Unable to run webpack development server on HTTP in development
Summary
- I run the GitLab app server on HTTPS
- The webpack development server inherits HTTPS settings
(as it should)from the app server. So if the app server is on HTTPS, the webpack dev server is on HTTPS - The rails server isn't able to connect to the webpack dev server since the latter uses a self-signed certificate
Since this is meant for development use only, we should turn off certificate verification while communicating with the webpack dev server- We want to fix this by running the webpack server on HTTP. This currently doesn't work, because (in development), we're forcing the status of HTTPS for the webpack server to be the same as that of the GitLab server, rather than respecting the
webpack.dev_server.https
config value.
Steps to reproduce
- Set
gitlab.https: true
andwebpack.dev_server.https: false
ingitlab.yml
. Restart app server. - Start webpack dev server with HTTP enabled. I do this by running
webpack-dev-server --port 3808 --config config/webpack.config.js
. - Load GitLab in a browser
Expected behavior
- The app loads as expected, with all frontend dependencies loaded through the webpack proxy
Actual behavior
- The app loads, but
application.js
is not fetched due to a 500 error.
/cc @mikegreiling