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I have a VPS hosting with a domain redirecting to it.
I have LAMP stack for my main website using WordPress CMS.
Plus I am using Odoo as my back-end with python and PostgreSQL in a sub-domain. 

Everything was working fine until I installed Certbot Let’s Encrypt to obtain an SSL certificate by following these tutorials 

For My Wordpress i installed this plugin:

[WP Encryption – One Click single / wildcard Free SSL certificate & force HTTPS](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-letsencrypt-ssl/)

Which got me in a loop because it forced the https i will explain it later on

So when the plugin didn't work i searched for another way for the whole VPS with these tutorials:

[How To Secure Apache with Let's Encrypt on Ubuntu 16.04](https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-secure-apache-with-let-s-encrypt-on-ubuntu-16-04)

[How To Secure Apache with Let's Encrypt on Ubuntu 18.04](https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-secure-apache-with-let-s-encrypt-on-ubuntu-18-04)

After completing the second tutorial for ubuntu 18.04 i noticed that all my domain traffic is going to https and it got stuck in a loop saying same as i said above 

"ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS which means Site redirected too many times"

and couldn't access the website front-end for the wordpress in the domain.

Then when i applied 

 "Step 3 — Allowing HTTPS Through the Firewall"

my internet connection got interpreted and when i got back to the ssh session i found my self locked out of the server and did not find any way to get back in. 

And when i tired to use the sub-domain that has Odoo on it i have got the same error

> "ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS which means Site redirected too many times"

Until here i was hopeless and did't know what to do.

I contacted my VPS server provider and told him about what exactly happened. Then some how he managed to get me into the server again with a URL to the terminal i still couldn't access the server using ssh clients like putty.. so when i entered the server after he provided me with the URL first thing noticed is that he "rebooted the VPS" will get to this in a second.

So first thing i did was removing the WordPress plugin "WP Encryption" and update the WordPress site-url in wp_options table in mysql database because the plugin changed it from http to https so i changed it back and that solved the ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS for my WordPress website.

Then the second thing i did was disabling the ufw firewall that i enabled in the tutorial in Step 3 above. 

I instantly got my connection to the server back using ssh client putty but what i have noticed again is the postgres service was inactive and went down with the reboot of the VPS. i tried to start the service but it didn't a gave me this error.

    Failed to start postgresql.service: Unit postgresql.service is masked.

i searched for a solution and found these commands to unmask

    sudo systemctl unmask postgresql
    sudo systemctl enable postgresql
    sudo systemctl restart postgresql

and then the service has started and everything sames OK when i run the status command 

    service postgresql status

the response is 

    ● postgresql.service - LSB: PostgreSQL RDBMS server
       Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/postgresql; generated)
       Active: active (exited) since Thu 2020-03-26 05:54:09 UTC; 2h 22min ago
         Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
        Tasks: 0 (limit: 2286)
       Memory: 0B
       CGroup: /system.slice/postgresql.service


but when i try to connect to postgres through the default port with odoo it says:

    could not connect to server: No such file or directory
            Is the server running locally and accepting
            connections on Unix domain socket "/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432"

after many searches i made i found the posgres main cluster is also inactive or down i tried to start it with this command 

    pg_ctlcluster 11 main start

but i get this error

    Job for postgresql@11-main.service failed because the service did not take the steps required by its unit configuration. See "systemctl status postgresql@11-main.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.

and when i run the command as requested 

    systemctl status postgresql@11-main.service

i get this error

    ● postgresql@11-main.service - PostgreSQL Cluster 11-main    Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/postgresql@.service; disabled; vendor preset: enabled)    Active: failed (Result: protocol) since Thu 2020-03-26 15:22:15 UTC; 14s ago   Process: 18930 ExecStart=/usr/bin/pg_ctlcluster --skip-systemctl-redirect 11-main start (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

alone with 

    systemd[1]: Starting PostgreSQL Cluster 11-main...
    postgresql@11-main[18930]: Error: Could not find pg_ctl executable for version 11
    systemd[1]: postgresql@11-main.service: Can't open PID file /run/postgresql/11-main.pid (yet?) after start: No such file or
    systemd[1]: postgresql@11-main.service: Failed with result 'protocol'.
    systemd[1]: Failed to start PostgreSQL Cluster 11-main.


I guessed Let's Encrypt added an ssl configuration to the pg_hba.conf and postgres.conf like id did with apache so i searched for them and commented the "ssl on" lines and restarted postgres service along with the main cluster but nothing happened still the the same error which is 

    Error: Could not find pg_ctl executable for version 11

I know i shouldn't run pg_ctl directly under Ubuntu/Debian. I must use pg_ctlcluster instead, which is installed by postgresql-common. I saw the main page documentation. But when i run "sudo pg_ctlcluster 11 main reload" command i always get the above Error telling me that he could not find pg_ctl executable

I have searched a lot for this problem but nothing worked **how can i solve the pg_ctl executable in version 11 ??** 

Thanks in advanced i really appreciate it 

Ps: 
I am using Ubuntu 19.10 (GNU/Linux 5.3.0-24-generic x86_64)
Odoo 11 with postgres 11 as the database odoo can't connect to postgres as i mentioned before 
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So finally after a hours of digging


All PostgreSQL files where damaged and missing and i lost hope of repairing them i don't know what caused that but it has a relation with the accidental reboot of the server.


So i managed to find the main cluster data file for my important database information for the production server in this path


    /var/lib/postgres/11/


and i took a backup from it by zipping the whole folder using this command


    zip -r main.zip main/


then i did a full purge and reinstall for postgres using these commands


    apt-get --purge remove postgresql\*


to remove everything PostgreSQL from your system. Just purging the postgres package isn't enough since it's just an empty meta-package.


Once all PostgreSQL packages have been removed, run:


    rm -r /etc/postgresql/
    rm -r /etc/postgresql-common/
    rm -r /var/lib/postgresql/
    userdel -r postgres
    groupdel postgres


Then i installed postgres with this command to match odoo11


    sudo apt-get install postgresql libpq-dev -y


then creating the ODOO PostgreSQL User


    sudo su - postgres -c "createuser -s odoo" 2> /dev/null || true


Now everything is okay odoo should work fine but you still don't have any database


So to bring back the backup from the cluster folder we took earlier we need to move the zip file to the same directory we took it from which is 


    /var/lib/postgres/11/


but before that you should stop postgres service 


    sudo systemctl stop postgresql


and make sure it has stopped 


    sudo systemctl status postgresql


after that rename the main cluster that postgres uses right now because its empty and we don't need it because we are replacing it with our backed up cluster


    mv /var/lib/postgres/11/main /var/lib/postgres/11/main_old


then move the zip file from where you backed it up to the postgres cluster folder with this command


    mv /backups/main.zip /var/lib/postgres/11/


unzip the folder in the same path by using this command


    unzip -a /var/lib/postgres/11/main.zip


after unzipping the folder give the ownership to your postgres user and group


    chown -R postgres:postgres main


Then you are good to go. Start Postgres service 


    sudo systemctl start postgresql
    sudo systemctl status postgresql


and make sure you also start the main cluster service 


    pg_ctlcluster 11 main start


if you stopped odoo make sure to start it also


    service odoo-server start


Ps: I solved ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS for the odoo sub-domain by commenting ssl configurations in my odoo.config Apache2 virtual host that lets encrypt updated before and everything got back to where left it before installing lets encrypt.


I guess i will leave it here and won't use ssl in production again till i figure out how to use it in a test server .. thanks for your time i hope my question and answer helps someone in the future

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