RundeckClient.ping() doesn't work for localhost

[andham]

I get "Connection refused" if trying to ping Rundeck on localhost:4440. However, using the url COMPUTERNAME:4440 works.

RundeckClientBuilder builder = RundeckClient.builder().url("http://localhost:4440");
builder.version(RundeckClient.API_VERSION);
RundeckClient rundeck = builder.login("admin", "admin").build();
rundeck.ping();

results in

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.Exception: Couldn't find a live Rundeck instance
at se.folksam.test.rundeck.RundeckMain.main(RundeckMain.java:34)
Caused by: org.rundeck.api.RundeckApiException: Failed to ping Rundeck instance at http://localhost:4440
at org.rundeck.api.ApiCall.ping(ApiCall.java:101)
at org.rundeck.api.RundeckClient.ping(RundeckClient.java:284)
at se.folksam.test.rundeck.RundeckMain.main(RundeckMain.java:30)
Caused by: org.apache.http.conn.HttpHostConnectException: Connect to localhost:4440 [localhost/127.0.0.1, localhost/0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1] failed: Connection refused: connect
at org.apache.http.impl.conn.HttpClientConnectionOperator.connect(HttpClientConnectionOperator.java:142)
at org.apache.http.impl.conn.PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager.connect(PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager.java:319)
at org.apache.http.impl.execchain.MainClientExec.establishRoute(MainClientExec.java:363)
at org.apache.http.impl.execchain.MainClientExec.execute(MainClientExec.java:219)
at org.apache.http.impl.execchain.ProtocolExec.execute(ProtocolExec.java:195)
at org.apache.http.impl.execchain.RetryExec.execute(RetryExec.java:86)
at org.apache.http.impl.execchain.RedirectExec.execute(RedirectExec.java:108)
at org.apache.http.impl.client.InternalHttpClient.doExecute(InternalHttpClient.java:184)
at org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient.execute(CloseableHttpClient.java:82)
at org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient.execute(CloseableHttpClient.java:106)
at org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient.execute(CloseableHttpClient.java:57)
at org.rundeck.api.ApiCall.ping(ApiCall.java:95)
... 2 more
Caused by: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect
at java.net.DualStackPlainSocketImpl.connect0(Native Method)
at java.net.DualStackPlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(DualStackPlainSocketImpl.java:79)
at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.doConnect(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:339)
at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:200)
at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connect(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:182)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:172)
at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:392)
at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:579)
at org.apache.http.conn.socket.PlainConnectionSocketFactory.connectSocket(PlainConnectionSocketFactory.java:72)
at org.apache.http.impl.conn.HttpClientConnectionOperator.connect(HttpClientConnectionOperator.java:125)
... 13 more

[gschueler]

i am able to ping localhost as well as hostname. is the rundeck server not listening on the localhost interface? are you able to curl the localhost url?

[andham]

Yes, I can curl the localhost url and get a 302 answer.

I see something else probably related to this: Using a browser, if I go to http://localhost:4440 (end up in http://localhost:4440/user/login) and try to log in I'm just returned to http://COMPUTERNAME:4440/user/login. If I then try to log in it will succeed. (Browser: Firefox 37.0.1)

Environment: Windows 7, Oracle JDK 1.7.0_72, Rundeck 2.5.0

[gschueler]

the value for grails.serverURL in rundeck-config.properties is used as the base URL for grails, and is used in redirects. Forgot this might be the issue earlier. basically, you should access rundeck using that URL.

[andham]

Right, it was that simple! My bad then!