Error when restarting after editing /etc/zulip/zulip.conf

[kevvvinyao]

I installed zulip via docker. I want to put my zulip application behind a reverse proxy, following the document on https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/stable/production/deployment.html#putting-the-zulip-application-behind-a-reverse-proxy Therefore, I edited /etc/zulip/zulip.conf according to the tutorial. Then I run /home/zulip/deployments/current/scripts/zulip-puppet-apply and input y so that the changes will be applied. However, when I wanted to restart the zulip server, error occured. Below is my command to restart the zulip server:

su zulip -c '/home/zulip/deployments/current/scripts/restart-server'

Below is output:

root@7ca519b88979:~# su zulip -c '/home/zulip/deployments/current/scripts/restart-server'
2023-03-30 13:41:29,621 restart-server: Running syntax and database checks
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./manage.py", line 145, in <module>
    log_management_command(sys.argv, settings.MANAGEMENT_LOG_PATH)
  File "/srv/zulip-venv-cache/b2cdd20dd55ad18cd1e512082a3ec530e6b6ece9/zulip-py3-venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/conf/__init__.py", line 92, in __getattr__
    self._setup(name)
  File "/srv/zulip-venv-cache/b2cdd20dd55ad18cd1e512082a3ec530e6b6ece9/zulip-py3-venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/conf/__init__.py", line 79, in _setup
    self._wrapped = Settings(settings_module)
  File "/srv/zulip-venv-cache/b2cdd20dd55ad18cd1e512082a3ec530e6b6ece9/zulip-py3-venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/conf/__init__.py", line 190, in __init__
    mod = importlib.import_module(self.SETTINGS_MODULE)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/importlib/__init__.py", line 127, in import_module
    return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1014, in _gcd_import
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 991, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 975, in _find_and_load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 671, in _load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 848, in exec_module
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 219, in _call_with_frames_removed
  File "/home/zulip/deployments/2023-01-23-18-51-59/zproject/settings.py", line 27, in <module>
    from .computed_settings import *  # noqa: F403 isort: skip
  File "/home/zulip/deployments/2023-01-23-18-51-59/zproject/computed_settings.py", line 75, in <module>
    SECRET_KEY = get_mandatory_secret("secret_key")
  File "/home/zulip/deployments/2023-01-23-18-51-59/zproject/config.py", line 50, in get_mandatory_secret
    raise ZulipSettingsError(f'Mandatory secret "{key}" is not set')
zproject.config.ZulipSettingsError: Mandatory secret "secret_key" is not set
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/zulip/deployments/current/scripts/restart-server", line 47, in <module>
    subprocess.check_call(["./manage.py", "check", "--database", "default"])
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/subprocess.py", line 364, in check_call
    raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd)
subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['./manage.py', 'check', '--database', 'default']' returned non-zero exit status 1.

I do not understand at all. Then I tried re-install and start all over again, finding that: If I do not edit /etc/zulip/zulip.conf, the restart command could be run normally; If I edit /etc/zulip/zulip.conf, the restart command output error logs above. I have no idea about why that happened.

[keithdanielll]

Same here after I edited the emailsettings according to https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/production/email.html (and it is not even docker)

[fyrfli]

same here ... editing to add in the allowed ips though (i am running behind a reverse proxy).

[peracchi]

Same problem.