Single-process image: pulp-api container does not serve static files / assets

[GeorgFleig]

Version
pulp/pulp-minimal:3.49.0

Describe the bug
According to the nginx config (https://github.com/pulp/pulp-oci-images/blob/latest/images/compose/assets/nginx/nginx.conf.template) the static files are supposed to be served by the API container:

        location / {
            proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
            proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
            proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
            # we don't want nginx trying to do something clever with
            # redirects, we set the Host: header above already.
            proxy_redirect off;
            proxy_pass http://$pulp_api:24817;
            # static files are served through whitenoise - http://whitenoise.evans.io/en/stable/
        }

However the API container is not serving them when I browse the API using the browser. Access log from the API container and nginx:

pulp-api-2 | pulp [5bf909537cda4b9fa7deb204ace0f972]: django.request:WARNING: Not Found: /assets/rest_framework/js/default.js
pulp-api-2 | ('pulp [5bf909537cda4b9fa7deb204ace0f972]: ::ffff:172.19.0.7 - - [18/Mar/2024:15:17:49 +0000] "GET /assets/rest_framework/js/default.js HTTP/1.0" 404 179 "http://localhost:8081/pulp/api/v3/status/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:123.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/123.0"',)
pulp-web-1 | 192.168.65.1 - - [18/Mar/2024:15:17:49 +0000] "GET /assets/rest_framework/js/default.js HTTP/1.1" 404 179 "http://localhost:8081/pulp/api/v3/status/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:123.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/123.0"

Does this need to be activated first? Or are the assets served on another path?

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:
Use docker-compose or another tool to set up single-process images: https://github.com/pulp/pulp-oci-images/tree/latest/images/compose

Expected behavior
API container serves static files.

Additional context
Add any other context about the problem here. Please provide links to any previous discussions via Discourse or Bugzilla.

[mdellweg]

That comment may be wrong. If I remember correctly, the static file are copied to the nginx (pulp-web) container and served from there.

Edit:
But maybe that's not true anymore? This line looks a bit forgotten here:
https://github.com/pulp/pulp-oci-images/blob/latest/images/pulp-minimal/nightly/Containerfile.webserver#L5

[mikedep333]

We can confirm this issue exists.

It might be an issue in pulpcore (because we use the whitenoise app to serve static content).

[GeorgFleig]

It turns out it was a configuration mistake on my side. Somehow I did set

STATIC_ROOT = "/var/lib/pulp/assets/"

instead of

STATIC_ROOT = "/var/lib/operator/static/"

Now with the correct path the API container is serving the static files as expected. Sorry for the noise.

So from my side the issue can be closed. I will leave this up to you though due to your comments about being able to confirm this (or another?) issue. Not sure if it is just a similar mistake with the configuration.

[xm1234567]

Hello , @mikedep333 @GeorgFleig @mdellweg

This thread similar to what I am looking for, so I put my question here.

I have some home made gpg keys, I'd like to put them as static files on pulp server, so our repo can download them.

My pulp instance is run on docker-composer(pulp core 3.49.4, rpm 3.25.2), and I have two api instance:

compose-pulp_api-1
compose-pulp_api-2

the images/compose/assets/settings.py has STATIC_ROOT = "/var/lib/operator/static/"

My question is:

1. where should I put these gpe keys files?

I check inside one compose-pulp_api-1 conainer, it has something under /var/lib/operator:

bash-5.1$ ls -lh /var/lib/operator/static/
total 4.0K
drwxr-xr-x 2 pulp pulp   72 Apr 17 13:57 import_export
drwxr-xr-x 7 pulp pulp   63 Apr 17 13:57 rest_framework

bash-5.1$ ls -lh /var/lib/operator/static/import_export/
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 pulp pulp 91 Apr 17 13:57 action_formats.js -> /usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/import_export/static/import_export/action_formats.js
lrwxrwxrwx 1 pulp pulp 89 Apr 17 13:57 guess_format.js -> /usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/import_export/static/import_export/guess_format.js
lrwxrwxrwx 1 pulp pulp 84 Apr 17 13:57 import.css -> /usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/import_export/static/import_export/import.css
bash-5.1$ ls -lh /var/lib/operator/static/rest_framework/
total 0

2. how to access these static gpg files? what is the url? wget https://xx.xx.xx/static/my.gpg? ? do I need to configure it somewhere in ngix conf?

If there is some example to share? Sorry for the naive questions.

Thanks in advance !