Docker for Windows Issue about documentation

[mariussturm]

Hi,
GRAYLOG_REST_TRANSPORT_URI: http://docker.local:12900 is used internaly for multi-server communication but also for the web interface to communicate from your browser to the Graylog API. Is 'docker.local' a valid hostname that can be reached from your browser?

[SeidChr]

docker.local is (afaik) the only way to access the docker host vm from the host.
But it seems to be unusable from inside the docker container to access itself.
When i try to just use 127.0.0.1 it doesnt work, since the docker host vm uses a different ip than the windows box.

[mariussturm]

You could try to set the rest_transport_uri to 127.0.0.1 and web_endpoint_uri to docker.local. PLease have a look here for all available web options: http://docs.graylog.org/en/2.0/pages/configuring_webif.html?highlight=web%20interface

[SeidChr]

seems to work perfectly! - Thank You

Just one odd thing remains: i should not need to know the public address of the server when starting it up. makes it hard to use the docker-compose file elsewhere without reconfiguration.
But its up to you if you can or want to fix this. For me this is fixed!

[mariussturm]

The way the web interface works doesn't allow us at the moment to fully automate this. But you can use a loadbalancer or a web proxy to make it work in an dynamic environment where the docker container could get different IPs every now and then.