Newbie problem setting-up cherokee-admin

@gmw:

root@socrates:~# ssh -L 9090:localhost:9090 root@66.228.39.112 -N
You need to run this command from your home machine, not on your Linode.

Thanks Vance. I made some progress. Here is what I did:

I open two Terminal windows from my Ubuntu desktop.

In terminal window #1, I logged into my Linode and ran

cherokee-admin &

In terminal window #2, I ran

ssh -L 9090:localhost:9090 root@66.228.39.112 -N

I browsed to http://127.0.0.1:9090 and was asked to supply a username and password by cherokee admin. I entered the ones displayed in terminal window #1: admin / 8UvOHGxran4he5NZ. The Cherokee Admin Welcome page loaded but the server status informed me that: Server is not running.

When I browse to http://66.228.39.112/ the Cherokee test page still loads.

At the moment, I'm not sure what else to try but thanks again for your help.

Also when I click on the Launch button I get:

Could not launch the server

Could not bind() port=80 (UID=0, GID=0)

@gmw:

Could not bind() port=80 (UID=0, GID=0)
This usually is an indication that another web server is already running. If you stop it you should be able to launch Cherokee, I imagine. You can determine this as follows:

# netstat -lvpnut | grep 80
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:80              0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      32505/apache2

This indicates that apache2, process ID 32505 is listening on port 80.

(Sorry, I don't know anything about Cherokee specifically so can't help you on the details.)

Thanks Vance!!! Your post made me realize what I did wrong. Initially I built my Linode with Apache. When I re-deployed Ubuntu, I didn't use the rebuild option which would have wiped my linode clean. I did notice that after the re-deploy that the apache2 sub-directory was gone but there must have been some setting somewhere that remained. Anyway since I did a rebuild, all is well and my cherokee server is running. Again thanks for helping me figure this out.