Sync Gateway config file "is a directory"

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log error with Sync Gateway,
I am following this article https://blog.couchbase.com/using-docker-with-couchbase-mobile/
And have corrected error i found in the article with the config but still get this error.

2021-01-08T20:35:10.207Z [ERR] Error reading config file /etc/sync_gateway/: read /etc/sync_gateway/: is a directory – rest.ServerMain() at config.go:1091

Any help is greatly appreciated

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did you verify the sync gateway config.json at the specified location?

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Share the exact docker run command that you issued (not copied from the blog post). The command indicates that a folder was inadvertently created and naturally sync gateway cannot launch with a folder path. Typically means that there was an extraneous “/” at the end of the path

Check that the sync-gateway.config file is the PATH that the docker command is issued from. Double check that it’s not a folder.

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I want to verify the location of config. How do i do that?

Thank you

5

the commend is:
docker run -p 4984-4985:4984-4985 --network cbnetwork --name sync-gateway -d -v sync-gateway-config.json:/etc/sync_gateway/sync_gateway.json couchbase/sync-gateway -adminInterface :4985 /etc/sync_gateway/

6

It looks like you didn’t copy the command from the blog in its entirety (you are missing the name of the config file at the end which is why it creates a folder)

docker run -p 4984-4985:4984-4985 --network cbnetwork --name sync-gateway -d -v `pwd`/sync-gateway-config.json:/etc/sync_gateway/sync_gateway.json couchbase/sync-gateway -adminInterface :4985 /etc/sync_gateway/sync_gateway.json
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Thank you, I think we are making progress, now I have a different error.

2021-01-13T21:26:08.121Z [ERR] Error reading config file /etc/sync_gateway.json: open /etc/sync_gateway.json: no such file or directory – rest.ServerMain() at config.go:1091

I used a json validator and can out as good.
my config is:
{
“interface”:“:4984”,
“logging”: {
“log_file_path”: “/var/tmp/sglogs”,
“console”: {
“log_level”: “debug”,
“log_keys”: [““]
},
“error”: {
“enabled”: true,
“rotation”: {
“max_size”: 20,
“max_age”: 180
}
},
“warn”: { “enabled”: true, “rotation”: { “max_size”: 20, “max_age”: 90 } },
“info”: { “enabled”: false },
“debug”: { “enabled”: false }
},
“databases”: {
“testing”: {
“import_docs”: “continuous”,
“enable_shared_bucket_access”:true,
“bucket”:“testing”,
“server”: “http://cb-server:8091”,
“username”: “admin”,
“password”:“password”,
“num_index_replicas”:0,
“users”:{
“GUEST”: {“disabled”:true},
“admin”: {“password”: “password”, “admin_channels”: [””]}
},
“revs_limit”:20
}
}
}

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I found one mistake and made a change to teh cmd, here

docker run -p 4984-4985:4984-4985 --network cbnetwork --name sync-gateway -d -v sync-gateway-config.json:/etc/sync_gateway/sync_gateway.json couchbase/sync-gateway -adminInterface :4985 /etc/sync_gateway/sync_gateway.json

now this error,
2021-01-13T21:36:30.028Z [ERR] Error reading config file /etc/sync_gateway/sync_gateway.json: read /etc/sync_gateway/sync_gateway.json: is a directory – rest.ServerMain() at config.go:1091

9

Well… that was exactly what I pointed out in my earlier post!

Anyways,
Your command does not match what is in the post. You are missing “pwd” in your path to the config file.

docker run -p 4984-4985:4984-4985 --network cbnetwork --name sync-gateway -d -v `pwd`/sync-gateway-config.json:/etc/sync_gateway/sync_gateway.json couchbase/sync-gateway -adminInterface :4985 /etc/sync_gateway/sync_gateway.json

Then
go to the folder from where you are running command.
Check that sync_gateway.json exists in that folder
Make sure you run the command from the folder which has the config file

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yes, you did point that out then I realized that I just added the “.json” instead of the entire file name.

What “psd” is this? I have tried the admin password of “password” and i get this:

docker run -p 4984-4985:4984-4985 --network cbnetwork --name sync-gateway -d -v password/sync-gateway-config.json:/etc/sync_gateway/sync_gateway.json couchbase/sync-gateway -adminInterface :4985 /etc/sync_gateway/sync_gateway.json
docker: Error response from daemon: create password/sync-gateway-config.json: “password/sync-gateway-config.json” includes invalid characters for a local volume name, only “[a-zA-Z0-9][a-zA-Z0-9_.-]” are allowed. If you intended to pass a host directory, use absolute path.
See ‘docker run --help’.

Thank you for your help

11

It’s not password. “pwd” is print working directory and the path to current folder. `pwd `works on on unix/ linux / mac machines

On Windows, it would be %cd% in place of pwd…

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Thank you that helps a lot, I am on windows therefore I used %cd%.
It is running now!
Thanks you