need to rerun autoinstaller - ...

Discussion in 'ISPConfig 3 Priority Support' started by craig baker, Oct 11, 2025 at 10:30 PM.

  1. craig baker

    craig baker Member HowtoForge Supporter

    my beautiful deb12 server with 80tb drive and dual xeon golds was destroyed by a water leak :(
    putting up a lesser serverr, and I did deb12 and autoinstaller, but I forgot to --use-certbot as the old server is using ... certbot.
    it wont let me run the autoinstaller again. any way to force it to do so? or to switch from acme to certbot?
    thanks.
    never mind. drop dbispconfig in mysql delete /usr/local/ispconfig folder rerun autoinstaller with --use-certbot :)

    except - got an error:
    [INFO] Enabling TLS for pureftpd
    [ERROR] Exception occurred: ISPConfigOSException -> Command openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 7300 -newkey rsa:2048 -subj '/C=DE/ST=None/L=None/O=IT/CN=ns11.cdbsystems.com' -keyout /etc/ssl/private/pure-ftpd.pem -out /etc/ssl/private/pure-ftpd.pem > /dev/null 2>&1 failed. (/ispconfig.ai.php:15)

    ack. what did I do wrong?
     
    Last edited: Oct 11, 2025 at 10:54 PM
  2. ahrasis

    ahrasis Well-Known Member HowtoForge Supporter

    Fresh install Debian 12 on a new vm or reinstall it in the same machine, before running ISPConfig autoinstaller again is the best, I think.
     
  3. craig baker

    craig baker Member HowtoForge Supporter

    ack i'm elsewhere and was setting up via ssh. harder to reinstall debian have to go back to server location :(
     
  4. ahrasis

    ahrasis Well-Known Member HowtoForge Supporter

    In that case do the tedious way, since it is necessary for you. Is what you mentioned, the only error? Because it just shows that installing SSL certificates for puref-tpd failed. Not a big deal really, as it can always be fixed later, if you wanted to. Did ISPConfig auto installer manage to setup your server successfully towards the end?

    Anyway, your old server was very powerful, and I am so sorry to hear about the accident. Any chance your current server is almost, if not equally powerful? I would suggest proxmox to be installed on top of your Debian 12 and then run your ISPConfig in a VM, because it is easier to create new one, backup, restore, etc, that way.

    My years of experiences with old / mini PCs / bare machines, all lead to using proxmox and its VMs, so that's why I propose. But you can simply stay with your setup also, and we can still help you, but you need to provide more info's.
     
    Last edited: Oct 12, 2025 at 5:08 AM
  5. till

    till Super Moderator Staff Member ISPConfig Developer

    Run the failed command ro see why it fialed:

    Code:
    openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 7300 -newkey rsa:2048 -subj '/C=DE/ST=None/L=None/O=IT/CN=ns11.cdbsystems.com' -keyout /etc/ssl/private/pure-ftpd.pem -out /etc/ssl/private/pure-ftpd.pem
     

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