[Bug]: serve not working after upgrade to v3?

[wivaku]

System architecture

Mac, ARM64 (M1, M2, etc)

PHP Version

PHP 8.4.4 (cli) (built: Feb 11 2025 15:36:20) (NTS)

Bug description

In v2 I was using:
expose serve share.mydomain.com --port 3000

In v3 this no longer works. I get:

[2025-02-21 11:42:20] production.ERROR: No arguments expected for "serve" command, got "share.mydomain.com". {"exception":"[object] (Symfony\\Component\\Console\\Exception\\RuntimeException(code: 0): No arguments expected for \"serve\" command, got \"share.mydomain.com\". at phar:///.../.composer/vendor/exposedev/expose/builds/expose/vendor/symfony/console/Input/ArgvInput.php:199)

expose help serve states:

Description:
  Set or retrieve the default server to use with Expose.

Options:
      --server[=SERVER]
      --server-host[=SERVER-HOST]
      --server-port[=SERVER-PORT]

It seems that is the incorrect text: I want to start the server, not: set or retrieve the default server to use.
Just in case, when I try: expose serve --server=share.mydomain.com --server-port=3000 (same with --server-host) I get:

   You can connect to a specific server with the --server=key option or set this server as default with the default-server command.

And then a list of expose servers (free, eu-1, etc.).

The documentation says I should use expose-server instead (instead of expose):
expose-server serve my-domain.com

But that binary is not installed (I checked in ~/.composer/vendor/bin/)

I did a fresh install using composer global require exposedev/expose (BTW which still installs v2.6.2) and then did expose self-update which upgraded to v3.0.1.

Steps to reproduce

No response

Relevant log output

[tomcoonen]

Seems like expose refers to the client, the server should be expose-server: https://expose.dev/docs/server/server/starting-the-server.
Look at this repo: https://github.com/exposedev/server

[wivaku]

So this changed in v3? And so the documentation is not correct?

The expose binary that you install via composer contains both the server and the client, so you do not need any additional software for this to work.

And: composer global require exposedev/server tries to install dev packages which I would not expect (or want):

    - exposedev/server 3.0.0 requires exposedev/common dev-main -> found exposedev/common[dev-main] but it does not match your minimum-stability.

[tomcoonen]

I think the docs are not fully updated yet on this part, I haven't tried the new server yet, something for next week :)

[wivaku]

This would be a significant change compared to v2, and therefore very much worth mentioning for people running their own server.

I tried changing the composer global minimal stability, but that still fails to install exposedev/server

Your requirements could not be resolved to an installable set of packages.

  Problem 1
    - Root composer.json requires exposedev/server * -> satisfiable by exposedev/server[dev-main, 3.0.0, 9999999-dev].
    - exposedev/server[dev-main, 3.0.0] require react/http dev-websocket-support -> found react/http[v0.1.0, ..., v0.8.7, v1.0.0, ..., 1.x-dev, 3.x-dev] but it does not match the constraint.

Would be good to understand how to install/use expose-serve v3.

[mpociot]

Yes, the server and the client are now two separate packages.
Right now, it's recommended to not use the expose server PHAR/packaged binary but run the server from source instead

[wivaku]

Yes, the server and the client are now two separate packages. Right now, it's recommended to not use the expose server PHAR/packaged binary but run the server from source instead

Ah, that explains it.
Would be very useful to mention somewhere that when upgrading to v3 the server no longer works... ;-)
The packaged binary indeed does not work (is old version from 4 months ago).

It seems client v3 can not connect with client+server v2.6.2?
I only get as output: > Expose and not the link details.

Is there a timeframe for v3 expose-server packaged binary / composer version?
In the mean time, how should one run the server from the source code?

[mpociot]

You can start the server by running the expose-server file in the root

./expose-server serve ...

[wivaku]

I tried:

git clone https://github.com/exposedev/server.git exposedev/server
cd exposedev/server
./expose-server serve

and get:

PHP Warning:  require(/Users/myuser/code/exposedev/server/../../autoload.php): Failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /Users/myuser/code/exposedev/server/expose-server on line 18

Warning: require(/Users/myuser/code/exposedev/server/../../autoload.php): Failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /Users/myuser/code/exposedev/server/expose-server on line 18
PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught Error: Failed opening required '/Users/myuser/code/exposedev/server/../../autoload.php' (include_path='.:/opt/homebrew/Cellar/php/8.4.4/share/php/pear') in /Users/myuser/code/exposedev/server/expose-server:18
Stack trace:
#0 {main}
  thrown in /Users/myuser/code/exposedev/server/expose-server on line 18

Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Failed opening required '/Users/myuser/code/exposedev/server/../../autoload.php' (include_path='.:/opt/homebrew/Cellar/php/8.4.4/share/php/pear') in /Users/myuser/code/exposedev/server/expose-server:18
Stack trace:
#0 {main}
  thrown in /Users/myuser/code/exposedev/server/expose-server on line 18

[mpociot]

You need to download the composer dependencies via composer update

[wivaku]

Ah yes of course. I have the server running again now (and client v3 connected). Thanks.

[edalzell]

@mpociot please update the docs as the version in Herd can't connect to the older server (see above) and now I can't share sites.

[edalzell]

Ah yes of course. I have the server running again now (and client v3 connected). Thanks.

Can you share the steps you did to get it working? I can't connect to my self-hosted server.