directadmin/install.sh safe to use?

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993ti

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Is it safe to do directadmin/./install.sh?
Will it reinstall directadmin?
Will it keep the settings and websites?

I'm asking since somehow Directadmin dissappeared :S
If i try setup.sh it says that all data will be destroyed.
Any way to reinstall DA without losing everything?
 
No. Don't do it.

DirectAdmin's install.sh script will clear many settings. It will warn you that when you start it if it detects that DirectAdmin may be already installed, but you shouldn't depend on the check working.

Jeff
 
So how do we "fix" a severely 'broken' installation, without losing our data/websites ?
My host has no "automatic" way to pay for the DA license, so once in a while I miss the notice to renew it. I had this happen yesterday, so I logged in and paid the overdue invoice, but then I am responsible for reinstating the licenses, however, this time it tells me

"License check failure See the Debug Guide
Reason: transient licence check failure: incompatible version, please upgrade DirectAdmin"

I followed my host's instructions to remedy this, but now its not allowing me to access the web panel at all, however, one of the websites on this VPS is still operating ..

My host is not being any help at all to resolve this ...

Please help! I am DESPARATE!!
 
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Do you have SSH access to the vps ? if yes you can upgrade DA from there with:
Code: 
cd /usr/local/directadmin/custombuild
./build update
./build update_versions

P.S. Please dont necropost, start your own thread
 
jemesouviens said:
"License check failure See the Debug Guide
Reason: transient licence check failure: incompatible version, please upgrade DirectAdmin"


Please help! I am DESPARATE!!
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This means the DirectAdmin binary is too old. Whoever has root access to the server needs to follow these instructions to manually update DA at the command-line. That is the solution in this case.
 
DirectAdmin Sales said:
This means the DirectAdmin binary is too old. Whoever has root access to the server needs to follow these instructions to manually update DA at the command-line. That is the solution in this case.
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The server is running Centos 6.10 I cannot use this guide on EOL distros ... and updating DA via custombuild gives me ./build: line 443: conditional binary operator expected

I do plan on migrating to a newer VPS, but I want to make sure I can fix what's broken first.
 
Is it 32-bit or 64-bit CentOS 6? We do have modern enough binaries where CentOS 6 (x86_64) is supported and those commands will work.
 
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