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Expedition installation failed - apache2/php7 not installed

ha.kan — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 11:00:01 GMT

Hello all,

to migrate from Fortinet to Palo Alto, I would like to use the Expedition Tool. I have completed the expedition installation on a virtual machine according to the installation guide, but the tool does not work. The GUI is not available. After analyzing the CLI output from the installation, I could see lots of warnings and errors, and that there are some parts not installed correctly. At least php7 and/or apache2 will not be installed. The installation was done on a clean Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS server, according to the admin guide. VM was set up with 40G drive, 8G RAM and 4 cores and functional internet connection.

Any ideas, how to fix this problem?

Below are some snippets from the CLI output after executing the installation script "sudo ./initSetup*.sh"

Appended you find the whole log. Errors, Warning, not found, etc are marked in red.

Thank you in advance

kind regards
Hakan

[...] sed: can't read /etc/php/7.0/apache2/php.ini: No such file or directory sed: can't read /etc/php/7.0/apache2/php.ini: No such file or directory sed: can't read /etc/php/7.0/apache2/php.ini: No such file or directory sed: can't read /etc/php/7.0/cli/php.ini: No such file or directory sed: can't read /etc/php/7.0/cli/php.ini: No such file or directory sed: can't read /etc/php/7.0/cli/php.ini: No such file or directory Failed to restart apache2.service: Unit apache2.service not found. [...] E: Unable to locate package php7.0-radius E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'php7.0-radius' E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'php7.0-radius' E: Unable to locate package php7.0-bcmath [...]

Re: Expedition installation failed - apache2/php7 not installed

J.Cheung871077 — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 11:51:57 GMT

I'm having the same issue, can't install php 7.0. If you do a "php -v" what output do you get? I think expedition ONLY supports php 7.0.

Re: Expedition installation failed - apache2/php7 not installed

J.Cheung871077 — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 17:53:51 GMT

Ok for giggles, I updated my ubuntu LTS VM to 22.04 and I ran the script and lo and behold, apache2/php7.0 worked fine. I was able to get to the login screen but due to some php/sql issue I was not able to login. I think we are doomed because I think Ondrej recently stopped supporting 20.04 for his php repository. you can probably try to build it from scratch but you would need to build all the php extensions from scratch too. I attempted it but failed miserably. this is the end for expedition in 2025. RIP.

Re: Expedition installation failed - apache2/php7 not installed

Jeff-HSC — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 16:59:36 GMT

This is what worked for me ...

Install Ubuntu 20.04 following the instruction guide.
Login to the "expedition" account" ( Password: paloalto ).
Download and copy "initSetup_v2.0.sh" to "/home/expedition/tmp".
Update Ubuntu.

sudo apt update sudo apt upgrade

Install Apache2, PHP ( Version 7.4.3-4ubuntu2.29 ), and the PHP modules.

sudo apt install apache2 sudo apt install php libapache2-mod-php sudo apt install php-bcmath php-mbstring php-gd php-soap php-zip php-xml php-opcache php-curl php-bz2 php-mcrypt php-ldap php-radius php-mysql

Install Expedition.

cd /tmp sudo ./initSetup_v2.0.sh

Stop and disable the firewall service.

sudo systemctl stop firewalld sudo systemctl disable firewalld

Re: Expedition installation failed - apache2/php7 not installed

J.Cheung871077 — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 17:14:17 GMT

an alternative method that worked for me was to install Ubuntu 22.04 and follow these instructions: https://github.com/utahman3431/pan-expedition-installer

Re: Expedition installation failed - apache2/php7 not installed

ha.kan — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 13:29:29 GMT

Hello all, thank you for your replies 👍. I will examine the suggestions and will give you feedback in the next days, as soon as I got the results.

Re: Expedition installation failed - apache2/php7 not installed

ha.kan — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 12:02:26 GMT

Thank you. This solution @Jeff-HSC has worked also for me.

Now I am able to open the GUI, but I am not able to log in there.

I tried the default credentials admin/paloalto but also expedition/paloalto. Both do not work.

I found corresponding posts in the forum, according to which full drives can be the cause.

I can see multiple "/dev/loop#/" drives, which have 100% use. I also found out, that these drives are snap packets, but I have no experiences with that.

Can this be a problem and any ideas how to fix this / how to log in?

expedition@expedition1:~$ df -k Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on udev 4002840 0 4002840 0% /dev tmpfs 810428 1628 808800 1% /run /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-ubuntu--lv 19430032 9247460 9170248 51% / tmpfs 4052124 0 4052124 0% /dev/shm tmpfs 5120 0 5120 0% /run/lock tmpfs 4052124 0 4052124 0% /sys/fs/cgroup /dev/loop3 94080 94080 0 100% /snap/lxd/24061 /dev/loop0 64896 64896 0 100% /snap/core20/1828 /dev/loop1 65408 65408 0 100% /snap/core20/2599 /dev/loop4 50560 50560 0 100% /snap/snapd/24792 /dev/loop5 52096 52096 0 100% /snap/snapd/25202 /dev/loop2 94208 94208 0 100% /snap/lxd/32662 /dev/sda2 1992552 116340 1754972 7% /boot tmpfs 810424 0 810424 0% /run/user/1000 expedition@expedition1:~$ ^C expedition@expedition1:~$ snap list --all Name Version Rev Tracking Publisher Notes core20 20230207 1828 latest/stable canonical✓ base,disabled core20 20250526 2599 latest/stable canonical✓ base lxd 4.0.9-a29c6f1 24061 4.0/stable/… canonical✓ disabled lxd 4.0.10-d342340 32662 4.0/stable/… canonical✓ - snapd 2.70 24792 latest/stable canonical✓ snapd,disabled snapd 2.71 25202 latest/stable canonical✓ snapd expedition@expedition1:~$