We recommend that you read information about the product installation, upgrade, or migration before you start deploying Plesk. This information, including detailed instructions, can be found in the Deployment Guide.
When installing Plesk, pay attention to the following installation requirements:
CloudLinux Support
Installing or operating Plesk on a CloudLinux server with link traversal protection enabled results in a variety of issues. To avoid them, disable the 'fs.protected_symlinks_create' kernel option first.
Active Directory Domain Controllers Support
Installing Plesk on a server acting as a primary or backup domain controller may result in the server crashing during the creation of domains with certain names.
AppArmor Support
Plesk Obsidian supports AppArmor on Ubuntu 16.04 and Ubuntu 18.04. Before installing Plesk Obsidian on any supported Debian version, make sure that AppArmor is disabled first.
NFS Shares Support
Plesk does not officially support the use of NFS shares for storing vhosts directories. This configuration was not tested and can be used at your own risk.
The following browsers are supported:
Desktop
- Google Chrome (latest) for Windows and Mac OS
- Mozilla Firefox (latest) for Windows and Mac OS
- Apple Safari (latest) for Mac OS
- Opera (latest) for Windows and Mac OS
- Microsoft Edge® 15.x for Windows 10
Smartphones and Tablets
- Chrome Mobile
- Default browser (Safari) on iOS 8.x-12.x
- Default browser on Android 4.x-9.x
- Microsoft Edge® for Windows Mobile
Configuration and content from the following hosting platforms can be imported into Plesk Obsidian:
- Plesk for Linux and Plesk for Windows: 8.6, 9.5, 10.4, 11.0, 11.5, 12.0, 12.5, and Plesk Onyx.
- cPanel 64 and later
- Confixx 3.3
- Helm 3.2
- Plesk Expand 2.3.2
- Parallels Pro Control Panel for Linux 10.3.6
Plesk can automatically set up the following email clients:
- Microsoft Outlook
- Mozilla Thunderbird
- Gmail
- Apple Mail
Supplied Components
Linux
Plesk Obsidian for Linux distribution packages include the following components:
- Plesk Premium Antivirus 6.0.2
- Kaspersky Anti-Virus 8.5.1.102
- ImunifyAV
- AWStats 7.7
- ProFTPD 1.3.6c
- qmail 1.03
- Courier-IMAP 5.0.8
- Postfix 3.5.6 (for most OSes), 2.11.11 (CentOS 6, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, and CloudLinux 6)
- Dovecot 2.3.10.1
- Horde IMP 5 (requires PHP 5.3)
- Horde 5.2.23
- IMP 6.2.24.1
- Ingo 3.2.16
- Kronolith 4.2.29
- Nag 4.2.19
- Mnemo 4.2.14
- Passwd 5.0.7
- Turba 4.2.25
- Pear 1.10.9
- Roundcube 1.4.8
- phpMyAdmin 5.0.3
- nginx 1.18.0
- OpenSSL 1.0.2r
- OpenSSL used by nginx 1.1.1g
- TLS 1.3 (in nginx for customers' websites)
PHP 5.2.17, 5.3.29, 5.4.45, 5.5.38, 5.6.40, 7.0.33, 7.1.33, 7.2.34, 7.3.26, 7.4.14, 8.0.1.
Note: making changes to the/usr/local/psa/admin/conf/php.ini
file may result in Plesk failing to operate properly.- Fail2ban 0.10.3.1
- ModSecurity 2.9.3
- ModSecurity Rule Set 2.2.9-30-g520a94b
- Resource Controller (for CentOS 7, Debian 8, and Ubuntu 16 servers)
Node.js 4.6.1, 6.14.1, 7.0.0, 8.16.0, 9.0.0, 10.0.0, 12.0.0.
Note: on CentOS 6, Debian 7.x, and Ubuntu 12.x, Node.js 12 is not supported.- Phusion Passenger 6.0.6
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Ruby 2.1.10, 2.2.10, 2.3.8, 2.4.6, 2.5.5, 2.6.3.
