Expedition installation failed - apache2/php7 not installed

[ha.kan]

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

[...]

[J.Cheung871077]

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.

[J.Cheung871077]

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.

[Jeff-HSC]

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

[J.Cheung871077]

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

[ha.kan]

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.

[ha.kan]

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:~$