How to install cursor-server manually?

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Hello there!
I want to use a remote connection to a server, but this server has no direct internet access, only proxy. We can use ssh to connect.
I want to install Cursor Server manually. How can I do this? Is it possible?

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The Cursor server is hosted at https://cursor.blob.core.windows.net/remote-releases/${version}-${commit}/vscode-reh-${os}-${arch}.tar.gz.

For example, for the latest release, the link is https://cursor.blob.core.windows.net/remote-releases/0.11.8-769e57fc532d17f247b121cdf4b6c37f1cccb540/vscode-reh-linux-x64.tar.gz

For every new Cursor update, you would need to update the version and the commit, which may be a little bit tricky.

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Thank you. But anyway, how to install and run it manually?

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One idea would be to just download from the link above on a separate machine, and then scp in the cursor server onto your airgapped machine. Would that work?

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Yes. There is no problem to transfer tar to the remote server. My question is How to run this server and allow to my Cursor IDE to connect this Cursor Server?

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Please help me!

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bump

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it should simply run automatically when cursor connects over ssh, as long as the server binary is in the expected location, iirc.

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Need to check this. this is .cursor-server I suppose

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aye, if memory serves the default location is /home/$USER/.cursor-server/bin/${commit}

where ${commit} is the same identifier as used above in How to install cursor-server manually? - #2 by arvid220u

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yup. got it. thank you

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I’ve installed the latest version of cursor-server. It starts up fine, and I have my certs and gateway configured fine. When I try to connect to the server, I just get “Forbidden.” I was using some of the instructions I found for the code-server installation, but it appears that this isn’t entirely up to date with the latest release. My systemctl status:

â—Ź cursor-server.service - cursor-server
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/cursor-server.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Wed 2024-02-14 21:58:01 UTC; 14s ago
   Main PID: 92945 (sh)
      Tasks: 12 (limit: 38496)
     Memory: 24.3M
     CGroup: /system.slice/cursor-server.service
             ├─92945 sh /usr/bin/cursor-server --host 127.0.0.1 --port 8080 --user-data-dir /var/lib/cursor-server --accept-server-license-terms
             └─92955 /usr/lib/code-server/node /usr/lib/code-server/out/server-main.js --host 127.0.0.1 --port 8080 --user-data-dir /var/lib/cursor-server --accept-server-license-terms

Feb 14 21:58:01 prod-tools systemd[1]: Started cursor-server.
Feb 14 21:58:01 prod-tools cursor-server[92955]: Server bound to 127.0.0.1:8080 (IPv4)
Feb 14 21:58:01 prod-tools cursor-server[92955]: Extension host agent listening on 8080
Feb 14 21:58:01 prod-tools cursor-server[92955]: [21:58:01]
Feb 14 21:58:01 prod-tools cursor-server[92955]: FaroSystemAppender constructor
Feb 14 21:58:01 prod-tools cursor-server[92955]: [21:58:01] Extension host agent started.

Anyone have any idea what the issue might be?

Thanks