vBulletin vBulletin 5 Connect installation problems (404 Not Found error - WHY?)

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• CentOS Version: i.e. CentOS 6 32bit or 64bit / CentOS 7 64bit ?
• CentOS 7 64bit
• Centmin Mod Version Installed: i.e. 123.08stable or 123.09beta01
• 123.09beta01
• Nginx Version Installed: i.e. 1.15.3
• 1.17.6
• PHP Version Installed: i.e. 5.6.37, 7.0.31, 7.1.21, 7.2.9
• 7.3.11
• MariaDB MySQL Version Installed: i.e. 10.0.x or 10.1.xx or 10.2.xx
• 10.3.21
• When was last time updated Centmin Mod code base ? : i.e. run centmin.sh menu option 23 submenu option 2 or cmupdate command
• This morning.
• Persistent Config: Do you have any persistent config file options set in /etc/centminmod/custom_config.inc ? You can check via this command:
  
  Code (Text):

  cat /etc/centminmod/custom_config.inc
  

  
  Post output in CODE tags.
• No custom persistent config
• vBulletin Version Installed:
• vBulletin Connect v. 5.5.5 (latest)

I know this is sort of off-topic, but ... :
I followed your vBulletin 5 Connect installation guide, created the special-content /usr/local/nginx/conf/conf.d/churchofparadise.net.conf file, of course substituted the generic domain name or names (with 'www' canonical) as instructed, saved the file, restarted nginx successfully ("OK").

Then I created the /usr/local/nginx/conf/phpvb5.conf using nano and the contents for it from your page.

I wound up realizing that there are NO adequate Android FTP clients in existence, that can do what is required of the standard Centminmod configuration, i.e. FTPES with pem / crt / csr / RSA key pairs ... Closest to working correctly was AndFTP. God, how I wish I had a perfect working Android port of my fave, Bitvise Tunnelier ...

So I wound up installing Webmin using the webmin.repo file/YUM install method, then after doing a quick edit on the CSF firewall configuration file, added TCP_IN and TCP_OUT instructions for port 10000, then used Webmin's built-in Others/Upload & Download utility to upload the vBulletin installation zip file, auto-extract the zip file and auto-delete it.

Then I had to run (from my /home/local/nginx/domains/churchofparadise.net/public/upload directory : mv * /home/local/nginx/domains/churchofparadise.net/public to move all the files to the public WWW directory.

Then, as instructed in the vBulletin manual, did all the config.php edits after creating a database called "c".

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Then, as instructed by a vBulletin.com forum post, I opened a Web browser and navigated to :

http://churchofparadise.net/core/install/install.php (also tried it with a "www" prefix and with https:// but all URLs give me a 404 Not Found error).

Checking again, I did a systemctl status nginx.service -l and this was the output :

Code (Text):

[05:59][root@ns543594 ~]# nano /usr/local/nginx/conf/phpvb5.conf
[06:01][root@ns543594 ~]# nprestart      
Restarting nginx (via systemctl):  Job for nginx.service failed because the contro
l process exited with error code. See "systemctl status nginx.service" and "journa
lctl -xe" for details.
[FAILED]
Restarting php-fpm (via systemctl) [  OK  ]
[06:01][root@ns543594 ~]# systemctl status nginx.service -l
● nginx.service - SYSV: Nginx is an HTTP(S) server, HTTP(S) reverse proxy and IMAP
/POP3 proxy server
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/rc.d/init.d/nginx; bad; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2019-12-12 06:01:50 UTC; 57s ago
     Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
  Process: 30551 ExecStart=/etc/rc.d/init.d/nginx start (code=exited, status=1/FAI
LURE)
 Main PID: 6215 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

Dec 12 06:01:50 ns543594 systemd[1]: Starting SYSV: Nginx is an HTTP(S) server, HT
TP(S) reverse proxy and IMAP/POP3 proxy server...
Dec 12 06:01:50 ns543594 nginx[30551]: Starting nginx: nginx: [emerg] unknown dire
ctive "combined" in /usr/local/nginx/conf/conf.d/churchofparadise.net.conf:10
Dec 12 06:01:50 ns543594 nginx[30551]: [FAILED]
Dec 12 06:01:50 ns543594 systemd[1]: nginx.service: control process exited, code=e
xited status=1
Dec 12 06:01:50 ns543594 systemd[1]: Failed to start SYSV: Nginx is an HTTP(S) ser
ver, HTTP(S) reverse proxy and IMAP/POP3 proxy server.
Dec 12 06:01:50 ns543594 systemd[1]: Unit nginx.service entered failed state.
Dec 12 06:01:50 ns543594 systemd[1]: nginx.service failed.
[06:02][root@ns543594 ~]#

And the output of journalctl -xe :

Code (Text):

