After installing Splunk on Red Hat Linux 6, why can't I access the Splunk Web interface?

[bernieseanet]

I installed Splunk on Red Hat 6 Install said completed ok ...
But server does not respond to http://host:8000 request

[masonmorales]

A few things to check:

1. Is Splunk running? If not, do $SPLUNK_HOME/splunk/bin/splunk start
2. Have you tried using htps:// ?
3. Could there be a firewall issue? (iptables locally, or a firewall blocking connections on the network)

[hcbomb]

I would strongly check your system settings like iptables as well. Very trivial to validate.