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Copy website files to another domain under your subscription or to an FTP account.

If you have a production website and are planning major site changes, consider setting up a staging site — a separate location on the server where you can conveniently update and test a copy of the site before putting it into production.We recommend that you work with a staging site...

Create databases and manage them by means of phpMyAdmin.

If your website incorporates custom data processing applications or is designed to generate web pages dynamically, you will probably need a database for storing and retrieving data.In Plesk, you can do the following:Manually create a database for your site.Make a database copy.Manage database user accounts and set up access rules.View...

Configure the period that a user session is allowed to remain idle before it is closed.

**Session Preferences**You can customize session settings in Plesk to enhance security and accommodate various needs.### Adjusting Session Idle TimeTo set the allowed idle time for sessions:1. **Navigate to**: Tools & Settings > Session Idle Time (in the Security group).2. **Specify Idle Time**: Enter the desired idle time in minutes. If...

Mitigating the Symlinks Vulnerability

When Apache or nginx serve static files, they follow symbolic links even if a link points to a file owned by another system user (for example, one corresponding to a different subscription). This allows an attacker with access to a subscription to read files from another subscription, including files containing...

Change the password for access to Plesk.

To change your password for access to the Customer Panel:Click a link with your name at the top of the screen.Click Edit Profile.In the profile settings, type a new password, confirm it and click OK.image 76818To change a username or password that you use for connecting to your subscription over...

(Only on Linux) Optimize the performance of Plesk by switching off unused Apache modules.

To increase the performance of your Apache web server, you can do the following:Switch off unnecessary Apache modules to decrease the server resource consumption.Set up the Apache restart interval to decrease the number of Apache restarts.Choose the Apache restart type: graceful or normal.Switching On and Off Apache ModulesYou can switch...