Dear All!
I wanted to test vikunja, and i installed it as it described in the web page:
This is not working, if i check the status of the service its code=exites status=1/FAILURE.
What can i do to make this work, the documents are very incomplete about this type of install,
Thanks for the help!
bolvar
Welcome! 
What do you see in the logs?
Dear Kolaente!
I even find any related logs for vikunja, where to find it?
You should be able to see them with journalctl -u vikunja.service
Tried this i got no entries
And from systemctl status vikunja.service?
I have tried to modify the config file, like in the install guide, nothing.
Installed it from lxc from a repo, it works, checked that config, its the same and working, dont know what im missing.
Does it work if you run the binary directly?
Dear Kolaente!
Im not a linux expert if you write it what should i test, i do it 
Try running /usr/local/bin/vikunja - that should print errors directly to the console.
Which OS are you running this on? Which CPU architecture?
Its a vm debian 13.2 as i wrote.
If i try to run the command i get this:
level=ERROR msg=”service.publicurl is required when cors.enable is true”
Please read the error message. You need to configure a public url: https://vikunja.io/docs/config-options/#1-service-publicurl
Dear bolvar,
sorry, but I can’t help you. Did you figured out some steps to fix the problem. As you can read in my thread I encountered the same problem:
Mär 22 14:01:33 work vikunja[29110]: time=2026-03-22T14:01:33.413+01:00 level=INFO msg=“Using config file: /etc/vikunja/config.yml”
Mär 22 14:01:33 work vikunja[29110]: time=2026-03-22T14:01:33.413+01:00 level=ERROR msg=“service.publicurl is required when cors.enable is true”
Mär 22 14:01:33 work systemd[1]: vikunja.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Greets
Columbo
I played around with different things, e.g. restart the service, ufw allow 3456, editing config.yml, but nothing helps. I doubt, that vikunja reads the config.yml, because, when I uncomment some lines with comments no error occurs.
Dear bolvar,
please leave THREE Spaces in front of publicurl: “XXX”
no Tab, no No Spaces.
that worked fo me!
Greetings!
