Plesk Panel V. 11.0 Installation Problems

[golfvilla]

I have spent a couple of days trying to install v. 11.0 of the Plesk Panel on my dedicated HostDime server running CentOS 5.7. Here are some of the problems I have run into after entering the following command:

curl http://autoinstall.plesk.com/one-click-installer | sh

1. As per the installation instructions I added USE_YUM='yes' to the /root/.autoinstallerrc file but got "Third-party Yum repository" warning messages and the package didn't completely install.

2. I removed the USE_YUM='yes' from the /root/.autoinstallerrc file and received the following error message:

ERROR: Unable to proceed with the installation until the package apr-util-ldap-1.3.12-1.w5.x86_64 is removed from the system.
Not all packages were installed.
Please resolve this issue and try installing the packages again.

3. I tried removing the apr-util-ldap package with # rpm -e apr-util-ldap but received the following error message:

error: Failed dependencies:
apr-util-ldap is needed by (installed) httpd-2.2.21-1.w5.x86_64

Desperately need some help here! Thanks!

 

[Jayson]

Not sure but this may help,

http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?t=259803&page=2

 

[golfvilla]

Thank you Jayson. That is a long thread. I will try some of the solutions there. I am wondering if installing the latest version of CentOS might help.

 

[Jayson]

That's what I did. Installed Centos 6.2 and had no problems with the actual installation. I was however getting the same error as you on my Centos 5.7 install.

 

[golfvilla]

As you might have suspected, this is my first dedicated server. What is the best way to upgrade from CentOS 5.7 to 6.2?

 

[Jayson]

Centos 6.x can be problematic due to changed drivers. I had lots of problems because I use VMware and without upgrading to Esxi 5.x as soon as the upgrade completed I would lose network. Not sure what others would say, but I recommend a fresh install and not trying to upgrade with Yum.

 

[golfvilla]

Thanks Jayson! That is what I have read and actually meant was what is the best way to do a clean install of 6.2 or 6.3?

 

[Jayson]

It depends on your platform. I downloaded DVD iso and placed on a NFS reachable nas from my vSphere client. Created a custom VM with Centos 6 64bit template and attached the iso via the cdrom set to power up on boot. I also added a 2nd nic at this type and made sure it was bridged to my management vlan which is ok to come up dhcp. I set the ip address for the external nic during centos install so once installation is finished I'm ready to go.

After I ran Yum to ensure all was updated then installed Plesk.

 

[golfvilla]

Thank you Jayson. A bit too advanced for my current level of expertise. I was hoping for a simpler solution. Thank you for your help.

 

[Jayson]

I'm not very familiar with hostdime. How did you get the server installed initially?

 

[golfvilla]

HostDime support was kind enough to install the LAMP configuration.