Graphql-engine: "error: :"resource does not exist" with docker/ubuntu

[krishkumar]

I setup Hasura, PostgreSQL on my Linux box running Ubuntu 16.04 using the following instructions -
https://docs.hasura.io/1.0/graphql/manual/getting-started/docker-simple.html

Two issues -

1. On accessing the endpoint at http://ip:8080 I get this -
   {"path":"$","error":"resource does not exist","code":"not-found"}

2. Hasura console says its running at http://ip:9695 but it does not seem to be running.

Any ideas on what is wrong with my setup?

[shahidhk]

@krishkumar,

1. How are you accessing the endpoint? On a browser, using curl etc.? A GET on / should redirect to /console. The graphql endpoint is /v1alpha1/graphql.
2. Is it a VM/remote box? In that case you should run the console with hasura console --address 0.0.0.0 since the default address is localhost.

[krishkumar]

Thanks @shahidhk.

1. Tried curl and browser.

$ curl http://172.104.125.25:8080/v1alpha1/graphql
{"path":"$","error":"resource does not exist","code":"not-found"}

1. hasura console --address 0.0.0.0 helped. But getting a different error now on the browser.

"Not able to reach the graphql server. Check if hasura console server is running or if graphql server is running and try again"

[shahidhk]

1. /v1alpha1/graphql/ only accepts POST requests. curl -d'{"query":""}' http://172.104.125.25:8080/v1alpha1/graphql throws a correct parsing error. Also, http://172.104.125.25:8080/console should serve the API console if --enable-console flag is present in docker-compose.yaml. Can you verify that?

2. Since you're accessing the console through a non-localhost interface, you need to pass the graphql endpoint also to console. The command will now look like this: hasura console --address 0.0.0.0 --endpoint http://172.104.125.25:8080.

Ideally you should be running the cli on a client machine, where you've configured the endpoint to a remote graphql-engine instance in config.yaml. The cli can be
initialised on a client by executing hasura init --endpoint <remote-graphql-engine-url>. Then open the console by doing hasura console

[krishkumar]

1. docker-compose.yaml looks to have the correct flag.

2. Makes sense. I am now passing the endpoint the the console command - hasura console --address 0.0.0.0 --endpoint http://172.104.125.25:8080

Curious why this is failing at all. Is there a Hasura logs file I can tail to see what is going on?

docker-compose.yaml.txt

[shahidhk]

As I understand the situation, you're using docker-compose to run postgres and graphl-engine, as mentioned in the docs. But this is running on a virtual machine with a public ip. Correct?

You can run docker logs <container-id> to see the logs. Use docker ps to get the container id for graphql enigne.

[shahidhk]

Is the console accessible by running hasura console command with the correct flags?

[krishkumar]

This is a fresh Linode instance with a public ip. Installed postgresql and docker with apt.

Console is still not accessible via browser. Throws this alert - "Not able to reach the graphql server. Check if hasura console server is running or if graphql server is running and try again"

docker-logs-3c8a78daa394.txt

[shahidhk]

Okay. Here is how you can access the console using hasura cli:

On your local machine (not on the linode machine), install hasura cli.

Then execute the following:

hasura init --endpoint http://172.104.125.25:8080 --directory my-project
cd my-project
hasura console

This will open up the console on your default browser.

[shahidhk]

Now, to debug console not being served on http://172.104.125.25:8080/console, can you paste me the output of docker ps?

[krishkumar]

```root@localhost:~# docker ps
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES
c6e541efe4cd hasura/graphql-engine:latest "graphql-engine --da…" 11 minutes ago Up 11 minutes 0.0.0.0:8080->8080/tcp angry_kalam

[shahidhk]

Ah, okay. So I assume you have not used docker-compose as mentioned in https://docs.hasura.io/1.0/graphql/manual/getting-started/docker-simple.html, but went with the standalone docker run mentioned in https://docs.hasura.io/1.0/graphql/manual/deployment/docker/index.html. Is that correct?

In that case, the console is not available on the server because --enable-console was not passed to the docker run command. You can confirm this by checking docker inspect <container id>.

If you want console to be available on the server, please restart the container with the following command:

docker run -d -p 8080:8080 \
  hasura/graphql-engine:latest \
  graphql-engine \
  --database-url postgres://username:password@hostname:port/dbname \
  serve --enable-console

Otherwise, your setup is alright and you can continue using console from CLI, by following the steps above.

I recommend adding an access key, since the IP is in a public forum now.

[krishkumar]

Turns out I did use the standalone docker setup instructions instead of docker compose.

Hasura on my Linode box works fine now. Thanks @shahidhk for all the support and debugging!

[shahidhk]

No problem @krishkumar. When using the CLI, initialise with hasura init --endpoint http://172.104.125.25:8080 --access-key <access-key> --directory my-project or add access_key: <access-key> to an existing config.yaml

[krishkumar]

Makes sense. I have secured my endpoint by adding a access_key to config.yaml.