[CalendarServer-users] Port issue

[Cyrus Daboo]

Hi Douglas,

--On October 29, 2007 3:04:07 AM -0400 Douglas O'Connor 
<business at dougoconnor.com> wrote:

> 1.) Double-checked all the file names and port numbers: as far as I can
> still, it's all good.
> 2.) I'm using OSX 10.4.10 Tiger, Python 2.4, Subversion 1.4.5, Apache
> 2.2.6, APR 1.2.11, and APR-UTIL 1.2.10. The firewall is down for the
> ports that I've configured DCS to listen on (8008 and 8443).
> 3.) No error logs come through, the only logfiles I can actually open
> don't contain much (access.log).
> 4.) DCS works on the localhost, but not on the port that I assign it in
> the caldavd-dev.plist. In fact, it always assigns to one or two ports
> higher than what I tell it, and it ignores my serverhostname and IP
> address that I give to it. (See the verbose run script below to
> understand more clearly). I don't know why it changes the port, but
> whichever one it chooses I can access on localhost just fine.
> 5.) The collection listing is solid, no problems there, it reflects my
> plist and xml arrangements.
>
> Here below is the run script readout:
>

Some things to note: the server architecture we have allows for the 
"server" to actual spawn multiple server processes for handling requests. 
By default we spawn one server instance per cpu/core. When we do that, each 
server instance listens only on 127.0.0.1 and on a port that is different 
from the main one configured in the .plist (we increase the port numbers by 
one for each instance). We then also start a load balancer process 
(pydirector) that should be listening on all the interfaces/ports specified 
in the .plist, and that will redirect incoming requests to each server 
instance in an appropriate fashion. The error.log file (or stdout) will 
show the localhost and instance port numbers, not the interface/port of the 
load balancer. So you need to ignore those and just attempt to connect on 
the interfaces/ports in the caldavd.plist.

Can you start the server again and look for the 'Adding pydirector service 
with configuration: XXX' line in the log output, and then in another 
terminal window cat the XXX file listed there. You should see four services 
setup in that config file - two of which listen on localhost and two of 
which listen on the external address on the ports you have specified. Can 
you double-check that?

-- 
Cyrus Daboo