"go get" and intranet-hosted repo

Getting Help
1

Hi,

At work we host our code on an internal gitlab site. The hostname is just “gitlab”. But if I do:

go get gitlab/jason/foo

Then I get the error: “import path does not begin with hostname”. How do I tell go that “gitlab” is the hostname? Sorry if this is a stupid question, but I can’t seem to figure this out.

Thanks
Jason

2

So, I went straight to the source. The problem is here:

if !strings.Contains(host, ".") {
    return nil, errors.New("import path does not begin with hostname")
}

So go is literally rejecting any host name without a “.” in the name. So it seems that it is impossible to “go get” a package hosted on our intranet. Anyone see a way around this restriction?

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Two options come to mind:

  1. Use the fully-qualified domain name (FQDN) delivered by your intranet’s DNS server. Depending on the DNS configuration, this could be something like “gitlab.<yourcompany>.com” or “gitlab.<internalname>.lan” etc.

  2. Use git clone instead of go get to fetch the packages.

4

Aha, yes, that works. Thank you for your help!

5

Another option, fake it. Open up your own hosts file and add in the internal ip address pointing to fakegitlab.com and then go get fakegitlabe.com/jason/foo

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