[06:02][root@ns543594 ~]# journalctl -xe                                 Dec 12 06:13:34 ns543594 kernel: Firewall: *TCP_IN Blocked* IN=eth0 OUT= Dec 12 06:13:35 ns543594 kernel: Firewall: *TCP_IN Blocked* IN=eth0 OUT= Dec 12 06:13:37 ns543594 sshd[31289]: Unable to negotiate with 163.172.13Dec 12 06:13:38 ns543594 kernel: Firewall: *TCP_IN Blocked* IN=eth0 OUT= Dec 12 06:13:39 ns543594 kernel: Firewall: *TCP_IN Blocked* IN=eth0 OUT= Dec 12 06:13:41 ns543594 sshd[31291]: Connection closed by 139.59.41.154 Dec 12 06:13:42 ns543594 kernel: Firewall: *TCP_IN Blocked* IN=eth0 OUT= Dec 12 06:13:43 ns543594 kernel: Firewall: *TCP_IN Blocked* IN=eth0 OUT= Dec 12 06:13:46 ns543594 kernel: Firewall: *TCP_IN Blocked* IN=eth0 OUT= Dec 12 06:13:47 ns543594 kernel: Firewall: *TCP_IN Blocked* IN=eth0 OUT= Dec 12 06:13:50 ns543594 kernel: Firewall: *TCP_IN Blocked* IN=eth0 OUT= Dec 12 06:13:50 ns543594 sshd[31293]: Unable to negotiate with 163.172.13Dec 12 06:13:51 ns543594 kernel: Firewall: *TCP_IN Blocked* IN=eth0 OUT= Dec 12 06:13:54 ns543594 kernel: Firewall: *TCP_IN Blocked* IN=eth0 OUT= Dec 12 06:13:55 ns543594 kernel: Firewall: *TCP_IN Blocked* IN=eth0 OUT= Dec 12 06:13:57 ns543594 kernel: Firewall: *UDP_IN Blocked* IN=eth0 OUT= Dec 12 06:13:57 ns543594 kernel: Firewall: *TCP_IN Blocked* IN=eth0 OUT= Dec 12 06:13:59 ns543594 kernel: Firewall: *TCP_IN Blocked* IN=eth0 OUT= Dec 12 06:14:02 ns543594 kernel: Firewall: *TCP_IN Blocked* IN=eth0 OUT= Dec 12 06:14:03 ns543594 sshd[31308]: Unable to negotiate with 163.172.13Dec 12 06:14:03 ns543594 kernel: Firewall: *TCP_IN Blocked* IN=eth0 OUT= Dec 12 06:14:06 ns543594 kernel: Firewall: *TCP_IN Blocked* IN=eth0 OUT= Dec 12 06:14:07 ns543594 kernel: Firewall: *TCP_IN Blocked* IN=eth0 OUT= Dec 12 06:14:10 ns543594 kernel: Firewall: *TCP_IN Blocked* IN=eth0 OUT= Dec 12 06:14:11 ns543594 kernel: Firewall: *TCP_IN Blocked* IN=eth0 OUT= Dec 12 06:14:14 ns543594 kernel: Firewall: *TCP_IN Blocked* IN=eth0 OUT= Dec 12 06:14:15 ns543594 kernel: Firewall: *TCP_IN Blocked* IN=eth0 OUT= Dec 12 06:14:15 ns543594 sshd[31310]: Unable to negotiate with 163.172.13Dec 12 06:14:18 ns543594 kernel: Firewall: *TCP_IN Blocked* IN=eth0 OUT= Dec 12 06:14:19 ns543594 kernel: Firewall: *TCP_IN Blocked* IN=eth0 OUT= Dec 12 06:14:22 ns543594 kernel: Firewall: *TCP_IN Blocked* IN=eth0 OUT= Dec 12 06:14:23 ns543594 kernel: Firewall: *TCP_IN Blocked* IN=eth0 OUT= Dec 12 06:14:26 ns543594 kernel: Firewall: *TCP_IN Blocked* IN=eth0 OUT= Dec 12 06:14:27 ns543594 kernel: Firewall: *TCP_IN Blocked* IN=eth0 OUT= Dec 12 06:14:27 ns543594 sshd[31335]: Unable to negotiate with 163.172.13Dec 12 06:14:30 ns543594 kernel: Firewall: *TCP_IN Blocked* IN=eth0 OUT= ~                                                                        ~                                                                        ~                                                                        ~                                                                        ~                                                                        ~                                                                        ~                                                                        ~                                                                        ~                                                                        ~                                                                        ~                                                                        ~                                                                        ~                                                                        ~                                                                        ~                                                                        ~                                                                        ~                                                                        ~                                                                        ~                                                                        ~                                                                        ~                                                                        ~                                                                        ~                                                                        ~                                                                        lines 1042-1077/1077 (END)

What did I do wrong?

Dane.

 

I was referring to the
https://centminmod.com/nginx_configure_vbulletin5.html
guide; yes, I realize that guide is 6 years old, written for vBulletin 5.0.4 and my version is 5.5.5!

However, about 3 years ago I did in fact install Webmin over Centminmod and no damage was done, in fact I considered it to be a perfect installation. I even mentioned at that time here in this forum that I had hoped to write a set of Webmin modules that were compatible with Centminmod as a gift to George Liu and the CentOS / Centminmod community at large.

You say just "upload as root user via SFTP port 22" but without a workable FTP client I am left with only Web browsers ... Which one to use??
I usually use Firefox but Firefox always has problems with form submissions and checkboxes so usually I would use Chrome in Desktop mode when necessary. The reason I need to use an Android client is that I have to be out and about and cannot at this time afford a laptop computer, which would have a dual-boot CentOS 7 or CentOS 8 64 bit installation with Windows 7 Professional, and I would use the Windows software, "Bitvise Tunnelier" ( https://www.bitvise.com/download-area ).

Are there any plans for a WebUI for Centminmod?

In the meantime I will try doing a clean YUM remove and hopefully that will fix any damage. I have a TeamSpeak server running up there that took me 4 hours last night to set up.

I will post back here with my results.

Dane.