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Obsolete Releases => SME Server 7.x => Topic started by: dmcdaniel on October 25, 2010, 06:55:51 PM

Title: cannot access server-manager
Post by: dmcdaniel on October 25, 2010, 06:55:51 PM: I cannot access the server-manager web page. I get a "Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at <server name>. I tried restarting the e-smith http process. That didn't work so I rebooted the server. I still cannot bring up the web page.

Any suggestions as to what I can check? I'm running SME server 7.5.1
Title: Re: cannot access server-manager
Post by: janet on October 25, 2010, 08:06:07 PM: dmcdaniel

Are you trying to access from the local network or from a remote location via Internet.
You need to specify a remote host IP in server manager remote access panel.

Login as root then type elinks or console (then select from menu) to open a text based server manager, does this work ?

What is the exact URL you are using ?

Did access to server manager work previously ?
If so what changes did you recently make to your server ?
Title: Re: cannot access server-manager
Post by: dmcdaniel on October 25, 2010, 08:54:16 PM: I am accessing it from the local network: https://hostname/server-manager. This was working last week and there have been no changes that we know of since then.

I can still access our second server without any problems.

If I try to run server manager from the admin menu at the console it says "connection refused."
Title: Re: cannot access server-manager
Post by: cactus on October 25, 2010, 10:28:43 PM: Quote from: dmcdaniel on October 25, 2010, 08:54:16 PM
If I try to run server manager from the admin menu at the console it says "connection refused."
You need to find out why, you might be able to find clues in /var/log/httpd/admin_error_log or /var/log/httpd/error_log. Please post the relevant fragments around the time your tried, if you fail to understand the messages. Most likely we can point you in the right direction.
Title: Re: cannot access server-manager
Post by: dmcdaniel on October 25, 2010, 10:51:48 PM: error_log is full of lines like this:

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[Mon Oct 25 14:43:00 2010] [crit] (28)No space left on device: mod_rewrite: could not create rewrite_lo g_lock Configuration Failed
Yet the disk has plenty of space:

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[root@server1 httpd]# df -k Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/main-root 473324776 273457696 175823560 61% / /dev/md1 101018 38284 57518 40% /boot none 1680284 0 1680284 0% /dev/shm
Title: Re: cannot access server-manager
Post by: Stefano on October 25, 2010, 11:11:41 PM: Quote from: dmcdaniel on October 25, 2010, 10:51:48 PM
error_log is full of lines like this:

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[Mon Oct 25 14:43:00 2010] [crit] (28)No space left on device: mod_rewrite: could not create rewrite_lo g_lock Configuration Failed

then a quick search in the forum with "No space left on device" could help (http://forums.contribs.org/index.php/topic,45081.msg218270.html#msg218270) you..

please take some time to use the search link, thank you :-)
Title: [SOLVED] Re: cannot access server-manager
Post by: dmcdaniel on October 26, 2010, 06:11:41 AM: Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. I must say that it took more than a quick search. Some of the hits are very long and convoluted, and some are actually about being out of disk space.

The important bit was to remove and then re-generate the certs. Do I understand this correctly, that having a certificate mismatch causes apache to complain about being out of disk space? They really need to fix their error messages I think. ;-)

Again, thanks for your patience and for the pointers. We have been running SME Server since 2007 with almost zero problems. A truly useful piece of software.