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After some more digging I finally found a way to get my certificate tab back. You have to manually set a few values in the MySQL database.
I set up an ILIAS 6 instance and started monitoring database queries, esp. what happened when I set up PDF Generation. Among other things I discovered the column names and table storing the setup information for the Java RPC server. I compared these to ILIAS 7 and found that the respective values were not set and were basically unsettable through the webGUI because that part of the interface was just missing. Oops.
At first I looked at the PHP units for the interface but they are very convoluted. It was confusing and I didn't find the right code region. Changing the PHP code probably wouldn't survive an update anyhow, so I abandoned the idea. Instead I turned to the database directly and just set the values manually. I guess short of a schema change the settings will survive an update. But who knows. Here is how you do it:
$ mysql -u root -p USE iliasdb; SHOW COLUMNS FROM setttings; SELECT value FROM settings WHERE keyword = 'rpc_server_host'; # Just check if the field is empty. SELECT value FROM settings WHERE keyword = 'rpc_server_port'; # Just check if the field is empty. UPDATE settings SET value = 'localhost' WHERE keyword = 'rpc_server_host'; UPDATE settings SET value = '11111' WHERE keyword = 'rpc_server_port'; COMMIT;
That's it.
I feel upset. I wasted so much time on this. In the end it is a stupid bug because I sincerely do not hope that it was a conscious design decision to remove a section you need to configure an important funnctionality of a LMS. If it was I bloody expect it to be mentioned in the documentation in plain text because not everybody spends his whole day in the ILIAS community and codebase. I mean, a whole section of the admin interface is missing!
Anger aside, I guess there are better ways to achieve the outcome I needed but the less than good documentation does not mention anything about it. I would be happy to hear about it. You can post any suggestions in my main thread at the ILIAS support forum [1]