Installing and Using Nessus 4.2.2: The Basics Part 1

[icurnet]

A follow up to my post above, I was able to connect to the web interface for nessus. For some reason it didn't bind to my loopback interface. So using https://127.0.0.1:8834 to connect to wasn't working. But I plugged my eth0 interface into my switch and connected via that interface's IP and it worked fine. Not sure why it isn't bound to the loopback interface as well though. I didn't see anything in the nessusd.conf file that specified an interface to listen on.

Hopefully that will help anyone else having issues connecting to Nessus via loopback address.

[spoon-feed]

vi /opt/nessus/etc/nessus/nessusd.conf
(change) enable_listen_ipv4 = yes (default is no)
(change) listen_address = 127.0.0.1 (default is 0.0.0.0)
wq (write, quit your changes)
service nessusd restart

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https://127.0.0.1:8834/

(login & rtfm/google next time) (if you type-in the [spoon*] stuff go back to windoze!)

[xibit1987]

Maybe you should add this too

If you start nessus and get error while connecting to https://127.0.0.1:8834, try the command with restart instead of start, if you then get the following:

[blah blah blah][some numbers]_qdb_open: invalid table of contents

stop nessus and do the following:

/opt/nessus/sbin/nessusd -R

Start nessus again and the problem should be fixed

[notfaded1]

JellyBelly
Thanks for a nice tutorial. I tried installing Nessus on my back|track 4 VM, & also my Ubuntu 10.04 VM. My problem lies with going to the local host address. I can't seem to bring the page up in either of my browsers. What could I be doing wrong?

And for the record I do have the server running..

 /etc/init.d/nessusd start

And I have changed NoScript to allow the address.

Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks.

I just browse to https://localhost:8834/ and it works for me in BT4R1

[Clonmac]

[spoon-feed]

vi /opt/nessus/etc/nessus/nessusd.conf
(change) enable_listen_ipv4 = yes (default is no)
(change) listen_address = 127.0.0.1 (default is 0.0.0.0)
wq (write, quit your changes)
service nessusd restart

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https://127.0.0.1:8834/

(login & rtfm/google next time) (if you type-in the [spoon*] stuff go back to windoze!)

Hey icurnet,

Thanks for responding 3 months later with a worthless response AND being a jerk about it. Much appreciated.

Anyway, if you read my post, I wasn't having a problem connecting to Nessus on 127.0.0.1 at all. Nessus was configured to listen on that address. It was a problem with my loopback interface. I could connect on the IP only when my eth0 interface was connected, but not through my wlan0 interface. Anyway, I fixed the issue with my loopback interface and all is well. We're talking about two different layers here. But thanks anyway.

[ShqiponjaHack]

thnx man, many many thanks

[kustomkult]

Hi,
I have the same error i can connect to the web interface https://127.0.0.1:8834
in my case, nessusd.conf are on /etc/nessus/
#nessusd start
all ok
but in web interfaces FAILED TO CONNECT
can some one explain me the solution?

[Puertorock]

Try this instead after you start your nessus if you cant access the server it worked for me.

root@bt:~# /etc/init.d/nessusd restart

[phearfull]

Hey,

I'm running nessus on a 8.9" screen and cant see the next button or scan button at the bottom is there anyway to change the text size or something.

Thanks in advance