Failing to start neo4j automatically on ubuntu

[matthew_haynes]

I am running Ubuntu 18.04lts and neo4j 3.5.8
but for the life of me cannot get it to start automatically. the only way i can get it working is: sudo neo4j start

using systemctl (with sudo) says its running, but i cannot access the website.

i have followed neo4j documentation and other blogs etc but after hours im getting nowhere.

i do have it working on another box, but i cant work out how i set this up. this was using an earlier version of neo4j and ubuntu 16lts but have since been upgraded and still working fine.

thoughts?

[alfonso_martine]

Matthew,

I am curious--are you running 3.5.8 CE or 1.2.1.Desktop?

In either case, I would double check the neo4j.conf and review the settings for connections.

[matthew_haynes]

Hi Alfonso,

This is 3.5.8 CE. I have determined the conf file is correct because if I run: sudo neo4j start
The server will be running and I can successfully operate neo4j without any issue.

Thoughts?

[leonard_panichi]

Hi, are you saying that you ran "sudo service neo4j status" and it says that it is active but you can't access the browser ?
Have you run

systemctl enable neo4j

(from https://neo4j.com/docs/operations-manual/current/installation/linux/systemd/)