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When going through this exercise when running this curl command:
curl --connect-timeout 5 http://$IPADDRESS
I keep getting:
curl: (3) URL using bad/illegal format or missing URL
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Thank you for reporting this, @Gael Eric ! I'm going through the training material to investigate.
Describe Azure compute and networking services > Exercise - Configure network access
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/modules/describe-azure-compute-networking-services/9-exercise-configure-network-access
Hello, @Gael Eric !
Which step are you seeing this? Task 1: Access your web server step 2 or Task 4: Access your web server again step 1? Also, how long ago did you complete the prerequisite, Exercise - Create an Azure Virtual Machine?
I did the prerequisite a couple days ago, I think it was on Monday.
Hello, @Gael Eric !
Where are you seeing the error?
AZ-900 learning path Describe Azure compute and networking services, module 9 of 14: Exercise - Configure network access.
What is the error? curl: (3) URL using bad/illegal format or missing URL.
Task 1: Access your web server, step 1 will take the IP address of the VM you created in an earlier lesson (Exercise - Create an Azure Virtual Machine) and store it as a variable. If it's been more than an hour, that sandbox and all related resources will have been removed and the variable won't be created correctly.
If you are still running into issues and need additional troubleshooting, please let me know. I hope this has been helpful!
Thank you so much! that worked!
No worries! Good to hear that everything worked out!
helped me, too, thx!
Happy to help!
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Hi, I am going through the exercise and under Task 1: Access your web server there is a task to run this command curl --connect-timeout 5 http://$IPADDRESS While running this, I am getting the below error message curl: (3) URL rejected: No host part in the URL When I ran the previous command IPADDRESS="$(az vm list-ip-addresses --resource-group "learn-769709c6-98db-4521-9b80-f495f9f16ef4" --name my-vm --query "[].virtualMachine.network.publicIpAddresses[*].ipAddress" --output tsv)" after running I tried to see the IP address but using the command "echo" the response was blank please suggest how do I proceed further
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Hi @06692725
Based on my understanding of the issue, you're practicing the following Learning Path exercise:
Section: Describe Azure architecture and services
Module: Describe Azure compute and networking Azure
Unit 3: Exercise - Create an Azure Virtual Machine
Unit 9: Exercise -configure network access.
Why am I receiving a curl: (7) Failed to connect to xx.xxx.xx.xx port 80 after 1 ms: Couldn't connect to server error?
You could have a Network Security Group preventing inbound traffic on port 80, or the Virtual Machine itself could have a configuration issue where it's not listening on that port.
Please correct me if you are referring to a different exercise.
Was the sandbox still active when you copy/pasted the above command into the cloud shell?
It is intended for you to activate a new sandbox and complete all of the tasks in Unit 3 (earlier exercise) and Unit 9 (exercise you are referring to) in less than 1 hour. The sandbox expires after an hour and all the resources are deleted automatically.
If you scroll back up to the top of the exercise you can see the remaining time before the sandbox expires.
Please go back to Unit 3 Exercise, activate a new sandbox, perform all of the tasks, jump to Unit 9 Exercise, perform all of the tasks, and then reply back with your results.
We have tried multiple times to reproduce the issue, but we haven't faced any error.
If you are still running into this issue after completing the prerequisite, post a comment to let us know and we'll continue to troubleshoot this.
Complete the prerequisite less than an hour before working on this unit so that your VM isn't automatically deleted.
If the issue persists, please reach out to us.
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I had the same but was using it outside the sandbox. The commands look incorrect and after much testing and googling.. to create the Bash Variable I had to use the syntax below. Replace Linux-Lab-vms for your own resource group. After this I did echo $Ipaddress and I can see the public IP now but now the Curl command is incorrect. In short I do not think the lab commands are correct for maybe the version of PS I have installed.
$ipaddress= (az vm list-ip-addresses -g linux-lab-vms -n my-vm --query "[].virtualMachine.network.publicIpAddresses[*].ipAddress" -o tsv)
FYI the original command syntax which fails is
IPADDRESS="$(az vm list-ip-addresses --resource-group "LINUX-LAB-VMS" --name my-vm --query "[].virtualMachine.[network.publicIpAddresses]" --output tsv)"
see this article for my Curl issue which was complaining about the value not being accepted. So not entirely the same but maybe it will help. It does sound like there are 2 issues here with the sandbox stuff. 1. the VM goes due to timeouts in sandbox or / and some of the commands are outdated.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25044010/running-curl-on-64-bit-windows
Nice and simple.. My timeout command now works. Good luck
Your problem is that your are not using the Curl you installed but a CmdLet called Invoke-WebRequest.
Just execute :
Remove-item
And test your curl again, then store it in your profile.
The explanation is that it exists a native alias to the Invoke-WebRequest which is a CmdLet that is supposed to deliver a kind of curl service.
From Windows 10 build 17063 and later (April 2018), Curl is included into Windows, so that you can execute it directly from Cmd.exe or PowerShell.exe. To use it in PowerShell be careful to unalias this CmdLet or explicitly call curl.exe.
Built with Schannel (Microsoft's native TLS engine), libcurl still perform peer certificate verification, but instead of using a CA cert bundle, it uses the certificates that are built into the OS.