This appears to be my issue as well, as my local PRTG server has switched to serving out its website from the 127.0.0.1 address. I looked under web settings are they appropriate to be using the local machine's IP address, but still the server is starting on the localhost IP.

Running "netstat -o" doesn't show any local connections open on the server's IP address port 80 or 8080, and yet PRTG gives up and starts on 127.0.0.1:8080. I suppose I should open a new question since the one I'm replying to is 10 years old, but I'll hope for someone to notice me and reply here first.

Background: I'm trying PRTG to monitor a few devices on my home network. It was running OK and serving out the website from the local host's IP address for the first month. I realized I hadn't looked at it for a few weeks, and it had stopped monitoring, so I started it back up. It took me a short time, to notice it had switched to the localhost address.

Reference: A question posted here on 4/3/2012: Why does my PRTG web server run on localhost?

Suddenly my PRTG web server is not available via its IP address any more, but instead I can only reach it via https://127.0.0.1 (resp. http://127.0.0.1). What happened?

Hi there,

please let me know whether also other software / webserver are running on your server? If so, please disable the application to check whether PRTG uses the other IPs again. Please check also the last startup in the "Core.log" file why the other IPs are not used.

Hello Moritz. Sorry, but I don't see a core.log file under the "PRTG Network Monitor" directory. I only see mibparser.log, PRTG Setup Log.log, and dh.log, none of which seem to have any entries about this issue.

Can you please give me a clue, to help me locate the core.log file you referenced?

Hello Moritz. Thanks for the response! My issue appears to be resolved now.

I don't have any other software running, that serves out a web page, so there was nothing to stop.

Out of desperation, I restarted the PRTG software again, this time using the Administration Tool, after changing the IP Selection back to "All IP addresses available". It looks like the PRTG web server started up, and is listening on port 8080 on both 127.0.0.1 and my computer's 10.0.0.x address. The network probe seems happy now. Is it normal for it to be listening on both IP addresses? If so, I think it's working as desired now.

I found the PRTG core.log file under \ProgramData\Paessler\PRTG Network Monitor\Logs\core. I did see messages about "port 80 already occupied", which I guess is why it used 8080 instead, but no idea why it thought 80 was in use. I'm not sure how the problem resolved itself, as I didn't stop any other software. Maybe those ports were marked still in use, when the PRTG software restarted earlier.

HI there,

Thank you for the update, glad you got it working again. Per default, PRTG listens to all IPs available on the server. Therefore it's normal that localhost and your 10.0.0.x IPs are used.

If port 80 is still in use, you can use
netstat -ano
and
tasklist | find "YourPID"
to check which service occupies the port.