Changing IP Addresses

You can switch from an existing IP address on your Plesk-managed server
to a newly created IP address or to another existing address.

During life-time of a Plesk installation, you may need to replace IP
addresses used for hosting with other IP addresses. Replacing all old IP
addresses with new ones may be necessary when moving a Plesk server onto
a new network. More often, you may need to introduce more subtle changes
in your server’s IP address pool. For example, you may need to free up
one or more IP addresses currently used for hosting on the server. This
will allow you to use the addresses for other purposes or to eliminate
them from the server’s IP pool altogether.

Every time you replace an IP address with a new one on a Plesk server,
you need to reconfigure Plesk and various services to use the new IP
address instead of the replaced one.

You can switch from one IP address to another and automatically
reconfigure Plesk and all hosting services on the server to use the new
address by using the Change Server IP Addresses option in the
Reconfigurator utility.

To change from one IP address on a Plesk-managed server to another,
follow these steps:

1. Log in to the Plesk-managed server as a user with administrator
   rights by using Remote Desktop.

2. In the Windows Start menu, select All Programs > Plesk >
   Plesk Reconfigurator. The Reconfigurator application window
   opens.

3. Select the Change server IP addresses option. The IP Addresses
   Reconfiguring window opens.

4. Under Select the IP addresses to be changed, select the
   checkboxes corresponding to the IP addresses that you want to change
   to other IP addresses.

   To view the list of domains hosted on particular IP address, click
   the IP address entry to highlight it. The list of hosted domains
   using the highlighted IP address is displayed in a window to the
   right.

5. Map each selected to an IP address of your choice.

   1. To map a selected address, click on the selected address entry.
      The entry is highlighted.
   2. Select the address to map to:
      • To map to an existing IP address, select Existing Address
        option and then select an existing address entry. The entry
        information is displayed in the Mapping Information column
        for the selected…