Managing Services from the Command Line and Viewing Service Logs
This section describes how to stop, start, and restart services managed by Plesk, and access their logs and configuration files.
Plesk web interface
To stop the service through command line:
net stop plesksrv
To start the service through command line:
net start plesksrv
net start poppassd
To restart the service through command line:
net stop plesksrv
net start plesksrv
net start poppassd
Plesk’s log file is located in:
%plesk_dir%\admin\logs\W3SVC<IIS site ID>\ex<date>.log
Plesk’s PHP configuration file is located in:
%plesk_dir%\admin\php.ini
Internet Information Services log file is accessible at:
IIS manager > Sites or Application Pools > PleskControlPanel
Presence Builder
%plesk_dir%\SiteBuilder\_logs
Configuration files are accessible at:
IIS manager > Sites or Application Pools > sitebuilder(default) / SiteBuilderSitesWebAppPool
phpMyAdmin
Log files are located in:
%plesk_dir%\admin\logs\W3SVC<IIS site ID>\ex<date>.log
Configuration files are accessible at:
%plesk_dir%admin\htdocs\domains\databases\phpMyAdmin\config.inc.php
ASP.Net Enterprise Manager
Configuration files are accessible at:
IIS manager > Sites > sqladmin(default)\ mssql
myLittleAdmin 2000/2005
Configuration files are accessible at:
IIS manager > Sites > sqladmin(default)\ myLittleAdmin
%plesk_vhosts%\sqladmin\myLittleAdmin\2005\config.xml
MailEnable
To stop the service through command line:
net stop meimaps && net stop melcs && net stop memtas && net stop mepops && net stop mepocs && net stop mesmtpcs
To start the service through command line:
net start meimaps && net start melcs && net start memtas && net start mepops && net start mepocs && net start mesmtpcs
To restart the service through command line:
net stop meimaps && net stop melcs && net stop memtas && net stop mepops && net stop mepocs && net stop mesptpcs && net start meimaps && net start melcs && net start memtas && net start mepops && net start mepocs && net start mesmtpcs
Log files are located in:
%plesk_dir%Mail Servers\Mail Enable\Logging
Configuration files are accessible at:
%plesk_dir%\Mail Servers\Mail Enable\Bin\MailEnable.msc
DNS / Named / BIND
To stop the service through command line:
net stop named
To start the service through command line:
net start named
To restart the service through command line:
net stop named && net start named
Log files are accessible through Windows Event Viewer.
Configuration files are accessible at:
%plesk_dir%\dns
MySQL
To stop the service through command line:
net stop plesksqlserver
To start the service through command line:
net start plesksqlserver
To restart the service through command line:
net stop plesksqlserver && net start plesksqlserver
Log files are accessible through Windows Event Viewer.
Configuration file is accessible at:
%plesk_dir%MySQL\Data\my.ini
SpamAssassin
Log files are accessible through Windows Event Viewer.
Configuration files are accessible at:
%plesk_dir%\Additional\Perl\site\var\spamassassin\3.003001
Odin Premium Antivirus
To stop the service through command line:
net stop DrWebCom
To start the service through command line:
net start DrWebCom
To restart the service through command line:
net stop DrWebCom && net start DrWebCom
Log file is located in:
%plesk_dir%DrWeb\drcom.log
FTP service
To stop the service through command line:
net stop iisadmin
To start the service through command line:
net start iisadmin
To restart the service through command line:
net stop iisadmin && net start iisadmin
Log files are located in:
%plesk_vhosts%Servers\<ID>\logs
Configuration files are accessible at:
IIS Manager > FTP sites > <IP address>
Kaspersky Antivirus
To stop the service through command line:
net stop kavsvc
To start the service through command line:
net start kavsvc
To restart the service through command line:
net stop kavsvc && net start kavsvc
Log file is accessible through Windows Event Viewer.
Internet Information Services
To stop the service through command line:
net stop iisadmin
To start the service through command line:
net start iisadmin
To restart the service through command line:
net stop iisadmin && net start iisadmin
Web server log file is accessible through Windows Event Viewer.
Website logs are available at:
%plesk_vhosts%<domain>\statistics\logs\<SITE ID>
Configuration is available through IIS Manager.
AWStats
Configuration file is accessible at:
%plesk_vhosts%\<domain>\statistics\webstat\AWStats\cgi-bin\awstats.<domain>.conf
Webalizer
Configuration file is accessible at:
%plesk_dir%\Additional\Webalizer\conf\webalizer.conf
Plesk Backup Manager
Backup log files are located in:
%plesk_dir%\PMM\<session>\psadump.log
%plesk_dir%\PMM\<session>\migration.log
%plesk_dir%\PMM\logs\migration.log
%plesk_dir%\PMM\logs\pmmcli.log
Restoration log files are located in:
%plesk_dir%\PMM\rsessions\<session>\conflicts.log
%plesk_dir%\PMM\rsessions\<session>\migration.log
%plesk_dir%\PMM\logs\migration.log
%plesk_dir%\PMM\logs\pmmcli.log
Plesk Migration Manager
Log files are located in:
%plesk_dir%\PMM\msessions\<session>\migration.log
%plesk_dir%\PMM\rsessions\<session>\migration.log
%plesk_dir%\PMM\rsessions\<session>\conflicts.log
%plesk_dir%\PMM\logs\migration.log
%plesk_dir%\PMM\logs\pmmcli.log
%plesk_dir%\PMM\logs\migration_handler.log
Horde
Log file is located in:
%plesk_dir%\tmp\horde
Configuration files are accessible at:
Web interface - IIS manager > Sites > webmail (horde)
PHP settings - %plesk_vhosts%\webmail\horde\php.ini
Application settings - %plesk_vhosts%\webmail\horde\config\
Atmail
Error log is located in:
%plesk_dir%\tmp\atmail
Configuration files are accessible at:
Web interface - IIS manager > Sites > webmail (atmail)
Application settings -
%plesk_vhosts%\webmail\atmail\libs\Atmail\config.php