auto installer gives lots of error when used on systems with restricted internet access

Hi till
I wish you had a step-by-step installation for Debian 11, like the previous one.
Autoinstaller gives lots of errors.
For instance at the beginning:
After this command:

Code:

wget -O - https://get.ispconfig.org | sh -s -- --help

This error poped:

Code:

PHP cli missing, trying to install.

I installed this:

Code:

apt  install php-cli

Then tried but still got this error:

Code:

PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function mb_strlen() in /tmp/ispconfig-ai/lib/class.ISPConfigLog.inc.php:74
Stack trace:
#0 /tmp/ispconfig-ai/lib/class.ISPConfig.inc.php(310): ISPConfigLog::print()
#1 /tmp/ispconfig-ai/lib/class.ISPConfig.inc.php(338): ISPConfig::printHelp()
#2 /tmp/ispconfig-ai/ispconfig.ai.php(13): ISPConfig::run()
#3 {main}
  thrown in /tmp/ispconfig-ai/lib/class.ISPConfigLog.inc.php on line 74

Finally, I decided to install it in the old way back to Debina 10 configuration.
First got an error for

Code:

getmail4

, I decided to install it but Debian installed a newer version of that which is

Code:

getmail6

.
After that unfortunately got an incompatibility error. After hours of Googling, I installed it according to the documentation but some of the apps were outdated and finally, ISPConfig didn't work well.

I am wondering if would it be possible to put step-by-step documentation for Debian 11. Also, this will help me to figure out which application band in Iran and go, get it manually and then install it easily.

 

I added multiple network mirros form different countries for Debian 11. Then updated & upgrade Debian after that but above erros happen to me.

Firstly, appreciate your guidance in advance and meanwhile as you are working on step by step documentation I will do some lab works with auto installer.

I hope could understand what's going on.

 

The auto installer does not work if /etc/apt/sources.list is modified. I discovered this the hard way.
Let auto installer do its stuff on plain freshly installed OS, then after ISPConfig is installed add local APT mirrors.
What might work, I have not tried, is leaving /etc/apt/sources.list as is, adding local mirrors to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mymirrors.list.

 

Not really. You can actually change the autoinstaller script to use your own repos especially in case you are not connected to internet globally like our friend here.

 

I don't know how! can you tell me, please?
I want to see that script to figure out where I got stuck.

 

I am preparing a new feed to share my experience with this auto-installer. Please bear with me to see where the problem is.

 

You are right Till.
If you don't mind I prepare a new feed with my experience to solve my issue.

 

Till I would be grateful if you tell me where I can download the auto-installer script to the list of commands and where I stoped in installation.

 

Thanks bro

 

If you have your own created repos in the same server or in another server in the same network, you may change the sources.list to that so it will use them instead of grabbing from the internet.

Then you have to manually download the auto installer script, as prescribed by @tll above, disabling php code that make changes to that file, may be simply by commenting out part of that code, and lastly run the script as prescribed in its tutorial / instruction manual.

Good luck.

Note: I do not think setting up the repos via the auto installer should be make compulsory but I believe it got its own purpose. I've never tried @Taleman approach of setting up a mirror, but I think that should work as well.

 

There may be another way(s) to do it, but may be more codes are needed, instead of simply replacing the developer's choice of repository into the sources.list file. At this stage, I personally know how to manipulate the script to make it work to my liking so it doesn't really matter to me for now, but in the future, if I have time and remember about this, I may help looking into it and suggesting something else.