# Problem getting started

**URL:** <https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/problem-getting-started/2517>\
**Category:** Get Help\
**Created:** [March 6, 2023, 4:29pm UTC](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/problem-getting-started/2517 "2023-03-06T16:29:44Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 6, 2023, 11:36pm UTC](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/problem-getting-started/2517/3 "2023-03-06T23:36:24Z")

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> [@jeff.ohrstrom](#):
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> I would try to get rid of your `auth` section in `ood_portal.yml`. You’ll also need to supply the `servername` as either the IP or the hostname of the machine (hostname is better). Whichever you use for `servername` you need to use that address in your webbrowser to, otherwise apache won’t route requests correctly. You’ll also need to supply `listen_addr_port: 8443` when changing the ports from non-standard ports (that’s why you have the original connection refused).

Thank you very much, really appreciated. That did not make a bit of a difference, though. I even tried to remove everything (but the IP number – the host does not have a DNS entry) for a test – no difference. I now suspect that everything is being ignored (yes, I’m running `systemctl restart ondemand-dex.service && systemctl restart httpd` after each change) because as you can see above the connection is established as HTTP not HTTPS and if I force wget to do HTTPS it will fail with `An unexpected TLS packet was received`

> [@jeff.ohrstrom](#):
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> After that I would go ahead and setup LDAP as best you can. At least get it to connect to your LDAP and attempt to pull records. This should at least get you to a point where you’re being redirected to Dex correctly even if it can’t pull records correctly.

Are you saying that I should do that first? I wanted to see at least a login screen before diving into that… to make sure what I have so far is working.

> [@jeff.ohrstrom](#):
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> When you have self signed certificates you’ll need be sure that Dex knows about the root certificate as well. That is be sure to copy the root certificate(s) into `/etc/ood/dex`.
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> Once you have that, you can check `/var/log/httpd/*error*` logs for any errors when you try to connect.

Yeah, I had looked into there and the only think are warnings about that, but they are warnings, not failures. Nothing indicates something completely broken as it appears to be.

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