Plesk in VE

Below is an example transcript of installing Plesk into an OpenVZ VE (VE#11):

# vzctl create 11 --ostemplate centos-4-i386-default
Creating VPS private area: /vz/private/11
Performing postcreate actions
VPS private area was created

# vzctl set 11 --quotaugidlimit 150 --save
Saved parameters for VPS 11

# vzctl set 11 --numproc 400:400 --save
Saved parameters for VPS 11

# vzctl set 11 --kmemsize 16384000:18022400 --save
Saved parameters for VPS 11

# vzctl set 11 --privvmpages 262144:292912 --save
Saved parameters for VPS 11

# vzctl set 11 --hostname=plesk.example.com --save
Saved parameters for VPS 11

# vzctl set 11 --diskspace 2000000:2000000 --save
Saved parameters for VPS 11

# vzctl set 11 --shmpages 16384:16384 --save
UB limits were set successefully

# vzctl set 11 --ipadd 127.1.2.3 --save
Saved parameters for VPS 11

# vzctl set 11 --userpasswd root:pass
Changing password for user root.
passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully.

# vzctl set 11 --iptables "iptable_filter iptable_mangle ipt_limit ipt_multiport ipt_tos ipt_TOS ipt_REJECT ipt_TCPMSS ipt_tcpmss ipt_ttl ipt_LOG ipt_length ip_conntrack ip_conntrack_ftp ip_conntrack_irc ipt_conntrack ipt_state ipt_helper iptable_nat ip_nat_ftp ip_nat_irc" --save
Saved parameters for VPS 11

# vzctl start 11
Starting VPS ...
VPS is mounted
Adding IP address(es): 192.168.51.55
Setting CPU units: 1000
Set hostname: plesk.local
Setting quota ugidlimit: 150
VPS start in progress...

If you want to run a VPN server inside the VE you need to TUN/TAP module. The following commands consolidate what needs to be done:

# modprobe tun
# lsmod | grep tun
tun                     6624  0 
# vzctl set 11 --devices c:10:200:rw --save
Setting devices
Saved parameters for VPS 11
# vzctl exec 11 mkdir -p /dev/net
# vzctl exec 11 mknod /dev/net/tun c 10 200
# vzctl exec 11 chmod 600 /dev/net/tun

Make sure that the VE's hostname (plesk.example.com) is resolving correctly to the VE's IP address (127.1.2.3). You can also add the corresponding record to /etc/hosts as a workaround.

Then, go to http://www.swsoft.com/download/plesk8/ and download the appropriate autoinstaller or the appropriate RPM. In this case, [[1]] 4.3.

If you want to download the autoinstaller all you need to do is:

# wget http://download1.swsoft.com/Plesk/Plesk8.1/CentOS4.3/psa_installer_v3.1.0_build061201.02_os_CentOS_4.3_i386
# mv psa_installer_v3.1.0_build061201.02_os_CentOS_4.3_i386 /vz/private/11/root/
# vzctl exec 11 /root/psa_installer_v3.1.0_build061201.02_os_CentOS_4.3_i386

Proceed as you would if you were installing Plesk without OpenVZ.

When the installation over you will see something along the lines of:

                             Congratulations!
        Plesk has been successfully installed on your server.
        To complete the system configuration, please proceed to URL:
        https://plesk.local:8443/ or
        https://127.0.0.1:8443/
        Use the login name 'admin' and password 'setup'.

        Further, use the following commands to start and stop Plesk:
        "/etc/init.d/psa start" and
        "/etc/init.d/psa stop" respectively.

        All Plesk control panel documentation is available at
        http://www.swsoft.com/en/products/plesk80/docs

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 *                                                                           *
 *      NOTE:   You have a default key file with limited functionality       *
 *              currently installed for Plesk, which allows                  *
 *              creating one client account, one domain, one mail name and   *
 *              one web user.                                                *
 *              To extend the limits of your license key and enable          *
 *              additional features, please contact the SWsoft, Inc. sales   *
 *              department: sales@swsoft.com                                *
 *                                                                           *
 *      Thank you for choosing our products!                                 *
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Plesk install full output

Done. You can create a prepackaged template from this VE for further installations.