Parse-Dashboard - server not reachable unable to connect to server - parse-server

Question

I am trying to install Parse-Server and Parse-Dashboard in Google Cloud (Debian/Jesse). I have already installed on both Windows (locally) and on Heroku and everything worked fine.
My configuration is the following:
Linux Debian 3.16.43-2
Node JS 7.10
Mlab
Firewall Ports are open
Installed both Parse-Server and Dashboard via npm.
I think Parse-Server is running fine since I was able to check that MLab database was written with Parse-Server tables (_SCHEMA, etc).
My Parse Dashboard config file is the following:
{
"apps": [
{
"serverURL": "http://localhost:1337/parse",
"appId": "1",
"masterKey": "654321",
"appName": "AppName",
"production": "true"
}
],
"users": [
{
"user":"username",
"pass":"password"
}
]
}
I run parse-server with this command and it shows the following status:
parse-server --appId 1 --masterKey 654321 --databaseURI mongodb://dbAdmin:db123456#Omitted.mlab.com:Omitted/Omitted --serverURL http://127.0.0.0.1/ --port 1337 --appName AppName
appId: 1
masterKey: ***REDACTED***
port: 1337
host: 0.0.0.0
databaseURI: mongodb://dbAdmin:db123456#Omitted.mlab.com:Omitted/Omitted
serverURL: http://127.0.0.0.1/
mountPath: /parse
appName: AppName
maxUploadSize: 20mb
userSensitiveFields: ["email"]
I run parse-dashboard with this command and it shows the following status:
parse-dashboard --config /usr/local/lib/node_modules/parse-dashboard/Parse-Dashboard/parse-dashboard-config.mine.json --allowInsecureHTTP
The dashboard is now available at http://0.0.0.0:4040/
I am able to log into Dashboard but it keeps saying:
server not reachable unable to connect to server.
I have tried the following list of fixes:
Changed serverURL to localhost or to 127.0.0.1
Added /parse at the end of the address
Changed serverURL port to 1333
Checked APP ID, APP Masterkey and APP Name
Opened firewall ports
Stopped using configuration file
Nothing solves this problem. If anyone has any suggestion, I would very be pleased to try.
Thanks in Advance.
Regards,
James P

Answer 1

Problem solved. Probably this is not the correct solution, but at least it worked.
The serverURL: http://127.0.0.0.1/ or serverURL: http://localhost/ did not work for me. I have changed both parse-server and parse-dashboard to an external IP for (35.x.x.x, in my case).

Answer 2

I faced the same problem.
Configuration:
Installed mongodb, parse-server & parse-dashboard, all 3 on separate docker instances.
Used a 4th docker instance with apache2 to make it work as a reverse proxy.
Mistake:
Pointed subdomain parse-dashboard.ABC.com to the parse-dashboard, but did not point parse-server to any subdomain. The most important part here is that parse-dashboard uses JavaScript to access app on parse-server, so this resulted in a CORS error.
Solution:
I pointed parse.ABC.com to parse-server.
Hope this helps someone.

Answer 3

Have you started mongodb?
sudo service
Did you start parse-server before Parse-Dashboard?
In your project folder
npm start
On another terminal in your project folder start Parse-Dashboard
Parse-dashboard --config parse-dashboard-config.json