# Not able to access Kong Admin API

**URL:** <https://discuss.konghq.com/t/not-able-to-access-kong-admin-api/8217>\
**Category:** General\
**Tags:** kong-gateway\
**Created:** [April 12, 2021, 6:12pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/not-able-to-access-kong-admin-api/8217 "2021-04-12T18:12:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![sgarg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ad7895/32.png) [@sgarg](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/sgarg)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2021, 6:12pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/not-able-to-access-kong-admin-api/8217/1 "2021-04-12T18:12:48Z")

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Hi,

Setup:  
I have Kong Gateway cluster running inside an AWS VPC on EC2 instances. Few commands o/p to verify the installation

[root@kong-api-gw ec2-user]# netstat -ntpl  
Active Internet connections (only servers)  
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program name  
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:8443 0.0.0.0:\* LISTEN 2332/nginx: master  
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:8444 0.0.0.0:\* LISTEN 2332/nginx: master  
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:8000 0.0.0.0:\* LISTEN 2332/nginx: master  
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:8001 0.0.0.0:\* LISTEN 2332/nginx: master  
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:111 0.0.0.0:\* LISTEN 1689/rpcbind  
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:22 0.0.0.0:\* LISTEN 2435/sshd  
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:25 0.0.0.0:\* LISTEN 2218/master  
tcp6 0 0 :::111 :::\* LISTEN 1689/rpcbind  
tcp6 0 0 :::22 :::\* LISTEN 2435/sshd  
[root@kong-api-gw ec2-user]#

[root@kong-api-gw ec2-user]# telnet localhost 8001  
Trying 127.0.0.1…  
Connected to localhost.  
Escape character is ‘^]’.  
^CConnection closed by foreign host.  
[root@kong-api-gw ec2-user]# curl [http://localhost:8001](http://localhost:8001)  
{“plugins”:{“enabled\_in\_cluster”:,“available\_on\_server”:{“grpc-web”:true,“correlation-id”:true,“pre-function”:true,“cors”:true,“rate-limiting”:true,“loggly”:true,“hmac-auth”:true,“zipkin”:true,"request-…

Problem: Kong admin API is not accessible from any machine in the same VPC or even in the same subnet.  
[devtest@bastion ~]$ telnet 8001  
Trying …  
telnet: connect to address : Connection refused  
[sgarg@bastion ~]$ curl http://:8001  
curl: (7) Failed to connect to port 8001: Connection refused  
[devtest@bastion ~]$

Please note that all traffic is allowed between the machines in this VPC.

Kindly suggest how to access Kong admin API from outside Kong Gateway Server

Thanks,  
Saurabh

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**Author:** ![kamii47](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/85e7bf/32.png) [@kamii47](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/kamii47)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2021, 6:59pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/not-able-to-access-kong-admin-api/8217/2 "2021-04-12T18:59:20Z")

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configuration problem. check admin\_listen configurations

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**Author:** ![sgarg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ad7895/32.png) [@sgarg](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/sgarg)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2021, 9:18am UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/not-able-to-access-kong-admin-api/8217/3 "2021-04-13T09:18:24Z")

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Thanks for your reply.

I have below config already applied explicitly in kong.conf for admin\_listen

`admin_listen = 127.0.0.1:8001 reuseport backlog=16384, 127.0.0.1:8444 http2 ssl reuseport backlog=16384`

still not able to access the kong server on 8001 or 8444 from other machines with all traffic allowed.

Thanks,  
Saurabh

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**Author:** ![ross](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discuss.konghq.com/ross/32/2527_2.png) [@ross](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/ross)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2021, 4:12pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/not-able-to-access-kong-admin-api/8217/4 "2021-04-13T16:12:37Z")

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@sgarg `127.0.0.1` is the loopback interface and only accessible from the local machine. Either put in the IP of the interface to listen on or simply use `0.0.0.0` to bind to all interfaces. For example, change the `admin_listen` line to:

```auto
admin_listen = 0.0.0.0:8001 reuseport backlog=16384, 0.0.0.0:8444 http2 ssl reuseport backlog=16384

```

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**Author:** ![sgarg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ad7895/32.png) [@sgarg](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/sgarg)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2021, 8:49am UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/not-able-to-access-kong-admin-api/8217/5 "2021-04-16T08:49:26Z")

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Thanks @ross for your response. It helped me fix the problem. Much appreciated!