Can't login to admin from first install. .

Good day to you all.

I’m failing at getting this software working properly. I have installed it twice per the instructions. The first time I used a unique username for the admin user and password set via installer command line. The second time I just used the installer without the command line and entered it all interactively. No errors, nothing complains.

Go the web to login and everything looks fine until I enter my credentials and it fails with “invalid username or password.”

Fresh Ubuntu 24.04 images each time. I noticed that there is sometimes a permissions issue that causes this and I tried my best to fix it, but only managed to make Hestia non-functional in the process.

So I’ve reinstalled again. Same issue. My data and sessions folders look like this:

root@nope:/usr/local/hestia/data# ls -al

total 44

drwxr-xr-x 11 root      root      4096 Mar 26 19:38 .

drwxr-xr-x 11 root      root      4096 Mar 26 19:37 ..

drwxr-xr-x  2 root      root      4096 Mar 26 19:37 api

drwxr-x---  2 root      root      4096 Mar 26 19:38 extensions

drwxr-xr-x  3 root      root      4096 Mar 26 19:42 firewall

drwxr-x---  2 root      root      4096 Mar 26 19:38 ips

drwxr-xr-x  2 root      root      4096 Mar 26 19:37 packages

drwxr-x---  2 root      root      4096 Mar 26 19:40 queue

drwxrwx---  2 hestiaweb hestiaweb 4096 Mar 26 19:40 sessions

drwxr-xr-x  5 root      root      4096 Mar 26 19:37 templates

drwxr-x---  3 root      root      4096 Mar 26 19:37 users

root@nope:/usr/local/hestia/data# cd sessions

root@nope:/usr/local/hestia/data/sessions# ls -al

total 12

drwxrwx---  2 hestiaweb hestiaweb 4096 Mar 26 19:40 .

drwxr-xr-x 11 root      root      4096 Mar 26 19:38 ..

-rw-------  1 hestiaweb hestiaweb 2619 Mar 26 19:40 sess_9mhs5r8h9s7smv0ssrjqelmcce

root@nope:/usr/local/hestia/data/sessions#

Anything I might try?

Thanks!

Brandon

Well, I answered my own question. But rather than pulling my question down I’m going to try to help the next person who searches.

The issue is that I don’t yet have an SSL certificate installed, so I needed to use my IP instead of the FQDN. It worked fine with just the IP. This might be worth having the login logic detect and provide feedback in the UI, I don’t know. Anyway. Carry on.

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