I’ve been running syncthing for a while on three xubuntu systems without problems.
I’m just in the process of changing one of the systems from xubuntu 16.04 to xubuntu 17.04. I have removed the old system from synchronisation without problems and now I’m installing syncthing on the new system.
On my old, existing, systems the syncthing GUI is at http://name.of.system:8384 but on the new system it seems to be https://name.of.system:8384. Is this right or is there some configuration parameter that decides whether to use http: or https:?
Well it seems to be using/allowing only https on my new installation.
The config file GUI section has:-
enabled=“true” tls=“false” debugging=“false”
(how do disable HTML in here by the way?)
Ah, I’ve found the problem, it’s a really weird DNS problem. ‘localhost’ works for both http and https but ‘t470’ (the machine’s name, I have local DNS) works only for https. So it’s nothing to do with syncthing.
DNS is purely about getting the address for a domain name. DNS has nothing to do with http vs https, and ‘t470’ won’t be looked up using DNS anyway. I suspect it’s a firewall issue.
I mean how do you get (for example) XML to display ‘as is’. In fact I’d really prefer to have a plain text message box rather than the editor, can I disable it somehow?
DNS is purely about getting the address for a domain name. DNS has nothing to do with http vs https, and ‘t470’ won’t be looked up using DNS anyway. I suspect it’s a firewall issue.
Yes, I realise that. I have a local DNS server on my LAN that does understand (local) unqualified names, so, for example:-
chris@esprimo$ host backup
backup.zbmc.eu has address 192.168.1.101
chris@esprimo$
I have a very weird DNS problem at present in that, on one system (t470), unqualified name look-ups work in some cases but not others, it’s something to do with the new systemd-resolved configuration. I suspect that when I fix this issue I will be able to see syncthing at http://t470. It’s not a syncthing problem though.
