"Could Not Connect To The Server"

[Lakeguy]

Hi all. I've been using SABnzbd for over a year without a problem. Great app, thank you to everyone who has contributed to its success.

I also use a couple of iOS Apps - SABmobile HD and SABnzbd in the last couple of days both apps have been throwing the same error: "Could Not Connect to the Server".

When I use the desktop client, downloaded from here, everything is fine. At first I thought that maybe something had gone wrong with the app, but it seems unlikely that two different apps went bad at the same time. I've also restarted and reinstalled SABnzbd on my desktop to no avail.

Any ideas on how I can fix this?

[shypike]

Does your SABnzbd installation allow outside connections? What is your "host address" in Config->General.
Does your software firewall block incoming requests for SABnzbd?

[Lakeguy]

Does your SABnzbd installation allow outside connections? What is your "host address" in Config->General.
Does your software firewall block incoming requests for SABnzbd?

What's strange is that I haven't changed anything in terms of settings. My host address is 127.0.0.1. So not sure why suddenly stuff isn't working. Never touched the firewall.

However, now I have a larger problem. I just figured I would de-install and re-install SABnzbd on my host machine and even read about making sure you remove the .ini file. So have gone thru all the steps and re-downloaded the app. Now when I double-click on the app to start it up, the SABnzbd arrow flashes in the menu bar and then immediately disappears, and the app never actually starts.

I'm at a loss.

[shypike]

Well, that's simple: using 127.0.0.1 as host address guarantees that there cannot be external access.
You should use 0.0.0.0

For the second part.
Open a CMD window (command prompt) and type:
"c:\program files\sabnzbd\sabnzbd-console.exe" -l2 -s 0.0.0.0:8080

[Lakeguy]

Well, that's simple: using 127.0.0.1 as host address guarantees that there cannot be external access.
You should use 0.0.0.0

For the second part.
Open a CMD window (command prompt) and type:
"c:\program files\sabnzbd\sabnzbd-console.exe" -l2 -s 0.0.0.0:8080

That would be great if it worked! I'm on a Mac, do you know the equivalent command?

EDIT: Found it! I can now see my SAB web server again, just need to work on the original problem now. Thank you for your kind help!

[shypike]

Right, my fellow Mac user, what was I thinking!
Open a Terminal window and type:

/Applications/SABnzbd.app/Contents/MacOS/SABnzbd -l2 -s 0.0.0.0:8080