DO Guide - ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED - CentOS 7

Hello,

So I installed code-server following this guide - https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-the-code-server-cloud-ide-platform-on-centos-7 Before proceeding onto the subdomain configuration, I wanted to ensure that it’s working and to my dismay I’m only getting an ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED in the web browser.

• Web Browser: Google Chrome
• Local OS: Windows 7 Professional
• Remote OS: CentOS Linux release 7.8.2003 (Core)
• Remote Architecture: x86_64
• code-server --version: v3.4.1

At first, I’d like to mention that I’ve a previously running VestaCP installation on that server, so Apache and Nginx were pre-installed and running. Now, I was trying to bind code-server to port 1313, which has been opened in the firewall.

[root@sohamb03 ~]# systemctl status code-server
● code-server.service - code-server
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/code-server.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: active (running) since Fri 2020-07-10 03:03:27 EDT; 5ms ago
 Main PID: 19902 ((e-server))
   CGroup: /system.slice/code-server.service
           ‣ 19902 [(e-server)]

Jul 10 03:03:27 sohamb03.tk systemd[1]: Stopped code-server.
Jul 10 03:03:27 sohamb03.tk systemd[1]: Started code-server.

But again sudo lsof -i:1313 produces no output. 😦

Here’s the code-server.service file.

[Unit]
Description=code-server
After=nginx.service

[Service]
Type=simple
Environment=PASSWORD=testpass123
ExecStart=/usr/bin/code-server --bind-addr 0.0.0.0:1313 --user-data-dir /var/lib/code-server --auth password
Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

I’ve checked issue #737 but doesn’t seem to help either.

[Spacebody]

Umm, I never thought about that. I’ll give it a try and update you soon. 😃

Just change the line in service:

ExecStart=/usr/bin/code-server --bind-addr 0.0.0.0:1234 --user-data-dir /var/lib/code-server --auth password

to

ExecStart=/usr/bin/code-server/code-server --bind-addr 0.0.0.0:1234 --user-data-dir /var/lib/code-server --auth password

then it will work correctly.

That is because the binary file is in the directory /usr/bin/code-server/, the binary file itself is also called code-sever.

[nhooyr]

Going to close as there hasn’t been a response in a long time!