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# FAQ
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## Questions?
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Please file all questions and support requests at https://www.reddit.com/r/codeserver/
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The issue tracker is only for bugs.
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## What's the deal with extensions?
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Unfortunately, the Microsoft VS Code Marketplace license prohibits use with any non Microsoft
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product.
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See https://cdn.vsassets.io/v/M146_20190123.39/_content/Microsoft-Visual-Studio-Marketplace-Terms-of-Use.pdf
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> Marketplace Offerings are intended for use only with Visual Studio Products and Services
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> and you may only install and use Marketplace Offerings with Visual Studio Products and Services.
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As a result, Coder has created its own marketplace for open source extensions. It works by scraping
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GitHub for VS Code extensions and building them. It's not perfect but getting better by the day with
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more and more extensions.
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Issue [#1299](https://github.com/cdr/code-server/issues/1299) is a big one in making the experience here
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better by allowing the community to submit extensions and repos to avoid waiting until the scraper finds
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an extension.
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If an extension does not work, try to grab its VSIX from its Github releases or build it yourself and
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copy it to the extensions folder.
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## How is this different from VS Code Online?
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VS Code Online is a closed source managed service by Microsoft and only runs on Azure.
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code-server is open source and can be freely run on any machine.
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## How should I expose code-server to the internet?
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By far the most secure method of using code-server is via
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[sshcode](https://github.com/codercom/sshcode) as it runs code-server and then forwards
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its port over SSH and requires no setup on your part other than having a working SSH server.
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You can also forward your SSH key and GPG agent to the remote machine to securely access GitHub
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and securely sign commits without duplicating your keys onto the the remote machine.
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1. https://developer.github.com/v3/guides/using-ssh-agent-forwarding/
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1. https://wiki.gnupg.org/AgentForwarding
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If you cannot use sshcode, then you will need to ensure there is some sort of authorization in
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front of code-server and that you are using HTTPS to secure all connections.
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By default when listening externally, code-server enables password authentication using a
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randomly generated password so you can use that. You can set the `PASSWORD` environment variable
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to use your own instead. If you want to handle authentication yourself, use `--auth none`
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to disable password authentication.
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**note**: code-server will rate limit password authentication attempts at 2 a minute and 12 an hour.
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If you want to use external authentication you should handle this with a reverse
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proxy using something like [oauth2_proxy](https://github.com/pusher/oauth2_proxy).
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For HTTPS, you can use a self signed certificate by passing in just `--cert` or pass in an existing
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certificate by providing the path to `--cert` and the path to its key with `--cert-key`.
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If `code-server` has been passed a certificate it will also respond to HTTPS
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requests and will redirect all HTTP requests to HTTPS. Otherwise it will respond
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only to HTTP requests.
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You can use [Let's Encrypt](https://letsencrypt.org/) to get an SSL certificate
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for free.
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## How do I securely access web services?
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code-server is capable of proxying to any port using either a subdomain or a
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subpath which means you can securely access these services using code-server's
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built-in authentication.
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### Sub-domains
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You will need a DNS entry that points to your server for each port you want to
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access. You can either set up a wildcard DNS entry for `*.<domain>` if your domain
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name registrar supports it or you can create one for every port you want to
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access (`3000.<domain>`, `8080.<domain>`, etc).
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You should also set up TLS certificates for these subdomains, either using a
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wildcard certificate for `*.<domain>` or individual certificates for each port.
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Start code-server with the `--proxy-domain` flag set to your domain.
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```
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code-server --proxy-domain <domain>
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```
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Now you can browse to `<port>.<domain>`. Note that this uses the host header so
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ensure your reverse proxy forwards that information if you are using one.
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### Sub-paths
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Just browse to `/proxy/<port>/`.
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## x86 releases?
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node has dropped support for x86 and so we decided to as well. See
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[nodejs/build/issues/885](https://github.com/nodejs/build/issues/885).
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## Alpine builds?
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Just install `libc-dev` and code-server should work.
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## Multi Tenancy
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If you want to run multiple code-server's on shared infrastructure, we recommend using virtual
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machines with a VM per user. This will easily allow users to run a docker daemon. If you want
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to use kubernetes, you'll definitely want to use [kubevirt](https://kubevirt.io) to give each
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user a virtual machine instead of just a container. Docker in docker while supported requires
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privileged containers which are a security risk in a multi tenant infrastructure.
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## Docker in code-server docker container?
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If you'd like to access docker inside of code-server, we'd recommend running a docker:dind container
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and mounting in a directory to share between dind and the code-server container at /var/run. After, install
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the docker CLI in the code-server container and you should be able to access the daemon as the socket
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will be shared at /var/run/docker.sock.
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In order to make volume mounts work, mount the home directory in the code-server container and the
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dind container at the same path. i.e you'd volume mount a directory from the host to `/home/coder`
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on both. This will allow any volume mounts in the home directory to work. Similar process
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to make volume mounts in any other directory work.
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## Collaboration
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At the moment we have no plans for multi user collaboration on code-server but we understand there is strong
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demand and will work on it when the time is right.
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## How can I disable telemetry?
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Use the `--disable-telemetry` flag to completely disable telemetry. We use the
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data collected only to improve code-server.
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## How does code-server decide what workspace or folder to open?
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code-server tries the following in order:
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1. The `workspace` query parameter.
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2. The `folder` query parameter.
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3. The workspace or directory passed on the command line.
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4. The last opened workspace or directory.
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## How do I debug issues with code-server?
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First run code-server with at least `debug` logging (or `trace` to be really
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thorough) by setting the `--log` flag or the `LOG_LEVEL` environment variable.
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`-vvv` and `--verbose` are aliases for `--log trace`.
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```
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code-server --log debug
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```
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Once this is done, replicate the issue you're having then collect logging
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information from the following places:
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1. stdout.
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2. The most recently created directory in the `logs` directory (found in the
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data directory; see below for how to find that).
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3. The browser console and network tabs.
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Additionally, collecting core dumps (you may need to enable them first) if
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code-server crashes can be helpful.
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### Where is the data directory?
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If the `XDG_DATA_HOME` environment variable is set the data directory will be
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`$XDG_DATA_HOME/code-server`. Otherwise:
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1. Unix: `~/.local/share/code-server`
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1. Windows: `%APPDATA%\Local\code-server\Data`
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## Enterprise
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Visit [our enterprise page](https://coder.com) for more information about our
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enterprise offerings.
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