Bare-metal install on Debian-13 (trixie) #1138

na6vj · 2025-08-15T23:17:58Z

na6vj
Aug 15, 2025

I'm having a few issues with this.

First, the workarounds:

I have not installed the openrc package - this conflicts with systemd
the PHP packages seem to require this repo before they can be installed:
wget -qO - https://packages.sury.org/php/README.txt | sudo bash -x
debian-13 has python 3-13 installed, but the install script is trying to mess with python 3.11, and I get these errors:
E: Unable to locate package python3.11-venv
E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'python3.11-venv'
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'python3.11-venv'

I will go ahead and used the already installed python 3.13.

More reports as I progress....

jokob-sk · 2025-08-16T00:32:05Z

jokob-sk
Aug 16, 2025
Maintainer

Hi @na6vj - feel free to open a PR once you get it running - you can probably create a separate debian.13 install script, e.g.

start.debian-13.sh based on start.debian.sh
install_dependencies-13.debian.sh based on install_dependencies.debian.sh
install.debian-13.sh based on install.debian.sh

and we can rename the old ones to debian-12

then we need to update https://github.com/jokob-sk/NetAlertX/blob/main/docs/HW_INSTALL.md

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na6vj · 2025-08-16T05:06:16Z

na6vj
Aug 16, 2025
Author

The script appears to be running now but I have a few problems:

Cannot access the URL.
http://:20212 gives me a 404 error, as do the following attempts:
10.200.200.102 - - [16/Aug/2025 04:36:48] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 404 -
10.200.200.102 - - [16/Aug/2025 04:36:49] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 -
10.200.200.102 - - [16/Aug/2025 04:37:12] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 404 -
10.200.200.102 - - [16/Aug/2025 04:37:21] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 404 -
10.200.200.102 - - [16/Aug/2025 04:39:19] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 404 -
10.200.200.102 - - [16/Aug/2025 04:40:15] "GET /netalertx HTTP/1.1" 404 -
10.200.200.102 - - [16/Aug/2025 04:45:26] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 404 -
10.200.200.102 - - [16/Aug/2025 04:52:06] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 404 -
10.200.200.102 - - [16/Aug/2025 04:52:35] "GET /netalertx HTTP/1.1" 404 -
10.200.200.102 - - [16/Aug/2025 04:52:44] "GET /netalertx/index.php HTTP/1.1" 404 -
10.200.200.102 - - [16/Aug/2025 04:56:53] "GET /netalertx/index.php HTTP/1.1" 404 -
The log shows errors similar to the docker install:

7:03:37 [NSLOOKUP] Script finished

07:03:37 [HELPER] ⚠ ERROR not processed set_type: {"dataType":"array","elements":[{"elementType":"select","elementOptions":[{"multiple":"true","ordeable":"true"}],"transformers":[]},{"elementType":"button","elementOptions":[{"sourceSuffixes":[]},{"separator":""},{"cssClasses":"col-xs-12"},{"onClick":"selectChange(this)"},{"getStringKey":"Gen_Change"}],"transformers":[]}]}
07:03:37 [HELPER] ⚠ ERROR not processed set_value: ['ARPSCAN', 'AVAHISCAN', 'CSVBCKP', 'DBCLNP', 'DIGSCAN', 'INTRNT', 'MAINT', 'NEWDEV', 'NBTSCAN', 'NSLOOKUP', 'NTFPRCS', 'SETPWD', 'SMTP', 'SYNC', 'VNDRPDT', 'WORKFLOWS', 'UI', 'CUSTPROP']

Another error complains about a missing "rc_status" :
File "/usr/lib/python3.13/subprocess.py", line 1972, in _execute_child
raise child_exception_type(errno_num, err_msg, err_filename)
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'rc-status'

If someone helps me get past the initial UI URL access, I can at least try to work the other stuff.
Thanks.

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jokob-sk Aug 16, 2025
Maintainer

Thanks!

Is nginx running? This doc might help: https://jokob-sk.github.io/NetAlertX/WEB_UI_PORT_DEBUG/?h=nginx

07:03:37 [HELPER] ⚠ ERROR not processed set_type: {"dataType":"array","elements":[{"elementType":"select","elementOptions":[{"multiple":"true","ordeable":"true"}],"transformers":[]},{"elementType":"button","elementOptions":[{"sourceSuffixes":[]},{"separator":""},{"cssClasses":"col-xs-12"},{"onClick":"selectChange(this)"},{"getStringKey":"Gen_Change"}],"transformers":[]}]}
07:03:37 [HELPER] ⚠ ERROR not processed set_value: ['ARPSCAN', 'AVAHISCAN', 'CSVBCKP', 'DBCLNP', 'DIGSCAN', 'INTRNT', 'MAINT', 'NEWDEV', 'NBTSCAN', 'NSLOOKUP', 'NTFPRCS', 'SETPWD', 'SMTP', 'SYNC', 'VNDRPDT', 'WORKFLOWS', 'UI', 'CUSTPROP']

these can be ignored for now

na6vj Aug 16, 2025
Author

Thanks for being so responsive !!!

jokob-sk Aug 16, 2025
Maintainer

I am happy if someone is trying to help :) and I don't have energy to maintain everything, especially the bare metal install

na6vj · 2025-08-16T18:45:44Z

na6vj
Aug 16, 2025
Author

Progress!

