cannot connect to self-hosted gRPC Windows service - c#-3.0

I published my first gRPC Windows service on to a test server. Please excuse my clulessness.
Long story short:
When I tried to connect to it w/ a client, I am getting the error below:
No connection could be made because the target machine actively
refused it. SocketException: No connection could be made because the
target machine actively refused it.
Here's my appsettins.json on Kestrel:
"HttpsInlineCertStore": {
"Url": "https://localhost:5001",
"Certificate": {
"Subject": "CN=<secret>",
"Store": "My",
"Location": "LocalMachine",
"AllowInvalid": "true"
}
}
On my client, I have this:
readonly static GrpcChannel channel =
GrpcChannel.ForAddress("https://full server name and domain:5001");
Question:
I keep seeing port 5000 being opened, but no 5001. Why?
Thanks!
UPDATE:
By default http is on 5000. Here's MS link...search Endpoint Configuration

Make sure you have the proper environment name (aspnetcore_environment) is set, so the configuration of the Kestrel in the specific appsettings..json is loaded.
Andrew Luck has an article on how to set the environment variables.
Also, here you can find the different options you can set for the Kestrel. Search for Replace the default certificate from configuration will lead you to the section.

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Grpc server not listening to port 5001 when run as a Windows service

I created the GrpcGreeter and GrpcGreeterClient projects in Visual Studio 2019 from the following page:
[https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/tutorials/grpc/grpc-start?view=aspnetcore-5.0&tabs=visual-studio][1]
The only change I made to these examples was that in order for the GrpcGreeter app to run as a Windows service, I added ".UseWindowsService()" to IHostBuilder CreateHostBuilder. I published both to local folders while in VS, and selected Self Contained for the Deployment Mode.
Server and client work fine using https://localhost:5001 when run from the either the VS environment or when running the published GrpcGreeter.exe and GrpcGreeterClient.exe directly.
I then used "Sc create" to successfully create a Windows service with GrpcGreeter.exe. Then on the Services window I started the service.
The problem is that when run as a Windows service the GrpcGreeter.exe does not listen on port 5001, as shown with netstat -anb (it does listen to port 5354, apparently). And of course when I then run GrpcGreeterClient.exe it does not connect. When GrpcGreeter.exe is run not as a Windows service netstat shows that it is listening to 5001, and GrpcGreeterClient.exe talks to it just fine.
A look at Event Viewer shows 3 errors happening immediately whenever I start the service on the Services window. I'm abbreviating them below.
1st:
Faulting application name: GrpcGreeter.exe, version: 1.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x5f6b3846
Faulting module name: ntdll.dll, version: 10.0.19041.546, time stamp: 0xd49544eb
Exception code: 0xc0000374
Fault offset: 0x000e6763
...
2nd:
Fault bucket , type 0
Event Name: FaultTolerantHeap
Response: Not available
Cab Id: 0
Problem signature:
P1: GrpcGreeter.exe
...
3rd:
Fault bucket 2242750238749681031, type 1
Event Name: APPCRASH
Response: Not available
Cab Id: 0
Problem signature:
P1: GrpcGreeter.exe
...
Please help. Thank you.
this is a very old post but I too came across with this issue when deploying a windows service with gRPC. Not sure will it solve your problem or not but my issue was that when you deploy into the windows service, it needs to have a certificate configured. It was stated in this documentation here under the "Set HTTPS certificates by using configuration" part
So I have created a self signed certificate using openssl where you can refer here too, then just add the .pfx file into the kestrel configuration as shown by the Microsoft documentation, build it and publish it as a windows service. After that, just proceed with the normal service creation procedure using
sc create
// and then
sc start
The windows service should now be running with the gRPC server without any issue (For my case at least). One thing to note is that because this is a self signed certificate which is not exactly trustable, when the frontend attempts to communicate with the server, it will have an error about the cert. You just need to trust it and it will be fine.
On browser, just go to the link that is hosting the gRPC, for example https://localhost:5001, click advanced and trust it.
In my case, I was using electron + angular so I just need to add this code snippet that I have gotten from here. Now my frontend can communicate with the gRPC server in the windows service normally.
// ignore self signed certificate in dev mode
if (process.env.NODE_ENV === 'development') {
// SSL/TSL: this is the self signed certificate support
app.on('certificate-error', (event, webContents, url, error, certificate, callback) => {
// On certificate error we disable default behaviour (stop loading the page)
// and we then say "it is all fine - true" to the callback
event.preventDefault();
callback(true);
});
}

