Im starting to work with proxmox and have a serious probem. Currently, I dont have a workstation available to access the web interface and have to wait for some other PC to become available, so I was forced to do something not recommended: install Xfce+Firefox to manage the system locally. Yet, I found that I cant access the web administration interface, I always get an error saying connection refused, both on localhost or the eth ip address that works perfectly on other PCs. I have looked at the configuration but cant find any option controlling local access, or firewall rules preventing local addresses to access the system. What can I do to solve this?
[TUTORIAL] Cant access web interface locally
- Thread starter rogerdv
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I think Tutorial prefix is intended for posts where you present an educational way to teach the forum members something. Your post is more of "help me troubleshoot" type. No big deal.
Can you ssh into PVE and run the following command: curl -sk https://localhost:8006 ?
Do you receive any output?
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Can you ssh into PVE and run the following command: curl -sk https://localhost:8006 ?
Do you receive any output?
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Nop, I get nothing. To be precise, I cant ssh into my pve, but I tried from a local session. Not sure if I can do it from a Windows workstation.
No. I followed this guide. Later, I installed firefox. I have been careful to not to remove anything, or even update the system (which eventually I wil have to, because it is an old version).
If you cant ssh, then you have a network problem. Perhaps a duplicate IP. There are many, many threads on network troubleshooting.
In short:
examine your "ip a" output. Is interface UP? Is IP information correct?
examine /etc/network/interfaces - is information as expected and does it match "ip a" ?
can you ping between hosts on the same network segment?
If nothing jumps out to you, provide these same outputs to the forum.
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What does this mean? Did you login to physical console of the server via keyboard and monitor, then run that command and received nothing?
If the answer is "yes", then the PVE services are not running (in addition to network being broken based on "no ssh").
This can have same or different cause than SSH. A bad /etc/hosts entry for example.
In summary - troubleshoot and fix your network configuration to get SSH working first, then retry "curl" test, and troubleshoot further if its still not working.
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Exactly. I logged in in the physical server. By the way, seems that I didnt stated it clearly: I can use the web admin interface from other PCs. Curious detail: there is a Windows PC in the office with Administrator and an user account. From the user account I can manage proxmox. From the Administrator account I get the connection refused error. Had to ask the user his password so I can do administration tasks while he is away.
Yes, indeed its quite confusing. If it is as you state above, then it is impossible that "curl -sk https://localhost:8006", when run from the physical console of the PVE, produced no results.
This is quite a pickle... My guess is that it has nothing to do with PVE and everything to do with your windows workstation, proxies, browser extensions, etc.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/p.../test-netconnection?view=windowsserver2022-ps
Good luck
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