I tried all evening to get Splunk Enterprise up and running on a Windows 7 box. I am installing on a non-system drive with Local User selected in the wizard. The splunkd service seems to start, but it hangs with the message Waiting for web server at https://127.0.0.1:8000 to be available. I have tried other ports, and I have tried disabling both UAC and the Windows firewall with no luck. The firewall has everything open from both the splunkd service and splunkweb service. It looks like this was automatically done at install time.
A netstat -an does not show anything listening on the configured web port.
Has anyone else had this problem?
Update: I've uninstalled and tried with the default configuration. The exact same condition occurs.
Update: When I run splunk stop from another command prompt, I see the error: WARNING: web interface does not seem to be available! .
