Virtual Host Structure (Windows)

The table below shows the list of directories that Plesk creates for each virtual host. Note that Plesk does not add all the directories by default. It creates some of the directories only when the website owner needs them. Such directories are marked as created On demand. For example, after a customer adds a website, it does not have the /web_users directory. Plesk will create it only after the customer adds their first web user.

	Directories Tree			User Permissions	Description	Created
\<VHOST>				None
	.plesk			List contents		Always
		\statistics<domain_name>\		List contents	Statistics directory	Always
			\anon_ftpstat	List contents	Anonymous FTP statistics	Always
			\ftpstat	List contents	FTP user statistics	Always
			\webstat	List contents	HTTP user statistics	Always
		.security		Read	Security settings	Always
		.web.<user>.security		Read		On demand
	\anon_ftp			List contents	Anonymous FTP files	On demand
	\cgi-bin			List contents	CGI scripts	On demand
	\error_docs			List contents	Error message files	Always
		<doc>.html		Read, write
	\httpdocs			Full control	HTTP documents	Always
	\logs			Full control	Logs of web services, web applications, and certain Plesk extensions (for example Git)	Always
		\FailedRequests		Full control	Failed Requests Tracing logs	Always
		\iis		Read	IIS logs of the subscription’s domains and subdomains.	Always
		\php_errors		Full control	PHP logs of the subscription’s domains and subdomains	Always
	\web_users			None	Web users’ directory	On demand
		\<web_user>		None
	\<subdomain>			Full control	HTTP and HTTPs documents of a subdomain	On demand
	\<domain>			Full control	HTTP and HTTPs documents of an additional domain	On demand

Differences from Previous Versions

The structure described above was introduced in Plesk 11.5. It has the following differences compared to the structure of earlier Plesk versions:

• Some directories are created on demand. Previously, all the directories were created by default.
• The following directories have different locations:

Old Location	New Location	Comment
\statistics	\.plesk\statistics	Statistics directory
\statistics\logs	\logs	Virtual host logs
\.security	\.plesk\.security	Security settings
\.web.<user>.security	\.plesk\.security

• The following directories are not included in Plesk virtual hosts:
  • \httpsdocs
  • \subdomains
  • \private