NetBox installation on CentOS 8

[David Templeton]

Can someone share their success story for installing NetBox on CentOS 8? 

I'm stuck on the HTTP Server Setup section. Both Apache and nginx seem to work differently in CentOS 8. The sites-available folder, for example, doesn't exist for either. All I can get is a Bad Request (400) message when I try to connect.

Thanks.

[João Lucas B. Macedo]

You must create a "netbox.conf" file inside the "/etc/httpd/conf.d/" folder.

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[David Templeton]

Thank you all who replied. Tow issues were at the heart of my problem: a test Ubuntu server with the same name, and the nginx service was not started.

The nginx installation worked with these steps:

# added this while troubleshooting and decided to keep it:

setsebool -P httpd_can_network_connect 1

mkdir -p /etc/ssl/private

openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 365 -newkey rsa:2048 \

-keyout /etc/ssl/private/netbox.key \

-out /etc/ssl/certs/netbox.crt

dnf install nginx

cp /opt/netbox/contrib/nginx.conf /etc/nginx/conf.d/netbox.conf

vi /etc/nginx/conf.d/netbox.conf

# change server_name to netbox.mydomain.com

vi /etc/nginx/nginx.conf

# comment out server section

systemctl start nginx

systemctl enable nginx

cd /opt/netbox

cp contrib/gunicorn.py /opt/netbox/gunicorn.py

cp contrib/*.service /etc/systemd/system/

systemctl daemon-reload

systemctl start netbox netbox-rq

systemctl enable netbox netbox-rq

# verify:

systemctl status nginx

systemctl status netbox

The Apache install worked well too. Replace the nginx steps with these:

dnf install httpd mod_ssl

cp /opt/netbox/contrib/apache.conf /etc/httpd/conf.d/netbox.conf

vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/netbox.conf

# change server_name to netbox.mydomain.com

systemctl start httpd

systemctl enable httpd

systemctl status httpd

[davide Colombo]

Hi David, in the attachment you can find the procedure I've written, it was originally designed to migrate my previous environment to the new vm and it included many custom parts I've deleted, so i hope I'didn't delete anything from the 'standard procedure'

[Susan Short]

I got further, now it is working to localhost but not from an external host.  I renamed the netbox site file to netbox.conf and put it under conf.d and I saved a copy of nginx.conf in nginx.conf.orig but copied nginx.conf.default to nginx.conf.  The nginx.conf file is setup to work out of the box but it has the server definition in it.  It is a bit of a hack since I am just in POC right now.