Removing Plesk from Linux Systems

Important: following this procedure you will completely remove Plesk and erase all user data.

It is recommended that you have a Plesk distribution package at hand, because you will need to know the titles of RPM packages that your installation of Plesk comprises.

To deinstall Plesk from a Linux system:

1. Log in to your Plesk server as user root.
2. To deinstall packages, run the command rpm -e <titles of packages separated by white spaces>. Example:

   #rpm -e psa psa-proftpd psa-proftpd-xinetd

   The following is a list of packages included in Plesk 8 distribution:

   • AdvancedPoll
   • AutoIndex
   • b2evolution
   • bbclone
   • Coppermine
   • courier-imap
   • cs-gs
   • CSLH
   • DocFAQ
   • drweb
   • drweb-qmail
   • gallery
   • gtchat
   • libidn
   • Mambo
   • mod_webapp
   • openbiblio
   • osCommerce
   • Owl
   • perl-Apache-ASP
   • perl-Compress-Zlib
   • perl-Font-AFM
   • perl-FreezeThaw
   • perl-HTML-Format
   • perl-HTML-Tree
   • perl-IO-Ftp
   • perl-IO-Zlib
   • perl-MIME-Lite
   • perl-MLDBM
   • perl-MLDBM-Sync
   • perl-Text-Iconv
   • phpAds
   • phpBB
   • phpBook
   • phpBugTracker
   • phpDig
   • phpMoney
   • phpMyFamily
   • phpsurveyor
   • phpWiki
   • pLog
   • PostNuke
   • PPWSE
   • psa
   • psa-agent
   • psa-api-cli
   • psa-api-common
   • psa-api-rpc
   • psa-api-rpc-doc
   • psa-api-rpc-protocol
   • psa-bu
   • psa-courier-imap-add
   • psa-fileserver
   • psa-firewall
   • psa-hotfix
   • psa-key
   • psa-locale-base-en-US
   • psa-logrotate
   • psa-manual-custom-skin-guide
   • psa-migration-manager
   • psa-pre-keyupdate
   • psa-proftpd
   • psa-proftpd-xinetd
   • psa-qmail
   • psa-qmail-rblsmtpd
   • psa-spamassassin
   • psa-sve
   • psa-tomcat-configurator
   • psa-vpn
   • SSHTerm
   • Tellme
   • TUTOS
   • typo
   • UebiMiau
   • WebCalendar
   • WebShopmanager
   • WordPress
   • xrms
3. Delete all databases and database tables used by Plesk:

   #mysql -uadmin -p`cat /etc/psa/.psa.shadow`

   drop database psa;

   drop database horde;

4. Find out in which directory virtual hosts reside. To do this, open /etc/psa/psa.conf file and look up the value assigned to the 'HTTPD_VHOSTS_D' variable. Delete this directory by running the following command:

   rm -rf /directory_name/*

5. Erase all data related to mailboxes:

   #rm -rf /var/qmail/mailnames/*

6. Delete other directories used by Plesk:

   #rm -rf /usr/local/psa/

   #rm -rf /etc/psa

   #rm -rf /var/mailman

   #rm -rf /var/drweb

   #rm -rf /var/lib/webalizer

   #rm -rf /var/tomcat4 (if you had Tomcat 5 installed, run rm -rf /var/tomcat5)

7. Delete all references to DNS zones from the file /var/named/conf/named.conf, remove zone files from /var/named/run-root/var/, and modify the files in the directory /var/qmail/control appropriately.