Problem with server 127.0.0.1:8080 access

shaselai · 03-03-2011, 05:47 PM

I am trying to work with http-bind and have following virtual host:
<VirtualHost *>

ServerName openfire
DocumentRoot /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/jwchat-1.0

<Directory "/usr/local/apache2/htdocs/jwchat-1.0">
Options +MultiViews
</Directory>

AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
ProxyRequests On

ProxyPass /http-bind http://127.0.0.1:8080/http-bind/
ProxyPass http-bind/ http://127.0.0.1:8080/http-bind/
ProxyPass /http-bind/ http://127.0.0.1:8080/http-bind/
ErrorLog /usr/local/apache2/logs/jwchat_log
LogLevel warn
</VirtualHost>

When i go to "http://openfire/http-bind/" i get the "service unavailable" page and here are the logs:
From jwchat_log:
[Thu Mar 03 17:27:25 2011] [error] (111)Connection refused: proxy: HTTP: attempt to connect to 127.0.0.1:8080 (127.0.0.1) failed
[Thu Mar 03 17:27:25 2011] [error] ap_proxy_connect_backend disabling worker for (127.0.0.1)

From apache access.log:
12.34.567.89 - - [03/Mar/2011:17:27:25 -0500] "GET /http-bind/ HTTP/1.1" 503 323

Now i tried this on my windows VM and get:
windows:
[Thu Mar 03 17:30:33 2011] [error] (OS 10061)No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. : proxy: HTTP: attempt to connect to 127.0.0.1:8080 (127.0.0.1) failed
[Thu Mar 03 17:30:33 2011] [error] ap_proxy_connect_backend disabling worker for (127.0.0.1)

127.0.0.1 - - [03/Mar/2011:17:30:32 -0500] "POST /http-bind/ HTTP/1.1" 503 323

If i go directly to "localhost" i see the server page and when i try to connect (login) i get:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>503 Service Temporarily Unavailable</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Service Temporarily Unavailable</h1>
<p>The server is temporarily unable to service your
request due to maintenance downtime or capacity
problems. Please try again later.</p>
</body></html>

So basically it seems the http-bind for the conf is working in trying to connect but is getting blocked AND the server's functions is getting blocked too... I am using centos 5.5 and it has SE Linux on it. I tried to disable firewall and SE Linux (didn't restart) but still nothing..
I checked the iptables and it is:
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 8080 -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m udp -p udp --dport 8080 -j ACCEPT
doesnt this mean it is being allowed?
i am really confused why this is happening..some help please!
thanks!

bathory · 03-04-2011, 01:39 AM

Hi,

Quote:

--snip
ProxyRequests On

ProxyPass /http-bind http://127.0.0.1:8080/http-bind/
ProxyPass http-bind/ http://127.0.0.1:8080/http-bind/
ProxyPass /http-bind/ http://127.0.0.1:8080/http-bind/
--snip

The above is not correct. Only the 3rd ProxyPass directive is right (as both URIs have a trailing slash).
I don't know how http-bind works, but if you want to use apache as a reversre proxy for it, you can try the following instead:

Code:

ProxyRequests Off
ProxyPreserveHost On

ProxyPass /http-bind/ http://127.0.0.1:8080/http-bind/
ProxyPassReverse /http-bind/ http://127.0.0.1:8080/http-bind/

And make sure that the server on localhost is running and listening on port 8080

Regards

shaselai · 03-05-2011, 01:57 AM

i see. sorry if it's a newb question but how do i make it sure that 8080 on localhost is on and listen mode? I think when i installed apache2 on windows i had the option of listening on 80 for "everyone" or 8080 for that user.... i also checked my linux port list and it seems 8080 not even on listening status (doesnt appear at all on list ports) so maybe i need to set it to listen and if yes how? thanks

bathory · 03-05-2011, 03:58 AM

You can run:

Code:

 netstat -tanpl|grep 8080

If it's not listening, start the server that should listen on port 8080

Regards

shaselai · 03-07-2011, 05:15 PM

ok, the server is listening and i can access :8080 BUT there is a problem:
. the proxy pass "ProxyPass /http-bind/ http://127.0.0.1:8080/http-bind/" doesn't seem to work when i go to "http://openfire/http-bind/ BUT if i go to the proxypas location directly i can get there.

bathory · 03-07-2011, 06:12 PM

Quote:

the proxy pass "ProxyPass /http-bind/ http://127.0.0.1:8080/http-bind/" doesn't seem to work when i go to "http://openfire/http-bind/ BUT if i go to the proxypas location directly i can get there.

Say, is that http-bind software running on the same box as apache?
If it isn't then you should replace 127.0.0.1 with the actual IP of the box running http-bind.

shaselai · 03-08-2011, 12:47 AM

hey, the http-bind is from openfire and i am using jwchat with proxypass. so yes the http-bind is from same computer.

bathory · 03-08-2011, 04:17 AM

Hi,

As I've already told you I've never used that http-bind thing, but there is a similar thread here at LQ and another one on SF
Maybe you need to define the SITENAME variable as "openfire" (your server name) in config.js, so it allows the apache at localhost to connect to the backend server.

Regards