SAB Needs free tcp/ip port
Posted: April 16th, 2014, 1:43 am
Hello,
Before registering I did a search and saw that this topic came up a few times but I never saw any consistent responses or clear answers so, apologies, but I started a new post on it.
Last night, while attempting some downloads I noticed that SAB was just sitting at 0kb downloading, checked the connections and saw the connection to tweaknews was timing out. Checked any outage issues and saw some people indicating that port 563 wasn't working for them but 443 was. I went into settings and changed to 443, here's where I may have been stupid. When I made the change, SAB kicked me out and gave me the following:
SABnzbd need a free tcp/ip port for its internal web server.
Port 443 on localhost was tried, but eh account used for SABnzbd has no permission to use it.
Etc etc, standard message.
I tried the suggested code in terminal: /Application/SABnzbd.app/Contents/MacOS/SABnzbd --server localhost:1024 but this didn't do anything, then after more searching replaced localhost with 127.0.0.1 but this still did nothing. I googled for some guidance on allowing 443 port access but found nothing of use and here I am, cap in hand, asking anyone for some assistance as, while I'm not computer illiterate, I'm also not great.
How on earth do I set SAB with a new port number so it can actually start, even resetting it back to 563 would be perfect!?
**UPDATE: I have altered the setting back so it's accessing the web server on localhost:8080, however my old username and password are not being accepted for authentication so I cannot access the UI. The menu bar icon is working and SAB appears to be functioning and downloading my files but I can't see: why won't my old password work and what is the password if the old one isn't it anymore?!
Before registering I did a search and saw that this topic came up a few times but I never saw any consistent responses or clear answers so, apologies, but I started a new post on it.
Last night, while attempting some downloads I noticed that SAB was just sitting at 0kb downloading, checked the connections and saw the connection to tweaknews was timing out. Checked any outage issues and saw some people indicating that port 563 wasn't working for them but 443 was. I went into settings and changed to 443, here's where I may have been stupid. When I made the change, SAB kicked me out and gave me the following:
SABnzbd need a free tcp/ip port for its internal web server.
Port 443 on localhost was tried, but eh account used for SABnzbd has no permission to use it.
Etc etc, standard message.
I tried the suggested code in terminal: /Application/SABnzbd.app/Contents/MacOS/SABnzbd --server localhost:1024 but this didn't do anything, then after more searching replaced localhost with 127.0.0.1 but this still did nothing. I googled for some guidance on allowing 443 port access but found nothing of use and here I am, cap in hand, asking anyone for some assistance as, while I'm not computer illiterate, I'm also not great.
How on earth do I set SAB with a new port number so it can actually start, even resetting it back to 563 would be perfect!?
**UPDATE: I have altered the setting back so it's accessing the web server on localhost:8080, however my old username and password are not being accepted for authentication so I cannot access the UI. The menu bar icon is working and SAB appears to be functioning and downloading my files but I can't see: why won't my old password work and what is the password if the old one isn't it anymore?!