err: Failed to apply catalog: Parameter source failed on File[...]: Cannot use URLs of type 's001ap38-test' as source for fileserving at /etc/puppet/modules/httpd/manifests/init.pp:12

[Wei Chen]

Hi all,

As I run following command:

puppet agent --server s001ap38-test --no-daemonize --verbose --onetime

I got error as follow:

...

err: Failed to apply catalog: Parameter source failed on File[/etc/httpd/conf.d/s001is35-test.conf]: Cannot use URLs of type 's001ap38-test' as source for fileserving at /etc/puppet/modules/httpd/manifests/init.pp:12

...

My init.pp looks as follow:

class httpd {

package { httpd:

        ensure => present,

        }

file { "/etc/httpd/conf.d/s001is35-test.conf":

        owner => "root",

        group => "root",

        mode => 0440,

        source => "s001ap38-test://$puppetmaster/modules/httpd/files/s001is35-test.conf",

        require => Package["httpd"],

        }

}

Note: the $puppetmaster is defined in "site.pp" as follow:

import 'nodes.pp'

$puppetmaster = 's001ap38-test'

I want to know what is the reason to the error? I guess the sentence "source => "s001ap38-test://$puppetmaster/modules/httpd/files/s001is35-test.conf"," in the init.pp could be the reason. But I have no idea how to fix it. Could someone help?

Regards

[jcbollinger]

You guess correctly.  The value of the 'source' attribute should be a URI identifying a resource (HTTP sense) whose content should be used as the file content, or else it should be a path on the local file system to another file from which the content should be copied.  Not only is 's001ap38-test' not a known URI scheme, but Puppet anyway supports only the 'file' and 'puppet' schemes.  It looks like you want

  source => "puppet:///modules/httpd/s001is35-test.conf"

John

[Wei Chen]

Hi John,

Thanks very much. It works now with your code. But even though I can't understand, why I have to take out the 'files' ? The file to be copied, the "s001is35-test.conf", locates under "/etc/puppet/modules/httpd/files/" on the server.

Wei

[Rich Burroughs]

Puppet knows to look in the files directory in your module.

There's a bit of an explanation here:


https://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/latest/reference/modules_fundamentals.html


Rich

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[Wei Chen]

Hi Rich,

Many thanks!