Connecting to existing Outline server

I have an existing Outline server, and I want to add it to the Outline Manager on a different machine. I do not have the initial API information. Where do I get that information from, on the server running Outline? I have tried:

docker exec -it CONTAINERID cat ~/shadowbox/access.txt

But that renders:

cat: can't open '/root/shadowbox/access.txt': No such file or directory

Contents of /opt/outine/persisted-state are:

root@shadow:/home/david# docker exec -it CONTAINERID ls -lasFh /opt/outline/persisted-state/
total 32
     4 drwxrws---    4 root     root        4.0K Jan 18 15:50 ./
     4 drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root        4.0K Jan 17 22:29 ../
     4 drwxrws---    2 root     root        4.0K Jan 17 14:28 outline-ss-server/
     4 drwxrws---    3 root     root        4.0K Jan 17 14:28 prometheus/
     4 -rw-rw----    1 root     root        1.1K Jan 17 14:27 shadowbox-selfsigned.crt
     4 -rw-------    1 root     root        1.7K Jan 17 14:27 shadowbox-selfsigned.key
     4 -rw-rw----    1 root     root         659 Jan 18 15:50 shadowbox_config.json
     4 -rw-rw----    1 root     root         160 Jan 17 22:29 shadowbox_server_config.json

Contents of ~/shadowbox/ are:

root@shadow:/home/david# docker exec -it CONTAINERID ls -lasFh ~/shadowbox
total 48
     4 drwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        4.0K Jan 17 21:26 ./
     4 drwx------    1 root     root        4.0K Jan 17 21:26 ../
     4 drwxr-xr-x    5 root     root        4.0K Jan 17 21:26 app/
     4 drwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        4.0K Jan 17 21:26 bin/
     4 drwxr-xr-x   87 root     root        4.0K Jan 17 21:26 node_modules/
     4 -rw-rw-r--    1 root     root         712 Jan 17 21:24 package.json
     4 drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root        4.0K Jan 17 21:26 persisted-state/
    20 -rw-rw-r--    1 root     root       17.3K Jan 17 21:26 yarn.lock

Replies to similar issue (#277) do not seem to apply any longer. Again, I do not have the API key, where can I get it from on the container running the Outline server?

[trevj]

@Fastidious Thanks for trying Outline. We recently changed the location on disk where these files are stored. They’re now in /opt/outline. I think this is the file you’re looking for:

/opt/outline/access.txt

[Fastidious]

@trevj the file location I was expecting was within the container. For a solution that is containerised, that would be the obvious place to look for, the container itself (all my commands above refer to the shadowbox container itself, as you can see).

It would be best if a distinction was made, when referring to files locations. The access.txt file you referred to is, indeed, on the host /opt/outline/ directory, and not on the container’s equally named directory.