So here we are at EOL's

So we are at CentOS 7 and 8 both EOL, the panel doesn't work right on rocky 9 or alma 9. It seems developement for newer versions and porting to new redhat flavors has come to a stand still yet there are many many many of us that pay for pro version.

So, what is to come? When will things work properly with rocky and alma 9? When can we see more ports to other RHEL flavors? Will we ever get a dark mode and no not a css fix that messes the panel up like posted in the forums a few years ago.

Just wondering if it's time to move on or continue waiting!!!

Use AlmaLinux 8 for now (supported until nearly the end of the decade!) then upgrade to AlmaLinux 9 when CWP's EL9 support comes out of beta.

Contabo hosting doesn't offer 8, only rocky and alma 9.

And you're married to Contabo? Or they wouldn't provide an exception for Alma 8 which is still actively supported?

Where can I download this CWP-Centos Stream 8 with the delayed updates until CWP makes them stable ffirst? Would that be a better choice than Alma 8 for the panel to work 100%?

A big N-O. Stream has always been a beta, rolling-release OS, not really fit for production. AlmaLinux 8 is a full, stable release fit for production use and supported almost to the end of the decade.

What are the issues with CWP on AlmaLinux-8-latest-x86_64-minimal.iso      2024-05-25 08:01  2.0G

Or this one if it would run better on this one: AlmaLinux-8.10-x86_64-minimal.iso          2024-05-25 08:01  2.0G 

The EOL is OLD news for CentOS 7 & 8.
Actually RH killed CentOS 8 before 7.

RH has also archived CentOS 8 Stream, as Stream 10 is coming out soon.

CWP works fine on AlmaLinux 8 and 9.

Rocky is missing some key files for some reason.

Yes, I would you run the latest Stable release of AlmaLinux 8, which currently is 8.10.

We have server running both version of AlmaLinux, depending on what is required.
But 4 of our mirror servers are running AlmaLinux 9.4.
We mirror for AlmaLinux, AlmaLinux-ELevate, ELRepo, EPEL, and MariaDB in 5 countries.

I have already tried Alma 9 with CWP and it wouldn't function correct on Contabo. I will go with Alma 8.1 as soon as Contabo fixes the error in their custom image order form hehe

If you have their custom ISO service, upload the AlmaLinux 8.10 DVD ISO directly their from the nearest AlmaLinux mirror.

Oh the 13GB one? I thought minimal was always suggested from CWP hehe

No, use the DVD ISO, it has all the libraries needed for the initial setup.

I personally always ran into trouble using the Minimum or Network versions.

No, use the DVD ISO, it has all the libraries needed for the initial setup.

I personally always ran into trouble using the Minimum or Network versions.

3rd attempt, 1 time using minimal and 2 times using  dvd install and got the same thing:

2024-08-06 02:36:40 (20.1 MB/s) - ‘cwp-services.zip’ saved [34026386/34026386]

Installing phpMyAdmin
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cwp-el7-latest: line 558: mysql: command not found
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100  8978  100  8978    0     0  47252      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 47252
curl: (23) Failed writing body (0 != 8978)
cwp-el7-latest: line 559: mysql: command not found
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100  3987  100  3987    0     0  21668      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 21668
(23) Failed writing body
cwp-el7-latest: line 561: mysql: command not found
Failed to enable unit: Unit file named.service does not exist.
sed: can't read /etc/named.conf: No such file or directory
sed: can't read /etc/named.conf: No such file or directory
sed: can't read /etc/named.conf: No such file or directory
56 files removed
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          CentOS Web Panel MailServer Installer
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visit for help: www.centos-webpanel.com

cwp-el7-latest: line 604: mysql: command not found
MySQL root password is invalid!!!
Check password and run this script again.
[root@viking src]#


How can the mysql password be wrong when cwp is installing mysql itself ugggh

If you want do the base OS install, no Apache, MariaDB, PHP, etc.
And then I can try to login with SSH and see why the script isn't installation anything.

I've never had the script have problems on a virgin server.
Whether AlmaLinux 8 or 9.

That shows even BIND didn't install, not to mention the main problem that MariaDB didn't install.