Cpanel/WHM FAQs

Plesk

Plesk is an excellent and less-buggy webhosting control panel. The main advantage of Plesk is that it will work on Windows Platform also.

Plesk 8 (Linux) How to uninstall?

Its recommended to do a fresh OS reload rather than reinstalling plesk. But we can do some work around with it to reinstall without a OS reload and I have done the same for over 30+ servers. Please perform the following steps for that

1)Remove the psa rpms

rpm -qa |grep psa - It will show the installed psa rpms and remove it via rpm -e --nodeps {rpm names here}

2) You will have to remove the other plesk related rpms too

For example, if you have enabled Tomcat feature before, do rpm -qa |grep tomcat and then remove it

3) Remove the mysql rpms and delete the admin user

rpm -qa |grep mysql, rpm -e --nodeps {mysql rpms}, userdel -r admin

4) Remove the /var/qmail folder

5) Now, try running the psa installer and see how it goes. If you face any difficulty in reinstalling plesk, feel free to contact me: contact@sumith.net

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