[monit] Re: Help trying to access monit httpd from remote computer

[Jake Conk]

On Dec 11, 2007 12:12 AM, Jake Conk <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to setup monit so that I can access it remotely from my
> computer because I don't have a gui or a decent browser installed on
> my server to use the monit interface so anyways this is what I have in
> my config:
>
> /etc/monitrc:
> ...
> set httpd port 2812
>         allow monit:secret
> ...
>
> I then used lsof to make sure it was running which it is:
>
> $> sudo lsof -i | grep monit
> monit     6173   root    5u  IPv4 685820       TCP *:atmtcp (LISTEN)
>
> It is actually running but when I try accessing it from my client
> computer (http://192.168.1.20:2812) it doesn't load anything, I just
> get an error message saying couldn't connect. On the server I have w3m
> (a text based browser) and it does load the monit web interface
> (hardly legible) but this is not what I want, I want to be able to
> access it from my computer.
>
> So do I have to do anything else to allow monit to be accessible from
> any of my client computers? If I added "and use address
> 192.168.1.20" (which is the local ip address of the server) and check
> with lsof then it doesn't show anything running on port 2182 which I
> find a little fishy but I don't know what else to check.
>
> Any suggestions are appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> - Jake
>

Thanks guys I got it! I had a dumb typo with the IP address so
obviously thats why it wasn't working but its working now. I feel so
dumb for writting this email now :(

Thanks for the support anyways guys :)

- Jake