Webserver default site: Option for "none, without Plesk default page"
I don't want to assign a specific web site for the server's IP address, but I also don't want to show visitors the Plesk default page. Current workaround is to create a domain "defaultpage.tld" that delivers an empty page to make the monitoring happy.
Downside of this is that it wastes a domain license.
Would be nice, in "Tools & Settings > IP Addresses" to have another option "none, empty page".
Larsen
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For technical reasons of how Apache works, it is not possible to create an empty page site without defining any ip address. A web server must listen to an ip address to being able to respond, even if it responds with an empty page. Apache sieves traffic through all known domain names that are configured on the server until it finds no more virtual host entries. Then it defaults to the standard page.
This standard page is the Plesk page that you see. But there is an easy solution to achieve exactly what you want: You can simply replace the content of that standard page with anything you like. You can put a website into it or you can remove the existing file content so that the web server delivers the empty, white page you desire. Have a look at the content of /var/www/vhosts/default/htdocs. This is your document root for the default page.
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Larsen
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I didn't say that I don't want to assign an IP adress...
The contents of the default Plesk page directory will be restored on Plesk updates, won't they?