Novu•15mo ago

Self Hosted instance tries to connect to localhost instead of custom URL

Hi Team. I was able to successfully setup Novu using docker and the containers managed to start up with no issues. I have set up the env variables in the .env file successfully. However, when I try to connect to my self hosted instance and sign up, I get "Network Error" in the UI. Upon checking the console, I see that the POST request related to registering the user is being sent to http://localhost:3000/v1/auth/register instead of the custom URL which would obviously fail

xhr.js:247          POST http://localhost:3000/v1/auth/register net::ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED

xhr.js:247          POST http://localhost:3000/v1/auth/register net::ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED

I checked similar threads and tried to use ghcr.io/joeyeamigh/novu/web:nv-1803 as the web container, but I get the same issue. Additionally, I am using NGINX as a reverse proxy and I have set the context paths accordingly

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Rifki Salim•15mo ago

thanks for the info, I will try that Now it seems to be pointing to the right domain, but wrong port. I have an nginx host configured as api.novu.example.com which proxies to localhost:3000 (same server as novu). env is set as follows

# Secrets
# YOU MUST CHANGE THESE BEFORE GOING INTO PRODUCTION
JWT_SECRET=secret
STORE_ENCRYPTION_KEY="secretkey"

# General
NODE_ENV=prod
MONGO_URL=mongodb://mongodb:27017/novu-db
REDIS_HOST=redis
REDIS_CACHE_SERVICE_HOST=

# AWS
S3_LOCAL_STACK=http://localhost:4566
S3_BUCKET_NAME=novu-local
S3_REGION=us-east-1
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=test
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=test

# Ports
API_PORT=3000
REDIS_PORT=6379
REDIS_CACHE_SERVICE_PORT=6379
WS_PORT=3002

# Root URL
REACT_APP_WS_URL=http://ws.novu.example.com
# Uncomment this one when deploying Novu in the local environment
# as Web app local Dockerfile will have to load this to be used. 
# Deployment version doesn't need as we inject it with API_ROOT_URL value.
# REACT_APP_API_URL=http://localhost:3000
API_ROOT_URL=http://api.novu.example.com
DISABLE_USER_REGISTRATION=false
FRONT_BASE_URL=http://novu.example.com
WIDGET_EMBED_PATH=http://widget.novu.example.com/embed.umd.min.js
WIDGET_URL=http://widget.novu.example.com

# Context Paths
# Only needed for setups with reverse-proxies
GLOBAL_CONTEXT_PATH=
WEB_CONTEXT_PATH=
API_CONTEXT_PATH=
WS_CONTEXT_PATH=
WIDGET_CONTEXT_PATH=

# Analytics
SENTRY_DSN=
NEW_RELIC_APP_NAME=
NEW_RELIC_LICENSE_KEY=

# Secrets
# YOU MUST CHANGE THESE BEFORE GOING INTO PRODUCTION
JWT_SECRET=secret
STORE_ENCRYPTION_KEY="secretkey"

# General
NODE_ENV=prod
MONGO_URL=mongodb://mongodb:27017/novu-db
REDIS_HOST=redis
REDIS_CACHE_SERVICE_HOST=

# AWS
S3_LOCAL_STACK=http://localhost:4566
S3_BUCKET_NAME=novu-local
S3_REGION=us-east-1
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=test
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=test

# Ports
API_PORT=3000
REDIS_PORT=6379
REDIS_CACHE_SERVICE_PORT=6379
WS_PORT=3002

# Root URL
REACT_APP_WS_URL=http://ws.novu.example.com
# Uncomment this one when deploying Novu in the local environment
# as Web app local Dockerfile will have to load this to be used. 
# Deployment version doesn't need as we inject it with API_ROOT_URL value.
# REACT_APP_API_URL=http://localhost:3000
API_ROOT_URL=http://api.novu.example.com
DISABLE_USER_REGISTRATION=false
FRONT_BASE_URL=http://novu.example.com
WIDGET_EMBED_PATH=http://widget.novu.example.com/embed.umd.min.js
WIDGET_URL=http://widget.novu.example.com

# Context Paths
# Only needed for setups with reverse-proxies
GLOBAL_CONTEXT_PATH=
WEB_CONTEXT_PATH=
API_CONTEXT_PATH=
WS_CONTEXT_PATH=
WIDGET_CONTEXT_PATH=

# Analytics
SENTRY_DSN=
NEW_RELIC_APP_NAME=
NEW_RELIC_LICENSE_KEY=

The register route seems to be sending the post request to http://novu.example.com:3000/v1/auth/register which results in POST http://novu.nfsbattles.rifkisalim.com:3000/v1/auth/register net::ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED as the 3000 port is not opened since I am using a nginx reverse proxy

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Rifki Salim•15mo ago

Update: the issue was fixed after "ghcr.io/joeyeamigh/novu/web:nv-1803" as the image for novu web. Deleting all containers and volumes and recreating after setting the new env variable and clearing browser cache seemed to solve the issue

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sumitsaurabh927•15mo ago

Thanks for posting this @rifkisalim.dev @bhavikchavda @mishrabhushan @fetchman Can you please look into this @zacclifton ? Anyone from @Engineering please have a look here!

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sumitsaurabh927•15mo ago

Glad to see this!

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