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Ricardo_Gerhard
Employee
Employee

Rename Qlik Sense Server

I installed Qlik Sense on win-i3l69ais9mr. After installed and configured, I rename the server name do SENSE.

When I try to open QMC or HUB, I see the error message

Error 500 - Internal server error

Cannot establish a connection to Qlik Sense: Qlik Sense Hub.

I tried to recreate certificates, but still old name in mmc certificates.

All services are running ok.

Any idea to restablish system?

Ricardo Gerhard
OEM Solution Architect
LATAM
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Michael_Tarallo
Employee
Employee

Hello Ricardo,

Take a look at this and see if this is helpful

There is a file named: Host.cfg located in <drive>:\ProgramData\Qlik\Sense

It has a base64 encoded string which when decoded you can see the hostname the product was installed on:

You can use this free online tool to decode and encode the string:

https://www.base64decode.org/

You can edit the Host.cfg and replace the encoded string with another encoded string and restart your services.

so - mynewhostname - will look like this in the Host.cfg file: bXluZXdob3N0bmFtZQ==

Note: When I did this (because my Amazon EC2 instanced had a hostname change) - it worked but - for some reason in the QMC it showed my scheduler and proxies as stopped even though they were running. You may have to restart the individual services (scheduler and proxy)  a 2nd time again to get the notifications to clear in the QMC.

Hope this helps

Note: Please mark the appropriate replies as helpful / correct so our team and other members know that your question(s) has been answered to your satisfaction.

Regards,

Mike T

Qlik

Regards,
Mike Tarallo
Qlik

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korsikov
Partner - Specialist III
Partner - Specialist III

Hi.

You need stop all services, expept database service.

1. Delete all certificates. they will be recreated during the next startup services

2. open phadmin c:\Program Files\Qlik\Sense\Repository\PostgreSQL\9.3\bin\pgAdmin3.exe and open Your DB

port localhost:4432 DB user Postgres. Password  you specified during installation.

3. open DB QSR

4. in table ServerNodeConfigurations change Hostname and save

5. Try start services.

Ricardo_Gerhard
Employee
Employee
Author

Did you try this?

I made this steps and the same error.

Stopped all services, delete certificates , open db and change database value.

After start QRS, the database value return old value in the database and the certificates was recreated with old name.

Ricardo Gerhard
OEM Solution Architect
LATAM
Michael_Tarallo
Employee
Employee

Hello Ricardo,

Take a look at this and see if this is helpful

There is a file named: Host.cfg located in <drive>:\ProgramData\Qlik\Sense

It has a base64 encoded string which when decoded you can see the hostname the product was installed on:

You can use this free online tool to decode and encode the string:

https://www.base64decode.org/

You can edit the Host.cfg and replace the encoded string with another encoded string and restart your services.

so - mynewhostname - will look like this in the Host.cfg file: bXluZXdob3N0bmFtZQ==

Note: When I did this (because my Amazon EC2 instanced had a hostname change) - it worked but - for some reason in the QMC it showed my scheduler and proxies as stopped even though they were running. You may have to restart the individual services (scheduler and proxy)  a 2nd time again to get the notifications to clear in the QMC.

Hope this helps

Note: Please mark the appropriate replies as helpful / correct so our team and other members know that your question(s) has been answered to your satisfaction.

Regards,

Mike T

Qlik

Regards,
Mike Tarallo
Qlik
korsikov
Partner - Specialist III
Partner - Specialist III

As always, the decision was easier than it looked. Thanks Mike, I walked through the configuration files, but did not think that the host name can be saved in base64 encoded string

Ricardo_Gerhard
Employee
Employee
Author

Thanks Michael.

After change, I changed the RootAdmin directly and worked fine.

Ricardo Gerhard
OEM Solution Architect
LATAM
Not applicable

Since this is very useful to know is there a reason this method isn't (I believe) in the official documentation (or ideally, the interface itself)? Is it because it's a rather drastic change with many consequences (since it affects certificates, whitelists, proxy redirection paths etc)? I also believe some form of automatic hostname validation is needed since a misconfigured server name can have detrimental consequences with no obvious clues (e.g. the engine, proxy and printing services may appear to start normally but fail to resolve the provided hostname).

Not applicable

I was ready to take some of the steps above, which can be quite involved, later I realized that in my case, I only needed to add an extra host name in the "Host white list" for the default Virtual Proxy. I'm sure the people above had good reasons to change the original host name but if you just want to make the Qlik Sense hub available under an extra host name then adding it to the Host white list might be enough.

muhammadraza
Partner - Creator
Partner - Creator

getting internal server and QlikSense Hub Error error after doing this change. I even restarted the services multiple times but issue persists.

Not applicable

Hi ,

I tried to follow the procedure to change the server name but couldn't find the host config file in

QS 3.2 version.Can you please help me with this.

Thanks,

Veeru

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