Homeserver also completely renewed!

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zondag, 14 juni 2020
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And not only the VPS, but also the home server completely rebuilt... When trying to install Drupal 9 too many strange things happened, and that was the proverbial straw. After all, I had Ubuntu 20.04 installed on that server with Virtualmin on it. And Virtualmin is not guaranteed for versions of Ubuntu after 18.04. That always worked well until I started using the PHP installation more intensively, with Drupal 9. An additional problem is that I was presented with bizarre behavior, but no error message anywhere in a log file. So where should you look?

Finally decided to reinstall the server from scratch.
Started again with Ubuntu 18.04. Then set fstab and netplan correctly and we were running again. An additional advantage is that the setup of netplan in Ubuntu 20.04 was not entirely correct. The combination of DHCP and fixed IPs turned out not to be possible...
But now came a new problem: ZFS! I had that software installed for raid/filesystem and it ran fine on my data disks. But what I didn't know was that the release upgrades to 20.04 had also changed my version of ZFS to something that is no longer fully compatible with ZFS under Ubuntu 18.04.
But the Internet has a solution for everything... So my server is now running Ubuntu 18.04 with PHP 7.4 and with ZFS 0.8.4.

Best of all worlds!

Now finally time to test Drupal9...

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