David Slack - Web developer

To install Parallels Plesk 9 on Linux CentOS 5.5 I folowed these instructions

First make sure you have the correct install, see my CentOS 5.5 install page for more. Once you have CentOS update the whole thing with:

yum update

Wait for the updates to run answering 'y' to any update. Now we have a fully up-to-date system we need to find the version of the OS (I use CentOS 5.5). To do this use:

cat /etc/*release*

Now we need to uninstall everything we don't need as Plesk will add them for us. Use these lines to uninstall what's not needed:

yum remove http*

yum remove php*

yum remove cyrus*

yum remove mysql*

Once these have ran the server we need to check the firewall is off (this should have been turned off in the install of CentOS) as it will mess up the Plesk install and we can add one later. Use this to make sure it's off

setenforce 0

Next we create a directory for the Plesk download and go into it like this

cd /

mkdir /root/plesk

cd /root/plesk

We need to go and get the file for the Plesk install. Go here (you'll need a Plesk login) and choose the version of you OS (if you check the link you can change to another version of Plesk) but don't click the link, we want to download it to our linux machine to install on not nessecerally the one your using now. Simply get the link ready to paste into the SSH window.

Use 'wget' to get the file so mine would read

wget http://download1.parallels.com/Plesk/PPP9/CentOS5/parallels_installer_v3.6.0_build100407.15_os_CentOS_5_x86_64

NB. Make sure you use the correct version of Plesk and your OS

Make your installation file executible by using 'chmod' with 'x' so mine would say

chmod +x parallels_installer_v3.6.0_build100407.15_os_CentOS_5_x86_64

Now run the autoinstaller, mine is

./parallels_installer_v3.6.0_build100407.15_os_CentOS_5_x86_64

Press enter for the first 3 windows, then choose the Plesk install, the version you want and full install. This may take a while to complete so go have a cup of coffee

When its all done go to the IP address for the system with the port 8443 and using the secure http in a browser. Mine was https://192.168.0.100:8443/

You will be greeted with the login (or the procede thisng, just go past it) and for Plesk 9 log in with:
Username: admin
Password: setup

For Plesk 10 use the root password and root
NB Change the password!

Thanks to Rock for the help from this tutorial