Jaap, sounds like you are close.
This is a guess, but could you double check the IP and format you typed into the config? I would first go to your host, and check your public IP address, and make sure it matches. Also you can type 'ipfs daemon' (after stopping the daemon) and check to see the lines it prints out that it is binding your IP address to other ports; write down the IP that is the public one- see that it matches your host (is your host vultr?) if it does you may just have an error on your gateway entry; it may be case sensitive also, compare the original entry from another node before changing it to the new entry?
One other thing to see: maybe you are already running a service on 8080. Try to stop the ipfs daemon first, then type 'telnet localhost 8080', see if it replies. If it does you are running something else on the box, maybe another type of web server. You would have to stop that other thing first, then start the 'ipfs daemon'.
EDIT: I just saw your post above that you run the linux rig hot at home; thats probably the issue; if running from the house, you would need to open up the firewall port 8080 and forward it to the linux rig, then it should bind the port. One side issue with running at home: check to see if your sanc says ENABLED in our list - the new PODS enforcer requires a sanc to be ENABLED to check its PODS quality.
Hmmm...
This is strange.... I'll just post the entire startup proces here (and delete it later).
The firewall on that rig is disabled and the port was already forwarded to that rig in my router.
When I telnet it (making sure the daemon is off) it says 'telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused' so I guess there is nothing else running on that port.
jaap@jaap-HP-Pavilion-dm1-Notebook-PC:~/.ipfs$ ipfs daemon
Initializing daemon...
Successfully raised file descriptor limit to 2048.
Swarm listening on /ip4/127.0.0.1/tcp/4001
Swarm listening on /ip4/192.168.1.149/tcp/4001
Swarm listening on /ip4/192.168.1.183/tcp/4001
Swarm listening on /ip6/::1/tcp/4001
Swarm listening on /ip6/fdbe:33bf:560:0:1703:2523:7b47:8758/tcp/4001
Swarm listening on /ip6/fdbe:33bf:560:0:3868:73f5:7c0f:da76/tcp/4001
Swarm listening on /ip6/fdbe:33bf:560:0:4366:95b0:9e9c:d91d/tcp/4001
Swarm listening on /ip6/fdbe:33bf:560:0:8c52:a032:7b4a:f626/tcp/4001
Swarm listening on /ip6/fdbe:33bf:560::25e/tcp/4001
Swarm listening on /ip6/fdbe:33bf:560::595/tcp/4001
Swarm listening on /p2p-circuit/ipfs/QmeUCRZ8edAvqojUZgWBsQ69XaSdWozhwHK39UMrskfYky
Swarm announcing /ip4/127.0.0.1/tcp/4001
Swarm announcing /ip4/192.168.1.149/tcp/4001
Swarm announcing /ip4/192.168.1.183/tcp/4001
Swarm announcing /ip6/::1/tcp/4001
Swarm announcing /ip6/fdbe:33bf:560:0:1703:2523:7b47:8758/tcp/4001
Swarm announcing /ip6/fdbe:33bf:560:0:3868:73f5:7c0f:da76/tcp/4001
Swarm announcing /ip6/fdbe:33bf:560:0:4366:95b0:9e9c:d91d/tcp/4001
Swarm announcing /ip6/fdbe:33bf:560:0:8c52:a032:7b4a:f626/tcp/4001
Swarm announcing /ip6/fdbe:33bf:560::25e/tcp/4001
Swarm announcing /ip6/fdbe:33bf:560::595/tcp/4001
API server listening on /ip4/127.0.0.1/tcp/5001
Error: serveHTTPGateway: manet.Listen(/ip4/84.29.208.33/tcp/8080) failed: listen tcp4 84.29.208.33:8080: bind: cannot assign requested address
Received interrupt signal, shutting down...
The adjusted line in my config is:
"Gateway": "/ip4/84.29.208.33/tcp/8080"
The rule on my router is:
8080 test
IPv4-TCP, UDP
From any host in wan
Via any router IP at port 8080
IP 192.168.1.149, port 8080 in lan
I triple-checked the external-ip.
Btw, I don't think I had problems running Sanctuaries in testnet this way before. The necessary ports are open, and the external IP almost never changes (only sometimes after a reset of the providers modem). My Sanctuary is:
71c44d1cc7e3f29aac6b0c8e9ade3c43cc79da3d0c22f183439d8e440c6a7d3e
I will try and restart the rig. See if that helps.
EDIT: restarting didn't help
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