Hah, so I chose the one port that would screw things up! What are the chances? For the record, I chose that because I’d used that before on some of the client’s “Other CP” installs, and it worked, so I didn’t consider it would be an issue. Also weird that it would interfere in the password reset process??
WRT stapling, yes, of course, I was only disabling it to try to get the error message to go away and get Vesta started. I understand that it was caused by self signed certs, but my attempts to generate a letsencrypt cert for the setup domain, and then apply it to the hestia / mail server … also failed! Got an error 400 from Letsencrypt … which I didn’t get around to reporting above.
Well lets see how this install goes, just waiting for it to complete …