So once you have your Iguana instance installed and running successfully - how do you connect to it using your web browser? The following video should be helpful in explaining what you need to do. It’s specific to using Amazon Web Services EC instances but the same concepts apply to other environments. It shows how you can:
Check to see that the Iguana service is actually running using ./iguana --service status
Some distributions of Linux like Redhat and Centos have a system called SELinux which may require you to configure it to allow Iguana to work.
Use a command line web client like wget or curl to verify that Iguana’s web server is working.
Get the public IP address of your server together with the port number (7654 is the default) that Iguana is listening on
Put them together the complete URL for your web browser - i.e. http://<public IP address:port/
Reconfigure the firewall for the amazon web server so you can connect to Iguana with your web browser
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If you are using another system the precise interface you are using will be different but you will essentially be performing the same tasks in order to access your Iguana instance through a web browser.
More information on firewalls and testing HTTP/S interfaces:
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This video shows the usage of:
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./iguana --service status |
This tells you three important pieces of information:
Is Iguana running? If it isn’t running you cannot connect to it.
Port number the web UI is on - default is 7654
The public IP address of the server.
The public IP address is the Internet Protocol address that is publicly accessible to the internet: http://<Public IP Address>:7654/
A firewall is a piece of security software which protects a server from malicious people trying to connect via the network to a server. We need to configure the firewall to allow us to send TCP/IP traffic to port 7654. This will then allow our us to connect our browser to Iguana.
Use a command line web client like wget or curl to verify that Iguana’s web server is working.