Plesk Panel “Service is not available now”
December 23rd, 2008
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Sometime Plesk panel would display the following message as soon as you log into it.
Service is not available now, probably your Plesk is misconfigured.
Contact Your provider for details.
In my case, the above message appeared just after I configured the firewall (iptables) on my VPS. After some research on the internet, I found that Plesk likes to have the port 8880 opened additionally to the port 8443.
Ports you need to open on your firewall for Plesk to stop complaining:
Port 8443
Port 8880
If you are using iptables, below is how you need to configure your ports for Plesk and Virtuozzo.
# Virtuozzo iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 4643 -j ACCEPT # Plesk iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 8443 -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 8880 -j ACCEPT
That’s it. This fixes the error message caused by firewall.