To set Plesk server’s default locale to English (United States):

or

To view the list of available interface languages (locales):

or

To view the list of available skins:

or

To view the list of available interface customization templates:

or

To set the host name to host.example.com:

or

To see the currently configured server preferences:

To see the list of supported locales:

Loads default Plesk settings from Partner Central and saves them to /opt/psa/admin/conf/customizations.conf

When you have several Plesk servers, it may be convenient to customize Plesk setting once through Partner Central and then download the settings to each Plesk server.

To load customization settings from Partner Central:

To turn on the web application firewall and select the OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set (CRS) rule set:

To view the web application firewall settings:

To display help on the use of the server_pref utility:

or

Sets the default interface language for Plesk interface.

The argument of the option must be a valid four-letter language code derived from the language code described in ISO-639-2 and the corresponding country code described in ISO-3166.

For example, the Plesk code for the Italian language code is it-IT; the Plesk code for the American variant of English is en-US; the Plesk code for the British variant of English is en-GB.

Used with the --set-default only.

To set the default interface language for Plesk administrator’s interface to Russian:

Sets the default interface skin for Plesk interface.

Used with the --set-default only.

To set the skin WinXP Olivegreen as the default skin:

Sets the default interface customization template to Plesk interface.

Used with the --set-default only.

To apply customization template Interface Customization Template to administrator’s control panel interface:

To set the host name to host.example.com:

To set the Apache restart interval to 3600 seconds:

To enable including log files in the disk space usage calculation:

To enable including databases in the disk space usage calculation:

To enable including remote MySQL databases in the disk space usage calculation:

To enable including mailboxes in the disk space usage calculation:

To enable including mailing lists in the disk space usage calculation:

To enable including domain backup files in the disk space usage calculation:

To enable including backup files created by the Administrator in the disk space usage calculation:

To enable counting disk space usage based on actual file sizes:

Limits the number of months to retain traffic statistics.

Is 4 by default.

To retain traffic statistics for 3 months:

Specifies a type of calculating traffic. The following types are available:

• inbound and outbound (both)
• inbound (in)
• outbound (out)

To include only outbound traffic in the traffic calculation:

Disables/Enables users to create DNS subzones in other users’ DNS superzones.

Is false by default.

To prohibit users from creating DNS subzones in other user’s DNS superzones:

To include Java applications in the disk space usage calculation:

Enables/Disables adding database owner login name (customer or reseller) to database names as prefix <client|reseller>_login>_.

Is false by default.

To enable creating databases with names <client|reseller login>_<database name>:

To enable running scheduled backup processes with low priority:

Sets the compression level for your backups and those created by customers and resellers.

You can specify the following compression levels: fastest, fast, normal, maximum, or no compression. The faster the compression level, the bigger the backup size and the lower CPU load is.

By default, Plesk uses fast compression.

To set the maximum compression level in the server backup settings (the smallest backup size, the slowest backup speed, the highest CPU load):

To restrict the maximum number of simultaneously running scheduled backup processes to 5:

To limit the number of backups users are allowed to have to 5:

Enables/Disables adding database owner login name (customer or reseller) to database user names as prefix <<client|reseller>_login>_.

Is false by default.

To enable creating database users with names <customer|reseller login>_<database user name>:

To restrict a database user name length to 10:

To make Plesk work with APS Catalog accessible by the URL http://apscatalog.com:

Hides from Control Panel all controls related to managing e-mail services and adding new mail accounts.

This option does not actually switch off the Plesk-managed mail server, but only removes the following items from the Control Panel accessed by hosting service customers and their users:

• Mail tab.
• Home tab > Mail group.
• Users tab > user name > Create an email address under your account option.

To hide from Control Panel all mail-related controls:

Selects the shell that can be used on the server for running scheduled tasks with cron.

To learn more about this setting, refer to the Administrator Guide, (Plesk for Linux) Scheduled Tasks Shell Setting.

To allow execution of scripts in a non-chrooted environment and select the Bourne shell:

Sets the domain name example.com for the site preview function:

To turn on the password protection for websites preview:

To turn on the support for the subdomain zones:

To turn on automatic updates for Plesk:

Sets an email address that will receive notifications about installed Plesk updates.

Requires the --update command.

To send email notifications about installed Plesk updates to mail@example.com:

To forbid automatic installation of updates for third-party components:

To set the “strong” level of the password strength for user passwords:

To forbid all customers to change the system user name:

Forbids customers and resellers to change the name of the main domain in their subscriptions. By default, the main domain name is the same as the subscription name.

Note that Plesk administrators can modify subscription names even if this option is true.

By default, for example, after Plesk upgrade or on new Plesk installations, this option is false.

To forbid customers and resellers to change the name of the main domain on their subscriptions:

To set the desired SSL/TLS protocols:

To set the desired SSL/TLS ciphers:

To switch off automatic upgrade of Plesk extensions:

To enable the Apache piped logging:

Sets up FTPS to protect communication between the FTP server and external FTP clients using SSL/TLS protocol.

To allow only secure FTPS connections, use required.

To allow both FTP and FTPS, use enabled.

To allow only secure FTPS connections:

To set the URL opening at the press of the Support button to http://example.com:

Turns on force automatic updates for all installed applications.

Users will be unable to turn off the updates.

To set force updates for all installed applications:

Turns on automatic updates for all newly installed applications. If true, the option “Automatically update this app” will be turned on by default in the settings of each newly installed app.

Users will be able to turn the updates off unless the force updates are turned on by the Administrator.

To switch off automatic updates for newly installed applications:

Allows or forbids the use of Plesk server as an FTP storage for Plesk backups.

If users configure backups for their Plesk accounts to go to their own FTP directories on the same Plesk server, the amount of used disk space will double upon creation of each backup. This can eventually run the server out of free disk space. To prevent this, we recommend that you use this option so as not to allow the use of Plesk server as an FTP storage for Plesk backups.

To prevent users from configuring Plesk so as to save backups to FTP directories on the same server:

To secure Plesk with the SSL/TLS certificate cert1:

Specifies the domain of the SSL/TLS certificate repository. By default, the server repository is used.

This option is used with the option -panel-certificate.

To secure Plesk with the SSL/TLS certificate cert3 that is stored at the repository of the domain example.net:

Specifies the web application firewall (ModSecurity) mode.

Used with the --update-web-app-firewall command.

To turn on the web application firewall and select the OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set (CRS) rule set:

Specifies the rule set used by the web application firewall (ModSecurity).

Used with the --update-web-app-firewall command.

To turn on the web application firewall and select the “Comodo (free)” ModSecurity Core Rule Set (CRS) rule set:

To turn on the web application firewall and select the “Atomic Standard (free, can be upgraded to Atomic Advanced)” ModSecurity rule set:

To turn on the web application firewall and select a custom rule set:

To turn on the web application firewall and update rule sets weekly:

To turn on the web application firewall and select the “Tradeoff” set of values:

To deactivate the security rules with the IDs 340003, 340005, 340006, and 340007:

To deactivate the security rules with the “anomaly-evaluation” and “attack-disclosure” tags:

To add the contents of /tmp/regex to the list of regular expressions in the ModSecurity configuration:

To add the contents of /tmp/custom to the list of custom directives in the ModSecurity configuration: