Windows Server - Vault.exe server -config=server.json

[Craig Irvin]

I''m trying to figure out a basic configuration using JSON vs HCL and when I load the JSON file it gives an error of 

Error loading configuration from <Path>\Vault: Error loading <Path>\Vault\server.json: At 1:1: illegal char

The JSON validates if I load it in through PowerShell and/or use a JSON validator. This is what I am using:

{
  "listener": {
                 "tcp": {
                          "address": "192.168.50.200:8200",
                          "tls_disabled": true
                        }
              },
  "storage": {
               "file": {
                         "path": "vault"
                       }
             }
}

the HCL i'm using is:

storage "file" {
  path = "vault"
}


listener "tcp" {
 address = "192.168.50.200:8200"
 tls_disable = 1
}

Is anyone able tell me what I'm doing wrong?

[Craig Irvin]

One thing to note is that I've tried this on Version 0.6.5 and 0.7.0

[Jeff Mitchell]

Hi Craig,

I found two issues:

1) The key is "tls_disable" not "tls_disabled" -- it's right in your HCL but not your JSON

2) The value for "tls_disable" is a string. In HCL we accept either but the JSON is stricter. So it needs to be "true" not true.

Best,

Jeff

On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 7:11 AM, Craig Irvin <irv...@gmail.com> wrote:

One thing to note is that I've tried this on Version 0.6.5 and 0.7.0

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[Craig Irvin]

Thanks Jeff for the fast reply. Here are the changes made but still getting a parsing error "Error loading configuration from D:\vault\server.json: At 1:1: illegal char"

I was using PowerShell $True / $False which is why it was being written the way it was so that was changed to just be a normal string.

{
    "listener":  {
                     "tcp":  {
                                 "address":  "192.168.50.200:443",
                                 "tls_disable":  "true"
                             }
                 },
    "backend":  {
                    "file":  {
                                 "path":  "D:\\vault\\storage"
                             }
                }
}

On Friday, March 31, 2017 at 12:04:20 PM UTC-5, Jeff Mitchell wrote:

Hi Craig,

I found two issues:

1) The key is "tls_disable" not "tls_disabled" -- it's right in your HCL but not your JSON

2) The value for "tls_disable" is a string. In HCL we accept either but the JSON is stricter. So it needs to be "true" not true.

Best,

Jeff

On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 7:11 AM, Craig Irvin <irv...@gmail.com> wrote:

One thing to note is that I've tried this on Version 0.6.5 and 0.7.0

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[Jeff Mitchell]

Hi Craig,

I can't replicate that error on my (non-Windows) system using the config file you pasted. Any chance it's a newline thing?

Best,

Jeff

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