Rudder

Looks like an httpd configuration issue. Are Rudder vhosts (rudder-vhost.conf and rudder-vhost-ssl.conf) in /etc/httpd/conf.d/, and di you have custom httpd configuration on this server?

Do you see error messages in httpd logs, or in /var/log/rudder/webapp/TODAY.stderrout.log?

Both the said files ( rudder-vhost.conf and rudder-vhost-ssl.conf ) very much exists and didn't do any custom config. In fact, I tried multiple times by rebuilding new system each time and could reproduce the same issue every time.

Last lines from today.stderrout.log

[2017-01-16 15:21:09] INFO  bootstrap.liftweb.Boot - classpath
[2017-01-16 15:21:09] INFO  application - Application Rudder started
2017-01-16 15:21:09.807:INFO:oejd.DeploymentManager:Deployable added: /opt/rudder/share/webapps/endpoint.xml
2017-01-16 15:21:09.812:INFO:oejw.WebInfConfiguration:Extract jar:file:/opt/rudder/share/webapps/endpoint.war!/ to /var/rudder/tmp/jetty/jetty-127.0.0.1-8080-endpoint.war-_endpoint-any-/webapp
Use configuration file defined by JVM property -Dlogback.configurationFile : /opt/rudder/etc/logback.xml
2017-01-16 15:21:12.722:INFO:oejsh.ContextHandler:started o.e.j.w.WebAppContext{/endpoint,file:/var/rudder/tmp/jetty/jetty-127.0.0.1-8080-endpoint.war-_endpoint-any-/webapp/},/opt/rudder/share/webapps/endpoint.war
2017-01-16 15:21:12.831:INFO:/endpoint:Initializing Spring FrameworkServlet 'dispatcher'
[2017-01-16 15:21:13] WARN  org.springframework.context.annotation.ConfigurationClassEnhancer - @Bean method PropertyPlaceholderConfig.propertyConfigurer is non-static and returns an object assignable to Spring's BeanFactoryPostProcessor interface. This will result in a failure to process annotations such as @Autowired, @Resource and @PostConstruct within the method's declaring @Configuration class. Add the 'static' modifier to this method to avoid these container lifecycle issues; see @Bean Javadoc for complete details
[2017-01-16 15:21:13] INFO  com.normation.inventory.provisioning.endpoint.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfig - Use configuration file defined by JVM property -Dinventoryweb.configFile : /opt/rudder/etc/inventory-web.properties
2017-01-16 15:21:14.028:INFO:oejs.AbstractConnector:Started SelectChannelConnector@127.0.0.1:8080

Have you tried restarting manually httpd after installation?

Yes, I tried restarting httpd and rudder application aswell.

What is the hostname of the server? We already saw issues when it was "localhost.localdomain" (which is the default on CentOS).

hostname gets resolved without any issues, have set the same in /etc/hosts. And I could telnet positively on localhost port 8080 which actually nullifies the application issue. The issue is somewhere in front end apache.

Besides, I have been working with Rudder (3.x deployments are doing great) for quite some time, never had any issues especially from installation angle.

Issue resolved.

Great news \o/

Do you have more insight of what went wrong and what fixed it ? So we can document it (either in a FAQ or in doc)

Hi François,

The issue was due to presence of rudder-relay-vhost-ssl.conf in /etc/httpd/conf.d/ directory path. The same was generating error "VirtualHost overlap on port 443" at every httpd daemon restart and throwing error page each time; moved the file out from dir path to fix the issue.

My apologies for delay in responding to your query.

Thanks !!