I have successfully installed Nethserver 7, have configured it according to my needs and everything worked fine. Then I wanted to install nethserver-wordpress provided by Stephane de Labrusse from the Wiki. But I had I PHP version conflict. Details see here https://github.com/stephdl/nethserver-wordpress/issues/5. So I have manually removed the php release 5.4.16-46-el7 and replaced it with 5.4.16-45-el7 using yum. But unfortunately this has broken my nethserver installation. So I do not have any access to the server manager using https://server_name:980. Do you have any idea or links on how to repair the installation?
I’ve tried already nethserver-install, but that tells me:
Installation log can be found here: /var/log/nethserver-install.log
I can still login using SSH but as I said NOT https://sits.renesigi.ch:980. During the removement of php-5.4.16-46-el7, yum reported me, that some nethserver modules are depended on it, and removed it. So I think, it should be somehow possible, to reinstall them.
Any hints on how to repair the Nethserver installation would be nice.
Danke Markus für Deinen Input. Lets continue in English , so everybody can read it.
Using systemctl status httpd-admin -l, I found out, that it is not started at all
Unit httpd-admin.service could not be found.
So, I’ll to reinstall some other NethServer packages. I don’t know jet which ones, but I will do kind of trail and error.
I’ve tried:
yum reinstall nethserver-httpd-admin
Package(s) nethserver-httpd-admin available, but not installed.
yum install nethserver-httpd-admin
No Presto metadata available for nethserver-base
nethserver-httpd-admin-2.3.4-1 FAILED
http://packages.nethserver.org/nethserver/7.5.1804/base/x86_64/Packages/nethserver-httpd-admin-2.3.4-1.ns7.noarch.rpm: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404 - Not Found ] 0.0 B/s | 0 B --:--:-- ETA
Trying other mirror.
YES, that seems exactly what I was looking for. E.g.
[root@sits ~]# yum history info 20
Loaded plugins: changelog, fastestmirror, nethserver_events
Transaction ID : 20
Begin time : Mon Dec 17 20:27:37 2018
Begin rpmdb : 789:43bd56125995957d709a37ad377fd88e2b04625a
End time : 20:28:43 2018 (66 seconds)
End rpmdb : 784:7ae3e6de9bc0c27915fb08ca1eed97bb776c3e7f
User : root <root>
Return-Code : Success
Command Line : remove php-common-5.4.16-46.el7.x86_64
Transaction performed with:
Installed rpm-4.11.3-35.el7.x86_64 @base
Installed yum-3.4.3-161.el7.centos.noarch @base
Installed yum-plugin-fastestmirror-1.1.31-50.el7.noarch @base
Packages Altered:
Erase nethserver-php-1.2.0-1.ns7.noarch @nethserver-base
Erase nethserver-phpsettings-1.1.2-1.ns7.sdl.noarch @stephdl
Erase php-common-5.4.16-46.el7.x86_64 @base
Erase php-intl-5.4.16-46.el7.x86_64 @base
Erase php-xml-5.4.16-46.el7.x86_64 @base
history info
Don’t know yet, if I will be able to repair Nethserver BUT it was anyway a very good practice in learning by doing so far I’ll give feedback as soon as I have hopefully good news regarding repairing. But I’m quite confident, that I’ll manage it. I should mention, that I’m a professional IT guy but as you’ve probably already realized, I am quite a beginner when it comes to Linux installation, package management and low level commands I’m more at home in IT Project Management and in RT OSs and embedded systems.
I really like Nethserver, the available documentation and it’s Community, You Giacomo for example It seems to me, that you, I mean the hole development team is really concerned about the Nethserver users. I’m using Nethserver currently only at home, basically the Samba functionality as a NAS, speak I’m using only a fragment of the possible use cases, that could be realized with Nethserver. So, I’m currently setting up a 2nd, old Dell PC as my Webserver. I’m planing to have my personal but also my professional home site running there, but I would also like to test other possible features of Nethserver
I’ve good news. I’m finally able to access my Nethserver Manager again using:
https:<server-IP>/en-US/Dashboard
But that was quite a bit of work Actually I was nearly at the point to reinstall the newest Nethserver from scratch - but that would have really hurt me. E.g. could not install
yum install nethserver-httpd-admin
So, I decided to attempt it a last time by just manually installing the RPMs:
To my surprise, that actually worked and I could access the Server Manager. But the system was in an inconsistent state and a I had again to manually install/reinstall several Nethserver packages. E.g. I had to install nethserver-directories and some other packages too. They where probably removed during downgrading the php release from 5.4.16-46-el7 to 5.4.16-45-el7.
But finally, everything seems to work again as expected
Even WordPress is working :-). Have installed it according these wiki instructions: https://wiki.nethserver.org/doku.php?id=wordpress&s[]=wordpress provided by Staphane de Labrusse. Could do this after removing the php release 5.4.16-46-el7 and replaced it with 5.4.16-45-el7. OK, that was not a strait forward way to do it but finally I could install WordPress with the mentioned consequences at the very beginning of my topic.
As a summary I’ve learned a lot about yum, rpm and in general package management AND I’m really impressed how stable and robust the Nethserver actually is.
I’m now looking foreword to do some more productive work with Nethserver
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I’ll give feedback as soon as I have hopefully good news regarding repairing. But I’m quite confident, that I’ll manage it. I should mention, that I’m a professional IT guy but as you’ve probably already realized, I am quite a beginner when it comes to Linux installation, package management and low level commands 
It seems to me, that you, I mean the hole development team is really concerned about the Nethserver users. I’m using Nethserver currently only at home, basically the Samba functionality as a NAS, speak I’m using only a fragment of the possible use cases, that could be realized with Nethserver. So, I’m currently setting up a 2nd, old Dell PC as my Webserver. I’m planing to have my personal but also my professional home site running there, but I would also like to test other possible features of Nethserver 
Actually I was nearly at the point to reinstall the newest Nethserver from scratch - but that would have really hurt me. E.g. could not install
and I could access the Server Manager. But the system was in an inconsistent state and a I had again to manually install/reinstall several Nethserver packages. E.g. I had to install nethserver-directories and some other packages too. They where probably removed during downgrading the php release from 5.4.16-46-el7 to 5.4.16-45-el7.
