The table below shows the list of directories that Plesk creates for each virtual host. Note that Plesk does not add all the directories by default. It creates some of the directories only when the website owner needs them. Such directories are marked as created On demand. For example, after a customer adds a website, it does not have the /web_users directory. Plesk will create it only after the customer adds their first web user.

Directories Tree

User Permissions

Description

Created

\<VHOST>

None

\.plesk

List contents

Always

\statistics<domain_name>\

List contents

Statistics directory

Always

\anon_ftpstat

List contents

Anonymous FTP statistics

Always

\ftpstat

List contents

FTP user statistics

Always

\webstat

List contents

HTTP user statistics

Always

\.security

Read

Security settings

Always

\.web.<user>.security

Read

On demand

\anon_ftp

List contents

Anonymous FTP files

On demand

\cgi-bin

List contents

CGI scripts

On demand

\error_docs

List contents

Error message files

Always

<doc>.html

Read, write

\httpdocs

Full control

HTTP documents

Always

\logs

Full control

Logs of web services, web applications, and certain Plesk extensions (for example Git)

Always

\FailedRequests

Full control

Failed Requests Tracing logs

Always

\iis

Read

IIS logs of the subscription’s domains and subdomains.

Always

\php_errors

Full control

PHP logs of the subscription’s domains and subdomains

Always

\web_users

None

Web users’ directory

On demand

\<web_user>

None

\<subdomain>

Full control

HTTP and HTTPs documents of a subdomain

On demand

\<domain>

Full control

HTTP and HTTPs documents of an additional domain

On demand