Network Error issue when login saltpad

[clemyp]

when using saltpad from a browser i get network error.

in salt master:

rest_cherrypy:
  port: 8000
  host: 127.0.0.1
  disable_ssl: true

in settings.json:

{
    "API_URL": "127.0.0.1:8000",
    "SECURE_HTTP": false,
    "templates": {
        "basic": {
            "description": "Basic template",
            "matcher": "glob",
            "target": "*",
            "moduleFunction": "test.fib",
            "arguments": {
                "num": 10
            }
        },

        "version": {
            "description": "Basic version",
            "matcher": "glob",
            "target": "Celeste",
            "moduleFunction": "test.version",
            "arguments": {}
        }
    },
    "EAUTH": "pam",
    "FLAVOUR": "rest_cherrypy",
    "PATH_PREFIX": "/"
}

also when testing using curl on the server where saltpad is installed, i cannot use the dns name to check, it has to be 127.0.0.1 (curl -i -H accept=application/json -d username=username -d password=password -d eauth=pam http://127.0.0.1:8000/login)

this is even when I change below to be the same as the dns name

[clemyp]

salt-api --version
salt-api 2016.3.1 (Boron)

salt-master --version
salt-master 2016.3.1 (Boron)

[Lothiraldan]

Hi @clemyp,

when configuring your salt-api to listen on 127.0.0.1, it will effectively only listen on local connection only (same host, your laptop, desktop or server). You may want to put a nginx or apache in front of salt-api, then you will be able to use the configured dns to speak with the salt-api. Don't forget to change the API_URL value too.