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DukeChung
Contributor
Contributor
‎09-15-2015 06:33 PM

503 Service Not Available

The installation instructions worked for me but I receive a 503 error at the <host>/ui location.  Running esxcli software vib list confirms that the vib is installed.

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vNEX
Expert
Expert
‎09-16-2015 10:01 AM

Hello,

Yes that works with earlier ESXi releases (3/4.x) ....but from ESXi 5.x  this is  the standard behavior because "direct" web access  is only allowed through vCenter server via Web Client.

However from ESXi 6.0 and with the new Embedded Host Client fling you can access host directly without vCenter server and C# client deployed...:)

New HTML5 Embedded Host Client for ESXi | virtuallyGhetto

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VMware Employee
VMware Employee
‎09-16-2015 04:01 PM

Hi, this is a known issue with 5.5 hosts and 6.0 hosts upgraded from 5.5

Please edit /etc/vmware/rhttpproxy/endpoints.conf and remove the line starting with /ui then restart rhttpproxy with /etc/init.d/rhttpproxy restart.

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VMware Employee
VMware Employee
‎09-16-2015 04:02 PM

Also, for 5.5 U2 and prior you need to have a trailing / after UI.

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chay2263
Enthusiast
Enthusiast
‎10-27-2015 09:30 AM

I'm getting the same 503 error. We've upgraded from 5.1U3 to 5.5U3a. The vib installed successfully but I'm getting this error. Any ideas?

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VMware Employee
VMware Employee
‎11-03-2015 06:57 AM

Can you show me the content of  /etc/vmware/rhttpproxy/endpoints.conf?

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