I have a CentOS server where I have installed the vsftpd service, however I am getting the error
bash: sftp: command not found
Even the which sftp command can't find this service.
Detailed steps below :
As root:
yum install vsftpd
Total download size: 139 k
Is this ok [y/N]: **y**
Configure:
vi /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf
Change anonymous_enable=YES to anonymous_enable=NO
Add userlist_deny=NO after userlist_enable
Add allowed users:
vi /etc/vsftpd/user_list
Replace contents with:
vsftpd userlist
userlist_deny=NO so only allow users in this file
user
Turn on Vsftpd service
chkconfig vsftpd on
Start the service
service vsftpd start
Can someone help figuring out what I'm doing wrong ?
sftp binary is provided by the openssh-clients package. Install that before:
yum install openssh-clients
then you can run sftp.
Assuming the vsftpd daemon is now running and can get through any firewall you have, you need to use an ftp client to connect to the server.
yum install ftp
ftp x.x.x.x <-- IP address of server
That will show that it is working. Remotely you will need a client such as Filezilla.
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I have a VPS hosting with a domain redirecting to it.
I have LAMP stack for my main website using WordPress CMS.
Plus I am using Odoo as my back-end with python and PostgreSQL in a sub-domain.
Everything was working fine until I installed Certbot Let’s Encrypt to obtain an SSL certificate by following these tutorials
For My Wordpress i installed this plugin:
WP Encryption – One Click single / wildcard Free SSL certificate & force HTTPS
Which got me in a loop because it forced the https i will explain it later on
So when the plugin didn't work i searched for another way for the whole VPS with these tutorials:
How To Secure Apache with Let's Encrypt on Ubuntu 16.04
How To Secure Apache with Let's Encrypt on Ubuntu 18.04
After completing the second tutorial for ubuntu 18.04 i noticed that all my domain traffic is going to https and it got stuck in a loop saying same as i said above
"ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS which means Site redirected too many times"
and couldn't access the website front-end for the wordpress in the doamin.
Then when i applied
"Step 3 — Allowing HTTPS Through the Firewall"
my internet connection got interpreted and when i got back to the ssh session i found my self locked out of the server and did not find any way to get back in.
And when i tired to use the sub-domain that has Odoo on it i have got the same error
"ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS which means Site redirected too many times"
Until here i was hopeless and did't know what to do.
I contacted my VPS server provider and told him about what exactly happened. Then some how he managed to get me into the server again with a URL to the terminal i still couldn't access the server using ssh clients like putty.. so when i entered the server after he provided me with the URL first thing noticed is that he "rebooted the VPS" will get to this in a second.
So first thing i did was removing the wordpress plugin "WP Encryption" and update the wordpress site-url in wp_options table in mysql database because the plugin changed it from http to https so i changed it back and that solved the ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS for my wordpress website.
Then the second thing i did was disabling the ufw firewall that i enabled in the tutorial in Step 3 above.
I instantly got my connection to the server back using ssh client putty but what i have noticed again is the postgres service was inactive and went down with the reboot of the VPS. i tried to start the service but it didn't a gave me this error.
Failed to start postgresql.service: Unit postgresql.service is masked.
i searched for a solution and found these commands to unmask
sudo systemctl unmask postgresql
sudo systemctl enable postgresql
sudo systemctl restart postgresql
and then the service has started and everything sames OK when i run the status command
service postgresql status
the response is
● postgresql.service - LSB: PostgreSQL RDBMS server
Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/postgresql; generated)
Active: active (exited) since Thu 2020-03-26 05:54:09 UTC; 2h 22min ago
Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
Tasks: 0 (limit: 2286)
Memory: 0B
CGroup: /system.slice/postgresql.service
but when i try to connect to postgres through the default port with odoo it says:
could not connect to server: No such file or directory
Is the server running locally and accepting
connections on Unix domain socket "/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432"
after many searches i made i found the posgres main cluster is also inactive or down i tried to start it with this command
pg_ctlcluster 11 main start
but i get this error
Job for postgresql#11-main.service failed because the service did not take the steps required by its unit configuration. See "systemctl status postgresql#11-main.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
and when i run the command as requested
systemctl status postgresql#11-main.service
i get this error
● postgresql#11-main.service - PostgreSQL Cluster 11-main Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/postgresql#.service; disabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: failed (Result: protocol) since Thu 2020-03-26 15:22:15 UTC; 14s ago Process: 18930 ExecStart=/usr/bin/pg_ctlcluster --skip-systemctl-redirect 11-main start (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
alone with
systemd[1]: Starting PostgreSQL Cluster 11-main...
postgresql#11-main[18930]: Error: Could not find pg_ctl executable for version 11
systemd[1]: postgresql#11-main.service: Can't open PID file /run/postgresql/11-main.pid (yet?) after start: No such file or
systemd[1]: postgresql#11-main.service: Failed with result 'protocol'.
systemd[1]: Failed to start PostgreSQL Cluster 11-main.
