Preseeding feature (installer)

This is great news, I've been looking for this functionality for a while for i-MSCP when building VM appliances.

However when using the --nomprompt flag the installer complains that there's an
error or missing entry in my preseed file.

"Noninteractive mode: Missing or bad entry found in an i-MSCP configuration file."

I'm not sure exactly which entry is missing but it appears to be that the SERVERS hash array isn't referenced by the script.

I've included a (generalized) copy of my preseed file for reference. Could you point out any potential errors in my config or is a bug report in order.

[code=php]#!/usr/bin/perl

# i-MSCP preseed.pl template file for installer preseeding and hooking features
# See documentation at LINK TO DOC

#
## Preseeding
#

## Autoinstall questions

$main::preseed{'SERVERS'} = {
'PO' => 'dovecot',
'NAMED' => 'bind',
'HTTPD' => 'apache_itk',
'FTPD' => 'proftpd',
'MTA' => 'postfix'
};

## Setup questions

# Server hostname
$main::preseed{'SERVER_HOSTNAME'} = 'server.example.com'; # Fully qualified hostname name such as imscp.i-mscp.net

# Domain name from which the i-MSCP frontEnd should be reachable
$main::preseed{'BASE_SERVER_VHOST'} = 'imscp.server.example.com'; # Fully qualified domain name such as panel. imscp.i-mscp.net

# Local DNS resolver
$main::preseed{'LOCAL_DNS_RESOLVER'} = 'yes';

# Base server Ip (primary external ip) - Accept both ipV4 and ipV6 ips
# Ip must be already configured (see ifconfig)
$main::preseed{'BASE_SERVER_IP'} = '198.18.144.12'; # 192.168.5.110

# Additional ips to make available for i-MSCP - Accept both IPv4 and IPv6
# Any unconfigured ips will be added to the first netcard found (eg: eth0)
$main::preseed{'SERVER_IPS'} = []; # ['192.168.5.115', '192.168.5.115']

# SQL DSN and i-MSCP SQL user
$main::preseed{'DATABASE_TYPE'} = 'mysql'; # database type (for now, only 'mysql' is allowed)
$main::preseed{'DATABASE_HOST'} = 'localhost'; # Accept both hostname and ip
$main::preseed{'DATABASE_PORT'} = '3306'; # Only relevant for TCP (eg: when DATABASE_HOST is not equal to localhost)
$main::preseed{'DATABASE_USER'} = 'root'; # SQL user (user must exist and have full privileges on SQL server)
$main::preseed{'DATABASE_PASSWORD'} = 's3cur3pwd'; # Password shouldn't be empty

# i-MSCP database name
$main::preseed{'DATABASE_NAME'} = 'imscp';

# MySQL prefix/sufix
$main::preseed{'MYSQL_PREFIX'} = 'no'; # (yes|no)
$main::preseed{'MYSQL_PREFIX_TYPE'} = 'none'; # (none if MYSQL_PREFIX equal to 'no' or infront or behind)

# Default admin
$main::preseed{'ADMIN_LOGIN_NAME'} = 'admin'; #
$main::preseed{'ADMIN_PASSWORD'} = 's3cur3pwd'; # Password shouldn't be empty
$main::preseed{'DEFAULT_ADMIN_ADDRESS'} = 'admin@example.com'; # Valid email address

# PHP Timzone
$main::preseed{'PHP_TIMEZONE'} = 'UTC'; # A valid PHP timezone (see http://php.net/manual/en/timezones.php)

# PhpMyAdmin restricted SQL user
$main::preseed{'PMA_USER'} = 'pma';
$main::preseed{'PMA_PASSWORD'} = 's3cur3pwd'; # Password shouldn't be empty

# reuse the data from PMA_USER and PMA_PASSWORD
$main::preseed{'PHPMYADMIN_SQL_PASSWORD'} = 's3cur3pwd';
$main::preseed{'PHPMYADMIN_SQL_USER'} = 'pma'; # Password shouldn't be empty

#
## SSL questions
#

# SSL for i-MSCP services
$main::preseed{'SSL_ENABLED'} = 'no'; # (yes|no)

# Only releavant if the SSL_ENABLED parameter is set to 'yes'
$main::preseed{'CERTIFICATE_PATH'} = ''; # Leave blank if you do not have certificate (selfsigned certificate will be used instead)

# Only releavant if the SSL_ENABLED parameter is set to 'yes'
$main::preseed{'CERTIFICATE_PASSPHRASE'} = ''; # Leave blank if your certificate is not protected by a passphrase

# Only releavant if the SSL_ENABLED parameter is set to 'yes'
$main::preseed{'INTERMEDIATE_CERTIFICATE_PATH'} = ''; # Leave blank if you do not have intermediate certificate

# iMSCP backup feature
$main::preseed{'BACKUP_IMSCP'} = 'yes'; # (yes|no) - It's recommended to set this question to 'yes'

# Customers backup feature
$main::preseed{'BACKUP_DOMAINS'} = 'no'; # (yes|no)

## Server questions

# Proftpd sql user
$main::preseed['FTPD_SQL_USER'] = 'vftp';
$main::preseed['FTPD_SQL_PASSWORD'] = 's3cur3pwd'; # Password shouldn't be empty

# apache_fcgi - Only relevant if server for httpd service is set to apache_fcgi
$main::preseed{'PHP_FASTCGI'} = 'fcgid'; # (fcgid|fastcgi)

# bind
$main::preseed{'BIND_MODE'} = 'master'; # (master|slave)

# Only relevant if you set the BIND_MODE parameter to 'slave'
# Allow to indicate IP addresses of your primary DNS server(s)
$main::preseed{'PRIMARY_DNS'} = ''; # (empty value or list of ips, each separated by semicolon)

# Only relevant if you set the BIND_MODE parameter to master and if you have slave DNS server(s)
$main::preseed{'SECONDARY_DNS'} = 'no'; # (no|list of ips, each separated by semicolon)

# dovecot SQL USER (only relevant if you choice dovecot for the PO service
$main::preseed{'DOVECOT_SQL_USER'} = 'dovecot_user';
$main::preseed{'DOVECOT_SQL_PASSWORD'} = 's3cur3pwd'; # Password shouldn't be empty

## Addons questions

# Aswtats addon
$main::preseed{'AWSTATS_ACTIVE'} = 'yes'; # (yes|no)
$main::preseed{'AWSTATS_MODE'} = '0'; # (0 for dynamic ; 1 for static) - Only relevant if the question above is set to 'yes'

# Policyd Weight configurator addon
$main::preseed['DNSBL_CHECKS_ONLY'] = 'no'; # (yes|no)

# Roundcube addon
$main::preseed['ROUNDCUBE_SQL_USER'] = 'roundcube_user';
$main::preseed['ROUNDCUBE_SQL_PASSWORD'] = 's3cur3pwd'; # Password shouldn't be empty

#
## Hooking - See the documentation at LINK TO DOC
#

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Quote from Nuxwin

Edit;

Ok, I've found some bugs. They are fixed in my local repository. I've also updated the preseed template file.

I'll commit soon and the changes will be available in next coming release.

Thanks you for using i-MSCP.

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Thanks for the swift reply and fixes.

Is there any ETA on when you will commit the changes?, I'd like to test out the new preseeding features and even an attached patch file would suffice.