Error reinstalling sandstorm about sandstorm

[xet7]

@enricodetoma

Address already in use

Sandstorm requires ports 80 and 443. You need to stop and disable your already existing webserver like Nginx/Caddy/Apache etc so that Sandstorm can start.

[ocdtrekkie]

Sandstorm can be set to run on other ports, but it's definitely failing to start because ports it is configured to use are already in use. Assuming nothing else went wrong, you might be able to set different ports in the config file and then "sudo sandstorm start".

https://docs.sandstorm.io/en/latest/administering/config-file/

[enricodetoma]

After stopping Apache2 it went a bit further, but now the error is:

ERROR: remote exception: Error: [acme-v2] ********.sandcats.io status:400 Unable to update challenge :: authorization must be pending
    at transformError (/programs/server/npm/node_modules/@root/acme/acme.js:826:10)
    at /programs/server/npm/node_modules/meteor/promise/node_modules/meteor-promise/fiber_pool.js:43:40
There might be more information in: /opt/sandstorm/var/log/sandstorm.log
*** INSTALLATION FAILED ***

Failed to fetch certificate.

And this error is in the log:

sandstorm/gateway.c++:1029: error: refused HTTPS connection because no TLS keys are configured

[ocdtrekkie]

Hmmm, so my guess is the installer failed out before setting up Let's Encrypt. Our documentation for this is... not ideal, only under sandstorm --help. But I think you can run sudo sandstorm create-acme-account <email> and then maybe sudo sandstorm restart?

I think you have Sandstorm installed at this point, but you have issues from the incomplete install on the first attempt maybe.

[enricodetoma]

@ocdtrekkie thank you for your support. I tried the installation again today and this time it worked, so I didn't even need to do sudo sandstorm create-acme-account <email> manually.

[ocdtrekkie]

Awesome to hear! Feel free to reach out if you have any other questions or issues!