how to use code-server connect to my own code-marketplace server in my private network(not connect Internet)

[jeffliao888]

Hi, I have setup a code-marketplace server(using a TLS-terminating reverse proxy with NGINX) in my private network already, and I have Open a brower for testing https://myserver.domain.com/ , and then I can see the Output “Marketplace is running”

I add some extensions to the code-marketplace server with the following command:
./code-marketplace add https://open-vsx.org/api/ms-python/python/2022.14.0/file/ms-python.python-2022.14.0.vsix --extensions-dir ./extensions

then I use the following command to make a query and check one of the URLs in the response:

curl -k 'https://test888.com/api/extensionquery' -H 'Accept: application/json;api-version=3.0-preview.1' --compressed -H 'Content-Type: application/json' --data-raw '{"filters":[{"criteria":[{"filterType":8,"value":"Microsoft.VisualStudio.Code"}],"pageSize":1}],"flags":439}' | jq

I get some responses from the query so I think the code-marketplace server is worked OK.

then I run the following command(CentOS 7) to up the code-server:

export EXTENSIONS_GALLERY='{"serviceUrl":"https://test888.com"}'
systemctl enable --now code-server@jeff

after that, I use the code server with my brower http://localhost:8080 , and then it seems can't connect to my code-marketplace server to get the extensions, when I click the Extensions , it show error messages which is "Error while fetching extensions, getaddrinfo ENOTFFOUND open-vsx.org"
I think code-server still can't connect to my own code-marketplace server.

I have no idea how to fix it if anyone can give me a hand.

Thank you very much !

[code-asher]

Since you are running it with systemd you will need to set the environment variable in the systemd service file (it will not read the variables in your current terminal session).

Under the [Service] block you can add Environment="EXTENSIONS_GALLERY=<json>".

You could also put the environment variable in a file and use EnvironmentFile in the service file.

[code-asher]

Also I am still not sure quoting the way you currently have it will work. In the shell at least it results in invalid JSON. You might want to try moving the single quotes to match the second example here:

$ export EXTENSIONS_GALLERY={"serviceUrl":"https://test888.com/"}
$ printenv EXTENSIONS_GALLERY
{serviceUrl:https://test888.com/} # invalid json
$ export EXTENSIONS_GALLERY='{"serviceUrl":"https://test888.com/"}'
$ printenv EXTENSIONS_GALLERY
{"serviceUrl":"https://test888.com/"} # valid json

[jeffliao888]

Dear @code-asher , thank you for your help.

Is there another easy way to up the code-server so that there is no need to export the Environment value? Can the docker version work?

Thanks !

[code-asher]

Is it still not working for you?

If you were to run Docker you would do it like this:

docker run --env EXTENSIONS_GALLERY='{"serviceUrl":"https://test888.com/"}' codercom/code-server

Either way you have to provide the environment variable though.

The only other way is to edit lib/vscode/product.json and put the extension gallery JSON there. For example:

{
  // other stuff up here
  "aiConfig": {
    "ariaKey": "code-server"
  },
  "extensionsGallery": {
    "serviceUrl": "https://test888.com"
  }
}

[jeffliao888]

Dear @code-asher , thank you for your help !

I have a good news to tell you that my code-server can connect to code-marketplace server now.
I have make a mistake to the file /usr/lib/systemd/system/[email protected]
I made a change from
Environment='EXTENSIONS_GALLERY={"serviceUrl":"https://test888.com/"}'
to
Environment='EXTENSIONS_GALLERY={"serviceUrl":"https://test888.com/api"}'
so that my code-server can connect to my code-marketplace server(test888.com) now.

Thank you very much for your great help !

[code-asher]

Ahh the /api, that makes sense. Still strange it was defaulting to Open VSX, it should have just errored instead.

But glad you got it working!