Site Preview Issues in Plesk

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This article details how to fix a malfunctioning "Site Preview" button.

The Plesk control panel has a function to preview the site URL, before you change your DNS to the server (it's a useful tool from time to time).

To get to the preview tool, you would normally do:

Login to your Plesk Control Panel

Click on "Domains" and then click on the domain you wish to preview

Click on "Site Preview" and that should show the site on the Plesk Server.

Sometimes, there are problems with it, and you end up seeing a Error 404 (Page not found). In this case, you may do the following to resolve this issue. Please note, that this is a fix via Shell, and that you should know a little about shell before you venture into it.

Here is the fix:

Login to your Plesk server using the username "root" and the password for your Plesk administrative access.

Next, you will need to run the following command (this is using a editor called "vi"):

# vi /usr/local/psa/admin/conf/httpsd.conf

Near the end of the file section marked "<VirtualHost _default_:8880>" add the following items:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/sitepreview/(.{0,})$
RewriteRule ^/sitepreview/(.{0,})$ /sitepreview.php?$1 [L]

Next, we need to "save" the file, and then restart Plesk. You may restart Plesk, by doing the following:

# /etc/init.d/psa restart

Well done, that should have resolved the Site Preview problem that you may have experienced.

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