Grails 3 : console plugin not coming up in production mode

Question

Grails console plugin page is not coming up nothing gets rendered on the UI only when application is run on production environment either via run-app or as a war file deployed on embedded tomcat.

Grails version - 3.2.4

build.gradle looks like this:

buildscript {
    repositories {
        mavenLocal()
        maven { url "https://repo.grails.org/grails/core" }
        maven {  url "https://plugins.gradle.org/m2/" }

    }
    dependencies {
        ....
        classpath "com.bertramlabs.plugins:asset-pipeline-gradle:2.13.1"
       ...
    }
}

version "0.1"

apply plugin: "asset-pipeline"

repositories {
    mavenLocal()
    maven { url "https://repo.grails.org/grails/core" }
    maven { url "http://repo1.maven.org/maven2" }
}


dependencies {
    ....
    runtime 'org.grails.plugins:grails-console:2.0.9'
    runtime "com.bertramlabs.plugins:asset-pipeline-grails:2.13.1"
    ....
}

Any thoughts whats going wrong here?

Answer 1

By default the plugin is disabled in production for obvious reasons (an attacker could do anything to your app) - but if you understand the risk and secure it you can re-enable it. Checkout the documentation here https://github.com/sheehan/grails-console#security