Now I need to redirect people that access to any other subdomain (except the ones configured in plesk) to a different default directory.

For example http://xpto.mydomain.com to “/var/www/vhosts/mydomain.com/httpdocs/default”.

I’ve tried to create a wildcard, with the code listed bellow, but it only works if I paste it to the end of “http.include”, which is discarded after any other plesk change.

If I use the “vhost.conf” as suggested here, I get errors, because the include line at “http.include” is inside the first and lead me to problems with the others subdomains.

<VirtualHost 60.190.200.123:80>
	ServerName   mydomain.com:80
	ServerAlias   *.mydomain.com
	DocumentRoot /var/www/vhosts/mydomain.com/httpdocs/default
	CustomLog  /var/www/vhosts/mydomain.com/statistics/logs/access_log plesklog
	ErrorLog  /var/www/vhosts/mydomain.com/statistics/logs/error_log
</VirtualHost>

Is there any other way to do this ? Am I doing something wrong ?

HOWEVER (and this is a big however), I have 5-6 years of production-level “webmastering” under my belt. I could see how this would all seem very difficult and frustrating to the “average user”. Those who dislike Plesk probably didn’t read the manual or scour their web hosts’ knowledge bases, which often contain useful information relative to how Plesk is set-up on their specific servers.

One thing that I’ll mention AGAIN (the author attempts to make this point but it appears that many have ignored him anyway): don’t forget to tell Plesk to update its httpd.include file by issuing the following command in your shell of choice:

$ /usr/local/psa/admin/bin/websrvmng -a

And I don’t know what the big deal with people not being able to use Plesk like the last comment, I’ve had no problems with it and hosting a wide variety of PHP sites and open source projects with no problems for numerous clients. Some even programmed back in the PHP 3 days still work great in PHP5 via Plesk.

Again, thanks for this quick tutorial, works great!

Plesk 8.3 - OpenSuSE 10.2 Linux

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‘Limited customization – It’s very hard to efficiently implement per-tenant database schema customization in a single database, and it’s not possible to use standard DBMS tools – like built-in indexing. Plus, the multi-tenant application cannot use script-based customization of the internal logic – what if a buggy script loops infinitely?

SmoothSpan Bob Warfield and Unreasonable Men argued that customization capabilities are often excessive and there is little harm in removing much of that flexibility. For newly written applications, it might even be true. But if an ISV has a customer base to migrate to SaaS model, telling customers that their solutions will be broken because some of the customizations don’t work anymore is hardly an option.’

Apparently Plesk is not heading their own blog…LOL because we all are doing nothing but loosing functionality and the ability to see what is going on, on our sites.

I’m paying an extra 10 bucks a month for this Plesk thing which basically has reduced my site to nothing, I’m flying blind and everytime it reloads the httpd.include file is over written which would be fine if it would actually use vhost.conf but it does not.

1. AwStats which is just as important as Apache does not function at all.
2. Customizable httpd.include per domain does not work with
vhost.conf and since Plesk is an unsecured script, (because it must run with open base directory on), we have lost HUGE functionality. You do not see this problem with or like this in Cpanel at ALL!
In the past 10 years I have had only 2 problems with Cpanel both related to the file manager and editor, very minor and were fixed in the next version. When I say fixed I don’t mean they said it was fixed and it wasn’t, it means it was fixed and has worked perfectly ever since.

I guess Plesk is like windows 3.1 and Cpanel is like linux

Now if you think I’m a little more than perturbed with Plesk you’d be correct. However, I have spent the last three weeks messing around with Plesk because it doesn’t work rather than having my attention on my business and customers where it belongs. DO YOU understand that? Can you comprehend the ramifications of placing UNTESTED, UVALIDATED and weak performing code on a server and claiming it to be a management utility?

I’m running a business, not a hobby and [B]I am spending more time and money trouble shooting Plesk code than I am running my business. [/B]

I can not recommend anyone use, buy or rent any server with Plesk installed it is a total nightmare where is Cpanel maybe clunky but it works hands down.