[sleuthkit-users] Task and Autopsy Installation Sob-Story (With Plead for Help)

[<app...@pa...>]

Hi all, 
    
I am in the process of installing Task and Autopsy (versions 1.60 and 1.70   
respectively) for the first time, using RedHat 7.3 on a stand-alone PC, and   
have met a bit of a brick wall. :-( 
       
The gist is I can't start Autopsy by pasting "./autopsy 8888 localhost" into   
my browser (Konqueror or Mozilla) as per the Autopsy Readme file. 
    
I mucked about and moved Task before it's final install (as newbies like me 
are prone to do).   
 
I followed the advice in the "Install" file and created a generic   
"Task" directory, linked to the directory containing the actual Task files.  
 
To clean up any mess resulting from moving the Task files around, I did a 
"make clean", then a "make tidy" and finally a "make" which seemed to go okay. 
 
Next I installed Autopsy and the process went all the way to the happy 
completion of the conf.pl file.  
 
With great anticipation, I then pasted "./autopsy 8888 localhost" into the 
Konqueror URL bar (without the "") and instead of seeing the Autopsy 
interface, the browser tried to connect to "navigation.realnames.com" to work 
out what the hell I was asking it to do. (The full url it diverts to is below:    
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http://navigation.realnames.com/resolver.dll?action=navigation&realname=./autopsy%208888%20localhost&charset=iso-8859-1&providerid=180&fallbackuri=http%3A//www.google.com/search%3Fq%3D./autopsy%25208888%2520localhost    
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In Mozilla, I got "www..could not be found.  Please check the name and try   
again."    
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Then for fun I tried "http://localhost:8888/autopsy" and got the message:   
"Could not connect to host localhost (port 8888)".    
 
Hmmm. I then looked at netstat to see if there was a port 8888 listening.  No   
there was not - according to my newbie eye.  By then I was thinking "What the   
hell!" I then mucked about with linuxconf network settings and made sure the   
machine knew there was a "locahost" with an IP address of 127.0.0.1- and gave   
my machine the fetching name of "Boris" while I was at it.    
 
If I look at netstat now, in the first section I see: 
    
Active Internet connections (servers and established)    
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address           Foreign Address         State    
tcp        0      0 *:1024                  *:*                     LISTEN    
tcp        0      0 Boris:1025              *:*                     LISTEN    
tcp        0      0 *:sunrpc                *:*                     LISTEN    
tcp        0      0 *:x11                   *:*                     LISTEN    
tcp        0      0 Boris:smtp              *:*                     LISTEN    
udp        0      0 *:1024                  *:*    
udp        0      0 *:sunrpc                *:*    
    
Still no sign of a port 8888 listening but then I may be looking in the wrong 
place anyway.  
 
Well I am open to any advice you might have for me.  You can probably tell 
that I stopped tinkering with my machine in the nick of time. 
 
I am really excited about what this took set can do!!!   All comments welcome. 
 
If I can provide more information to aid a diagnosis please let me know. 
 
Kind Regards    
Stuart MacKinnon 
App...@Pa...    
Auckland    
New Zealand