standaloneDashboardURL not working

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I am trying to use standaloneDashboardURL, have been digging deep and I am stuck now. Perhaps this is not a bug but, wow, I have no idea what the misconfiguration could be. Can someone verify that standaloneDashboardURL works for them?

Setup/steps to recreate:

• NeoDash version: 2.1.2
• Neo4J Database version: 4.4.8. (Community)
• use docker images for both pieces of software
• this host machine has an arbitrary IP, DNS is not involved, say: IP=10.101.202.44
• use compose-file to run (see Files)
  • NeoDash (standalone configuration)
  • Neo4J
• create a dashboard using http://neodash.graphapp.io OR editor deployment (different config), download it, name it custom-dashboard.json, place it on the machine where NeoDash an Neo4J are.
• compose-file: use volume to make dashboard availabe to the neodash container at /usr/share/nginx/html/custom-dashboard.json
• set NeoDash environment variable standaloneDashboardURL to http://10.101.202.44:5005/custom-dashboard.json
• run deployment (docker-compose up -d).

Expected behavior

• visit NeoDash http://10.101.202.44:5005/
  • NeoDash loads dashboard from json description
• get config.json http://10.101.202.44:5005/config.json
  • contains value for standaloneDashboardURL, no values for standaloneDashboardName and standaloneDashboardDatabase

Actual behavior

• visit NeoDash http://10.101.202.44:5005/
  • NeoDash loads blank dashboard; fails to load configured Dashboard from URL
• get config.json http://10.101.202.44:5005/config.json
  • does not contain standaloneDashboardURL (see Files)

Investigation

• Visit http://10.101.202.44:5005/custom-dashboard.json from an external browser
  • file is accessible and retrieved.
• docker exec -i --tty neodash sh
  • cat /usr/share/nginx/html/custom-dashboard.json
  • exists
  • curl http://10.101.202.44:5005/custom-dashboard.json inside container
  • works
• changed standaloneDashboardURL in standalone.env to
  • include/not includehttp://
  • put value in single quotes '10.101.202.44:5005/custom-dashboard.json'
  • put value in double quotes "10.101.202.44:5005/custom-dashboard.json"
  • and combinations of these
  • checked for typos
• inspect (F12 in Chrome) reveals error-message in console:

DashboardThunks.ts:160 Uncaught (in promise) TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading '0')
    at DashboardThunks.ts:160:22
    at ReportQueryRunner.ts:137:13

• DashboardThunks.ts:160:22 belongs to loadDashboardFromNeo4jByNameThunk, which is the wrong function
  • 🤷
• Tried to host dashboard.json on a different container, spinning up two containers simultaneously the same way, different ports, didn't work.

Files

neodash.env

#Standalone Environment
standalone=true
ssoEnabled=false
standaloneProtocol=bolt
standaloneUsername=neo4j
standalonePassword=neo4j
#
standaloneHost=10.101.202.44
standalonePort=7687
standaloneDatabase=neo4j
#standaloneDashboardName=
#standaloneDashboardDatabase=neo4j

# If you do not save a dashboard inside Neo4j and would like to run a standalone mode deployment with
# a dashboard from a URL, set this parameter to the complete URL pointing to the dashboard JSON.
standaloneDashboardURL=10.101.202.44:5005/custom-dashboard.json

docker-compose.yml - left out bloating information: hostname, restart, volumes (Neo4J) [...]

version: '3'
services:
  neo4j:
      container_name: neo4j
      image: docker.io/library/neo4j:4.4.8-community
        [...]
      ports:
        - 7687:7687
      environment:
       [...]
  neodash:
      container_name: neodash
      image: docker.io/nielsdejong/neodash:2.1.2
      depends_on: neo4j
      volumes:
        - ./custom-dashboard.json:/usr/share/nginx/html/custom-dashboard.json
      env_file:
        - ./neodash.env
      [...]
      ports:
        - 5005:5005

config.json as retrieved by curl/visiting 10.101.202.44:5005/config.json; formatting by me for readabilty

 {"ssoEnabled": false ,     "ssoDiscoveryUrl": "'https://example.com'",      
  "standalone": true,     "standaloneProtocol": "bolt ",  
  "standaloneHost": "10.101.202.44",     "standalonePort": 7687,   
  "standaloneDatabase": "neo4j",      "standaloneUsername": "neo4j",   
  "standalonePassword": "neo4j",     
  "standaloneDashboardName": "'My Dashboard'",     "standaloneDashboardDatabase": "'neo4j'"      }

blank dashboard in standalone mode

lmk if you need more information, or if someone got it working!