Hi folks quick question about getting a basic demo set up wi

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Hi folks quick question about getting a basic demo set up with Prefect installed on a Virtualbox VM How do I get the UI on the host browser to see the projects and agents created inside the VM guest From the VM the following commands have been issued ``` In window 1 prefect backend server prefect agent start prefect project create test 1 In window 2 prefect server start In window 3 prefect agent start``` When I go to the UI is visible but when I click Dashboard and then Agents it says there are no agents Also in the upper right corner of the UI there is a drop down for Project but there are no items in the drop down Even created a config toml and restarted server and agent but still no change ``` server server ui apollo url = ```

nicholas · Answer

Hi < jack> first thing to test what do you see when you visit in your browser

jack · Answer

< nicholas> It shows the graphql page and says Write your query or mutation here

jack · Answer

When I open the javascript console from <http IP OF VM 8080> and look at the network traffic it is making lots of failed requests to localhost 4200

jack · Answer

When I open localhost 8080 from inside the VM the agent shows up

jack · Answer

Where is the config file supposed to live Found a place to set the apollo url via the web page but still not able to set it via config file

jack · Answer

I ve tried putting the config in the following locations to no avail ```~ apollo config toml path to project apollo config toml path to project apollo config toml```

nicholas · Answer

Hi < jack> which version of Prefect are you running to spin up Server

jack · Answer

pip freeze shows 0 13 18

nicholas · Answer

Great and where did you create your original config toml Is that on the host machine

jack · Answer

I ve tried it in several places all on the guest machine

nicholas · Answer

It would need to be placed in the `~ prefect ` directory

jack · Answer

On the guest machine

nicholas · Answer

That s correct We don t officially support the container in container deployment you re running since Prefect Server already runs in a containerized environment with Docker

jack · Answer

```$ cat ~ prefect config toml server server ui apollo url = <http 192 168 1 197 4200 graphql> ```

nicholas · Answer

What do you see when you visit the UI endpoint ` settings json`

jack · Answer

server url <http 192 168 1 197 4200 graphql>

nicholas · Answer

Great that tells us the environment variable is being populated correctly If you open up the JavaScript console can you type `localStorage clear ` and do a hard refresh of your browser tab

jack · Answer

Yay some progress The network tab now shows POST data being sent to 192 168 1 197

nicholas · Answer

Great Are you able to fetch data

jack · Answer

Yes I can see my agent now

jack · Answer

It looks like the empty project I created is not visible do I need to recreate that now that there is a config file in place

nicholas · Answer

Hm I m not sure but you can try doing so

jack · Answer

Creating an additional project and it shows up I have restarted the server a few times but I assumed it would store the projects Still new at this so hopefully I can work my quirks out

jack · Answer

Thank you for helping me get it to read from the config file

jack · Answer

Perhaps this piece of documentation could be updated It says to put the config file in a different place than what you showed me

nicholas · Answer

No worries You ll want to look into persisting the database across restarts by either enabling a volume or standing up an independent db and pointing Prefect Server at that instead

nicholas · Answer

Hm yeah I think that Should be a ~

jack · Answer

Ah that s why there s an option to specify a volume star struck