Registering a Bower Package with Remote Repository in Artifactory isn't saving - bower

Question

Having some trouble registering a bower package to a remote repository which should be possible with the version I have (artifactory.version: 4.9.1)
So there is a repo there thats setup and it has a URL of http://mygetserver.domain.com/git which hits the gitolite page for browsing the git repos (which seems odd)
The registry url is pointing at the default of https://bower.herokuapp.com/
With the Bower Settings pointing to Custom and a default URL of {0}/{1}/archive/{2}.{3} - Again that feels weird but I have no idea whats expected in there
So when I try and register a package with
bower register nh-styles git#mygetserver.domain.com:nh-styles.git --verbose
I get an error to say
Error: Unknown error: 404 - Unable to determine coordinates from url git#mygetserver.domain.com:nh-styles.git
If I change that to use ssh:// first then it works
C:\Dev>bower register nh-styles
ssh://git#mygetserver.domain.com/nh-styles.git --verbose bower
nh-styles#* resolve
ssh://git#mygetserver.domain.com/nh-styles.git#* bower nh-styles#*
checkout v0.0.4 bower nh-styles#* old-git It seems you
are using an old version of git, it will be slower and propitious to
errors! bower nh-styles#* invalid-meta nh-styles is missing
"ignore" entry in bower.json bower nh-styles#* resolved
ssh://git#mygetserver.domain.com/nh-styles.git#0.0.4 ? Registering a
package will make it installable via the registry
(http://myart.artifactorydomain.com:8081/artifactory/api/bower/bower-nh-git
? Registering a package will make it installable via the registry
(http://myart.artifactorydomain.com:8081/artifactory/api/bower/bower-nh-git
), continue? Yes bower nh-styles register
ssh://git#mygetserver.domain.com/nh-styles.git
Package nh-styles registered successfully! All valid semver tags on
ssh://git#mygetserver.domain.com/nh-styles.git will be available as
versions. To publish a new version, just release a valid semver tag.
Run bower info nh-styles to list the available versions.
C:\Dev>bower info nh-styles bower nh-styles#* not-cached
art://nh-styles/nh-styles#* bower nh-styles#* resolve
art://nh-styles/nh-styles#* bower EREQUEST
Request to
http://myart.artifactorydomain.com:8081/artifactory/api/bower/bower-nh-git/refs/nh-styles/n
h-styles returned 404 status code.
Additional error details: [object Object]
Yet when I try and Info nothing shows. Every time I resubmit I'm getting a 201 rather than a package exists issue. So basically why is it not being saved? Artifactory logs are showing nothing I can see. Anything else I can look at?

Answer 1

The reason you must include ssh:// is that the bower resolver need to know what protocol it has to use when accessing the specified url, this is also documented here. Also I noticed you used domain.com:nh-styles.git this is not a valid url, because of the : -- it might also work like this without the ssh:// part i'm not sure.
The way registering a package with Artifactory works is that it simply acts as the registry in a sense that it simply keeps a mapping of the package name to the git url you gave it. That's also why registering a package will have no other apparent effect (except for the 201 response).
The behavior is pretty much identical to the bower public registry in this aspect.
The error itself you're getting is because Artifactory can't find the git repo you're referring to in the registered git repository - check that the repo at the url you gave is accessible - you can also turn on debug logs on org.artifactory.addon.bower to see the exact error Artifactory encountered if it's not already printing something to the log about this.