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New parameter URL_HOST has wrong format

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Assessment

Difficulty
1/5
Estimated time
Under an hour
Newbie friendliness
72/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
docker-compose, shell
Domain
devops

Research direction

Start by reading the docker-compose.yml change that introduces URL_HOST and compare its value with the bare domain Greenlight expects. Check the upgrade script or release change that added the parameter to identify the source. Done means the generated URL_HOST uses the format Greenlight accepts and the compose configuration works after upgrading.

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Description

After upgrading to 3.0.39, running scripts/upgrade and docker compose up -d --no-build, there is a new environment parameter URL_HOST in docker-compose.yml:

  •  URL_HOST: https://${DOMAIN}
    

But Greenlight expected the bare domain without the https:// part and thus rejected all requests. After changing docker-compose.yml manually, it works now:

  #URL_HOST: https://${DOMAIN}
  URL_HOST: ${DOMAIN}

Maybe something is wrong on my side, but to me it looks like a bug in the compose file.

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