Not able to connect through web interface

[Touchdown]

I had Sabnzbd working perfect for a couple of weeks, but all of a sudden I'm not longer able to connect when trying to through http://localhost:8081/sabnzbd/  (had it installed on port 8081).

Not sure where to start trouble shooting. Simply getting an Unable to Connect message on Firefox and something similar on IE.

Any suggestions?

[hass]

Try this.  Open sabnzbd.ini.  Search for the line "host =".  Change it to "host = 0.0.0.0".  Save and restart program.  If this fixes your problem please let me know what the old value was.

[Touchdown]

Thanks for the reply.

There was nothing in the host field, just two "", I changed that to 0.0.0.0, and that did not correct the problem.

Any other suggestions?

[shypike]

Which OS do you use?

[Touchdown]

Using Windows XP

[shypike]

Odd.
SABnzbd assumes that when it asks the OS for the hostname
it will get a name that will resolve to the system's IP address.
Some systems (like all Ubuntu Linux 9.10) and some oddly
configured others (yours?) give a name that resolves to 127.0.0.1 (localhost).

What is the hostname of your system and what
show when you type this in a command prompt?

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ping hostname

(substitute hostname by your system's hostname).

[Touchdown]

Thanks for the reply.

The hostname of my computer is Dell-9150 and when I ping that hostname I get the following:

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\Mike Jones>ping dell-9150

Pinging dell-9150 [192.168.1.109] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 192.168.1.109: bytes=32 time

[dbznbas]

Try this address:
http://[::1]:8081/sabnzbd/

It worked for me. localhost wasnt working for me in firefox, but i could access it through IE.

[young-einstein]

I'm running Ubuntu [9.10], and I've always used http://localhost:8080/sabnzbd to access SABnzbd, and that's never given me a problem.

When I upgraded to 0.5.0 RC3 though, this suddenly stopped working and I had no idea what was going on.  It took me a few minutes to work out that for some reason it was refusing to load using the 'localhost' address, and I had to use the machines DNS name instead.  As soon as I changed that, everything started working fine again.

My interface name has always just been left blank ...

[shypike]

localhost is ambiguous on  many systems.
Sometimes it resolves to 127.0.0.1 and sometimes to [::1] (IPV6).

[maxmax]

had this issue, sabnzbd installed on a distant ubuntu server, after an aptitude upgrade i was only able to connect throught localhost (the server itself), unable to acces the web interface by its ip or hostname from a remote client.

First thing, i checked the SABnzbd.ini and the host was host =""
previously it was like host = XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
I set it back, saved and restart daemon, and surprise the host parameter was setback to host=""

So after some chmod tries i checked  /etc/default/sabnzbdplus and host parameter was also blank

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# [optional] hostname/ip and port number to listen on:
HOST=
PORT=9200

so i put back the ip here 

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HOST=XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX 

save and restart and it now works like a charm.

[shypike]

Ubuntu has changed the way they handle localhost and the hostname
a couple of times in the last few years.
I've lost track.

[jcfp]

So after some chmod tries i checked  /etc/default/sabnzbdplus and host parameter was also blank

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# [optional] hostname/ip and port number to listen on:
HOST=
PORT=9200

The rc3 package has a minor change in the behaviour of the init script. Previously, it would only use the HOST and PORT settings in /etc/default/sabnzbdplus if both were set; now, setting just one of 'm also takes effect. As a result, if you had only the PORT set (which had no effect at all), it will now start using that as --server :port which is where the hostname guessing game begins. Unfortunately, Ubuntu isn't very steadfast in how it handles that. Anyway, you figured out the correct solution already

[Touchdown]

Try this address:
http://[::1]:8081/sabnzbd/

It worked for me. localhost wasnt working for me in firefox, but i could access it through IE.

Thanks for the suggestion, just tried that and still not working on either FF or IE. Pretty discouraging because I really started to like this program, but might have to go back to Newsleecher instead.

Hmmmm

[rascalli]

@ Touchdown :

What happens when you type : http://192.168.1.109:8081/sabnzbd/

As when your IP of PC is : 192.168.1.109 , and you are really running sabnzbd+ op port 8081 .. it should all work