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greasyrainbow
Apr 04, 2019Aspirant
I accidentally removed Apache from my ReadyNAS and no longer have an admin page.
Like the title says, I was playing around trying to get OwnCloud working and without thinking did an apt-get purge and apt-get autoremove to Apache2 and related software. I was able to reinstall Apac...
Sandshark
Apr 04, 2019Sensei
On OS Re-install does not harm your data. See this thread: OS-Re-install-via-SSH.
StephenB
Apr 05, 2019Guru - Experienced User
Sandshark wrote:
An OS Re-install does not harm your data. See this thread: OS-Re-install-via-SSH.
It is worth a try, but it doesn't reinstall everything. You still might end up with no web ui, and/or a damaged configuration.
FWIW, I think there's more stuff missing than /var/www. All I see in there is one file (index.html) that you could easily recreate. Note it is owned by guest (which is a bit odd).
root@NAS:/var/www# ls -als
total 4
0 drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 20 Jan 27 06:16 .
0 drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 146 Jan 27 06:17 ..
4 -rw-r--r-- 1 115 guest 53 Oct 9 15:53 index.html root@NAS:/var/www# cat index.html <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=/admin/">
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