Total N00b question, regsiter server is going to 0.0.0.1

[prashanthk]

When i try /opt/open-xchange/sbin# /opt/open-xchange/sbin/registerserver -n oxserver -A oxadminmaster -P *****

i get
server could not be registered:
Server response:
Exception creating connection to: 0.0.0.1; nested exception is:
java.net.SocketException: Invalid argument or cannot assign requested address

I am not a system admin or a network guy, heck this is the first time i am using ubuntu. so let me know how i can fix this issue. I really want to use Ope-Xchange for my office, if i can prove it to my boss that it works..

[svensen]

Check your /etc/hosts for a line containing

127.0.0.1     localhost

If it isn't there, please do change it accordingly.

Regards
Sven

[prashanthk]

Thank you very much for your quick response.

I have installed a fresh version of Ubuntu just to try open exchange, no other package is present, even when i tried to install open exhcange it said that the online help package was incorrect, i removed that when i installed.

Here are the contents of my hosts file
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 001

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts

May be i need to configure something else before hand to show that it should take 127.0.0.1 instead of 0.0.0.1...

Thanks for helping out

[prashanthk]

sudo apt-get install open-xchange-online-help-en
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package open-xchange-online-help-en is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
However the following packages replace it:
open-xchange-online-help-he-en
E: Package open-xchange-online-help-en has no installation candidate

[Popeye]

Hello prashanthk,

Here are the contents of my hosts file
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 001

The content syntax is like

IP-Address  full-hostname hostname
127.0.0.1  localhost

The IP-address should be unique in this file and the ip-address 127.0.0.1 is reserved for localhost, which means loopback to itself.
the second line doesn't make sense, because it would be the second entry for localhost and as your server says

Exception creating connection to: 0.0.0.1; nested exception is:
java.net.SocketException: Invalid argument or cannot assign requested address

it does not exist. So delete the line with 001 or - if you need it - give it a different address (like 127.0.0.2 or 127.0.0.3 whatever you want)

CU Popeye

BTW: look for RFC1035, RFC1035 and RFC1178 in the Internet, this will answer your questions in-depth

[prashanthk]

I removed the line from the hosts file

I still get the same error

server could not be registered:
Server response:
Exception creating connection to: 0.0.0.1; nested exception is:
java.net.SocketException: Invalid argument or cannot assign requested address

May be i need to change something else, i followed the quick install guide throughly..


Is this the proper command
/opt/open-xchange/sbin/registerserver -n 127.0.0.1 -A oxadminmaster -P admin_master_password

?