Timeout when login a second time to the Web Interface over a VPN

[atinazzi]

I have been reading on the wiki about many people having problems logging in to the web interface but what is happening to me is quite unique and I cannot figure out the cause of it.

When I am off-site I connect to proxmox via VPN.
I fire up Firefox 3.5 and connect to proxmox no problem... nice and sweet. But... when after a while the proxmox web interface times out I am unable to reconnect. The login page shows up but when I enter the credentials it will just timeout.

I can however log in via SSH without problems.

Power-cycling the server resolve the problem but it is quite painful as I have to shut down all the VMs.

It would be nice to know:

1) why is this happening?
2) how can I fix it ?
3) if there is a way to restart just the service responsible for the authentication via web interface rather than restarting the whole system
4) how do I increase the timeout of the web interface so that I do not have to reconnect every 5 minutes

Thanks

 

[atinazzi]

Nobody seems to be experiencing the issue I have been experiencing.... anyway, could someone please tell me how to reset the frontend (if possible) without stopping any VM or without having to reboot the whole system?
Thanks

 

[tom]

you can restart the web server and the pvedaemon, but I do not know what you configured via vpn. I do not think that this will help, but here is the info:

/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

/etc/init.d/pvedaemon restart

 

[atinazzi]

It may be that the firewall is stripping away most user-side scripts (java, etc) ... I will have to check
Thanks