I just finished a nice clean install in Centos 6.3:
[root@server tmp]# /etc/init.d/splunk start
... snip ...
Checking prerequisites...
Checking http port [8000]: open
Checking mgmt port [8089]: open
Checking configuration... Done.
Checking indexes...
Creating: /opt/splunk/var/lib/splunk
Creating: /opt/splunk/var/run/splunk
Creating: /opt/splunk/var/run/splunk/appserver/i18n
Creating: /opt/splunk/var/run/splunk/appserver/modules/static/css
Creating: /opt/splunk/var/run/splunk/upload
Creating: /opt/splunk/var/spool/splunk
Creating: /opt/splunk/var/spool/dirmoncache
Creating: /opt/splunk/var/lib/splunk/authDb
Creating: /opt/splunk/var/lib/splunk/hashDb
Validated databases: _audit _blocksignature _internal _thefishbucket history main summary
Done
New certs have been generated in '/opt/splunk/etc/auth'.
Checking filesystem compatibility... Done
Checking conf files for typos... Done
All preliminary checks passed.
Starting splunk server daemon (splunkd)... Done
[ OK ]
Starting splunkweb... Generating certs for splunkweb server
Generating a 1024 bit RSA private key
...................................++++++
...................++++++
writing new private key to 'privKeySecure.pem'
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Signature ok
subject=/CN=server/O=SplunkUser
Getting CA Private Key
writing RSA key
[ OK ]
Done
If you get stuck, we're here to help.
Look for answers here: http://docs.splunk.com
The Splunk web interface is at http://server:8000
So that's all looks good. I try with my browser and I get kicked out "Connection timeout"
[root@server tmp]# telnet 10.10.10.249 8000
Trying 10.10.10.249...
Connected to 10.10.10.249.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: server
HTTP/1.1 303 See Other
Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8
Location: http://server/en-US/
Content-Length: 100
Server: CherryPy/3.1.2
Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2013 13:32:46 GMT
Set-Cookie: session_id_8000=d81e90d94a7dcadca73f83118e3ce704ef590989; expires=Wed, 06 Mar 2013 13:32:46 GMT; httponly; Path=/
This resource can be found at http://server/en-US/.Connection closed by foreign host.
[root@server tmp]#
What am I doing wrong?
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