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Issue with nginx instance manager repo with centos9

Pisitpongv
Nimbostratus
Nimbostratus

Hi all

Anyone have issue installing nginx instance manager on Centos9? I experenice issue when yum install nms-instance-manager on my new droplet instance on oceandigital. Awhile I don't have any issue install nginx-plus on the same instance.

 

 

[root@Nginx-SSO01 ~]# sudo yum install -y nms-instance-manager
NGINX Management Suite                          108  B/s | 153  B     00:01
Errors during downloading metadata for repository 'nms':
  - Status code: 404 for https://pkgs.nginx.com/nms/centos/9/x86_64/repodata/rep                                                                                                        omd.xml (IP: 3.126.134.177)
Error: Failed to download metadata for repo 'nms': Cannot download repomd.xml: C                                                                                                             annot download repodata/repomd.xml: All mirrors were tried

 

 

 After investigate, I found that it is issue with nginx instance manager repo with Centos version 9.

If I try to curl https://pkgs.nginx.com/nms/centos/9/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml, the URL is not found and return 404.

 

 

[root@Nginx-SSO01 ~]# curl --cert  /etc/ssl/nginx/nginx-repo.crt --key /etc/ssl/nginx/nginx-repo.key https://pkgs.nginx.com/nms/centos/9/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml
<html>
<head><title>404 Not Found</title></head>
<body>
<center><h1>404 Not Found</h1></center>
<hr><center>nginx/1.21.5</center>
</body>
</html>

 

 

If I change the directory to centos version 8, I found no issue.

 

 

[root@Nginx-SSO01 ~]# curl --cert  /etc/ssl/nginx/nginx-repo.crt --key /etc/ssl/nginx/nginx-repo.key https://pkgs.nginx.com/nms/centos/8/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<repomd xmlns="http://linux.duke.edu/metadata/repo" xmlns:rpm="http://linux.duke.edu/metadata/rpm">
 <revision>1649180146</revision>
<data type="filelists">
  <checksum type="sha256">7c829f9d959ee129b6f0f4d1f9192795caf0765c863889837f8aef93ca1fa307</checksum>

 

 

Anyone have a work around on this? I am on free trial license. I cannot raise issue.

 

Thanks

Pisitpong

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Pisitpongv
Nimbostratus
Nimbostratus

Hi @LiefZimmerman 

After weeks, I just figured out that Nginx Instance Manager doesn't support CentOS verison 9. That is why I got that error. If anyone want to run nginx instance manger, I recommend you to run it on CentOS version 7. CentOS8 still have some issues.

Thanks
Pisitpong

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LiefZimmerman
Community Manager
Community Manager

hey @Pisitpongv - since I don't see a response on this I've run it past a few NGINX experts internally to see if anyone has any guidance.

Thanks

Pisitpongv
Nimbostratus
Nimbostratus

Hi @LiefZimmerman 

After weeks, I just figured out that Nginx Instance Manager doesn't support CentOS verison 9. That is why I got that error. If anyone want to run nginx instance manger, I recommend you to run it on CentOS version 7. CentOS8 still have some issues.

Thanks
Pisitpong

of course! I didn't think to look for OS support. 😂

From this page:
https://docs.nginx.com/nginx-instance-manager

I drilled down to this one:
https://docs.nginx.com/nginx-instance-manager/about/technical-specifications/

all for 2.0 and later.