openbooks: Unable to connect to IRC server.

Hello! I am experiencing the following issue when attempting to use OpenBooks (via Docker). When the webUI is loaded, it gives the error: “Unable to connect to IRC server.”

Here is a chunk of the log, starting from a restart of the container:

2022/09/12 10:27:40 SERVER: Base Path: /
2022/09/12 10:27:40 SERVER: OpenBooks is listening on port 80
2022/09/12 10:27:40 SERVER: Download Directory: /books
2022/09/12 10:27:40 SERVER: Open http://localhost:80/ in your browser.
2022/09/12 10:27:40 SERVER: Base Path: /
2022/09/12 10:27:40 SERVER: OpenBooks is listening on port 80
2022/09/12 10:27:40 SERVER: Download Directory: /books
2022/09/12 10:27:40 SERVER: Open http://localhost:80/ in your browser.
2022/09/12 10:27:49 SERVER: Client connected from XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX:XXXX
2022/09/12 10:27:49 CLIENT (straight_contracst_1): New client created.
2022/09/12 10:27:49 CLIENT (straight_contracts_1): CONNECT Message Received
2022/09/12 10:27:50 CLIENT (straight_contracts_1): EOF
2022/09/12 10:27:50 CLIENT (straight_contracts_1): EOF

In my docker configuration I am pulling evanbuss/openbooks:latest, so I believe I am up to date. (I don’t see a version number in the webUI anywhere.) I have tried setting the name flag, but it did not change the outcome.

Any assistance would be appreciated. If there is any other information I can provide, please let me know!

Thank you for this tool!

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Created 2 years ago
Reactions: 15
Comments: 21 (4 by maintainers)

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I have solved it with simply adding one bit next to presist

-s "irc.irchighway.net:9999" with this I am able to connect to irchightway.net without issue. so basically i just changed default irc port

takov751 on Dec 20, 2022

Running docker run -d -p 8080:80 -v ~/Downloads:/books evanbuss/openbooks --persist also gave me this kind of error but having changed 8080:80 to 80:80 I can finally establish connection. No idea if this workaround works for everyone

MMilosz on Dec 1, 2022

For those of you using nginx proxy manager, make sure you enable “websocket support” for openbooks. I was seeing an unable to connect error and the lower left of the page would show disconnected until I enabled websocket support.

zenjubbers on Jan 2, 2023

Issue exists when keeping TLS authentication enabled, as IRCHighway certs seem to be self-signed. With their root CA added to the cert store or with --tls=false the connection works. Despite that, no commands seem to reach the server. User and messages also can’t manually be found in the users list/chat log of the channel when connecting with a common IRC client.

ncryptedV1 on Nov 21, 2022