gastownhall/beads · error

--proxied-server-config-path requires --proxied-server

Error message

--proxied-server-config-path requires --proxied-server

What it means

--proxied-server-config-path only applies when --proxied-server is set; specifying it alone is rejected because there is no proxied server to configure.

Source

Thrown at cmd/bd/init.go:449

				c.CloseEventAndAdd(initEvt)
			}
		}()

		if initProxiedServer && initServerMode {
			return fmt.Errorf("--server and --proxied-server are mutually exclusive")
		}
		if initProxiedServer {
			if sharedServer || externalServer ||
				serverHost != "" || serverPort != 0 || serverSocket != "" || serverUser != "" || cmd.Flags().Changed("server-tls") {
				return fmt.Errorf("--proxied-server cannot be combined with --shared-server, --external, or any --server-* flag")
			}
		}
		if initTeamServer && !initProxiedServer {
			return fmt.Errorf("--team-server requires --proxied-server")
		}
		if serverConfigPath != "" {
			if !initProxiedServer {
				return fmt.Errorf("--proxied-server-config-path requires --proxied-server")
			}
			if !filepath.IsAbs(serverConfigPath) {
				return fmt.Errorf("--proxied-server-config-path must be an absolute path, got %q", serverConfigPath)
			}
			if err := validateProxiedServerConfig(serverConfigPath); err != nil {
				return fmt.Errorf("--proxied-server-config-path %v", err)
			}
		}
		if serverLogPath != "" {
			if !initProxiedServer {
				return fmt.Errorf("--proxied-server-log-path requires --proxied-server")
			}
			if !filepath.IsAbs(serverLogPath) {
				return fmt.Errorf("--proxied-server-log-path must be an absolute path, got %q", serverLogPath)
			}
			if err := validateProxiedServerLogPath(serverLogPath); err != nil {
				return fmt.Errorf("--proxied-server-log-path %v", err)
			}

View on GitHub (pinned to 71377f2769)

Solutions

  1. Add --proxied-server to the command
  2. Or remove --proxied-server-config-path if proxied-server mode is not intended

Example fix

// before
bd init --proxied-server-config-path /etc/bd/proxied.json
// after
bd init --proxied-server --proxied-server-config-path /etc/bd/proxied.json
Defensive patterns

Strategy: validation

Validate before calling

if [[ "$FLAGS" == *--proxied-server-config-path* && "$FLAGS" != *--proxied-server* ]]; then
  echo 'add --proxied-server'; exit 1
fi

Prevention

When it happens

Trigger: Running `bd init --proxied-server-config-path /path/to/config.json` without also passing --proxied-server.

Common situations: Scripts where the --proxied-server flag was removed but its companion path flags remained; documentation examples showing only the path flag.

Related errors

AI-assisted analysis of gastownhall/beads@71377f2769 (2026-08-30). Data as JSON: /api/errors/ce7f6a886967f75c. Report an issue: GitHub.