Ports Used by Plesk

On servers protected by a firewall, the following ports must not be blocked to ensure proper operation of Plesk and accessibility of Plesk-managed services.

Service name

Ports used by service

Administrative interface of Plesk over HTTPS

TCP 8443

Administrative interface of Plesk over HTTP

TCP 8880 *

Web server and Plesk Updater

TCP 80, TCP 443

FTP server

TCP 20, 21, 990

SSH (secure shell) server

TCP 22

SMTP (mail sending) server

TCP 25, TCP 465

POP3 (mail retrieval) server

TCP 110, TCP 995

IMAP (mail retrieval) server

TCP 143, TCP 993

MySQL/MariaDB server

TCP 3306

MS SQL server

TCP 1433

Tomcat Java service

TCP 9080, 9008

Licensing Server connections

TCP 443

Domain name server

UDP 53, TCP 53

Plesk upgrades and updates

TCP 8447