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dockernginxsonarqubehttp-status-code-401

Can’t reset the admin password after the first login to sonarqube

I've installed sonarqube using docker:

docker run -d --name sonarqube -p 9000:9000 sonarqube:lts-community

It runs successfully and when I login to it via https://my-sonar.something/ and admin/admin creds, I'm redirected to the password reset page which is fine. BUT:

when I reset the password, it doesn't accept it, and it throws a 401 error and then forwards me to the login page again without changing the password.

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I've tried to use other sonar images, but that wasn’t the issue.

I've Nginx in front of my sonar instance as a reverse proxy, but there is no much there:

server {
    listen 443 ssl;

        include /etc/nginx/includes/ssl.conf;
        server_name  sonarqube.cool;
        error_log /var/log/nginx/sonarqube.error.log warn;
        access_log /var/log/nginx/sonarqube.access.log upstream_time;

    location / {

        proxy_pass http://some-ip-address:9000/;

    }
}
Solution

  • The error was from another Nginx configuration "in front of my Nginx conf above" used as SSL termination.

    Anyway, I was setting HTTPOnly in proxy_cookie_path inside Nginx conf. removing it solved the issue.

    https://community.sonarsource.com/t/sonarqube-logs-me-out-on-any-save-operation/8837/12?u=raedshari