INFO: settings.yml not overridden by bbb-html5.yml on pad value, results in nginx 404

[mike....@beardon.com]

Hi everyone,

I just wanted to share something I ran across on our new BBB3x server which is about to be brought into production.  FYI it is a bog-standard Ubuntu 20.04 using the normal BBB install script.  

On a sample session, clicking the Shared Notes section returned a Nginx 404.  When I looked in the /var/log/nginx/bigbluebutton.access.log file, I saw the URL seemed malformed:

"...GET /html5client/:///pad/auth..."

In /usr/share/bigbluebutton/html5-client/private/config/settings.yml, the section pads: had the same malformed url:

...

  pads:

    url: :///pad

...

My own /etc/bigbluebutton/bbb-html5.yml file has the correct url, but it seems to be ignored:

...

  pads:

    url: https://mybbb3.domain.com/pad

...

To get it working again, I just edited the settings.yml file directly and restarted with bbb-conf --restart.

[mike....@beardon.com]

EDIT: That Ubuntu is 22.04, not 20.04

[Jean Pluzo]

Hi,

thanks for the info!
Just did a quick check on a BBB3.1 Beta Server and can confirm that this is not the case. The pads: url has only two forward slashes "//", not three.

Regards,

J.