Why am I getting a Read Timeout error in my browser when trying to save settings for the App for Twitter Data?

[ehkant]

I've installed the twitter app as instructed. The app then requests the settings from twitter and these all work as I have tested them with the REST API. After clicking save on the twitter app, the browser spins and then states error Read Timeout.

This is what the web pages shows:

This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.

From the log:

02-20-2015 11:47:40.517 -0500 ERROR HttpClientRequest - HTTP client error: Read Timeout (while accessing http://127.0.0.1:8065/dj/en-us/twitter2/setup/)

[littlewild]

I had the same issue with my local installation of Splunk Enterprise 6.4.1 x64 running on Windows 10 x64.

The problem occurred when the twitter2 app reloads the page:

WARN  LocalAppsAdminHandler - User 'admin' triggered the '_reload' action on app 'twitter2', and the following objects required a restart: restart_on_install
ERROR HttpClientRequest - HTTP client error: Read Timeout (while accessing http://127.0.0.1:8065/dj/en-us/twitter2/setup/)

What worked for me was to change the default appServerPorts in Splunk\etc\system\default\web.conf from 8065 to 0.

# list of ports to start python application servers on (although usually
# one port is enough)  Set to 0 to instead run the application server
# directly as the web front end on 'httpport', separate from splunkd.
appServerPorts = 0

Hope it helps.

[kartik13]

Try to increase the sessionTimeOut in web.conf
Default is of 30 sec.
Try it to increase to 60 sec or accordingly. In my case it worked fine.