kiwix-serve-3.8.0 and 3.8.2 ERROR: Unable to instantiate the HTTP daemon.

[HuangYuji1993]

When I ran kiwix-serve 3.8.0 and 3.8.2 on iKuai 3.7.22, the following errors occurred：

ERROR: Unable to instantiate the HTTP daemon. The port 8080 is maybe already occupied or need more permissions to be open. Please try as root or with a port number higher or equal to 1024.
Here is the content of /data:
/data/wikipedia_zh_all_maxi_2024-04.zim
/data/wikibooks_en_all_maxi_2021-03.zim
/data/wiktionary_zh_all_maxi_2024-06.zim
/data/wikinews_en_all_maxi_2024-06.zim
/data/wikinews_zh_all_maxi_2024-06.zim
/data/wikipedia_en_all_maxi_2024-01.zim
/data/wiktionary_en_all_maxi_2024-05.zim
/data/wikibooks_zh_all_maxi_2024-06.zim
/usr/local/bin/kiwix-serve --port=8080 /data/wikibooks_en_all_maxi_2021-03.zim /data/wikibooks_zh_all_maxi_2024-06.zim /data/wikinews_en_all_maxi_2024-06.zim /data/wikinews_zh_all_maxi_2024-06.zim /data/wikipedia_en_all_maxi_2024-01.zim /data/wikipedia_zh_all_maxi_2024-04.zim /data/wiktionary_en_all_maxi_2024-05.zim /data/wiktionary_zh_all_maxi_2024-06.zim
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ERROR: Unable to instantiate the HTTP daemon. The port 8080 is maybe already occupied or need more permissions to be open. Please try as root or with a port number higher or equal to 1024.

But, kiwix-serve 3.7.0 can run perfectly.

[rgaudin]

Looks like #806 but that has been fixed in 3.8.2. Can you please check and share your commands. Also please try outside docker.

[HuangYuji1993]

I was unable to start the service on kiwix-serve 3.8.2 even when using the --address ipv4 or -i ipv4 parameter:

/usr/local/bin/kiwix-serve --port=8080 --address ipv4 wikibooks_en_all_maxi_2021-03.zim wikibooks_zh_all_maxi_2024-06.zim wikinews_en_all_maxi_2024-06.zim wikinews_zh_all_maxi_2024-06.zim wikipedia_en_all_maxi_2024-01.zim wikipedia_zh_all_maxi_2024-04.zim wiktionary_en_all_maxi_2024-05.zim wiktionary_zh_all_maxi_2024-06.zim

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ERROR: Unable to instantiate the HTTP daemon. The port 8080 is maybe already occupied or need more permissions to be open. Please try as root or with a port number higher or equal to 1024.
Here is the content of /data:
/data/wikipedia_zh_all_maxi_2024-04.zim
/data/wikibooks_en_all_maxi_2021-03.zim
/data/wiktionary_zh_all_maxi_2024-06.zim
/data/wikinews_en_all_maxi_2024-06.zim
/data/wikinews_zh_all_maxi_2024-06.zim
/data/wikipedia_en_all_maxi_2024-01.zim
/data/wiktionary_en_all_maxi_2024-05.zim
/data/wikibooks_zh_all_maxi_2024-06.zim

[rgaudin]

What's your platform?

[HuangYuji1993]

iKuai is a routeros based on Linux. https://www.ikuai8.com/component/download

Thank you very much for your prompt reply.

[rgaudin]

OK, we don't support this OS.
Since it runs docker could you please try to reproduce the issue via docker?

Can you try setting the PORT environment variable to something different?

[HuangYuji1993]

Sorry, I can not changed the PORT environment variable on iKuai. There is no specific setting for this on iKuai. The default startup command is /usr/local/bin/kiwix-serve --port=8080, but I can append additional parameters to it, such as -i ipv4 and *.zim.

[rgaudin]

I don't read chinese: is there anything about port binding in this UI? Maybe binding container 8080 to a host port would help…

We won't be able to help you further if we can't isolate a kiwix-serve issue. At the moment it looks like am ikuai-only problem (that might be tapping into a kiwix bug)…

❯ podman run --rm -v $(pwd)/Downloads/zims/:/data:ro -p 8080:8080 -it ghcr.io/kiwix/kiwix-serve "*.zim"
/usr/local/bin/kiwix-serve --port=8080 finiki_en_all_maxi_2024-06.zim prunelle_fr_contes-africains_2025-02.zim wikipedia_bm_all.zim
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The Kiwix server is running and can be accessed in the local network at:
  - http://10.88.0.39:8080
  - http://[::1]:8080

[HuangYuji1993]

Thanks for your help. I'll stick with version 3.7.0 for now and reach out to iKuai support to see if they can help resolve it.

[HuangYuji1993]

Since kiwix-serve 3.7.0 is available on iKuai RouterOS, I would be very grateful if you could enhance its compatibility.