Sending job to remote carte server ends with empty HTTP dialog - pentaho-spoon

Question

I have uploaded my repository to a remote server and when trying to run the job from my local PC on the server, I just get a dialog that says 'http'. Details show
org.pentaho.di.core.exception.KettleException:
java.net.UnknownHostException: http
http
at org.pentaho.di.job.Job.sendToSlaveServer(Job.java:1717)
at org.pentaho.di.ui.spoon.delegates.SpoonJobDelegate.executeJob(SpoonJobDelegate.java:1421)
at org.pentaho.di.ui.spoon.Spoon.executeJob(Spoon.java:8603)
at org.pentaho.di.ui.spoon.Spoon.executeFile(Spoon.java:8562)
at org.pentaho.di.ui.spoon.Spoon.runFile(Spoon.java:8527)
at org.pentaho.di.ui.spoon.job.JobGraph.runJob(JobGraph.java:3429)
at org.pentaho.di.ui.spoon.job.JobGraph$11.widgetSelected(JobGraph.java:1436)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.TypedListener.handleEvent(Unknown Source)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.EventTable.sendEvent(Unknown Source)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.sendEvent(Unknown Source)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Unknown Source)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.runDeferredEvents(Unknown Source)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Unknown Source)
at org.pentaho.di.ui.spoon.Spoon.readAndDispatch(Spoon.java:1405)
at org.pentaho.di.ui.spoon.Spoon.waitForDispose(Spoon.java:7989)
at org.pentaho.di.ui.spoon.Spoon.start(Spoon.java:9371)
at org.pentaho.di.ui.spoon.Spoon.main(Spoon.java:711)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
at org.pentaho.commons.launcher.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:92)
Caused by: java.net.UnknownHostException: http
at java.net.Inet6AddressImpl.lookupAllHostAddr(Native Method)
at java.net.InetAddress$2.lookupAllHostAddr(InetAddress.java:929)
at java.net.InetAddress.getAddressesFromNameService(InetAddress.java:1324)
at java.net.InetAddress.getAllByName0(InetAddress.java:1277)
at java.net.InetAddress.getAllByName(InetAddress.java:1193)
at java.net.InetAddress.getAllByName(InetAddress.java:1127)
at org.apache.http.impl.conn.SystemDefaultDnsResolver.resolve(SystemDefaultDnsResolver.java:45)
at org.apache.http.impl.conn.DefaultHttpClientConnectionOperator.connect(DefaultHttpClientConnectionOperator.java:112)
at org.apache.http.impl.conn.PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager.connect(PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager.java:374)
at org.apache.http.impl.execchain.MainClientExec.establishRoute(MainClientExec.java:393)
at org.apache.http.impl.execchain.MainClientExec.execute(MainClientExec.java:236)
at org.apache.http.impl.execchain.ProtocolExec.execute(ProtocolExec.java:186)
at org.apache.http.impl.execchain.RetryExec.execute(RetryExec.java:89)
at org.apache.http.impl.execchain.RedirectExec.execute(RedirectExec.java:110)
at org.apache.http.impl.client.InternalHttpClient.doExecute(InternalHttpClient.java:185)
at org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient.execute(CloseableHttpClient.java:83)
at org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient.execute(CloseableHttpClient.java:56)
at org.pentaho.di.cluster.SlaveServer.executeAuth(SlaveServer.java:707)
at org.pentaho.di.cluster.SlaveServer.sendXML(SlaveServer.java:617)
at org.pentaho.di.job.Job.sendToSlaveServer(Job.java:1694)
... 21 more
I can reach the server via the browser and Web GUI so in general its available. I am also getting the same error when trying to monitor the carte server from Spoon.

Answer 1

Just realized what the issue was: don't use http://mylittleserver.com as host but just mylittleserver.com - that fixes it!