application.properties empty

[dcpc007]

Hello / Bonjour

Case

I try to install a version for my group on a VPS.

i run a docker-compose file to mount a local folder to be able to edit parameters, application starts, i see the sqllite file and application.properties, but this one is empty (0 byte).

I run temporary with basic docker start and inside the container, the application.properties is empty too.

The doc says to overwrite the properties. Did i miss something ? Should we create manually all lines ?

Additional infos

When i try to reach on my browser (http://dns:port) i have noclient.html page -->

Gloomhaven Secretariat Server Server is running. No client installed. If you want to serve client, see Instructions.

[dcpc007]

For info too, i try to create this docker-compose.yml

version: '3'

services:
  ghs-server:
    image: gloomhavensecretariat/ghs-server
    ports:
      - "3382:8080"
    environment:
      - TZ=Europe/Paris
    restart: unless-stopped
    volumes:
      - /srv/ghs-server/ghs:/root/.ghs

[Lurkars]

If the file exists, just add the content required.

[dcpc007]

ok, maybe it could be more explicit to modify this line (at least then) :

To serve with your own certificate, overwrite the following properties in your application.properties file

https://github.com/Lurkars/ghs-server/blob/8050dca7b9fbecb7d58070189c0f7e1d925ace28/README.md?plain=1#L84

[Lurkars]

This is just bad wording, just add the lines to the file!

[dcpc007]

Before implement my own certificate, documentation says there's already an embedded default cert. i try to configure with only

server.ssl.enabled=true
ghs-server.public=true

Server web page shows

Bad Request
This combination of host and port requires TLS.

And trying to connect via GHS web and select my public config to connect fails

i join the log of the docker-compose start too d-c_start.log

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Port is a "random" port not used i choose in my range.

And when i remove ssl enable, i have the noclient.html page which forward on docs to install client (with the GUI part i don't have here) : Server is running. No client installed. If you want to serve client, see [Instructions](https://github.com/Lurkars/ghs-server#serve-client).

Then on webUi, if i try to connect, without "secured" checkbox thicked, nothing appears on webUI. But the docker logs show an HTTP parsing request header :

ghs-server    | 2024-05-12T23:42:22.736+02:00  INFO 7 --- [nio-8080-exec-8] o.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor   : Error parsing HTTP request header
ghs-server    |  Note: further occurrences of HTTP request parsing errors will be logged at DEBUG level.
ghs-server    |
ghs-server    | java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Invalid character found in method name [0x160x030x010x060xa60x010x000x060xa20x030x030xc70xb20x890x860x9b"0xed0xc70x82s}0xf80xa1;i0xab0xb910x1b0xa20xf3WpQ0x190xa1$I0xdc0xffs0xfa ]. HTTP method names must be tokens
ghs-server    |         at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11InputBuffer.parseRequestLine(Http11InputBuffer.java:407) ~[tomcat-embed-core-10.1.19.jar!/:na]
ghs-server    |         at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.service(Http11Processor.java:264) ~[tomcat-embed-core-10.1.19.jar!/:na]
ghs-server    |         at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProcessorLight.process(AbstractProcessorLight.java:63) ~[tomcat-embed-core-10.1.19.jar!/:na]
ghs-server    |         at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$ConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:896) ~[tomcat-embed-core-10.1.19.jar!/:na]
ghs-server    |         at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint$SocketProcessor.doRun(NioEndpoint.java:1744) ~[tomcat-embed-core-10.1.19.jar!/:na]
ghs-server    |         at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.SocketProcessorBase.run(SocketProcessorBase.java:52) ~[tomcat-embed-core-10.1.19.jar!/:na]
ghs-server    |         at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1191) ~[tomcat-embed-core-10.1.19.jar!/:na]
ghs-server    |         at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:659) ~[tomcat-embed-core-10.1.19.jar!/:na]
ghs-server    |         at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:63) ~[tomcat-embed-core-10.1.19.jar!/:na]
ghs-server    |         at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:840) ~[na:na]
ghs-server    |

Don't know how to interpret that, and make it works until there.

[Lurkars]

You need to use the correct port for SSL. Seems your connecting to the HTTP Port instead of HTTPS.

[dcpc007]

in my docker-compose file i have

ports:
    - "3082:8080"

should be the good one if i understand the doc :

So to easily enable SSL, just edit the application.properties file in the GHS server configuration folder /.ghs and add the following line: server.ssl.enabled=true. As a self-signed certificate is used, it is untrusted by all modern browsers. To connect, just type https://{your-ip}:{server-port} (https://localhost:8080 with default values) and accept the security warnings. You should then be able to connect using SSL. (This must be done for each client).

a docker ps shows : PORTS : 0.0.0.0:3082->8080/tcp

There's another port mentionned in doc (8081 by default), but it's for http when https is enabled.

[Lurkars]

Okay, what happens if you visit https://localhost:3082 ?