RClone GUI run via WSL2 not working

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What is the problem you are having with rclone?

I'm running rclone Web Gui via WSL2 (Ubuntu distro on Windows). After executing the commands to serve the Web GUI I open http://127.0.0.1:5572/ in Chrome browser on Windows and see the following error message:

404 page not found

Run the command 'rclone version' and share the full output of the command.

rclone v1.62.2

  • os/version: ubuntu 22.04 (64 bit)
  • os/kernel: 5.10.16.3-microsoft-standard-WSL2 (x86_64)
  • os/type: linux
  • os/arch: amd64
  • go/version: go1.20.2
  • go/linking: static
  • go/tags: none

Which cloud storage system are you using? (eg Google Drive)

OneDrive

The command you were trying to run (eg rclone copy /tmp remote:tmp)

rclone rcd --rc-web-gui --rc-user gui --rc-pass password

A log from the command with the -vv flag

root:~# rclone rcd --rc-web-gui --rc-user gui --rc-pass password -vv
2023/05/02 17:30:16 DEBUG : rclone: Version "v1.62.2" starting with parameters ["rclone" "rcd" "--rc-web-gui" "--rc-user" "gui" "--rc-pass" "password" "-vv"]
2023/05/02 17:30:16 ERROR : Error while fetching the latest release of Web GUI: error checking for web gui release update, skipping update: failed getting latest release of rclone-webui: Get "https://api.github.com/repos/rclone/rclone-webui-react/releases/latest": dial tcp 20.248.137.49:443: connect: connection refused
2023/05/02 17:30:16 NOTICE: Serving Web GUI
2023/05/02 17:30:16 INFO  : Using --user gui --pass XXXX as authenticated user
2023/05/02 17:30:16 NOTICE: Serving remote control on http://127.0.0.1:5572/
2023/05/02 17:30:16 DEBUG : login_token "Z3VpOnBhc3N3b3Jk"
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You need to find the IP address of your WSL2 instance and use that instead of 127.0.0.1.

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... e.g. by using this PowerShell command:

wsl hostname -I
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Thanks very much for the responses. It was interesting - I tried accessing the GUI from the usual 127.0.0.1 IP address and it actually worked. I think this was because I hadn't set the https proxy (I work on a company laptop behind a firewall).

I've tried it again, however, it's not working again. I ran the command with --rc-no-auth instead and it has worked again.

root:~# rclone rcd --rc-web-gui --rc-no-auth
2023/05/03 17:31:10 ERROR : Error while fetching the latest release of Web GUI: error checking for web gui release update, skipping update: failed getting latest release of rclone-webui: Get "https://api.github.com/repos/rclone/rclone-webui-react/releases/latest": dial tcp: lookup api.github.com on 172.18.48.1:53: read udp 172.18.59.219:33600->172.18.48.1:53: i/o timeout
2023/05/03 17:31:10 NOTICE: It is recommended to use web gui with auth.
2023/05/03 17:31:10 NOTICE: Serving Web GUI
2023/05/03 17:31:10 NOTICE: Serving remote control on http://127.0.0.1:5572/

So it is working, although doesn't seem to be very consistent at this stage

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I'm suprised it worked, but I don't know very much about how WSL works - maybe the OS intercepts open ports and redirects them? @Ole ?

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Works fine for me, I just do this in my WSL2 (old rclone 1.56.1 on ubuntu 20.4):

$ ./rclone rcd --rc-web-gui  -vv
2023/05/03 11:06:08 DEBUG : rclone: Version "v1.56.1" starting with parameters ["./rclone" "rcd" "--rc-web-gui" "-vv"]
2023/05/03 11:06:08 DEBUG : Current tag: v2.0.5, Release tag: v2.0.5
2023/05/03 11:06:08 NOTICE: Web GUI exists. Update skipped.
2023/05/03 11:06:08 INFO  : No username specified. Using default username: gui
2023/05/03 11:06:08 INFO  : No password specified. Using random password: Gwb1SMnBALHu5tRhywgWPw
2023/05/03 11:06:08 NOTICE: Serving Web GUI
2023/05/03 11:06:08 INFO  : Using --user gui --pass XXXX as authenticated user
2023/05/03 11:06:08 NOTICE: Serving remote control on http://localhost:5572/
2023/05/03 11:06:08 DEBUG : login_token "Z3VpOkd3YjFTTW5CQUxIdTV0Umh5d2dXUHc="
2023/05/03 11:06:08 ERROR : Failed to open Web GUI in browser: exec: "xdg-open": executable file not found in $PATH. 
Manually access it at: http://gui:Gwb1SMnBALHu5tRhywgWPw@localhost:5572/?login_token=Z3VpOkd3YjFTTW5CQUxIdTV0Umh5d2dXUHc%3D

Then I manually copy/paste the above specified URL into the browser (Chrome), and everything seems fine:

2023/05/03 11:06:34 DEBUG : rc: "core/version": with parameters map[]
2023/05/03 11:06:34 DEBUG : rc: "core/version": reply map[arch:amd64 decomposed:[1 56 1] goTags:none goVersion:go1.16.8 isBeta:false isGit:false linking:static os:linux version:v1.56.1]: <nil>
...

Don't think I have done anything special in my setup.

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