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Change system user for a domain in Plesk

I have a server with Plesk installed, running a couple of webs.

One of them, the-subdomain.com, started as a subdomain of another one, the-domain.com. They were created using the same system user and it was hosted in a subdirectory of httpdocs (httpdocs/the-subdomain).

Now I want to change the-subdomain.com to its own system account, but Plesk does not have the option to do it.

Is there an easy way to do this?

Solution

  • This is how I did:

    • Firs, I created another subscription (the-subdomain2.com), as Oleg said
    • Then, I copied all data to new subscription
    • After that, I tested all was working fine touching my local hosts file
    • Then, I deleted the old subscription
    • The last step was to rename the-subdomain2.com to the-subdomain.com

    Unrelated to this, while playing with susbscriptions, I created a system user which then I needed to delete. Plesk hasn't the option to delete the user, so I deleted the account on the machine (userdel -r THE_USER_TO_DELETE) and then on the Plesk database (use psa; delete from sys_users where login='THE_USER_TO_DELETE';)