The default directory for all web files in Plesk on Linux is /var/www/vhosts. Usually this works well, but if you’d like to use another partition instead, you’ll be pleased to hear that you can!
Parallels (or Odin as we call them now) have written a handy script which moves the content and patches the relevant configuration file and copies all content at the same time. The script is called transvhosts and you can download it here:
Download it using wget and make the file executable:
wget http://kb.sp.parallels.com/Attachments/kcs-12467/transvhosts.pl chmod +x transvhosts.pl
It’s a PERL script, which means it needs prefixed with ‘perl’ to be called. Say you want to move your vhosts directory to /home/vhosts, you’d call it like this:
perl transvhosts.pl --dest-dir /home/vhosts --correct-scripts Moving files to new directory... Correct psa configuration file... Correct passwd file... Correct server configuration files... Clean up symlinks... /etc/httpd/conf/plesk.conf.d/vhosts Correct php-fpm pools configuration... Moving files to new directory... Correct psa configuration file... Correct passwd file... Correct server configuration files... Clean up symlinks... /etc/httpd/conf/plesk.conf.d/vhosts Correct database... Update hosting settings... done Update subdomains settings... done Update system users settings... done The service node 'local' was successfully updated. Correct user scripts...
This may take a moment or two depending on the amount of content you have in the current directory. The script will patch Plesk’s configuration file and restart the panel. There’s minimal downtime in involved in this process.
Now I’m getting 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable. Please help.
Dang! That’s difficult to troubleshoot remotely. Best put that directory back where it was then.
I fixed the issue. Restarted the server and restarted nginx and it was running fine.