WebUI unpopulated

[NightRa]

After starting the IPFS daemon, the WebUI came up on localhost:5001 as usual, but with all the fields and all the pages unpopulated - as if it was disconnected from the local IPFS node.
Restarting the IPFS node fixed this.

[travisperson]

What version of IPFS are you running?

[NightRa]

Latest ver. on dev0.4.0

[travisperson]

Have you set any custom http API headers via ipfs config? You can check by running

$ ipfs config API

[NightRa]

No, just installed and tried opening it.

{
  "HTTPHeaders": null
}

[travisperson]

Hmm interesting. I'm not sure what was happening then. If you run across this issue again, try opening your developer console and checking the console and network tab to see if there are any errors (best to just copy and paste them all). If I had to take a guess there was probably some 403 error, not sure why restarting the daemon would help unless a config value was changed at runtime.

[RunningDroid]

I think I have this with ipfs 0.3.11 but I haven't tried restarting the node yet.

console log + ipfs config

[iav]

See the same effect with a fresh installed ipfs on Raspberry Pi and web gui runned as web broser addons - firefox and chrome, same effect.
ipfs version 0.3.11

pi@pi:~ $ ipfs config API
{
  "HTTPHeaders": null
}

pi@pi:~ $ ipfs diag sys
{"diskinfo":{"free_space":2.7059597312e+10,"fstype":"ext2/ext3","total_space":3.14599424e+10,"used_space":4.400345088e+09},"environment":{"GOPATH":"","IPFS_PATH":""},"ipfs_commit":"","ipfs_version":"0.3.11","memory":{"swap":{"free":1.04853504e+08,"sin":0,"sout":0,"total":1.04853504e+08,"used":0,"used_percent":0},"virt":{"active":4.76483584e+08,"available":6.43325952e+08,"buffers":5.8843136e+07,"cached":2.49085952e+08,"free":3.58916096e+08,"inactive":8.8702976e+07,"shared":0,"total":9.70764288e+08,"used":6.11848192e+08,"used_percent":33.72995278540778,"wired":0}},"net":{"interface_addresses":["/ip4/127.0.0.1","/ip4/192.168.1.11","/ip6/::1","/ip6/2002:54f5:c121:1:cdda:d18b:4166:ab2b","/ip6/fe80::5eef:c315:6c9d:9ddd"]},"runtime":{"arch":"arm","compiler":"gc","gomaxprocs":3,"numcpu":4,"numgoroutines":770,"os":"linux","version":"go1.5.3"}}

Running on Raspbian (debian respin), via systemd,

pi@pi:~ $ cat /etc/systemd/system/ipfs.service
[Unit]
Description=InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) daemon

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/ipfs daemon
Restart=on-failure
User=pi

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

[facastagnini]

I am having the same problem that @iav is describing, with ipfs also running in a raspberry pi.

[facastagnini]

Ok, I make my webui work as expected, in the end it was a CORS (ipfs/kubo#1532) configuration problem.
@iav please try to configure something like this:

"API": {
    "HTTPHeaders": {
      "Access-Control-Allow-Credentials": [
        "true"
      ],
      "Access-Control-Allow-Methods": [
        "PUT",
        "GET",
        "POST"
      ],
      "Access-Control-Allow-Origin": [
         "http://$HOSTNAME:5001",
         "http://$FQDN:5001",
         "http://$RASPBERRYPI_IP:5001",
         "http://localhost",
         "http://127.0.0.1"
      ]
    }
  },

And replace the upper case variables with the proper value.

[daviddias]

You need to configure access if you are accessing from another machine as it is only whitelisted for localhost.

@NightRa I hope the solutions provided were helpful, let us know if you are still running against this. Closing the issue for now.

[djh82uk]

I am also having this issue, and have tried setting the API settings as above aswell as setting the port to listen on further up in the config. page displays but is blank of all info

[bjuhn]

FYI, with localhost the page hits a js error in Safari and fails to load. It works in Chrome for me.
TypeError: Attempted to assign to readonly property.

[tfauzia]

hai ! i want asking something, every time i access this link http://localhost:5001/webui on ubuntu nothing appears on web or sometimes failed, is there a special flow for Ubuntu? Is it the same as access in Windows? FYI i already run daemon on ubuntu when i access that link.
thank you !