Impossible to access vestaCP or AjentiCP on a fresh uBuntu install

Hello everyone !

I wanted to install a control panel on my droplet (currently running ubuntu 14.04 with a LEMP stack) and I’m basically stuck.

I first installed ajenti, and I had no problem during the installation, but I cannot access the control panel from my home computer, I get a connection time out instead, from both chrome and firefox. After a while I tried installing vestaCP instead, and I have the exact same issue. I then decided to try with a fresh ubuntu 14.04 install, and lo and behold, still the same connection time out with ajentiCP and vestaCP. Then I tried the same with a fresh ubuntu 12.04 install, and I still cannot make it work.

Here’s a few informations on what I tried :

• I tried several installation following the tutorials from DigitalOcean and the official guide from ajenti/vesta websites, each time the installation goes fine, no error reported
• I tried every combinations I could think of : ajenti alone on ubuntu 14.04, vestacp alone on ubuntu 14.04, ajenti and vestacp together on ubuntu 14.04, and the same thing on ubuntu 12.04
• on every installation the service seems to be running correctly, and if I do a grep 8000/8083 on netstat I get :

tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:8083 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 21340/vesta-nginx

or

tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:8000 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 20948/python

The “0.0.0.0” seems weird, so I changed the “host” ip address in /etc/ajenti/config.json with my droplet ip address, after restarting the service netstat shows the correct IP address but I still get connection time out

• all those tests were done on fresh install, nothing else than vesta/ajenti was installed, I didn’t even create a user account apart from root
• I double-checked and triple-checked that I entered the correct IP address, and that I was in https
• I disabled ssl mode in ajenti and try to connect to http://myipaddress:8000, still nothing
• I tried in incognito mode in chrome to be sure that no extensions were causing this
• I even tried turning it off and on again…

And now, I’m completely out of ideas. I never installed a firewall on my droplet, and I don’t think there’s one in the basic ubuntu image apart from ufw (which I disabled just to be sure). I have absolutely no idea why it doesn’t work, and I’m afraid it’s something really simple that I just haven’t thought about. Anyone ever had any problem like this ?