New install issue

[cvclukes]

I'm trying to install netbox for the first time and I've been going through the install documentation provided at https://docs.netbox.dev/en/stable/installation/3-netbox/ and I'm at the point of "Test the Application" and I'm getting the below error. At first it was that django was missing, so I added that, but now it says below and when I try to just browse to the URL or IP it says "This site can't be reached" refused to connect.

/opt/netbox/netbox$ python3 manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000 --insecure
usage: manage.py runserver [-h] [--ipv6] [--nothreading] [--noreload] [--version] [--settings SETTINGS] [--pythonpath PYTHONPATH] [--no-color] [--force-color] [--skip-checks] [addrport]
manage.py runserver: error: unrecognized arguments: --insecure

[bogdancordos]

Are you trying to run the test server from the virtual environment?
You need to activate your "venv" first (source /opt/netbox/venv/bin/activate) and then run the test server. You might have had installed Django on the global environment as well, which is not necessary if you have fallowed the installation steps.

[cvclukes]

I did not catch it needed to be in venv. Thank you, I've gotten it up and running now.

[pankajmamtani]

possible to migrate test server to production.

My problem is it keeps going down then I have to run the below commands to get to up.

cd /opt/netbox
. venv/bin/activate
python3 netbox/manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000 --insecure

[candlerb]

Production instances shouldn't use the development server. You should run gunicorn under systemd, and have a reverse proxy like Apache or Nginx in front.

All of this is in the installation documentation (steps 4 and 5).

[pankajmamtani]

ok thanks, my bad i missed it. Working further on the given steps, it given error - ln: failed to create symbolic link '/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/netbox': No such file or directory

sudo cp /opt/netbox/contrib/nginx.conf /etc/nginx/sites-available/netbox
sudo rm /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default
sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/netbox /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/netbox
rm: cannot remove '/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default': No such file or directory
ln: failed to create symbolic link '/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/netbox': No such file or directory

[candlerb]

You made a mistake. I would suggest in future you do the commands one at a time, so it's easier to see where things go wrong, rather than pasting all three at once.

rm: cannot remove '/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default': No such file or directory

suggests to me that you didn't install the nginx package (see where it says "Begin by installing nginx:" in the instructions) - or perhaps you tried to, but there was an error and you carried on anyway, without sorting out the error.

EDIT: that doesn't explain why the "cp" didn't fail though.

What do these show?

ls -l /etc/nginx/sites-available
ls -l /etc/nginx/sites-enabled

[pankajmamtani]

please find the output

ls -l /etc/nginx/sites-available
ls -l /etc/nginx/sites-enabled
total 0
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 24 Apr 21 10:57 netbox
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 33 Apr 26 17:14 netbox -> /etc/nginx/sites-available/netbox

finally worked following the setups in this link since I am using rocky linux https://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-install-netbox-on-rocky-linux-9/

I used apache instead of nginx

[candlerb]

Please, one command at a time!!!

I will guess you say this:

# ls -l /etc/nginx/sites-available
total 0
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 24 Apr 21 10:57 netbox

That shows you have created a directory called netbox, instead of copying a file. You'll need to remove the contents of this directory, remove the directory, and copy the file again.

I used apache instead of nginx

OK, then you can just remove the nginx package and all its config files.