Topic: Error setting up Netbox using Apache 2.4.18

[mcvickj]

Good morning. I am trying to setup Netbox running on Ubuntu 16.04.2 running Apache 2.4.18.

Prior to installing apache2 I was able to issue ./manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000 --insecure and netbox started up with no problems. The following day I continued on with the instructions and installed apache2, gunicorn and supervisor. When I try going to the IP address of my server it just loads the default apache page. I can't seem to get netbox to load. If I try disabling the 000-default site by issuing sudo a2dissite 000-default and refresh my browser I get a 503 Service Unavailable message.

Here is my netbox.conf from /etc/apache2/sites-available

<VirtualHost *:80>
ProxyPreserveHost On

ServerName netbox

Alias /static /opt/netbox/netbox/static

<Directory /opt/netbox/netbox/static>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Require all granted
</Directory>

<Location /static>
ProxyPass !
</Location>

ProxyPass / http://localhost:8001/
ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:8001/
</VirtualHost>


Output from running apache2ctl -t

AH00558: apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1. Set the 'ServerName' directive globally to suppress this message
Syntax OK


Output from running apache2ctl -S

AH00558: apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1. Set the 'ServerName' directive globally to suppress this message
VirtualHost configuration:
*:80 is a NameVirtualHost
default server 127.0.1.1 (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf:1)
port 80 namevhost 127.0.1.1 (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf:1)
port 80 namevhost netbox (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/netbox.conf:1)
ServerRoot: "/etc/apache2"
Main DocumentRoot: "/var/www/html"
Main ErrorLog: "/var/log/apache2/error.log"
Mutex watchdog-callback: using_defaults
Mutex proxy: using_defaults
Mutex default: dir="/var/lock/apache2" mechanism=fcntl
PidFile: "/var/run/apache2/apache2.pid"
Define: DUMP_VHOSTS
Define: DUMP_RUN_CFG
User: name="www-data" id=33 not_used
Group: name="www-data" id=33 not_used

Here is the last chunk of my apache2 error log.

[Fri Apr 07 10:26:11.596822 2017] [core:notice] [pid 6640:tid 140540152878976] AH00094: Command line: '/usr/sbin/apache2'
[Fri Apr 07 10:26:18.007698 2017] [proxy:error] [pid 6643:tid 140540066813696] (111)Connection refused: AH00957: HTTP: attempt to connect to 127.0.0.1:8001 (localhost) failed
[Fri Apr 07 10:26:18.007753 2017] [proxy:error] [pid 6643:tid 140540066813696] AH00959: ap_proxy_connect_backend disabling worker for (localhost) for 60s
[Fri Apr 07 10:26:18.007791 2017] [proxy_http:error] [pid 6643:tid 140540066813696] [client 172.16.72.1:63604] AH01114: HTTP: failed to make connection to backend: localhost
[Fri Apr 07 10:29:30.436150 2017] [mpm_event:notice] [pid 6640:tid 140540152878976] AH00491: caught SIGTERM, shutting down
[Fri Apr 07 10:29:31.503483 2017] [mpm_event:notice] [pid 6798:tid 140465015555968] AH00489: Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu) configured -- resuming normal operations
[Fri Apr 07 10:29:31.503564 2017] [core:notice] [pid 6798:tid 140465015555968] AH00094: Command line: '/usr/sbin/apache2'
[Fri Apr 07 10:30:17.502000 2017] [mpm_event:notice] [pid 6798:tid 140465015555968] AH00491: caught SIGTERM, shutting down
[Fri Apr 07 10:30:18.568534 2017] [mpm_event:notice] [pid 6922:tid 140183646152576] AH00489: Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu) configured -- resuming normal operations
[Fri Apr 07 10:30:18.568609 2017] [core:notice] [pid 6922:tid 140183646152576] AH00094: Command line: '/usr/sbin/apache2'

[James Blond]

Your apache can't connect to the server running on port 8001

Is that running?