I found the nginx config files, and discovered that it is actually configured to listen on port 20211 , not 20212 as advertised.

root@server1:~# cat /app//install/netalertx.debian.conf
server {
    listen 20211 default_server;
    root /var/www/html/netalertx;
    index index.php;
    ...
    
    root@server1:~# netstat -anlp | grep LIST
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:20211           0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      57813/nginx: master
..

So now, I can access the UI at http://server1:20211 !!

Next issue: The UI complains:
"DataTables warning: table id=tableDevices - Ajax error. For more information about this error, please see http://datatables.net/tn/7"

And there are these errors in /var/log/nginx/error.log:

2025/08/16 18:34:16 [error] 57814#57814: *7 FastCGI sent in stderr: "PHP message: PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function curl_init() in /app/front/php/server/query_graphql.php:44
Stack trace:
#0 /app/front/php/server/query_graphql.php(78): queryGraphQL()
#1 {main}
  thrown in /app/front/php/server/query_graphql.php on line 44" while reading response header from upstream, client: 10.200.200.102, server: , request: "POST /php/server/query_graphql.php HTTP/1.1", upstream: "fastcgi://unix:/run/php/php8.2-fpm.sock:", host: "10.200.200.109:20211", referrer: "http://10.200.200.109:20211/devices.php"
2025/08/16 18:35:09 [error] 57814#57814: *6 FastCGI sent in stderr: "PHP message: PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function curl_init() in /app/front/php/server/query_graphql.php:44
Stack trace:
#0 /app/front/php/server/query_graphql.php(78): queryGraphQL()
#1 {main}
  thrown in /app/front/php/server/query_graphql.php on line 44" while reading response header from upstream, client: 10.200.200.102, server: , request: "POST /php/server/query_graphql.php HTTP/1.1", upstream: "fastcgi://unix:/run/php/php8.2-fpm.sock:", host: "10.200.200.109:20211", referrer: "http://10.200.200.109:20211/devices.php"
2025/08/16 18:35:22 [error] 57816#57816: *8 FastCGI sent in stderr: "PHP message: PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function curl_init() in /app/front/php/server/query_graphql.php:44
Stack trace:
#0 /app/front/php/server/query_graphql.php(78): queryGraphQL()
#1 {main}
  thrown in /app/front/php/server/query_graphql.php on line 44" while reading response header from upstream, client: 10.200.200.102, server: , request: "POST /php/server/query_graphql.php HTTP/1.1", upstream: "fastcgi://unix:/run/php/php8.2-fpm.sock:", host: "10.200.200.109:20211", referrer: "http://10.200.200.109:20211/devices.php"
2025/08/16 18:35:44 [error] 57814#57814: *6 FastCGI sent in stderr: "PHP message: PHP Warning:  Undefined variable $timeZone in /app/front/systeminfoServer.php on line 104" while reading response header from upstream, client: 10.200.200.102, server: , request: "GET /systeminfoServer.php HTTP/1.1", upstream: "fastcgi://unix:/run/php/php8.2-fpm.sock:", host: "10.200.200.109:20211", referrer: "http://10.200.200.109:20211/systeminfo.php"
2025/08/16 18:40:34 [error] 57815#57815: *418 FastCGI sent in stderr: "PHP message: PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function curl_init() in /app/front/php/server/query_graphql.php:44
Stack trace:
#0 /app/front/php/server/query_graphql.php(78): queryGraphQL()
#1 {main}
  thrown in /app/front/php/server/query_graphql.php on line 44" while reading response header from upstream, client: 10.200.200.102, server: , request: "POST /php/server/query_graphql.php HTTP/1.1", upstream: "fastcgi://unix:/run/php/php8.2-fpm.sock:", host: "10.200.200.109:20211", referrer: "http://10.200.200.109:20211/devices.php"

Although it did discover 15 devices !!!

2 replies

jokob-sk Aug 16, 2025
Maintainer

There are 2 ports:

one for the UI (default 20211), one for the backend API (20212). e.g. GraphQL is using 20212. Regarding the issue, you might be missing sudo apt-get install php-curl - according to ChatGPT

na6vj Aug 19, 2025
Author

Success !!

After a few more tweaks, I got it to work:

I had two versions of php-fpm installed : 8.2 and 8.4.
After deleting php8.2-fpm, things were better.

I'm now running the main script using the command:
:/app/install# nohup ./start.debian.sh >> run.log &

but there has to be a better way of running it - possibly as a service.
I can help with this, if I understand the architecture better - Do you have any documentation on how this is put together ?

FYI - I'm retiring from my full time job in two weeks (Been working for 50 years), so I hope to have time to invest in open source projects.
Do you meet (virtually) with volunteers to direct/educate them ?

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