Cockpit / Webserver-Dashboard / valid data?

[MovingOn (Bernd)]

Hello All,

using Nethserver as a privat mailserver i’m very happy with it for years now. Most things i was able to fix with the answers given in the forum - but now there is an issue where i just can not find the answer to:

In cockpit, the application/Webserver/settings module just does not give me information:

and the vhosts information is just wrong (testing via php info i get 7.4 as php info, as i was setting this in the old nethserver admin gui).

I was searching the forum but i was not able to find something to solve this issue - can someone give me a hint how to fix the cockpit module display?

In addition i don’t find a place in cockpit where to set the default php - version. In the default vHost there is just not setting:

Thanks again for your work and support and i would appreciate it a lot if someone could point me in the right direction

Kind regards,
Bernd

[MovingOn (Bernd)]

Sorry to mention the topic again - but does someone have an idea why this is not working? Or whom to ask for a hint?

[mark_nl (Mark Verlinde)]

Welcome Bernd (@MovingOn),

Trying to reproduce your issue but did not succeed in in it so far.

@MovingOn

testing via php info i get 7.4 as php info, as i was setting this in the old nethserver admin gui

I’m afraid that after reading the wiki warning this is expected behavior.

However in cockpit it is possible to set rh-php73 if nethserver-rh-php73-php-fpm is installed.

EDIT:
To install a rh-php software collection choose a uninstalled one and you see a message to confirm installation

EDIT 2:
It is not possible to change the php version of the Default Virtual host

[MovingOn (Bernd)]

Hello Mark,

Thanks for testing - ok, so i need to double-check to use the correct php-version when setting up a new vhost. And i’m going to check the wiki next time before asking.

I’m going to give php 8 a try

Beyond the not working dashboard I wonder if it wouldn’t be safer to deinstall the old php-versions (that are not used) and only to keep the latest.

But beside the dashboard and the php version i need to replace the MariaDB - nextcloud 21 won’t work with the one used now by nethserver (for 10 i’ve already found https://wiki.nethserver.org/doku.php?id=mariadb101) - thats the next step.

Again, thanks Mark - perhaps the webserver-dashboard gets fixed autmatically by one of the next updates, otherwise i will spend some (more) time with trying to figure it out.

Kind regards,
Bernd

[mrmarkuz (Markus Neuberger)]

@MovingOn

But beside the dashboard and the php version i need to replace the MariaDB - nextcloud 21 won’t work with the one used now by nethserver (for 10 i’ve already found https://wiki.nethserver.org/doku.php?id=mariadb101 ) - thats the next step.

Latest available version is Mariadb 10.3.

Check out this post for more details about NethServer using the “old” mariadb.
No need to install/configure NC manually because Nethserver does it for you.

@MovingOn

Beyond the not working dashboard I wonder if it wouldn’t be safer to deinstall the old php-versions (that are not used) and only to keep the latest.

I’d uninstall the remi php versions that were installed with php-scl because they’re not needed anymore and php-scl is not going to be updated and just keep the rh-php* ones.

[MovingOn (Bernd)]

PHP: Will do so as well. Is there an “automatic” way to do this or have you used something like “yum -y remove php70*” ?

DB: I was thinking of deinstalling MariaDB with “yum remove mariadb-server mariadb mariadb-libs” - add a switch for not deleting the dependencies - add the mariaDB repo to yum - Install MariaDB10.5 - mysql update… Must do a server backup before that

[mrmarkuz (Markus Neuberger)]

@MovingOn

PHP: Will do so as well. Is there an “automatic” way to do this or have you used something like “yum -y remove php70*” ?

If you already uninstalled php-scl you may try autoremove and check which packages are going to be removed to not lose an important one.

yum autoremove

@MovingOn

DB: I was thinking of deinstalling MariaDB with “yum remove mariadb-server mariadb mariadb-libs” - add a switch for not deleting the dependencies - add the mariaDB repo to yum - Install MariaDB10.5 - mysql update… Must do a server backup before that

Mariadb 5.5 and the rh-mariadb 10.* versions can exist next to each other, they use different ports.
Mariadb 5 is used by many Nethserver apps so I don’t recommend to uninstall it. Just use the rh-mariadb scl versions, ideally the ones provided in the wiki next to it.

[MovingOn (Bernd)]

Last questions in this thread, i promise

PHP: "If you already uninstalled php-scl " how would i do that?

MariaDB: I assume you are correct - but it itches me to try it - if it works - OK. Otherwise i will install it in parallel to the old version. Backup/restore is your friend.

Markus, thanks for helping me and have a great evening!

[mrmarkuz (Markus Neuberger)]

@MovingOn

PHP: "If you already uninstalled php-scl " how would i do that?

yum remove nethserver-php-scl

or all in one

yum autoremove nethserver-php-scl

@MovingOn

Last questions in this thread

Feel free to open new threads for other questions.

@MovingOn

MariaDB: I assume you are correct - but it itches me to try it

I’m afraid that Nethserver apps may not work anymore with the new database but we’ll see, please give some feedback…