Plesk cannot create subscription

Question

I have a Centos Server and I had a demo site running on apache. I decided to install and use Nginx instead of Apache. Everything went well until nginx user asked for my site folder permissions. So I did

chown -R nginx path/mysite_folder 

then I wasn't able to login from FTP, Plesk also has a lot of errors.

I deleted my domain/subscription from within Plesk and then I tried to create a new one, but I couldn't, Plesk wasn't able to create a new domain/subscription and gave me this error:

failed: Unable to create user protection directory:filemng: Error occurred during /bin/mkdir command

Answer 1

In general ownerships and permissions can be restored.

For example if you modified only PP installation directory, you may run these commands in order to bring everything back to order:

Permissions and ownerships reset to their default settings:

for p in $(rpm -qa | grep plesk); do rpm --setugids $p; done
for p in $(rpm -qa | grep psa); do rpm --setugids $p; done
for p in $(rpm -qa | grep plesk); do rpm --setperms $p; done
for p in $(rpm -qa | grep psa); do rpm --setperms $p; done

The order in which you execute the commands is important.

You can also verify the correctness of the ownerships you have reset by comparing them with those on a working server. If all those actions fail then you can always re-install or update Plesk to the last version (11.5: supports Nginx) the user rights will be updated.

When ready add your nginx user to the root group using usermod command.