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absinthe
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Got new router and now SABnzbd doesn't work

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I'm using SABnzbd+ on a Mac with OS X 10.6.4 (latest) and had it working great for months (the Mac was connected via wireless router).  I even moved recently and it still worked.  But now I've bought a new router which has assigned a new range of IP addresses.  My Mac's IP changed and now SABnzbd+ won't work.  I just get the little rainbow wheel spinning up at the taskbar icon, and if I try to access the web interface, it says it can't find it.  

The Mac's assigned IP is 192.168.11.5, and I have even changed this in the .ini file, to no avail.  

I'm not sure what to do here.  SABnzbd was a bit of a pain to set up, and I did it months ago, so I don't really fancy having to un- and re-install all over again unless it's absolutely necessary.  But I love it's functionality and would like to get it working again.  

Ideas?  

EDIT:  BTW, this is the message I keep getting when I try to load an NZB file --

Welcome to SABnzbd.py 0.5.0rc6




SABnzbd needs a free tcp/ip port for its internal web server.
Port 119 on 192.168.11.5 was tried , but it is not available.
Some other software uses the port or SABnzbd is already running.

Please restart SABnzbd with a different port number.

Open a Terminal window and type the line (example):
    /Applications/SABnzbd.app/Contents/MacOS/SABnzbd --server 192.168.11.5:120

If you get this error message again, please try a different number.

Program did not start!
Last edited by absinthe on August 1st, 2010, 6:52 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: Got new router and now SABnzbd doesn't work

Post by absinthe »

Thanks.  Between the new version and setting the host to 0.0.0.0, I'm up again. 
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Re: Got new router and now SABnzbd doesn't work

Post by sander »

pair of dimes wrote:
Edit your sabnzbd.ini and change the port number. It is defaulted to 8080. You must have changed it to 119 accidentally. I believe these low port numbers are reserved for the OS so they will not be available for use. Try 8080 or 8081.
FYI: The lower port numbers are reserved for ... root. So *if* you know what you're doing, you could use port 80 for example by running SAB as root (something like "sudo ./SABnzbd.py" on Ubuntu).
But, this means looking for trouble. So, just use 8080 indeed.
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