Best way to install Plesk

[coderli]

Hi, I need some recommendation on installing Plesk 7.5.3. In the past I've been using the Plesk autoinstaller to install Plesk and it's been easy and simple. However, I have just recently changed host and when I try to install Plesk the using the autoinstaller it is giving me all sorts of error messages.

Should I install using the RPMs? or Autoinstaller? I just had the tech reinstall the OS so it OS is now clean. I do not want to do a reinstall the OS again b/c it's costly .

Here is my hosting specs.
VPS (Virtual Private Server)
10GB storage space
Full root access *
SSH access

* Now on the first attempt to install Plesk using the autoinstaller, some of the errors are security and permissions. I am wondering whether I really do have true root access or not. I am able to login using the "root" username with my password. Should I "su -" just incase?

Here are two of the error messages I still have records of.

/etc/security/selinux/file_contexts: No such file or directory

Here is the second

ERROR while trying to Unable to get admin password

Aborting...

Any help on this would be great and I really do appreciated, thanks in advance.

Coderli

 

[Cranky]

Hi,

Which VPS platform are you using? UML?

Which OS?

 

[coderli]

The OS is Fedora Core 2, software used to create the VPS... I do not know but I am emailing the tech now, I'm pretty sure it's not SwSoft Virtuozzo though. And I'm not sure what UML is? can you explain that?

 

[Cranky]

UML's UserModeLinux just a free type of VPS software. I'm not overly familiar with it to be honest, nor with freevps or any of the others out there.

If you run:

df -h

If that shows "vzfs" somewhere you're running Virtuozzo, if not you're not running Virtuozzo.

Do you have a copy of the Plesk installer error log?

 

[coderli]

Ok the VPS software filesystem is vzfs after running the "df -h" command.

Here is the errror log from psa_installer_v2.0.0_build75050509.20_os_FedoraCore_2_i686.log

---

Preparing for packages installation...
----- begin of output -----
Installing /PSA_7.5.3/rpm_FedoraCore_2/base/psa-api-common-7.5.3-fc2.build75050523.15.noarch.rpm
Installing /PSA_7.5.3/rpm_FedoraCore_2/base/psa-api-cli-7.5.3-fc2.build75050523.15.noarch.rpm
Installing /PSA_7.5.3/rpm_FedoraCore_2/opt/api/psa-api-rpc-7.5.3-fc2.build75050523.15.noarch.rpm
Installing /PSA_7.5.3/rpm_FedoraCore_2/opt/api/psa-agent-1.3.4-75050523.15.noarch.rpm
/etc/security/selinux/file_contexts: No such file or directory
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.82199: line 2: /usr/local/psa/admin/bin/php: No such file or directory
error: %post(psa-api-rpc-7.5.3-fc2.build75050523.15) scriptlet failed, exit status 127

----- end of output -----
packages failed to install: Not all required packages were installed.
===> Autoinstaller: stopped logging at Fri May 27 20:25:27 2005

 

[Cranky]

Run:

rpm -qa | grep psa

... that'll show us which RPM's are actually installed so far. You don't need to install the /opt/ rpm's at the same time as the /base/ rpm's ... do base first.

 

[coderli]

Ok this is what I got after running that command.

[root@88 root]# rpm -qa | grep psa
psa-courier-imap-add-7.5.3-fc2.build75050506.13
perl-MLDBM-Sync-0.30-44psa
psa-manual-custom-skin-guide-7.5.3-fc2.build75050506.13
psa-passwd-3.0-fc2.build75050506.13
psa-api-rpc-protocol-7.5.3-fc2.build75050523.15
psa-proftpd-xinetd-1.2.10-fc2.build75050506.13
psa-imp-4.0.3-fc2.build75050506.13
perl-HTML-Tree-3.16-44psa
psa-ingo-1.0.1-fc2.build75050506.13
psa-agent-1.3.4-75050523.15
psa-key-7.5-fc2.build75050506.13
psa-bu-7.5.3-fc2.build75050506.13
psa-spamassassin-7.5.3-fc2.build75050506.13
perl-HTML-Format-1.23-44psa
psa-kronolith-2.0.2-fc2.build75050506.13
drweb-4.32.2-rh7_psa
psa-qmail-1.03-fc2.build75050506.13
psa-logrotate-3.7-fc2.build75050506.13
psa-locale-base-en-US-7.5.3-fc2.build75050506.13
psa-hotfix-7.5.3-fc2.build75050509.16
psa-api-rpc-7.5.3-fc2.build75050509.09
perl-Font-AFM-1.18-44psa
perl-MLDBM-2.01-44psa
psa-tomcat-configurator-7.1.7-fc2.build71050228.12
psa-firewall-1.0.1-fc2.build75050506.13
psa-mnemo-2.0.1-fc2.build75050506.13
psa-api-cli-7.5.3-fc2.build75050523.15
psa-api-rpc-doc-7.5.3-fc2.build75050523.15
psa-pre-keyupdate-7.5.3-fc2.build75050506.13
frontpage-5.0-71psa.fc2
perl-FreezeThaw-0.43-44psa
psa-api-rpc-7.5.3-fc2.build75050523.15
psa-qmail-rblsmtpd-0.70-fc2.build75050506.13
psa-turba-2.0.2-fc2.build75050506.13
psa-proftpd-1.2.10-fc2.build75050506.13
psa-horde-3.0.4-fc2.build75050506.13
psa-locale-base-en-7.1.7-fc2.build71050228.12
mod_webapp-4.1.29-24psa.fc2
psa-migration-manager-7.5.3-fc2.build75050506.18
psa-api-common-7.5.3-fc2.build75050523.15
psa-7.5.3-fc2.build75050506.13

 

[coderli]

Cranky, I did some changes and tried the reinstallation again and here is the new error log:

 Checking for the group 'psaserv'...
 Trying to add supplementary group 'psaserv' for user 'apache'...  already there
 Checking for the group 'psaserv'...
 Trying to add supplementary group 'psaserv' for user 'psaftp'...  already there
 Checking for the group 'psaserv'...
 Trying to add supplementary group 'psaserv' for user 'psaadm'...  already there
 group psacln already exists
/usr/local/psa/bin/chrootsh already registered as a login shell
Running /usr/local/psa/bin/install_post.sh 1 ...

Setting the default locale

ERROR while trying to setting default locale
Check the error reason(see log file: /tmp/psa_7.5.3_FedoraCore_2_build75050506.13_installing.log), fix and try again

Aborting...


WARNING: post-install script of  RPM package psa-7.5.3-fc2.build75050506.13 execution
failed. As the the package psa-7.5.3-fc2.build75050506.13 was registered in the RPM
database, you need to execute the following command before attempting
to reinstall the package:
rpm -e psa-7.5.3-fc2.build75050506.13

error: %post(psa-7.5.3-fc2.build75050506.13) scriptlet failed, exit status 1
Not all required packages were installed.

How do I get it to set the default locale correctly?