/Template/Writer/Webserver/Abstract.php
line: 75
code: 0

I unmounted the remote folder, deleted the mount point, removed the entry from fstab and rebooted.

All of the websites that I host are now unreachable.

ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED

I see that httpd.conf is riddled with entries pointing to '/var/www/html', which is the remote file system (my Plesk server uses /var/www/vhosts).

Please help!

1) Will it suffice to change all of the entries in httpd.conf to the proper values? Or what do I have to do to undo this?

2) How did this happen / what did I not understand or do wrong to create this situation?

3) How can I mount a remote directory without messing up my whole server?!

 

[stevland]

UPDATE: I edited httpd.conf and corrected the entries. Everything now appears to be working normally.

But my questions 2) and 3) still stand.