Note: on Debian 9, only Ruby 2.4.6 and later is supported. - Bundler 1.13.5
- Rootkit Hunter 1.4.4
Windows
Plesk Obsidian for Microsoft Windows distribution packages include the following components:
- Plesk Premium Antivirus 6.0.2
- Kaspersky Anti-Virus 8.6.1.51
- Microsoft SQL Server Express 2012 SP3
- Microsoft SQL Server Express 2014 SP2
- Microsoft SQL Server Express 2016 SP1
- Microsoft SQL 2017 Express
- MariaDB 10.5.8 (for Plesk database)
- MariaDB 10.5.8 and 10.3.27 (for customer websites)
- BIND DNS Server 9.16.6
- MailEnable Standard 10.27
- PHP 5.2.17, 5.3.29, 5.4.45, 5.5.38, 5.6.40, 7.0.33, 7.1.33, 7.2.34, 7.3.26, 7.4.14, 8.0.1
- ASP.NET Core 2.1.23, 3.1.10, 5.0
- .NET Core 3.1.3, 2.1.17
- ionCube Loader 10.4.1
- SpamAssassin 3.0-3.4.4
- myLittleAdmin 3.8.20
- phpMyAdmin 5.0.3
- AWStats 7.7
- Webalizer V2.01-10-RB02 (Windows NT 5.2) English
- Horde 5.2.23 and IMP 6.2.23
- Microsoft Web Deploy 3.5 + WebMatrix 3.0
- Microsoft Web Deploy 3.6
- IIS URL Rewrite Module 7.2.1993
- Node.js 4.6.1, 6.14.1, 8.16.1, 9.0.0, 10.22.1, 12.19.1
- 7zip 18.05
- Microsoft Visual C++ 2017 Redistributable
Supported Third-Party Components
Linux
Web servers:
- Apache 2.2, 2.4
Mail servers:
- Postfix 2.11.3 (Debian 8)
DNS servers:
- BIND 9.8–9.11
Web statistics:
- Webalizer 2.x
Web scripting:
- mod_perl 2.0.8
- mod_python 3.3.1 *
- PHP 5.2–8.0 **
Database servers and tools:
- MySQL 5.1–5.7
- MySQL community edition 5.5, 5.6, 5.7
- PostgreSQL 8.4–10
- MariaDB 5.5-10.5
- MariaDB Connector 3.0.9
Anti-spam tools:
- SpamAssassin 3.0–3.4
* - mod_python is not supported on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x, CentOS 7.x, and CloudLinux 7.x.
** - by default, PHP used for Plesk webmail (Horde, Roundcube) is installed from the repository of the OS vendor. You can install PHP from an alternative repository following the repository maintainers' instructions, provided that the PHP package names remain the same. Installing PHP from a repository that changes the names of PHP packages (for example, IUS, Webtatic) will prevent Plesk webmail from operating correctly, and may also cause dependency issues when installing Plesk updates.
Windows
This is a shortened list of supported third-party components. It does not include the components supplied with the Plesk distribution, as they were already mentioned as distributed and supported.
Web servers
- Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.5, 8.0, 8.5, 10.0
Mail servers
- MailEnable Standard / Professional / Enterprise / Enterprise Premium 6.91–10.27
- SmarterMail 100, 16.3
- IceWarp Mail Server 12.0.3.1
Webmail tools
- MailEnable Web Client
- SmarterMail Web Client
- IceWarp (Merak) Mail Server Web Client
Spam filtering tools
- SmarterMail Spamfilter
- IceWarp (Merak) Mail Server Anti-Spam
Antivirus tools
- SmarterMail Anti-Virus
- IceWarp (Merak) Mail Server Anti-Virus
DNS servers
- Microsoft DNS Server
- Simple DNS Plus 6.0.115
Web statistics
- SmarterStats 11.1
Web scripting
- ASP
- ASP.NET 2.0-4.x
- ASP.NET Core 2.1.23, 2.2.2, 3.1.10, 5.0 (“Windows Server Hosting (.exe) Runtime” on the download page)
- Python 2.7.17
Database servers
- Microsoft SQL Server 2005–2016
- MySQL community edition 5.5, 5.6, 5.7
- MySQL ODBC connector 5.3.14