# Cannot activate Maker License

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/cannot-activate-maker-license/91581>\
**Category:** Maker\
**Tags:** ignition81, perspective\
**Created:** [June 8, 2024, 3:05pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/cannot-activate-maker-license/91581 "2024-06-08T15:05:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Steven12](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5fc32e/32.png) [@Steven12](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Steven12)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2024, 3:05pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/cannot-activate-maker-license/91581/1 "2024-06-08T15:05:32Z")

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Hello,  
I cannot activate the maker license. I just created this one, only use it on one computer.

 ![20240608_165749](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/1/d/1d6e680065d3445bb00dcd94acb5b32adb8667e1.jpeg)

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The computer has access to the internet, I temporarily shut down all firewalls.

I saw on another topic to try to connect to [https://licensing.inductiveautomation.com/](https://licensing.inductiveautomation.com/)

![20240608_170426](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/7/3/738001d5784cd728001ca11641b80bf68e1b557b.jpeg)

That seems to work.  
What is wrong ?

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**Author:** ![Kevin.Collins](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.collins/32/13497_2.png) [@Kevin.Collins](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Collins)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2024, 3:44pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/cannot-activate-maker-license/91581/2 "2024-06-09T15:44:53Z")

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The error is indicating that there is still an active session for that license key. Is there another gateway using it somewhere? You could reset the activation token and re-apply to your target gateway (which should then invalidate whatever other instance may be running out there).

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**Author:** ![Steven12](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5fc32e/32.png) [@Steven12](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Steven12)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2024, 5:44pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/cannot-activate-maker-license/91581/3 "2024-06-09T17:44:49Z")

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I only use ignition on this computer, I have only one account, I just created this license, I dont use it elsewhere. Tried to delete and create a new one, same error message.

I logged on now, and it shows license active?  
Was this a temp problem on the licensing server at Inductive Automation?

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**Author:** ![Kevin.Collins](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.collins/32/13497_2.png) [@Kevin.Collins](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Collins)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2024, 7:19pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/cannot-activate-maker-license/91581/4 "2024-06-09T19:19:34Z")

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The typical cause is inadvertent "orphaning" of a given license session. When you start Ignition up with an 8-digit leased activation key and it gets a session from the license server, that session file will be persisted on disk. If that file is lost (say if you're using Docker and you recreate your container+volume), you'll have to wait until that session times out, thus freeing things up for a new lease.

I'd have expected a different error [than "No more activations allowed"] if it were some kind of outage with the license server infrastructure.