Thomas Michalka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> thank you for your helpful advice on missing entry in AllowedConnectHosts Section!
> Now WWWOFFLE lets all machines in my network access to it.
>
> But now there's another problem which seems to be an internal/local one.
> Trying to control wwwoffle either remote via browser or locally with a shell
> command produces error messages as I report below.
> Note: Getting wwwoffle's service pages is OK, but only the commandment fails (e.g.
> pressing the "Autodial"-Button).
> Remote control access through browser to wwwoffle port 8081
> ===========================================================
> WWWOFFLE Server Error
>
> The WWWOFFLE server encountered a fatal error:
> Cannot open connection to wwwoffle server on localhost
> The program cannot continue to service this request.
> Local control access with "wwwoffle -autodial" on shell
> =======================================================
> wwwoffle[22273] Warning: Failed to create and connect client socket.
> wwwoffle[22273] Fatal: Cannot open connection to wwwoffle server localhost port 8081.
> I think my wwwoffle is configured correctly now, since I have let the conversion
> perl script to upgrade my wwwoffle.conf from 2.5 to 2.6d and then having entered
> the missing entries into the AllowedConnectHosts Section.
The answer is again in the error message. The programs cannot connect
to the computer called 'localhost' on the port number 8081.
If you have not changed the default settings for WWWOFFLE then it will
be running on port number 8081. This is controlled by the
wwwoffle-port option in the StartUp section of the configuration file.
The most likely problem is that there is a network routing problem and
that either localhost is not defined (look in /etc/hosts) or that you
don't have network routing to localhost (although I don't know how
this can happen). Try running 'ping localhost' and see if that can
talk to localhost.
The first entry in the LocalHost section of the WWWOFFLE configuration
file will be the name of the local WWWOFFLE server. This is used in
the first of these two cases when you are using the web-pages to
change the online status. For the second case you can use the '-p'
option to the wwwoffle program 'wwwoffle -p localhost -autodial'.
What address do you put into the web browser to access the WWWOFFLE
control pages? If this is localhost then it would indicate that it is
working correctly. If it is 127.0.0.1 or something else then try
putting that value in the configuration file for the LocalHost
section.
--
Andrew.
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Andrew M. Bishop [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/
WWWOFFLE users page:
http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/wwwoffle/version-2.7/user.html
