Re: Getting http to work

[Vijay Sankar]

  Hi,

Can you try using the name of the server instead of "default"?

I sort of recall something like this from a couple of years ago but it has
run without any problems for me.

For example, I had "default" instead of the server's name and it did not
work. Once I changed to the following, there were no issues and it has run
like this  since

vault.lab.foretell.ca$ ls -l
/etc/httpd.conf                                
 
 
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  558 Dec 28  2015 /etc/httpd.conf

vault.lab.foretell.ca$ more
/etc/httpd.conf                                
  
 
prefork 2
chroot "/home/distros"
           server "vault.lab.foretell.ca" {
                listen on * port 80
                directory auto index
                }

           types {
                   text/css               
css
                   text/html              
html htm
                   text/txt               
txt
                   image/gif              
gif
                   image/jpeg             
jpeg jpg
                   image/png              
png
                   application/javascript  js
                   application/xml         xml
           }

Hope this helps,

Vijay

Quoting Monah Baki <monahb...@gmail.com>:

> # netstat -na -f inet | grep LISTEN
> tcp          0      0  127.0.0.1.25           *.*     
             
> LISTEN
> tcp          0      0  *.22                   *.*   
               
> LISTEN
> # httpd -dv
> startup
> parent: send server: Can't assign requested address
> # logger exiting, pid 24061
> server exiting, pid 96224
> server exiting, pid 68259
> server exiting, pid 94930
>
> It's a fresh install so I wasn't expecting any ports listening. Even
> if I changed to port 8080 same issue.
>
> Thanks
>
> On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 6:31 PM, Currell Berry <currellbe...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> Monah Baki writes:
>>
>>> # httpd -dnv
>>> configuration OK
>>>
>>> #  rcctl -dddd start httpd
>>> doing _rc_parse_conf
>>> doing _rc_quirks
>>> httpd_flags empty, using default ><
>>> doing _rc_parse_conf /var/run/rc.d/httpd
>>> doing _rc_quirks
>>> doing rc_check
>>> httpd
>>> doing rc_pre
>>> configuration OK
>>> doing rc_start
>>> doing _rc_wait start
>>> doing rc_check
>>> doing _rc_write_runfile
>>> (ok)
>>>
>>> # /etc/rc.d/httpd start
>>> httpd(ok)
>>>
>>> cat /var/log/messages
>>>
>>> Feb 25 15:35:22 nebula httpd[94632]: parent: send server: Can't assign
>>> requested address
>>> Feb 25 15:36:06 nebula httpd[14026]: parent: send server: Can't assign
>>> requested address
>>>
>>> vi httpd.conf
>>>
>>> # $OpenBSD: httpd.conf,v 1.14 2015/02/04 08:39:35 florian Exp $
>>>
>>> #
>>> # Macros
>>> #
>>> ext_addr="*"
>>>
>>> #
>>> # Global Options
>>> #
>>> # prefork 3
>>>
>>> #
>>> # Servers
>>> #
>>>
>>> # A minimal default server
>>> server "default" {
>>>         listen on $ext_addr port 80
>>> }
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 3:27 PM, ludovic coues <cou...@gmail.com>
wrote:
>>>> # rcctl -dddd start httpd
>>>> This command should give you some details on what isn't working.
>>>> If not, you can try `# httpd -nvv` to check your config and `# httpd
>>>> -dvvvv` to run httpd directly.
>>>>
>>>> 2017-02-25 21:20 GMT+01:00 Monah Baki <monahb...@gmail.com>:
>>>>> Changing to ext_addr="*"
>>>>>
>>>>> # /etc/rc.d/httpd start
>>>>> httpd(failed)
>>>>>
>>>>> Nothing shows up in /var/log/messages
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 12:00 PM, Currell Berry
>>>>> <currellbe...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Monah Baki writes:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Installed a fresh install of OpenBSD 6.0 on VMWare workstation and
>>>>>>> wanted to run default webserver.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> In the messages logs I find the following error:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> httpd[23792]: parent: send server: Can't assign requested address
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> em0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>>>>>>>         lladdr 00:0c:29:b3:81:f8
>>>>>>>         index 1 priority 0 llprio 3
>>>>>>>         groups: egress
>>>>>>>         media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT
full-duplex,master)
>>>>>>>         status: active
>>>>>>>         inet 192.168.60.129 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast
>>>>>>> 192.168.60.255
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> In my httpd.conf all I changed was the "ext_addr" Macro,
>>>>>>> everything else as is.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> $ cat /etc/httpd.conf
>>>>>>> # $OpenBSD: httpd.conf,v 1.14 2015/02/04 08:39:35 florian Exp $
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> #
>>>>>>> # Macros
>>>>>>> #
>>>>>>> ext_addr="192.168.60.129"
>>>>>>> # A minimal default server
>>>>>>> server "default" {
>>>>>>>         listen on $ext_addr port 80
>>>>>>> }
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thank you
>>>>>>> Monah
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Did you try
>>>>>>
>>>>>>      ext_addr="*"
>>>>>>
>>>>>> yet?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Does it report the same error with that in place?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -- Currell
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>>
>>>> Cordialement, Coues Ludovic
>>>> +336 148 743 42
>>
>> Some ideas:
>> You might have an instance of httpd running in the background stopping a
>> new one from binding to the port.
>>
>> Run the following commands and examine the output to check what could
>> be there
>>
>>     # netstat -na -f inet | grep LISTEN
>>     # ps ax
>>
>> Kill all running instances of httpd, or anything else that is binding to
>> port 80.
>>
>> Once you've done that, try starting httpd in no-fork mode and see what
>> it says:
>>
>>     # httpd -dv
>>
>> If it still doesn't work, try a different port (change 80 to 8888 for
>> instance).
>> -- Currell
>
>  
-- 
Vijay Sankar, M.Eng., P.Eng.
ForeTell Technologies Limited
vsan...@foretell.ca