If any more info is required please let me know.
I checked a few other threads such as: ANA Cloud connector log in issue
The one issue I seem to have (on more than 1 machine on completely different networks) that no other thread mentions, nor any information (I have found) of there ever being a problem where everything appears to work (service started, no ERRORS in the log files), and cannot even view the login page.
That suggests to me, either the jar file containing the core admin front-end is broken, not working or not being loaded on start-up correctly. Just a guess.
From that result, I would suggest to others to start afresh, but I have done this on 3 different machines in completely different environments, controlled by SAP Basis on 2, and on my local machine so controlled by me. In all 3 cases, I get to the same point, all fine and installed, service "listening" although the only evidence I can see of the service running is the addition each startup to the logfile while checking the port is open:
127.0.0.1 - - [14/Oct/2014:16:20:36 +0200] "GET /exposed?action=check_port HTTP/1.1" 200 15 21
I am wondering if I should back track to the none-latest "stable" version and see if I get anything different since I haven't found a single post with the connector successfully installed, running, no errors, and not being able to access the main login page full stop.
Any ideas appreciated.
I can also supply some info from WireShark which might help the ultra techy if this really is a unique or unusual problem.
If I can't get this answered by the end of play tomorrow (or earlier if I don't get any sort of response) I will have to open a support call with SAP 
Thanks,
Malcolm
