`config` is not a recognized command

[mathieu-pillar]

Expected behavior

This command should be recognized and should work

mc config host add s3-server http://minio:9000 minioadmin minioadmin

Actual behavior

mc: <ERROR> `config` is not a recognized command. Get help using `--help` flag.

Steps to reproduce the behavior

1. curl -O https://dl.min.io/client/mc/release/linux-amd64/mc
2. chmod +x mc
3. ./mc config host add s3-server http://minio:9000 minioadmin minioadmin or simply ./mc config

mc --version

• (paste output of mc --version)
  mc version RELEASE.2025-05-21T01-59-54Z (commit-id=f71ad84bcf0fd4369691952af5d925347837dcec)
  Runtime: go1.24.3 linux/amd64
  Copyright (c) 2015-2025 MinIO, Inc.
  License GNU AGPLv3 https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html

System information

Ubuntu 24.04

Extra information

I had a Gitlab ci cd job running at 24 May 2025 at 19:15:50 GMT-4 which passed
I had a Gitlab ci cd job (same job) at 25 May 2025 at 11:06:46 GMT-4 which failed

The job do the exact steps than the reproduction steps and has no cache on the downloaded artifact. Unfortunately, I do not print the version information of mc in my ci/cd pipelines, so I have no way to check which version of mc ran when the pipeline was successful

[jkkitakita]

As a workaround, the following command is executed

wget https://dl.min.io/client/mc/release/linux-amd64/archive/mc.RELEASE.2025-04-16T18-13-26Z -O mc
chmod +x mc

[zveinn]

The config command has been deprecated.
use "mc alias" instead :)

[mathieu-pillar]

@zveinn

Before opening this issue, I checked and the mc config was not part of the deprecated commands in the documentation https://min.io/docs/minio/linux/reference/minio-mc-deprecated.html and also the quickstart article shows a code example use of the mc config.

Those two thing led me to belive that mc config should have worked. I think the documentation should be updated to reflect this.

[zveinn]

I will have that updated

[mathieu-pillar]

@zveinn Thank you very much for taking time to fix those! I am very grateful for all the help I received today @jkkitakita @zveinn

[ravindk89]

90dc31f#diff-a33e7faa279b6cdfcdfc763d549957761882f90c7eae345dad110fc1463057ca

This command has been deprecated (and undocumented) since probably 2020 - that's why it was never on our docs radar to even add it to the list .

That said, look at that it is indeed right here though the docs reference mc alias set before it. Likely a very, very old find-replace error. Thanks!