How to install Plesk control panel on Debian !

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Parallels Plesk is an all-inclusive control panel solution opted by leading web hosting providers worldwide for shared web hosting, virtual web hosting and dedicated web hosting, including us.. This control panel is designed to simplify the management and administration of web sites. It automates a large number of tasks that allow service providers to reduce operating costs and resources while at the same time increasing productivity, competence & more importantly customer happiness/contentment..

Plesk is available for Windows & Linux web hosting servers. For installing this control panel on Linux servers, refer this link :
http://www.eukhost.com/forums/f15/how-install-plesk-control-panel-linux-vps-dedicated-servers-5434/

This tutorial is specifically for installing this wonderful control panel on the Debian operating system, which is done through a different method/way, than that mentioned in the above given link.

Here we go..

1. Install a fresh Debian OS and perform a dist-upgrade:

root@debian:/# apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade

2. Add the following line to the apt sources.list file located at /etc/apt/sources.list
(replace X.X.X and etch with the exact version you wish to have installed)

root@debian:/# deb http://autoinstall.plesk.com/debian/PSA_X.X.X etch all

eg: if you want to have Plesk 8.6.0 installed, add the following to the sources.list : deb http://autoinstall.plesk.com/debian/PSA_8.6.0 etch all
for version 9.0.0, add : deb http://autoinstall.plesk.com/debian/PSA_9.0.0 etch all
for version 9.0.1, add : deb http://autoinstall.plesk.com/debian/PSA_9.0.1 etch all

[Learn more about upgrading Debian & sources.list here : http://www.eukhost.com/forums/f15/upgrading-debian-latest-sources-list-files-5655/ ]

3. Force apt-get to update database with the new information from Plesk to download the packages from the necessary sources specified above:

root@debian:/# apt-get update

4. Install Plesk base system

root@debian:/# apt-get install psa

5. Install Plesk Autoupdate module with apt-get:

root@debian:/# apt-get install psa-autoinstaller

6. Install packages with PHP5 support for Plesk:

root@debian:/# apt-get install psa-php5-configurator

7. Finally restart the PSA service:

root@debian:/# /etc/init.d/psa restart

8. Now access the Plesk control panel through the web browser using any of the following syntax [where your-ip-address is your server's actual IP address]:

https://your-ip-address:8443/ or http://your-ip-address:8880/

The default login is with apt-get: admin with the password as setup. [remember to change the password once you login for the first time]..

Good luck with it...