Error message when updating or installing MinimServer 2

[simoncn]

When MinimServer is started, it gets the expiry date from the online license server and updates it in your local installation. Unfortunately, the check for an expired updates license is done before this happens and is causing startup to fail. This is why you are getting the error you are seeing.

To work around this problem, you can do the following:

1) In the minimserver/data folder, check that the default.profile file is present and contains your current MinimServer configuration settings.
2) Delete or rename the minimserver.config and minimserver.config.save files. It would be a good idea to keep copies of these in case something goes wrong with the recovery procedure.
3) Start MinimServer using startc or startd
4) Because MinimServer can't find the minimserver.config and minimserver.config.save files, it will start with a starter license instead of a full license and the expiry check won't happen. MinimServer will start but you won't see your previous configuration settings.
5) After MinimServer has started, open the MinimServer configuration web page and select the License tab. This will update the license from starter to full and will apply your recently extended expiry date. It will also apply all your previous configuration settings that were saved in the default.profile file.
6) Click Restart from the License tab page and MinimServer should now be up and running as normal.

The next MinimServer update will have a fix for the problem with the expiry check preventing MinimServer startup.