[SOLVED] First Installation, cannot connect via web browser

[SEANAP]

Hello,

This is my first time using Proxmox 4.3 (and linux for that matter) and I am having difficulty connecting to the server at https://10.0.0.14:8006/ , I am using Chrome on a windows PC on the same network and it gives me the err_connection_refused. I can ping Proxmox from my windows pc just fine.

This is being installed on a Intel S2600CP2, dual Xeon E5-2670, that has a 160GB HDD plugged into the onboard SATA. I used a usb drive to install proxmox to the HDD. I am able to boot into proxmox but when it tells me to use https://10.0.0.14:8006 to configure, I can't get that to work.

When installing Proxmox, I logged into my router and saw the server at 10.0.0.14, so that is the IP I configured during proxmox installation (is that what I am supposed to do, or should I give it a unique ip?). Also, it was asking for a hostname, which I put as pve.mydomain.net, but I don't have AD DC set up, do I need to have a domain?

I have forwarded the port 8006 on my router, and added inbound and outbound windows firewall rules for port 8006. I have cleared my browser cache and cookies, and tried IE, but nothing has worked.

I have noticed some permissions issues and I have set permissions to 777 for /var/log/daemon.log and /var/log/pveproxy/access.log I also noticed that /ect/hosts access was denied, so I gave that permission too and after that I was able to open that up and see the 10.0.0.14 ip

This could very well be a SSL issue as well. I have never used SSL before (apart from going to https websites) so I'm not too sure how to troubleshoot if this is an issue.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I can provide any outputs if you need to see something in more depth.

 

[lilCDNnrg]

When you say you saw the server at 10.0.0.14 was that from DHCP assignment? i have yet to setup external access to my nodes but if you are on the same network that should not be required. Also have a look at what is show for an ip address by the node either by looking at the /etc/networking/interfaces or my doing ip addr show.

 

[SEANAP]

The 10.0.0.14 ip came from when I logged into my router and went to "Attached devices" and it listed a table for all devices that are wired. There are only two, one is my windows desktop, and the other is the new server.

ip addr show

has two entries

1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo

2: vmbr0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
inet 10.0.0.14/24 brd 10.0.0.255 scope global vmbr0
...

Typing

/etc/networking/interfaces

returns

-bash: /etc/networking/interfaces: No such file or directory

 

[morph027]

You'll need to do

cat /etc/networking/interfaces
ip route list

 

[lilCDNnrg]

try nano /etc/network/interfaces from the shell. Mine reads as follows (i did not include the other adapters i have installed):

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet manual

auto vmbr0
iface vmbr0 inet static
address 10.25.13.31
netmask 255.255.252.0
gateway 10.25.13.1
bridge_ports eth0
bridge_stp off
bridge_fd 0


Also have you tried another browser such as Firefox to see if it gives you the same error?

 

[SEANAP]

Also have you tried another browser such as Firefox to see if it gives you the same error?

Firefox says it is unable to connect, which is a little bit different than Chrome's "err_connection_refused".

nano /etc/network/interfaces

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto vmbr0
iface vmbr0 inet static
address 10.0.0.14
netmask 255.255.252.0
gateway 10.0.0.1
bridge_ports eth0
bridge_stp off
bridge_fd 0

I keep watching all these videos on youtube and it seems like it should just work, not sure what I did wrong. I have reinstalled Proxmox 6 times, trying out different network configurations, but it only made it worse. Here is what I put for the network config:

• Hostname: proxmox.local
• IP: 10.0.0.14
• netmask: 255.255.255.0
• Gateway: 10.0.0.1
• DNS Server: 10.0.0.1

What is the best way to check if it is a permissions issue, or check to verify all the packages were installed?

 

[morph027]

The netmask is wrong

 

[SEANAP]

The netmask is wrong

Thanks, would you mind expanding on how it is wrong? Sorry for the dumb question. I see that the netmask that I configured was 255.255.255.0 , and the netmask from the output of nano /etc/network/interfaces is 255.255.252.0

I went ahead and reinstalled with the following, but it still isn't working

• Hostname: proxmox.local
• IP: 10.0.0.14
• netmask: 255.255.252.0
• Gateway: 10.0.0.1
• DNS Server: 10.0.0.1

New output of /etc/network/interfaces

nano /etc/network/interfaces
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto vmbr0
iface vmbr0 inet static
address 10.0.0.14
netmask 255.255.252.0
gateway 10.0.0.1
bridge_ports eth0
bridge_stp off
bridge_fd 0

Also, everytime I install I get these errors:

Error: Driver 'pcspkr' is already registered, aborting...

and

[status] notice: RRDC update error /var/lib/rrdcached/db/pve2-node/pve: -1

pve rrdcached[1478]: queue_thread_main: rrd_update_r (/var/lib/rrdcached/db/pve2-storage/pve/local-lvm) failed with status -1. (/var/lib/rrdcached/db/pve2-storage/pvee/local-lvm: illegal attempt to update using time 1480436711 when last update time is 1480436717 (minimum one second step))

and

i8042.c: Can't read CTR while initializing i8042

The last one makes sense because I don't have a ps/2 keyboard or mouse

On my windows pc when I run a ipconfig /all it says that my subnet is 255.255.255.0, and the DNS server iis 10.0.0.1 However, if I log on to my router and look at the "Internet Port" information it shows my subnet as 255.255.252.0 and the DNS server as 192.168.1.254 . I have tried both configurations when installing proxmox but the web interface still doesn't work.

 

[morph027]

The .252. looks like a typo to me.

The pcspkr thing is unrelated...
Just set /etc/network/interfaces to

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto vmbr0
iface vmbr0 inet static
  address 10.0.0.14
  netmask 255.255.255.0
  gateway 10.0.0.1
  bridge_ports eth0
  bridge_stp off
  bridge_fd 0

 

[SEANAP]

That did it! Thank you so much! I am unsure how the netmask was set to 252 (thats not what I put in when installing), but doing a

nano /etc/network/interfaces

and editing the netmask to 255 then a restart solved the issue.

 

[morph027]

Glad it works!

 

[SamplePop]

Hello,

Thanks everyone for your previous posts and solution.

A solution I came to was ensuring that my server machine was hardwired directly into the router. I was using a lan splitter and my router was having issues configuring for the Proxmox server machine's, ip address.

I hope this helps some one else who has a similar issue.