Zotonic CLI cannot connect to running instance

[Rudi Angela]

Hi there,

When trying to create a new web site with 'zotonic addsite' I get the following error:

erl_call: failed to connect to node zotonic001@localhost

Zotonic is not running. You need to start Zotonic first to use this command.

I've had this error in the past, but cannot remember how to solve it. Recall it's something with the host name, so I checked:

[admin@zotonic /opt/local/zotonic]$ cat /etc/hosts

::1             localhost

127.0.0.1       localhost localhost.local loghost zotonic.olmeca.nl zotonic

[admin@zotonic /opt/local/zotonic]$ hostname 

zotonic.olmeca.nl

AFAICS it all seems fine. Any clues anyone?

Rudi

[Mikael Karlsson]

What is the node name of the zotonic node that you have started:
zotonic@zotonic, zotonic@localhost or zot...@zotonic.olmeca.nl?
I think Zotonic setup scripts uses "hostname -f" to detect fully qualified name.
If you use this do you get zotonic.olmeca.nl or localhost.local ?

I get different answers on my machine
$ hostname
creado-se-2
$ hostname -f
localhost.localdomain

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[Rudi Angela]

My problem disappeared after restarting epmd, but to answer your questions, the node name was 'zot...@zotonic.olmeca.nl' which corresponds to the hostname (which is 'zotonic.olmeca.nl'). 

I'm running on Solaris, so the hostname command has no -f option.

Thanks anyway for helping.

Rudi