On a fresh Debian Stretch install I cannot get shellinabox to respond, seems the web server side of it isn’t responding or providing a pool of connections. I reused a working configuration from Debian Jessie with no luck. See configuration details below. When attempting to access shellinabox over the port set I end up getting no output from shellinabox (also tried on default port with same results). I am using a proxy pass through apache, and the proxy appears to be working fine. I’ve included that config below for reproduction sake. With that said even accessing this on the box over localhost:4444 I still have the same issue, so presumably the proxy pass has no effect on this, especially since it was working on prior apache2 versions. Please let me know what other output/logs you might need to resolve this, I’ll gladly help out, thanks!


#shellinabox config (changed default port and set for localhost)

# Should shellinaboxd start automatically
SHELLINABOX_DAEMON_START=1

# TCP port that shellinboxd's webserver listens on
SHELLINABOX_PORT=4444

# Parameters that are managed by the system and usually should not need
# changing:
# SHELLINABOX_DATADIR=/var/lib/shellinabox
# SHELLINABOX_USER=shellinabox
# SHELLINABOX_GROUP=shellinabox

# Any optional arguments (e.g. extra service definitions).  Make sure
# that that argument is quoted.
#
#   Beeps are disabled because of reports of the VLC plugin crashing
#   Firefox on Linux/x86_64.
SHELLINABOX_ARGS="--no-beep --localhost-only”




#systemctl status

● shellinabox.service - LSB: Shell In A Box Daemon
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/shellinabox; generated; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Mon 2017-10-16 12:38:24 EDT; 27min ago
     Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
  Process: 709 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/shellinabox start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
    Tasks: 2 (limit: 4915)
   CGroup: /system.slice/shellinabox.service
           ├─776 /usr/bin/shellinaboxd -q --background=/var/run/shellinaboxd.pid -c /var/lib/shellinabox -p 4444 -u shellinabox -g shellinabox --user-css Black on White:+/etc/shellinabox/options-enabled/00+Black on White.css,White On Black:-/etc/shellinabox/opti
           └─777 /usr/bin/shellinaboxd -q --background=/var/run/shellinaboxd.pid -c /var/lib/shellinabox -p 4444 -u shellinabox -g shellinabox --user-css Black on White:+/etc/shellinabox/options-enabled/00+Black on White.css,White On Black:-/etc/shellinabox/opti

Oct 16 12:38:24 shellinabox-jeff systemd[1]: Starting LSB: Shell In A Box Daemon...
Oct 16 12:38:24 shellinabox-jeff systemd[1]: Started LSB: Shell In A Box Daemon.




#since systemctl status was cut off here is a ps faux showing the process so you can see all options

root@shellinabox-jeff:~#ps faux | grep shellinabox
root      8689  0.0  0.0  12784   976 pts/1    S+   13:07   0:00                      \_ grep shellinabox
shellin+   776  0.0  0.0  37308  4740 ?        Ss   12:38   0:00 /usr/bin/shellinaboxd -q --background=/var/run/shellinaboxd.pid -c /var/lib/shellinabox -p 4444 -u shellinabox -g shellinabox --user-css Black on White:+/etc/shellinabox/options-enabled/00+Black on White.css,White On Black:-/etc/shellinabox/options-enabled/00_White On Black.css;Color Terminal:+/etc/shellinabox/options-enabled/01+Color Terminal.css,Monochrome:-/etc/shellinabox/options-enabled/01_Monochrome.css --no-beep --localhost-only
shellin+   777  0.0  0.0  37184   560 ?        S    12:38   0:00  \_ /usr/bin/shellinaboxd -q --background=/var/run/shellinaboxd.pid -c /var/lib/shellinabox -p 4444 -u shellinabox -g shellinabox --user-css Black on White:+/etc/shellinabox/options-enabled/00+Black on White.css,White On Black:-/etc/shellinabox/options-enabled/00_White On Black.css;Color Terminal:+/etc/shellinabox/options-enabled/01+Color Terminal.css,Monochrome:-/etc/shellinabox/options-enabled/01_Monochrome.css --no-beep --localhost-only




#journalctl

root@shellinabox-jeff:~#journalctl -u shellinabox
-- Logs begin at Mon 2017-10-16 12:38:15 EDT, end at Mon 2017-10-16 13:07:09 EDT. --
Oct 16 12:38:24 shellinabox-jeff systemd[1]: Starting LSB: Shell In A Box Daemon...
Oct 16 12:38:24 shellinabox-jeff systemd[1]: Started LSB: Shell In A Box Daemon.




#proxy setup

                <Location /test>
        ProxyPass http://localhost:4444/
        ProxyPassReverse http://localhost:4444/
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
        AuthUserFile /var/www/console.htpasswd
        AuthName "Login"
        AuthType Basic
        require valid-user
        require user test
        </Location>




#apache log error showing proxy isn’t getting data fed to it, mod_proxy and mod_proxy_http are loaded on the apache install

[Mon Oct 16 13:08:43.328886 2017] [proxy_http:error] [pid 6925] (20014)Internal error (specific information not available): [client 10.97.228.53:58733] AH01102: error reading status line from remote server localhost:4444, referer: http://10.97.64.23/test
[Mon Oct 16 13:08:43.328931 2017] [proxy:error] [pid 6925] [client 10.97.228.53:58733] AH00898: Error reading from remote server returned by /test, referer: http://10.97.64.23/test



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