Problem with custom gitlab instance

[Ylaaan]

Hello, I am trying to setup Forge with a custom Gitlab instance. My URL follows this pattern : gitlab.mydomain.com

I followed the steps in the manual

• Setting the forge entry:

(with-eval-after-load 'forge
  (add-to-list 'forge-alist
               '("gitlab.mydomain.com"
                 "gitlab.mydomain.com/api/v4"
                 "gitlab.mydomain.com"
                 forge-gitlab-repository)))

• Setting the git variable:

git config --global gitlab.gitlab.mydomain.com.user ylan

• Setting the entry in my .authinfo file

machine gitlab.mydomain.com login ylan^forge password TOKEN

• Execute auth-source-forget-all-cached

I set the variable auth-sources-debug to trivia to get more information and I get:

auth-source-search: found 3 backends matching (:host "gitlab.mydomain.com/api/v4" :user "ylan^forge")
auth-source-search: found 0 results (max 1) matching (:host "gitlab.mydomain.com/api/v4" :user "ylan^forge")
auth-source-search: found 3 backends matching (:host "mydomain.com" :user "ylan^forge")
auth-source-netrc-parse: using CACHED file data for ~/.authinfo
auth-source-search: found 0 results (max 1) matching (:host "tech.orange" :user "ylan^forge")
ghub--token: Required Gitlab token ("ylan^forge" for either "gitlab.mydomain.com/api/v4" or "mydomain.com") does not exist.

I might have done something wrong, but I am suspicious of the 3rd and last line when it tries to find a token for "mydomain.com" without the "gitlab." in front of it which is part of my gitlab instance URL.
Could it be that it gets wrongly truncated alongside the first "gitlab." of the git variable? (gitlab.gitlab.mydomain.com.user)

[identity-wael]

The mismatch is in the machine field of the authinfo entry. Your log shows Forge/Ghub looking for gitlab.mydomain.com/api/v4, while your entry only has gitlab.mydomain.com.

Keep the forge-alist entry and Git username setting as shown, but use:

machine gitlab.mydomain.com/api/v4 login ylan^forge password YOUR_TOKEN

Then run M-x auth-source-forget-all-cached and retry the Forge operation. Keep the actual token local.

The shortened mydomain.com lookup is a fallback: Ghub first checks the full API host, then derives a parent domain using ghub--host-domain. It is not stripping gitlab. from your Git configuration variable. You can satisfy the first lookup directly with the API-host entry above.

Sources: Ghub's GitLab authinfo example and the token lookup/domain fallback.

[Ylaaan]

Thank you, this did fix my issue. I simpply missread the documentation (https://docs.magit.vc/forge/Setup-for-Another-Gitlab-Instance.html)

and thought omitting /api/v4 was the recommended setting.