Unable to locate ch2 on install about choochoo HOT 7 CLOSED

if you're following the instructions at https://andrewcooke.github.io/choochoo/ then the command is installed in the virtual environment. you need to enable the environment each time you start a new shell. do source env/bin/activate.

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Hi - Thanks for the tip. I had to do some extra steps to set up the virtual env with 3.7 specifically

sudo apt-get install python3.7-venv
python3.7 -m venv env
source env/bin/activate
python3.7 -m pip install choochoo
ch2 web start

It looks like it's now running on port 8000 on a remote machine i have, but when I navigate to the remote machines ip:8000 I do not get a response. Is it only available via localhost?

Thanks for the quick response

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huh. what distro is that? i'll add it to the instructions (i thought venv was part of the standard python distribution, but your distro seems ot have it separate).

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Just checked, I believe the distro is a bit older and needs to be updated which may have caused the issue - looks like version 16.04

Any idea on why I am unable to access the web interface on a client machine?

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sorry, missed this.

ch2 web start -h will show you the options for ch2 web start. the default for --bind is localhost which means that it is only visible locally. if you change that to --bind 0.0.0.0 then it will be visible on all network addresses. or if you know the correct address you can specify that.

there may also be issues with firewalls which are beyond my control...

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i could make 0.0.0.0 the default but it's a bit of a security risk.

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Hi - just actually figured this out by looking at the logs and seeing that it binds to localhost by default. I was able to specify the machines IP address and then was able to access it on a remote machine.

However, i get the same error with not being able to initially configure. The system hangs at "Please wait writing data.". If i manually set it up with the dev command you gave me, the same hanging results are given when trying to make/save any changes in the web interface.

Thanks

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