VLT Tool: The server localhost failed to respond

[charlievaughan]

Hi

I've been trying to install the VLT tool on OSX El Capitan.  I have actually successfully installed the tool. But when I try to checkout the repository I get the following error:

$ vlt --credentials admin:admin co --force http://localhost:4502/crx
Checkout http://localhost:4502/crx/server/-/jcr:root/ with local files using root at /Users/charlievaughan2/Documents/Work/Pearson/pearson_git/jcr_root
Connecting via JCR remoting to http://localhost:4502/crx/server
[ERROR] checkout: org.apache.jackrabbit.vault.vlt.VltException: Unable to mount filesystem
caused by: javax.jcr.RepositoryException: org.apache.commons.httpclient.NoHttpResponseException: The server localhost failed to respond
caused by: org.apache.commons.httpclient.NoHttpResponseException: The server localhost failed to respond

Part of the reason I was installing the VLT tool was because the AEM Brackets Extension for the Brackets IDE is also not syncing for me. See my bug report on https://github.com/Adobe-Marketing-Cloud/aem-sightly-brackets-extension/issues/66 .

I'm thinking these two issues could be related where something on the AEM instance is preventing the two tools from connecting to the server?

I'm not sure what I can do to diagnose this further. Thanks.

[smacdonald2008]

Looks like the tool is not really supported on this OS. See this other community discussion for details.  

[charlievaughan]

If you read the blog post linked to in the discussion, the problems seem to be limited to Audition CC and are now fixed.

[smacdonald2008]

This may be a new bug  - i asked support to look at this thread. 

[Sham_HC · Accepted solution]

sounds like you are using custom authentication handler. please disable them & verify. Or firewall restriction try http://www.aemstuff.com/#article971

[charlievaughan]

This is still an issue.