Internal server error on fresh install, ubuntu 20, seafile 9.x

Seafile Server
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Hello,

I am trying to test this service on fresh vms with no success. At first I did the manual install and all was going well until I was unable to run seahub.sh script. Run into some missing dependencies which I was not able to solve despite reinstalling missing packages.

Decided to give the installation script a try. Script run fine and I can see the service is running. When I visit the address we get “Internal Server Error”. At first I thought it was an nginx problem so tried to run it without reverse proxy and modified configuration files, no success. Than I found FAQ in the manual which says:

It is mostly likely some required Python packages of Seahub is not installed correctly.
You can check the detailed error messages in /var/log/nginx/seahub.error.log if you use Nginx.

I reverted the modified files and tried reading the logs. Problem is those logs are empty and the service appears to be running correctly. Rechecked all dependencies, no idea where do I go from there.

This was tried on fresh virtual machine on two different machines. Ubuntu 20.04.3 server image. Any ideas?

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I know my first post doesn’t have much info but it is a clean install and I run into same issues on 2 different hosts. Surprised noone else has run into similar problems as of recently, since the problem should be easy to reproduce.

Either way, I wasn’t able to solve the issue. Will try to get a Debian install running this weekend and also try docker deployment.

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Hi,

I can’t reproduce your issue on an Ubuntu 20.04 VM. Seafile 9 (sqlite deployment) with the following dependencies (from manual):

# on Ubuntu 20.04 server

apt-get install -y python3 python3-setuptools python3-pip memcached libmemcached-dev pwgen sqlite3

pip3 install --timeout=3600 django==2.2.* future Pillow pylibmc captcha jinja2 psd-tools django-pylibmc django-simple-captcha pycryptodome==3.12.0 cffi==1.14.0

Rather than nginx logs, have you checked Seafile ones (logs folder on the same level as the server folder)?

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Not necessary. Ubuntu is the preferred platform.

Please follow these instructions precisely: Installation with MySQL - Seafile Admin Manual (I don’t use the scripts, I think they are poorly maintained.)

If you follow the tutorial for the manual installation, you’ll get a working system. I did so myself a few days ago.

If you keep running into trouble, post your config files here (after removing the passwords).