After installing Parallels Plesk on a fresh server you may need to open ports 8443 and 8447 to access the web interface. These ports are not open by default. If your installation went fine but you can’t access Plesk in your browser via https://yourdomain.com:8443 then it’s likely that those ports aren’t open.
Port 8443 is for Plesk Panel, and 8447 is for additional packages you can install via the web interface. Thanks a million to John Veldboom to this critical tip!
Here’s how to do it:
vi /etc/sysconfig/iptables
Now add the following two lines under the INPUT ACCEPT section:
-A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 8443 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 8447 -j ACCEPT
Restart the service for those changes to take effect:
service iptables restart
This should also work on Fedora and of course RedHat Linux.
If you get an error message upon restart, it may be that copy/paste replaced the minus signs in those switches. Just go through and replace every – manually.
As of CentOS 7 firewalld has replaced iptables as the default port configuration tool, I found this out the hard way after following the instructions above and still having issues. For anyone looking to do this I had to do the following to open port 8447:
firewall-cmd –zone=public –add-port=8447/tcp –permanent
firewall-cmd –reload
Hope you get well soon Jay.
Indeed it has, thanks for sharing Andy! I’ll try my best to hang in there health wise :-/