How To Set Up the code-server Cloud IDE Platform on Ubuntu 20.04

Hello. All was good until Step 2 — Exposing code-server at Your Domain

It just does not work on my side.

What did I setup on Namecheap.com (my registrar)? I created one “A Record”, for host @ pointing to my DO VPS IP address. So far my “index.html” is displayed as expected.

Then I did the setup suggested in Step #2, for nginx and the code-server.mydomain.com.

• I created new nginx code-server.conf file, while indicating code-server.mydomain.com;
• I tested and restarted nginx
• I tried http://code-server.mydomain.com <-- in Google Chrome and Firefox errors.

Chrome: This site can’t be reached code-server.mydomain.com’s server IP address could not be found. Try running Windows Network Diagnostics. DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN

Firefox: *Hmm. We’re having trouble finding that site.

We can’t connect to the server at code-server.palazuelos.xyz.

If that address is correct, here are three other things you can try:

Try again later.
Check your network connection.
If you are connected but behind a firewall, check that Firefox has permission to access the Web*

Any idea or suggestion? thanks,

Fantastic documentation! Every step went exactly as you said it would and everything worked flawlessly. Thanks for the terrific work!

I got this all up and running, thanks for the instructions! However, whenever I run the terminal within code-server, I get ‘Command not found’ errors. It doesn’t seem to be able to find anything like nvm, npm, or yarn that all work when using the terminal directly on the box.

Any idea where I went wrong there or how to fix?

Thank you for the documentation. I have followed the steps and getting the error "WebSocket close with status code 1006" when I open the code server in the browser. Do you know what can be the issue?

Kind regards, Aykut

Hi,

What you are doing:

sudo systemctl enable code-server

is wrong because it will start code-server as root which is dangerous! You can see this if you open the integrated terminal where it says “root@”.

Instead you should enable the service on start-up like this:

sudo systemctl enable --now code-server@$USER

then:

sudo service code-server start

The code server works fine for me if I use it through SSH tunnel. However, once I configure nginx, it gets stuck on the login page itself. If I enter the password, it just refreshes on the same page.

Can anyone help me resolve this issue? I am using code-server 3.10.0

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Any tricks on how to avoid that it keeps directing to root? Everything else works.

Thanks

Hi,

Thank you for the clear detailed documentation. Its excellent. I followed all the steps properly and its working.!

I need an help in one thing, I have few teams working on different projects, Can I restrict the developers/users to open only the assigned projects to them in code-server? If yes, can I know how?

I also need to restrict the developers/users only to their project specific files and project specific command lines.

It would help me a lot! If I get a solution.

Thanks in advance.