I guessed Let's Encrypt added an ssl configuration to the pg_hba.conf and postgres.conf like id did with apache so i searched for them and commented the "ssl on" lines and restarted postgres service along with the main cluster but nothing happened still the the same error which is
Error: Could not find pg_ctl executable for version 11
I know i shouldn't run pg_ctl directly under Ubuntu/Debian. I must use pg_ctlcluster instead, which is installed by postgresql-common. I saw the main page documentation. But when i run "sudo pg_ctlcluster 11 main reload" command i always get the above Error telling me that he could not find pg_ctl executable
I have searched a lot for this problem but nothing worked how can i solve the pg_ctl executable in version 11 ??
Ps:
I am using Ubuntu 19.10 (GNU/Linux 5.3.0-24-generic x86_64)
Odoo 11 with postgres 11 as the database odoo can't connect to postgres as i mentioned before
edit:
Unfortunately i can't do a restore or recover the server to fix postgres package because my last backup of the server was on 19/3 and today is 26/3 i have an important data between this period
Update 27/3/2020 4:06 AM
I compared my last server backup with the production server and found a lot of postgres files missing!! like int this path /usr/lib/postgres/11/ and /etc/postgres/11/ i think postgres some how got damaged and lost some files in the reboot of the server >>> but found the data files of the database located in /var/lib/postgres/11/ <<< Can i read them in my backup server ? i will try and let you know
So finally after a hours of digging
All PostgreSQL files where damaged and missing and i lost hope of repairing them i don't know what caused that but it has a relation with the accidental reboot of the server.
So i managed to find the main cluster data file for my important database information for the production server in this path
/var/lib/postgres/11/
and i took a backup from it by zipping the whole folder using this command
zip -r main.zip main/
then i did a full purge and reinstall for postgres usuing these commands from here
apt-get --purge remove postgresql\*
to remove everything PostgreSQL from your system. Just purging the postgres package isn't enough since it's just an empty meta-package.
Once all PostgreSQL packages have been removed, run:
rm -r /etc/postgresql/
rm -r /etc/postgresql-common/
rm -r /var/lib/postgresql/
userdel -r postgres
groupdel postgres
Then i installed postgres with this command to match odoo11
sudo apt-get install postgresql libpq-dev -y
then creating the ODOO PostgreSQL User
sudo su - postgres -c "createuser -s odoo" 2> /dev/null || true
Now everything is okay odoo should work fine but you still don't have any database
So to bring back the backup from the cluster folder we took earlier we need to move the zip file to the same directory we took it from which is
/var/lib/postgres/11/
but before that you should stop postgres service
sudo systemctl stop postgresql
and make sure it has stopped
sudo systemctl status postgresql
after that rename the main cluster that postgres uses right now because its empty and we don't need it because we are replacing it with our backed up cluster
mv /var/lib/postgres/11/main /var/lib/postgres/11/main_old
then move the zip file from where you backed it up to the postgres cluster folder with this command
mv /backups/main.zip /var/lib/postgres/11/
unzip the folder in the same path by using this command
unzip -a /var/lib/postgres/11/main.zip
after unzipping the folder give the ownership to your postgres user and group
chown -R postgres:postgres main
Then you are good to go. Start Postgres service
sudo systemctl start postgresql
sudo systemctl status postgresql
and make sure you also start the main cluster service
pg_ctlcluster 11 main start
if you stopped odoo make sure to start it also
service odoo-server start
Ps: I solved ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS for the odoo sub-domain by commenting ssl configurations in my odoo.config Apache2 virtual host that lets encrypt updated before and everything got back to where left it before installing lets encrypt.
I guess i will leave it here and won't use ssl in production again till i figure out how to use it in a test server .. thanks for your time i hope my question and answer helps someone in the future
Try adding 'pg_path' in your odoo configuration file.
Like: pg_path = /path/to/postgresql/binaries
Generally '/usr/lib/posrgresql/11/bin' is the binary directory.
I am currently new with OpenStack/packstack, I have successfully installed it on Centos 7 (VM). But when I turn off and power on the VM again, I need to have to repeat the long installation process of packstack. I need to run this specific code packstack --answer-file 24.01.19.conf in order for me to access the Openstack Web Interface. I tried running openstack-service restart|start|stop|status but this causes an error "command not found". Any other way around to access the web interface without running the packstack --answer-file every time I start my VM? Thanks in advance
To use openstack-service, install "openstack-utils"
sudo yum install -y openstack-utils
This is happening because the IP address of controller node changes after reboot and if IP address changes you need to re-run the packstack.
My recommendation is to statically bind the IP address to the VM where the packstack is running.
Link to bind IP address to VM/Mac in KVM: here!
NFS Mount is not working in my RHEL 7 AWS instance.
