I accidentally ran another web server on the same port as the Splunk Web server (8000) and since then, I've been unable to start Splunk. The start process gets stuck at "Waiting for webserver at http://127.0.0.1:8000";
and I am left unable to access the web UI.
What I've tried:
All I've done for this to happen is run something on the same port, but that should have stopped being an issue as soon as I stopped the other listener, or certainly after having changed Splunk to different ports.
Fixed it, I checked web_service.log and found python syntax errors - I forgot I had previously changed my python env variables to a Python 3 installation, the webserver was trying to run Python 2 with that Python 3 interpreter and failed to start as a result.
Fixed it, I checked web_service.log and found python syntax errors - I forgot I had previously changed my python env variables to a Python 3 installation, the webserver was trying to run Python 2 with that Python 3 interpreter and failed to start as a result.