Unable to fetch data from T24(TAFJ R18) when working with design studio

I faced the below error when importing t24 applications in design studio. The T24 server (TAFJ R18) which I try to connect to is up (jboss is running), but still I face this issue:
Unable to fetch data from T24. Check your connection details and if T24 is up and running.
Subroutine:
Return Code: FAILURE
Response size: 1
Response 1 ->Response Code: EB-SECURITY.VIOLATION,Response Type: NON_FATAL_ERROR,Response Text: Please check your Login Credential and/or access rights,Response Info: 98748ebf-f73d-4e86-8506-950b2fd0b5d2,
Looks like the Username and Password you have provided in the t24-server/config/server.properties is not correct. Make sure you can login to T24 (Browser or Classic) with the T24 User provided in these settings:
#T24 User name used for introspection and deployment (TAFJ)
username=INPUTT
#T24 Encrypted password used for introspection and deployment (TAFJ)
password={encoded}gXhuXZkbBuL09T8WFlRR+w==
Other important settings in this file:
#T24 host name to connect to (IP address or Domain name)
host=localhost
#T24 Web service (TAFJ) port number to connect
ws.port=8080
#Protocol: ftp, sftp or local (TAFC & TAFJ: used for *.b and *.d file transfer)
protocol=ws
#context for web-service
context=axis2
We can check the connectivity and also if anyone restarting the jboss while importing.
We can check the server status is "active" in DS, or we can restart the server connectivity.
And make sure if you are using any VPN to connect the Database and still it is active.

"host not allowed" error when deploying a play framework application to Amazon AWS with Boxfuse

I am trying to deploy a simple web application written using Play Framework in Scala to Amazon web service.
The web application is running OK in development mode and production mode in my local machine, and I've changed its default port to 80.
I used Boxfuse to deploy to AWS as suggested.
I first run "sbt dist"
then "boxfuse run -env=prod"
Things went well as desired. The image is fused and pushed to AWS. AMI is created. Instance was started and my application was running.
i-0f696ff22df4a2b71 => 2017-07-13 01:28:23.940 [info] play.api.Play - Application started (Prod)
Then came the error message:
WARNING: Healthcheck (http://35.156.38.90/) returned 400 instead of 200. Retrying for the next 300 seconds ...
i-0f696ff22df4a2b71 => 2017-07-13 01:28:24.977 [info] p.c.s.AkkaHttpServer - Listening for HTTP on /0.0.0.0:80
i-0f696ff22df4a2b71 => 2017-07-13 01:28:25.512 [warn] p.f.h.AllowedHostsFilter - Host not allowed: 35.156.38.90
The instance was terminated after repeated try after 3 minutes. It gave a warning like:
Ensure your application responds with an HTTP 200 at / on port 80
But I've made sure the application responds in local machine, and I tried both Windows and Ubuntu, all works well.
Also, running "boxfuse run" on local machine, I can connect to it using "http://localhost", but still have the error.
Hope someone with experience can give me some suggestions. Thanks in advance.
ps: not sure if relevant, I added these settings to application.conf
http {
address = 0.0.0.0
port = 80
}
Judging from the error message, it looks like the problem might be related to play.filters.hosts.allowed not set up in application.conf. The filter lets you configure which hosts can access your application. More details about the Play filter is available here.
Here's a configuration example:
play.filters.hosts {
allowed = ["."]
}
Note that allowed = ["."] matches all hosts hence would not be recommended in a production environment.
As stated in the Boxfuse Play Documentation:
If your application uses the allowed hosts filter you must ensure play.filters.hosts.allowed in application.conf allows connections from anywhere as this filter otherwise causes ELB healthchecks to fail. For example:
play.filters.hosts {
allowed = ["."]
}
More info in the official Play documentation.