When I do a
mount -o nfsvers=3 10.10.11.10:/ndvp2 /root/mountme2/
I get the error:
mount.nfs: requested NFS version or transport protocol is not supported
Can anyone point me where I am wrong?
Thanks.
Check the nfs service is started or reboot the nfs service.
sudo systemctl status nfs-kernel-server
In my case this package was not running and the issue was in /etc/exports file where i was having same IP address for two machines.
So i commented one ip address for the machine and restarted nf-kernel-server using
sudo systemctl restart nfs-kernel-server and reload the machine.
It worked.
A precision which might be useful for the dump (like me): systemctl status nfs-server.service and systemctl start nfs-server.service must be executed on the server!
Some additional data
If, like me, you've deleted a VM without shutting it down right you might also need to manually edit the file /etc/exports because NFS is trying to connect to it and fails but doesn't continue with the next, it just dies.
After that you can manually restart as mentioned in other answers.
In my case, a simple reload didn't suffice. I had to perform a full restart:
sudo systemctl status nfs-kernel-server
In my case, it didn't work correctly with version NFS 4.1.
So in Vargantfile in each place where is type: 'nfs' I added coma and nfs_version: 4, nfs_udp: false
Here is more detailing explanation NFS
If you're giving a specific protocol to connect with, also check to make sure your NFS server has that protocol enabled.
I got this error when trying to start up a Vagrant box, and my nfs server was running. It turns out that the command Vagrant uses is:
mount -o vers=3,udp,rw,actimeo=1 192.168.56.1:/dir/on/host /vagrant
Which specifically asks for UDP. My server was running but it was not configured to enable connecting over UDP. After consulting /etc/nfs.conf, I created /etc/nfs.conf.d/10-enable-udp.conf with the following contents to enable udp:
[nfsd]
udp=y
The name of the file doesn't matter, as long as it's in the conf.d directory and ends in .conf. Depending on your distribution it may be configured differently. You can directly edit nfs.conf, but using a conf.d file is more likely to preserve the changes after upgrading your system.
Try to ping IP address of the server "ping " from client "ping , if you get reply then install nfs server on the host. Then edit /etc/exports file don't forget to add port along with IP address
I got the solution: make an entry in nfs server /etc/nfsmount.conf with Defaultvers=3 .
There will # Defaultvers=3 just unhash it and then mount on nfs client.
Issue will be resolved!
I am able via sftp using the same credentials on WinSCP, so why would I get an error message on Atom's remote edit package?
I corrected this by modifying the sshd_config file on the server.
sudo vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config
I modified the following line:
PasswordAuthentication yes #changed from no to yes
then I restarted the ssh daemon:
sudo service ssh restart
and that did the trick. I believe that Atom is sending passwords in clear text to the server, so using password authentication may cause issues unless you have PasswordAuthentication set to yes.
I have an AWS EC2 instance running an Ubuntu 12.04 web server that I host Wordpress on. For Wordpress to update, it's asking me to supply FTP credentials. I have set up FTP according to this post: http://stephen-white.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/how-to-set-up-wordpress-on-amazon-ec2_31.html
But the FTP user I created (ftpuser) can't log in. WP only gives very vague errors, but I tried using FTP in the OSX terminal, which gives 'Login incorrect', but the password is definitely correct. I can FTP in using my normal username and password.
This is the content of my vsftpd.conf file (I've removed all commented out lines):
listen=YES
anonymous_enable=NO
local_enable=YES
write_enable=YES
local_umask=022
dirmessage_enable=YES
use_localtime=YES
xferlog_enable=YES
connect_from_port_20=YES
secure_chroot_dir=/var/run/vsftpd/empty
pasv_enable=YES
pasv_min_port=14000
pasv_max_port=14050
port_enable=YES
pasv_address=54.241.13.224
pasv_addr_resolve=NO
This is an nmap of the servers ports:
PORT STATE SERVICE
20/tcp closed ftp-data
21/tcp open ftp
22/tcp open ssh
80/tcp open http
443/tcp closed https
14000/tcp closed unknown
The /var/www (where I have Wordpress installed) folder is owned by ftpuser and this is the entry for the ftpuser in the file /etc/passwd:
ftpuser:x:1001:1001::/var/www:/sbin/nologin
I'm only an amateur server admin, so haven't a full clue of what I'm doing. Anyone have any ideas why this is happening and what needs to be done?
If you are receiving the following error message "Login incorrect" on AWS EC2:
331 Please specify the password.
Password:
530 Login incorrect.
ftp: Login failed
There is a problem with login using Shell. To overcome this there is one further step missing after the following in that Blog Post:
Add an FTP user, giving access only to the WordPress files and for additional security >ensuring the user can not open a shell:
useradd ftpuser -d /var/www/html -s /sbin/nologin
Add the following:
Add /usr/sbin/nologin on to the last line of /etc/shells file:
$ vi /etc/shells
/usr/sbin/nologin
Try logging in again using your FTP client. That's how I got it working on my instances.