What URL should you state the Community server is?

In the webclient I am seeing an issue where the service is trying to load images and user information and it is failing because it is trying to use a URL that isn't the same as the webclients.

The Sametime community has used the physical server name of the Docker host hclst.acme.com and I can see this in the sametime.ini

The webclient is webchat.acme.com and is set as such in the custom.env file etc. The webchat error I am seeing when trying to load the images and user data is - GET https://hclst.acme.com/stwebapi/userinfo/image/CN=Richard%20Dew,O=acme 404 (Not Found)

If I copy that url and change the hclst bit to webchat it loads the image and works fine.

When you set the URLs - you should use the ones you expect the end user to use.

So - in your example, you should use "webchat.acme.com" during configuration for the hostname.

OK we have the meeting server setup as meetings then a separate URL for the webchat, so I would assume as the main URL is the meetings thats what I should really be using.

To set this after it's gone live would I just change the sametime.ini file ST_COMMUNITY_ID= parameter and restart?

If thats the case do you know if this is going to break anything for users using the notes embedded client? as in will it pop a config change box or ask them to restart notes etc.

I am assuming a docker environment below -

By default, the hostname used is set for both meetings and webchat.

REACT_APP_MEETING_SERVER_HOSTNAME

If you want to override the chat hostname - you can set

REACT_APP_CHAT_SERVER_HOSTNAME

( https://opensource.hcltechsw.com/sametime-doc/v1202/admin/t_different_hostname.html )

Both of these settings are used for the browser access directly, and an alias used for the installed client(s), so long as it resolves properly, is fine.

For installed clients - we default the 'ST_COMMUNITY_ID' in docker-compose.yml to the 'meeting' hostname (since the chat hostname is optional)

STI__Config__ST_COMMUNITY_ID=${REACT_APP_MEETING_SERVER_HOSTNAME}

If you have previously set a ST_COMMUNITY_ID, you should set this to match.

As a rule, this value should match the hostname the user is using in the installed client(s) configuration.

This specific setting can impact awareness for a user's contact list, it has no direct impact on connectivity - its used to associate contacts with a given community server. I would not expect any popups to users based on this.