Error: Connection refused to host: - when trying to registerserver

[techgoonsquad]

Ubuntu 8.04 server with standard lamp install.

I've been following the wiki and I've come to the step where registerserver is run. I run the following command:

sudo /opt/open-xchange/sbin/registerserver -n oxserver -A oxadminmaster -P password

and I receive this error :

Error: Connection refused to host: localhost; nested exception is:
java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused

If I restart the service (sudo /etc/init.d/open-xchange-admin stop/start) then it just sits and times for me and then kicks back the same error but instead of localhost it kicks out the IP of my dns (OpenDNS). I've tried restarting the open-xchange-groupware as well with the same results.

there doesn't appear to be anything in var/logs/open-xchange

my etc/hosts reads:

127.0.0.1 localhost

my ifconfig reads:

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:07:95:d6:4f:82
          inet addr:192.168.0.225  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::207:95ff:fed6:4f82/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:423 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:386 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:42159 (41.1 KB)  TX bytes:112381 (109.7 KB)
          Interrupt:16 Base address:0xc800

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:47 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:47 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:3360 (3.2 KB)  TX bytes:3360 (3.2 KB)

Any help would be much appreciated, thankyou.

[techgoonsquad]

Well, still same problem, been working on this one all day. looks like apache wasn't detecting the server name correctly. I hard coded it to my domain in the apache conf with ServerName but it's still giving me the same error. The command takes 3-4 minutes to timeout. Erghh...

Both services (admin/groupware) are starting fine. I'm really stumped by this one.

[Carsten Hoeger]

As long as the admindaemon does not start, the connection refuse error will persist.

You need to find out, why the admin daemon does not start.

The answer might be in the trace in the admin log /var/log/open-xchange/open-xchange-admin.log.0.

P.S.: no need to use sudo