Good day all.
I’m hoping someone can provide some insight into the issue I’m facing.
I’m running Urbackup server 2.5.32 in docker on a named bridge network.
I have client 2.5.25 installed on Windows 11, which I downloaded from the server.
The intent is to use the internet mode to perform backups. I have read through the forums and I’m confused as to what I have configured wrong, as I can’t get the client to connect to the server. The server and client are physically removed from each other, so I can’t connect the client locally and then switch to internet mode.
My understanding based on the forums is, when using the WS or WSS connection, it connects to port 55414. I have tried using HAProxy as well as Nginx as the reverse proxy server. I can reach the web interface and have activated the internet function.
The server URL is set to ws://backup.mydomain.com/socket the connect via proxy is set to http://backup.mydomain.com. I restarted the Docker container, to ensure the settings are activated. I plan to run two Urbackup docker containers, one for our business and the other for personal backups.
When using Postman to make a WS connection, I get a 500 error, stating that the Urbackup protocol is not supported, I understand that to imply the server connected successfully and if it was the client that connected, it would use the urbackup protocol through the socket.
On the client PC I used the enable_internet_only.bat file to configure the extra_args.txt, but it shows server not found in the status. With Wireshark I can see the client sending a request to the server, the part that confuses me, is the request sent by the client. The request is CONNECT ws://backup.mydomain.com/socket:55415, this is sent to port 80 on the server, which results in a bad request response. My understanding is that it should not try to make a CONNECT request, but a GET request and also not append :55415. I have compiled Nginx with the ngx_proxy_connect package, to see if that makes any difference. I don’t get an error, but still can’t get it to connect. I have not set any directories to backup on the client, as I want the server to push the settings to the client and disabled the option for clients to make changes to the paths.
Is there some additional parameter I need to set in the args.txt file? Does the ws still require the CONNECT method?
Any insight that can point me in the right direction will be greatly appreciated.
ws:// is port 80 wss:// port 443 as usual if you don’t specify a port.
Don’t specify a http proxy. If you specify one it will connect to that proxy and then use CONNECT to connect to the server. Also it might not work with websockets currently.