My discourse forum github login broken by setting ENV proxy in app.yml

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A user, zilongshanren, is experiencing issues with GitHub login on their Discourse forum, emacs-china.org, after setting an ENV proxy in their app.yml file. The proxy, set by HTTP_PROXY and HTTPS_PROXY variables, interferes with the GitHub login function.

After trying various solutions, including editing the app.yml file and using the --docker-args command-line option, zilongshanren finally resolves the issue by:

  1. Editing container/app.yml to remove http_proxy
  2. Running ./launcher destroy app
  3. Running ./launcher start app

The ./launcher destroy app command removes the Docker environment settings, resolving the issue. michaeld questions the expected behavior of the HTTP_PROXY variable, suggesting it is intended to proxy requests.

1

Hi, everyone

In order to run ./launcher rebuild app, I use a proxy to help me pull code from Github smoothly.

env:
  LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  DISCOURSE_DEFAULT_LOCALE: zh_CN
  HTTP_PROXY: http://10.27.xxx.xxx:7890
  HTTPS_PROXY: http://10.27.xxx..xx:7890

But when I run my site, the Github login function is failed. I have to start my local proxy to fix it.

How can I remove the http_proxy and https_proxy of my running site.

Are there any commands as below I can follow to fix the problem?

./launcher enter app
//remove env
./launcher start app

Any helps would be appreciated.

Thanks.

2

Maybe if you bootstrap, then edit the app.yml, then start.

Also there is a command line option --docker-args. There might be a way to pass something there when you bootstrap.

3

Can I run ./launcher start app --docker-args ?

4

Yes. You can. It’s a shell script and you can look at it. There is some documentation at the top of the file. But I pass docker args to launcher start to add stuff to get it to work with traefik.

5

thanks, Jay, But I still can’t get rid of the effect caused by

./launcher rebuild app --docker-args="--net=host --env https_proxy=http://127.0.0.1:7890"

I need something to remove the proxy settings when I restart my app like this:

./launcher start app --docker-args="--net=host --removeEnv"   //removeEnv is not a valid command, I only use this for illustration purpose
6

Have your tried changing the env settings in the yml file begotten /between the bootstrap and start?

7

Yes, but it doesn’t work, so I tried not to mess with the app.yml and use --docker-args to pass the GFW.

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When I try to login with Github auth, it turns out that the request pass through the proxy address which is not what I expected.

BTW: my site is emacs-china.org, you can reproduce the issue with Github auth.

Thanks.

8

Finally, I got it working.

  1. edit container/app.yml, remove http_proxy
  2. ./launcher destroy app
  3. ./launcher start app

./launcher destroy app could remove the docker env settings in most situation.

9

Out of curiosity: What were you expecting? Isn’t that what HTTP_PROXY is supposed to do?