Linux controller keeps restarting

Hi, I have also been stuck on where @luisorozco was but I can't seem to figure out how to get around the initial issue of getting zrok to accept the ziti endpoint, originally I had the same

"https://127.0.0.1:1280"

like luis, however, I got a different error with this configuration:
connecting to the ziti edge management api: [POST /authenticate][401] authenticateUnauthorized
That didn't deter me as I thought that just meant i probably had the same issue but just need to just use whatever I had in the ziti controller configuration like @qrkourier mentioned. This did not work instead this time I got a connection refused when I attempted to use the public dns that I had setup, it resolved to the correct ip address of my machine however I got a connection refused this time. This baffled me as I am not sure what to do from here, I then tried to use my hostname -A | awk '{print $1}' this resulted in a host does not exist error even with the right port. So I am just stuck here. Each time I did this I made sure to change the values in the ziti-controller and ziti-router configs and then reload the daemons when that changed with systemctl. I also have the controller daemon on activating and not active with it seeming to exit with code 1 on the Active: activating (auto-restart) (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2025-07-17 00:48:29 UTC; 2s ago Process: 240332 ExecStartPre=/opt/openziti/etc/controller/entrypoint.bash check config.yml (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Not sure where to go from here.

Hi and welcome to the forum, @Diogenesoftoronto.

Your ziti-controller.service keeps restarting, so your zrok-controller can't connect to it at startup. Let's diagnose your ziti-controller's problem.

journalctl --since "-1 minute" --no-pager -xeu ziti-controller.service

I think your goal is to run an OpenZiti Controller installed as a Linux package to support your self-hosted zrok controller. Can you tell me more about your stack? For example, Are you following zrok's self-hosting guide for Linux? zrok's self-hosting guide for Docker is more complete, recent, and mature, in case you'd prefer that. It comes with an OpenZiti Controller, Router, web console, and TLS certificate management.