Updatable Configuration Methods

[Zoran]

Hi Team,

Do any of the current Updatable Configuration methods allow/support adding new configs & deleting?

Cheers

[Shine Yang]

It is supported, but the remote url used by my subscription

Zoran <zok...@gmail.com>于2025年3月5日 周三05:38写道：

Hi Team,

Do any of the current Updatable Configuration methods allow/support adding new configs & deleting?

Cheers

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[Tunnelblick Developer]

There have been no responses to our 2024-06-25 posts here and here about major changes to automatic updating of configurations, so it is likely that the ability to update configurations automatically will be removed.

[Zoran]

Thanks for the info.  That's fine if that is the way forward.  What would be the next best way in include/update configs?  The "auto-install" folder? Rebranding?

Cheers

[Tunnelblick Developer]

The auto-install folder is easier because it doesn't require building/signing the Tunnelblick app. For detailed instructions, see Automatically Install Configurations and Forced Preferences.

[Zoran]

Great, thank you!  Does the auto-install method support nested configs etc?

[Tunnelblick Developer]

Yes, it supports nested .tblks , .tblks inside folders structures, and all the Info.plist preferences-setting entries (which allow you to pre-set preferences for each configuration)..

[Zoran]

Thanks Dev!  Ive tried a few times with the latest version (6.0.1) but nested configs doesn't seem to be working.  Singed & Notorized

The below doesn't work

auto-install

- Location01 > Location01.tblk

- Location02 > Location02.tblk

This setup works and when installing Tunnelblick.  It also shows the message "XX configs to will be imported/installed"

auto-install

- Location01.tblk

- Location02.tblk

[Tunnelblick Developer]

Correction:

You need to imbed the folder structure into an outer .tblk (whose name will never be seen), like this:

auto-install

    FOO.tblk

        Contents

            Resources

                CONFIGURATION-ONE.tblk

                folderA

                    CONFIGURATION-TWO.tblk

                    folderB

                        CONFIGURATION-THREE.tblk

Then the user will see

    CONFIGURATION-ONE

    FolderA

        CONFIGURATION-TWO

        FolderB

            CONFIGURATION-THREE

On Friday, March 7, 2025 at 7:54:42 AM UTC-5 Tunnelblick Developer wrote:

You need to imbed the folder structure into an outer .tblk (whose name will never be seen), like this:

auto-install

    FOO.tblk

        Contents

            Resources

                ONE.tblk

                    folderA

                    TWO.tblk

                    folderB

                        THREE.tblk

Then the user will see

    CONFIGURATION-ONE

    FolderA

        CONFIGURATION-TWO.tblk

        FolderB

            CONFIGURATION-THREE

[Zoran]

Cheers got it working now!

[Ognyan Penkov]

Could you please confirm whether the "automatic updating of configurations" feature has been removed from the Tunnelblick app? I'm attempting to implement this functionality, but upon connecting, the app does not seem to attempt any connection to the URL specified in "TBConfigurationUpdateURL" (as there are no entries in the Nginx log). If this feature has indeed been removed, it would be futile for me to continue. Thank you in advance!

[Tunnelblick Developer]

It has not been removed but might be removed in the future.

[Ognyan Penkov]

Thank you for confirming. I attempted to use the "New Updatable Config method," but unfortunately, it didn't work. When I try to connect to the VPN, Tunnelblick doesn't initiate any connection to the configuration update URL. There's no activity in the web server log, and I see nothing when monitoring with tcpdump. My Info.plist is as straightforward as the example in the guide:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>TBPackageVersion</key>
    <string>1</string>
    <key>CFBundleVersion</key>
    <string>1.1</string>
    <key>TBConfigurationUpdateURL</key>
    <string>https://ovpn.mydomain.com/configs</string>
</dict>
</plist>
(FY: I am installing the .tblk config as Shared for All users)

I am using macOS Sequoia 15.6 and Tunnelblick 8. From the testing machine, I can successfully reach https://ovpn.mydomain.com/configs/version.txt. Do you have any suggestions for what I might have missed? Could this issue be related to changes in the latest macOS? I've also tried with Sonoma, but still no luck. Since i've followed the guide properly and you have confirmed the feature is not removed i have no more clues how to deal with that. Thank you in advance !

[Tunnelblick Developer]

First, enable Tunnelblick to do additional logging about updatable configurations. In /Applications/Utilities/Terminal, copy/paste the following:

     defaults write net.tunnelblick.tunnelblick DB-UC -bool yes

Then look at the logs using /Applications/Utilities/Console.app. Look at all messages for your computer, and filter on DC-UC to show only the relevant messages.

You can disable the additional logging with the following :

     defaults delete net.tunnelblick.tunnelblick DB-UC

[Tunnelblick Developer]

Sorry: "filter on DC-UC" was a typo.

It should have been "filter on DB-UC"

[Ognyan Penkov]

There is nothing in the log using this filter  DB-UC