Recoll's web interface has stopped working

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Since I updated my system to OpenSUSE LEAP 15.1, recollgui does not seem to properly start the bottle server. On the Web page, even on localhost, I getHTTP Status 404 – Not Found
Type Status Report
Message Not found
Description The origin server did not find a current representation for the target resource or is not willing to disclose that one exists.
Apache Tomcat/9.0.14
[HR][/HR]systemctl says the service has exited:
systemctl status recollgui● recollgui.service - LSB: Starts the recoll bottle server
Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/recollgui; generated; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: active (exited) since Mon 2019-07-01 12:03:21 EDT; 2s ago
Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
Process: 31692 ExecStop=/etc/init.d/recollgui stop (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Process: 31724 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/recollgui start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Jul 01 12:03:21 jardell systemd[1]: Starting LSB: Starts the recoll bottle server…
Jul 01 12:03:21 jardell recollgui[31724]: Running /etc/init.d/recollgui (start)…
Jul 01 12:03:21 jardell recollgui[31724]: Done /etc/init.d/recollgui
Jul 01 12:03:21 jardell systemd[1]: Started LSB: Starts the recoll bottle server.
Jul 01 12:03:21 jardell sudo[31730]: root : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/ ; USER=recoll ; COMMAND=/var/re>

I can find no error messages in the logs. The “official” build for recoll is for LEAP 15.0, and is about 8 versions old.

2

Although a Recoll user myself, I don’t use or have any experience of the web interface.

If no forum users are able to help, you could perhaps raise an issue at https://opensourceprojects.eu/p/recollwebui/tickets/

3

The recoll group said that whoever built the SUSE version needs to address this. Do try the web interface and see if it works for you. I cannot get recollgui to even change to start automatically in the Yast2 services GUI.

4

Sorry, I don’t mind trying something I have installed, but I don’t feel inclined to download recoll-webui and attempt to set it up.

Hopefully another forum member may already be using it and could assist.

Or, if the recoll support group are referring you back to openSUSE then consider submitting a bug report at: Bugzilla Main Page (same log-in credentials as these forums).

5

is you get recoll from the suse rpm, it is installed/
systemctrl start recollgui
Then browse to 8080

6

Well, you use the web interface and I don’t, so I won’t argue the case.

But that was not my understanding.
*Requirements

All you need to use the WebUI is:

Python 3 
cherrypy. You can remove this dependance and run with the internal bottle server by editing webui-standalone.py 
Recoll 1.17+ 
web browser

Download

If your Recoll version is 1.18.2 or newer:
https://github.com/koniu/recoll-webui/archive/master.zip
If your Recoll version version is 1.17-1.18.1:
https://github.com/koniu/recoll-webui/archive/v1.18.1.zip
*

Information source: https://opensourceprojects.eu/p/recollwebui/code/ci/78ddb20787b2a894b5e4661a8d5502c4511cf71e/tree/

systemctrl start recollgui
Then browse to 8080

Results in:

paul@Orion-15:~$ systemctl start recollgui
Failed to start recollgui.service: Unit recollgui.service not found.
paul@Orion-15:~$

As I wrote earlier, perhaps someone who is using the web interface may be able to help, I’m sorry, I really can’t assist you with this.