# ansible-api issue

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-api-issue/32863>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Tags:** ubuntu\
**Created:** [May 6, 2020, 2:20pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-api-issue/32863 "2020-05-06T14:20:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Rekuyem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@Rekuyem](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Rekuyem)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2020, 2:20pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-api-issue/32863/1 "2020-05-06T14:20:27Z")

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Hello,

When I start to lauch ansible-api, I have this issue :

root@VM-Ubuntu:~# ansible-api  
Ansible API is running at Debug Mode

2020-05-06 16:18:06 | INFO - Ansible API Start… ( PID = 19629 )  
2020-05-06 16:18:06 | ERROR - ‘sign\_key’  
Traceback (most recent call last):  
File “/usr/local/bin/ansible-api”, line 56, in   
Server(daemon\_mode)  
File “/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/ansible\_api/server.py”, line 43, in **init**  
config[‘sign\_key’] = len(config[‘sign\_key’]) \* ‘\*’ # mask signature key  
KeyError: ‘sign\_key’

Can you help me ?

Thanks,  
Rekuyem

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/original/1X/1882d9a01da5d8996a862359b0913cc568a39b84.svg) [@system](https://forum.ansible.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2020, 2:26pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-api-issue/32863/2 "2020-05-06T14:26:33Z")

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`ansible-api` is not something the Ansible project ships nor supports.