Resolved Plesk PHP 7.4 repo missing data for CentOS 8 / AlmaLinux 8?

[websavers]

Just started getting 404s attempting to run yum update. Error is:

PHP 7.4 763 B/s | 251 B 00:00
Errors during downloading metadata for repository 'PLESK_17_PHP74':
- Status code: 404 for http://autoinstall.plesk.com/PHP74_17/dist-rpm-CentOS-8-x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml (IP: 185.246.209.11)
Error: Failed to download metadata for repo 'PLESK_17_PHP74': Cannot download repomd.xml: Cannot download repodata/repomd.xml: All mirrors were tried

And indeed, visiting the above URL shows the entire dist-rpm-CentOS-8-x86_64 folder missing.

This server is running AlmaLinux 8.5, not CentOS 8, and it has the latest release of Plesk: Plesk Obsidian Version 18.0.41 Update #1

This still exists: http://autoinstall.plesk.com/PHP74_17/dist-rpm-RedHat-el8-x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml

But if Plesk was going to drop support for the CentOS 8 folder (due to no more support for CentOS 8 itself), shouldn't that have been changed in the repo file many updates ago?

Seems more likely that they just accidentally removed the CentOS 8 folder from the repo...

 

[RPD]

I can confirm the problem on all our AlmaLinux OS 8.5 based servers. I think the Plesk people deleted the repository for CentOS 8 (which is out of support) and didn't have in mind that the same repository is used by AlmaLinux OS (and probably Rocky Linux as well).

This should be fixed immediately!

 

[IgorG]

It should be fixed now. Please check and let me know if something is still wrong with it.

 

[RPD]

I can confirm that it is fixed now.

Thank you!

 

[RPD]

Unfortunately the problem reappeared. This time for PHP 8.1:

INFO: Error during transfer: Status code: 404 for http://autoinstall.plesk.com/PHP81_17/dist-rpm-CentOS-8-x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml (IP: 195.181.172.8)
ERROR: Failed to download metadata for repo 'PLESK_17_PHP81': Cannot download repomd.xml: Cannot download repodata/repomd.xml: All mirrors were tried

And indeed, repodata/repomd.xml is missing in the repository.

Please, can you fix this as soon as possible?

Thank you!

 

[IgorG]

Please, can you fix this as soon as possible?

Fixed. Please check.

 

[RPD]

I can confirm that it is fixed now.

Thank you for the quick solution!

 

[kirelitom]

Unfortunately the problem reappeared.

Errors during downloading metadata for repository 'PLESK_17_PHP74':
- Status code: 404 for http://autoinstall.plesk.com/PHP74_17/dist-rpm-CentOS-8-x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml (IP: 185.152.65.122)
Error: Failed to download metadata for repo 'PLESK_17_PHP74': Cannot download repomd.xml: Cannot download repodata/repomd.xml: All mirrors were tried

 

[bdeji]

Same problem here. Centos8 repo no longer exists.

 

[websavers]

Same here. @IgorG ?

 

[websavers]

This fixes it by switching PHP 7.4 -> 8.1 repo data over to using RedHat-el8 rather than CentOS-8. The binaries should be identical.

sed -i.bak "s#_17/dist-rpm-CentOS-8#_17/dist-rpm-RedHat-el8#g" /etc/yum.repos.d/plesk.repo

And if you need to revert it you can either copy the backup file back into place or do the opposite replacement:

cp /etc/yum.repos.d/plesk.repo.bak  /etc/yum.repos.d/plesk.repo

or

sed -i.bak "s#_17/dist-rpm-RedHat-el8#_17/dist-rpm-CentOS-8#g" /etc/yum.repos.d/plesk.repo

 

[bdeji]

Thank you @websavers ! The solution posted is working.

 

[manos]

Very annoying every Almalinux plesk server has now a different problem, some due to missing repos some due to bug at mariadb that breaks installer

Officially Plesk will fix the problem with repos? 5 May now, nothing for 20 days

Errors during downloading metadata for repository 'PLESK_17_PHP80':
- Status code: 404 for http://autoinstall.plesk.com/PHP80_17/dist-rpm-CentOS-8-x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml

Almalinux 8.5, Plesk Obsidian Version 18.0.43

Has anyone tried the above solution with changing repo to redhat?

 

[Jeroen Bl]

I am again receiving these errors in my package update manager.

Error during transfer: Status code: 404 for http://autoinstall.plesk.com/pool/PSA_18.0.41_8197/extras-rpm-CentOS-8-x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml

I will try to manually update to a more recent Plesk Build.

 

[Peter Debik]

@Jeroen Bl You'll need to migrate your operating system, because CentOS 8 was end of life by the end of 2021. We're now more than a year past that date. Plesk does not support operating systems that are end of life. I recommend migrating to Alma Linux.

 

[Jeroen Bl]

Hi Peter,

Thanks for your reply.
I have migrated 2 years ago to Almalinux (currently on 8.7), but Plesk still seems to try Centos 8 repo's?

 

[Peter Debik]

I am not sure why this happens. Then either indeed Plesk needs to be updated or there are CentOS 8 repositories active. Can you successfuly upgrade Plesk?