• Our team is looking to connect with folks who use email services provided by Plesk, or a premium service. If you'd like to be part of the discovery process and share your experiences, we invite you to complete this short screening survey. If your responses match the persona we are looking for, you'll receive a link to schedule a call at your convenience. We look forward to hearing from you!
  • The BIND DNS server has already been deprecated and removed from Plesk for Windows.
    If a Plesk for Windows server is still using BIND, the upgrade to Plesk Obsidian 18.0.70 will be unavailable until the administrator switches the DNS server to Microsoft DNS. We strongly recommend transitioning to Microsoft DNS within the next 6 weeks, before the Plesk 18.0.70 release.
  • The Horde component is removed from Plesk Installer. We recommend switching to another webmail software supported in Plesk.

Resolved License key disappeared

sergiomb

Basic Pleskian
Hi very strange today at T02:45 UTC, plesk , says Error: The license key is invalid. ...
I checked, /etc/sw/keys/keys directory is empty the /etc/sw/keys/registry.xml says
remove_time 20170415T02:45:28 .
How I recover plesk and license key ?

running
/usr/local/psa/bin/sw-engine-pleskrun /usr/local/psa/admin/plib/DailyMaintainance/script.php UpdateKeys
[2017-04-15 06:17:45] ERR [panel] Error: There is no main license key installed
[2017-04-15 06:18:58] ERR [panel] Error: Unable to retrieve custom properties: the license key does not exist.


<value><struct>
<member><name>history</name>
<value><array><data>
<value><struct>
<member><name>key_number</name>
<value><string>PLSK.xxxxxxxxxx</string></value></member>
<member><name>key_product_name</name>
<value><string>plesk-unix</string></value></member>
<member><name>key_server_url</name>
<value><string>https://ka.plesk.com:5224/xmlrpc</string></value></member>
<member><name>remove_time</name>
<value><dateTime.iso8601>20170415T02:45:28</dateTime.iso8601></value></member>
</struct></value>
 
Last edited:
Hi sergiomb,

you should consider to inform us, if you purchased the Plesk license over Plesk, or if the license has been provided by your server hoster. At each of these two cases, you should be able to download the key - file either over the Control Panel of your server hoster, or over the Plesk Shop. In addition, you might have received an "Activation Key", with which it is simpler to re-install your license over:

HOME > License Management > (Menu Button) Install Key
 
Hello, thanks for the quick answer
The license has been provided by my server hoster, I migrate the host from an old ubuntu (maybe 11.04) to centos7 , I got one license in the backups that permits migration and expired in 10 of march.

cp keyXXoWSZXV /etc/sw/keys/keys
/usr/local/psa/bin/sw-engine-pleskrun /usr/local/psa/admin/plib/DailyMaintainance/script.php UpdateKeys
[2017-04-15 16:56:15] ERR [panel] KeyUpdate Result code: 2 Unspecified error
[2017-04-15 16:56:15] ERR [panel] KeyUpdate Result desc: This license key is detected as terminated. No further actions with this license key are allowed
[2017-04-15 16:57:38] ERR [panel] Error: Unable to retrieve custom properties: the license key does not exist.
ls -l /etc/sw/keys/keys
total 0

So I suspect because I did one reboot yesterday , somehow detect that license is expired and remove it , so I think it was a problem of expired license and I think what I need is ask to a new license key to "server hoster" ? this shouldn't autorenew automatically ? anything that I can do to try renew the license ? etc

Thanks in advance.
 
Back
Top