Cannot Self Host Locally about goatcounter HOT 4 CLOSED

I should also mention I am trying to set the -tls flag to either "none" or "http", and I have also tried to specify a "-public-port" too. None of this has met with success.

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When you run goatcounter serve, does the process stay running? Does it successfully bind to a port? Are connections to it being dropped by your firewall?

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Which platform are you using?

Can you post the output of the goatcounter serve command? You can try adding -debug req to show log of every request.

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I ended up getting this working- I tried both on Linux and Windows, was having similar issues on both.

I resolved by adding a star to my listen port, e.g. -listen *:8000, and then also figured out that on both OSes the localhost was being mapped to something funky, so got those IP addresses and used them for the database registration as well as web testing access and that got me a login page.

The next issue for me that was I was unable to login to the admin dashboard on Chrome, it would just empty the fields and stay on the login page. Firefox did not have this issue, interestingly. But, I can use Firefox.

Lastly, I even with the user session checkbox turned off in the dashboard settings, I was only able to get requests and/or tracking pixels of new unique page names to register on the dashboard, only once. I'd test this on multiple computers on the same network, and only the first one to make the request would notify the dashboard, such that I have a list of pages on my dashboard with only 1 ping on them (I thought turning off the user session checkbox would allow for someone to refresh the page and it count as a new visit).

Thank you both for the troubleshooting hints here, I appreciate your time. Since I'm looking for a solution to give me raw page visit / API usage count regardless of visitor uniqueness, I may try to roll my own solution that better fits those requirements.

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