How to clear an installation to restart the wizard

[ponce]

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Hi,

sorry if I’m opening a new topic but I wasn’t able to find clear information on the matter (could be my fault).

I have installed passbolt on Debian 10 following the installation instructions in the docs: I hadn’t an ssl certificate or a domain name for my host and it was in a private network so at first I installed it in http and with an ip address.
later I got a domain name and a valid ssl certificate, so I configured the virtual host and ssl on nginx and edited accordingly /var/www/passbolt/config/passbolt.php.
now it seems I cannot login into my account anymore: I tried reinstalling the browser plugin to point at the domain name but it doesn’t seem to recognize my serverkey_private.asc file anymore.
as I had added only a few test entries (because of the http) I would like to start from scratch, clearing the database and eventual configuration files/gpg keys but I would like to have a confirmation on what precisely has to be cleared to be able to restart from the configuration wizard…
thanks in advance for your help!

Matteo

[remy]

Hello @ponce,

If the domain name changed (because of protocol change), you can follow the recovery process to link your account to the new domain. You can go to https://yourdomain.com/recover and follow the process, it should work without having to reinstall.

However if you want to restart the wizard you need to:

• Delete the file located in your passbolt directory: config/passbolt.php
• Make sure config directory is writable
• Delete or create a new database instance
• You can also delete the keys from the keyring (optional)

That should be able to trigger the installation wizard.

[ponce]

thanks remy!

I have done like you noted, and I had to clear also the private and public keys from the passbolt/config/gpg/ (I left alone /home/www-data/.gpg) or the checks made as a first step from the wizard failed.
for some reason regenerating a new server key failed (date seem to be ok on both client and server) but I imported the old serverkey_private.asc so all was dandy: also, I haven’t got a similar problem when generating a gpg key for the admin user.

thanks again for your help!

Matteo