NoMore201
/fdroid returns 404
I set up playmaker locally to give it a try and everything worked fine; now I tried to set it up on a server where I deployed it via dokku, set up https via letsencrypt (the container runs without certificates though because it's proxied by nginx), created an app password etc.
I can login just fine, I can also search for and download apps; I persisted /data/fdroid to /var/lib/dokku/data/storage/playmaker, created the folder but didn't change any permissions. When trying to access the /fdroid url I get an error 404. When I check /var/lib/dokku/data/storage/playmaker the repo directory is empty. Here's an excerpt from the logs:
2018-07-09T09:40:17.325403198Z app[web.1]: Uploading device configuration
2018-07-09T09:40:17.781691078Z app[web.1]: Updating cache
2018-07-09T09:40:17.812961866Z app[web.1]: Cache correctly initialized
2018-07-09T09:40:57.945044371Z app[web.1]: Downloading com.whatsapp
2018-07-09T09:41:00.153335389Z app[web.1]: Adding com.whatsapp into cache..
2018-07-09T09:41:05.844516408Z app[web.1]: Downloading org.leo.android.dict
2018-07-09T09:41:07.302145999Z app[web.1]: Adding org.leo.android.dict into cache..
2018-07-09T09:46:59.639072638Z app[web.1]: Fdroid repo updated successfully
2018-07-09T09:48:28.614540160Z app[web.1]: WARNING:tornado.access:404 HEAD /index-v1.jar (172.17.0.1) 5.46ms
2018-07-09T09:48:28.812171950Z app[web.1]: WARNING:tornado.access:404 HEAD /index.jar?client_version=1.2.2 (172.17.0.1) 1.16ms
2018-07-09T10:00:22.598039836Z app[web.1]: Checking com.whatsapp
2018-07-09T10:00:22.608123931Z app[web.1]: 452400 == 452400 ?
2018-07-09T10:00:22.893802996Z app[web.1]: Checking org.leo.android.dict
2018-07-09T10:00:22.894003695Z app[web.1]: 54 == 54 ?
2018-07-09T10:00:44.793558768Z app[web.1]: Fdroid repo updated successfully
2018-07-09T10:01:04.798792596Z app[web.1]: Downloading com.tinder
2018-07-09T10:01:07.556840926Z app[web.1]: Adding com.tinder into cache..
2018-07-09T10:09:51.894171109Z app[web.1]: WARNING:tornado.access:404 HEAD /index-v1.jar (172.17.0.1) 4.23ms
2018-07-09T10:09:52.116336595Z app[web.1]: WARNING:tornado.access:404 HEAD /index.jar?client_version=1.2.2 (172.17.0.1) 1.20ms
2018-07-09T10:10:23.906804386Z app[web.1]: WARNING:tornado.access:404 HEAD /index-v1.jar (172.17.0.1) 4.36ms
2018-07-09T10:10:24.129604587Z app[web.1]: WARNING:tornado.access:404 HEAD /index.jar?client_version=1.2.2 (172.17.0.1) 1.22ms
2018-07-09T10:29:01.024630392Z app[web.1]: Fdroid repo updated successfully
2018-07-09T10:29:32.723741881Z app[web.1]: WARNING:tornado.access:404 GET /fdroid (172.17.0.1) 1.24ms
As you can see, there's quite a couple of 404s, especially after adding Tinder. The last one is me manually requesting /fdroid. Any idea what went wrong?
I could fix /var/lib/dokku/data/storage/playmaker/repo being empty by first setting up persistent storage and then setting up the app anew (instead of redeploying it). Still GET /fdroid returns 404. It's weird because from skimming the source files it appears that tornado listens to 0.0.0.0; plus the bootstrap interface shows up correctly. Even from within the container curl localhost:5000/fdroid returns the same response:
$ curl localhost:5000/fdroid
<html><title>404: Not Found</title><body>404: Not Found</body></html>
Any help would be very appreciated.
... well, it should have been /fdroid/ (note the trailing slash). Maybe the path in the web ui should be updated? Or is it redirected normally? Leaving this issue open for now.
AFAIK it's normal that /fdroid returns 404, because there is no Directory Listings functionality in Tornado (like Nginx or Apache that let you list contents inside a folder). So you need to access directly the files inside the repo, like:
http://127.0.0.1:5000/fdroid/index.xmlhttp://127.0.0.1:5000/fdroid/categories.txt
Another cool workaround suggested here is to serve the fdroid repo directory directly from Nginx.
@heyarne the answer from @NoMore201 is correct. Since you're using Nginx, you can direct /fdroid to somewhere or serve a default page if you wish.