Configuring Meteor deployment to Google Compute Engine VM using mupx

Whilst I've tried several solutions to related problems on SO, nothing appears to fix my problem when deploying a Meteor project to a VM on Google Compute Engine.
I setup mupx to handle the deployment and don't have any apparent issues when running
sudo mupx deploy
My mup.json is as follows
{
// Server authentication info
"servers": [
{
"host": "104.199.141.232",
"username": "simonlayfield",
"password": "xxxxxxxx"
// or pem file (ssh based authentication)
// "pem": "~/.ssh/id_rsa"
}
],
// Install MongoDB in the server, does not destroy local MongoDB on future setup
"setupMongo": true,
// WARNING: Node.js is required! Only skip if you already have Node.js installed on server.
"setupNode": true,
// WARNING: If nodeVersion omitted will setup 0.10.36 by default. Do not use v, only version number.
"nodeVersion": "0.10.36",
// Install PhantomJS in the server
"setupPhantom": true,
// Show a progress bar during the upload of the bundle to the server.
// Might cause an error in some rare cases if set to true, for instance in Shippable CI
"enableUploadProgressBar": true,
// Application name (No spaces)
"appName": "simonlayfield",
// Location of app (local directory)
"app": ".",
// Configure environment
"env": {
"ROOT_URL": "http://simonlayfield.com"
},
// Meteor Up checks if the app comes online just after the deployment
// before mup checks that, it will wait for no. of seconds configured below
"deployCheckWaitTime": 30
}
When navigating to my external IP in the browser I can see the Meteor site template however the Mongodb data isn't showing up.
http://simonlayfield.com
I have set a firewall rule up on the VM to allow traffic through port 27017
Name: mongodb
Description: Allow port 27017 access to http-server
Network: default
Source filter: Allow from any source (0.0.0.0/0)
Allowed protocols and ports: tcp:27017
Target tags: http-server
I've also tried passing the env variable MONGO_URL but after several failed attempts I found this post on the Meteor forums suggesting that it is not required when using a local Mongodb database.
I'm currently connecting to the VM using ssh rather than the gcloud SDK but if it will help toward a solution I'm happy to set that up.
I'd really appreciate it if someone could provide some guidance on how I can know specifically what is going wrong. Is the firewall rule I've setup sufficient? Are there other factors than need to be considered when using a Google Compute Engine VM specifically? Is there a way for me to check logs on the server via ssh to gain extra clarity around a connection/firewall/configuration problem?
My knowledge in this area is limited and so apologies if there's an easy fix that has evaded me.
Thanks in advance.
There were some recent meteord updates, please rerun your deployment
Also as a side note: I always specify a port for mup / mupx files
"env": {
"PORT": 5050,
"ROOT_URL": "http://youripaddress"
},

"no such host" mesage while site is deployed on moovapp.com domain

I have done a sample project based on blog.moovdemos.com to test the moovweb solution.
After testing it on on local system I deployed the project on moovweb cloud. I have learnt that one need to own the domain to be able to access it from internet. However, as per documentation, it is still available within moovapp.com domain.
While I am trying to access my site through moovapp.com domain I get moovweb warning page as below
Warning: the webpage you are attempting to access is a Moovweb
Remixed™ version of mshruthijanardhan14047.blog.moovdemos.com. Should
you choose to continue, Moovweb is not responsible for the contents of
this webpage.
[Agree and continue] [Decline]
However, on chossing [Agree and continue] I get following message instead of site page
Failed to establish a connection with upstream (dial tcp: lookup
[muser1234].blog.moovdemos.com: no such host)
please help me what is wrong here?
It looks like you have a misconfigured config.json file in your project.
On the right-hand side of the first "host_map" value, you will need to put the upstream domain 'blog.moovdemos.com'. You currently have it set to [muser1234].blog.moovdemos.com. This domain does not exist; that is why you are getting the "dial tcp: lookup ... no such host" error.
The correct setting should look like:
"host_map": [
"$.blog.moovdemos.com => blog.moovdemos.com"
]
Hope that helps.