How to modify the primary / main ip address in Plesk or move sites
james September 8th, 2010
We have a plesk colocation server whose location changed. In the move, the ips changed. I added the new ips to the gui and changed the domains but the main ip could not be readily modified (it remained grayed out). You need to change the ip for each domain and remove them from the client pools. The plesk reconfigurator tool is a better choice in a move where you simply need to re-map ip addresses and I will use this tool on our next move before putting the new ips in the plesk gui.
What I found was a bit frustrating. The following will work for many and makes specific references to the proper tools whereas the parallels website merely says to change it in the backed (what? how?): Setup and change IP in Plesk
However, I was not able to use the reconfigurator tool to remove the main ip. I found the ipmanage tool in the same plesk directory, usually /usr/loca/psa/bin. Remember to stop plesk first! In centos this is service psa stop. Then I ran the command ./ipmanage -r aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd (while in the plesk directory mentioned above). Now restart plesk (service psa start). All should be right with the world again.
NOTE: The plesk article and documentation is nearly useless -> How do I change/remove the main IP address on an interface through Plesk?