Installation troubleshooting

Browsers can’t connect to http://blog:8000/

Check the /etc/hosts file and make sure you have an entry like the following:

127.0.0.1     blog

Zotonic won’t start and shows errors when running zotonic debug

Check PostgreSQL Authentication Config (pg_hba.conf).

If you get connection failures when starting Zotonic you should double-check pg_hba.conf and make sure to /etc/init.d/postgresql reload to make sure it gets loaded.