Container not starting, getbukkit.org redirect failure

[ElektroVirus]

Describe the problem

Hey, I stopped my minecraft-server container yesterday for backup and restarted it, but it won't start anymore.

Apparently http://getbukkit.org/ isn't redirecting properly.

Before making this issue I of course pulled the newest image.

Just wanted to document this here, I'm not even sure is this project able to fix the problem before getbukkit.org fixes the redirect issue.

I'm running the container on Rocky Linux 8.8 using Podman, but it should not matter.

Have a nice day,
ElektroVirus

Container definition

TYPE="SPIGOT"
CONTAINER_NAME="minecraft-server"

podman rm --force $CONTAINER_NAME
podman pull itzg/minecraft-server:latest

podman run -d
-p 25565:25565
-p 25575:25575
-p 8123:8123
-e MEMORY=""
-e JVM_XX_OPTS="-XX:MaxRAMPercentage=75"
-e EULA=TRUE
-e ENABLE_ROLLING_LOGS=true
-e GUI=FALSE
-e TZ="Europe/Helsinki"
-e TYPE=${TYPE}
-e MOTD="A ${TYPE} Minecraft Server"
-e DIFFICULTY=hard
-e OPS=""
-e ENABLE_RCON=true
-e RCON_PASSWORD=""
-e ENABLE_QUERY=false
-e MAX_PLAYERS=50
-e MAX_WORLD_SIZE=100000
-e ALLOW_NETHER=true
-e ANNOUNCE_PLAYER_ACHIEVEMENTS=true
-e ENABLE_COMMAND_BLOCK=false
-e FORCE_GAMEMODE=false
-e GENERATE_STRUCTURES=true
-e HARDCORE=false
-e SNOOPER_ENABLED=false
-e MAX_BUILD_HEIGHT=256
-e MAX_TICK_TIME=60000
-e SPAWN_ANIMALS=true
-e SPAWN_MONSTERS=true
-e SPAWN_NPCS=true
-e SPAWN_PROTECTION=0
-e VIEW_DISTANCE=32
-e MODE=survival
-e PVP=true
-e LEVEL_TYPE=DEFAULT
-e ONLINE_MODE=true
-e ALLOW_FLIGHT=false
-e SERVER_NAME="My server"
-e SERVER_PORT=25565
-v /home/elias/minecraft-server/data:/data:Z
--name ${CONTAINER_NAME}
itzg/minecraft-server:latest

Container logs

[init] Running as uid=1000 gid=1000 with /data as 'drwxrwxr-x. 9 1000 1000 4096 Sep  5 13:36 /data'
[init] Resolving type given SPIGOT
2023/09/06 12:43:14 Failed to load content: Failed to retrieve response: Get "https://getbukkit.org/download/spigot": stopped after 10 redirects
[mc-image-helper] 12:43:15.866 ERROR : 'compare-versions' command failed. Version is 1.34.7
java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: 0
	at java.base/java.lang.StringLatin1.charAt(Unknown Source)
	at java.base/java.lang.String.charAt(Unknown Source)
	at me.itzg.helpers.versions.CompareVersionsCommand.call(CompareVersionsCommand.java:23)
	at me.itzg.helpers.versions.CompareVersionsCommand.call(CompareVersionsCommand.java:8)
	at picocli.CommandLine.executeUserObject(CommandLine.java:2041)
	at picocli.CommandLine.access$1500(CommandLine.java:148)
	at picocli.CommandLine$RunLast.executeUserObjectOfLastSubcommandWithSameParent(CommandLine.java:2461)
	at picocli.CommandLine$RunLast.handle(CommandLine.java:2453)
	at picocli.CommandLine$RunLast.handle(CommandLine.java:2415)
	at picocli.CommandLine$AbstractParseResultHandler.execute(CommandLine.java:2273)
	at picocli.CommandLine$RunLast.execute(CommandLine.java:2417)
	at picocli.CommandLine.execute(CommandLine.java:2170)
	at me.itzg.helpers.McImageHelper.main(McImageHelper.java:153)
[init] Downloading Spigot from https://download.getbukkit.org/spigot/spigot-.jar ...
curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found

[itzg]

Thanks for reporting this. I have been able to recreate the issue and will start investigating.

[itzg]

Their entire website seems to be broken, which I think is what you were initially reporting too:

[finnosdiemitdemo]

Set the Environment Variable -e BUILD_FROM_SOURCE=true fixed the Problem for me.

[itzg]

Another solution is to switch to Paper 😀

[elforesto]

The domain has been fixed upstream. I still think it would be worth evaluating error handing in this scenario to avoid downtime in the event it happens again.

[itzg]

Thanks for pointing out their website is back.

What would the error handling do?

[elforesto]

My assumption is that it would note the error and continue to function with the previously downloaded executable.

[itzg]

That would seem reasonable but it has to query to resolve a VERSION of "latest"

docker-minecraft-server/scripts/start-deployBukkitSpigot

Line 64 in c4d8972

VERSION=$(restify https://getbukkit.org/download/spigot --attribute='property=og:title' | jq -r '.[0] | .attributes | select(.property == "og:title") | .content | split(" ") | .[-1]')

So, as a workaround, users could set VERION specifically and there's already logic to skip download if it's present.

[cringeisen]

So, as a workaround, users could set VERION specifically and there's already logic to skip download if it's present.

I have tried and tried and tried and I cannot get it to download the latest version. I have manually downloaded the latest myself from the spigot website (1.20.1), uploaded to the directory on my NAS and changed the environmental variable to reflect the version number I've manually put in the directory (1.20.1). Doesn't seem to detect it's present, tried to download anyways, and fails.

      - TYPE=SPIGOT
      - VERSION=1.20.1

Interesting Enough, I am able to download 1.8-R0.1-SNAPSHOT-latest if I want to play on a sever from 2014...

[itzg]

@cringeisen please open a new issue, set the env var DEBUG=true, and provide those startup logs.

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