🐛 Bug Report: api requests going to localhost:3000 when self hosting

[arkodeep3404]

📜 Description

hey there

i self hosted novu on a vm from azure but for some reason the api requests are going to localhost:3000 and not to my azure vm ip and hence they are failing

please help

👟 Reproduction steps

my .env file

Secrets

YOU MUST CHANGE THESE BEFORE GOING INTO PRODUCTION

used as a secret to verify the JWT token signature

JWT_SECRET=my-novu-jwt-secret-key

used to encrypt/decrypt the provider credentials

STORE_ENCRYPTION_KEY=3JkvVsN2PA+XyQTt+PEO8JiNFYBywkoK

Host

HOST_NAME=http://20.51.212.149

General

available values 'dev', 'test', 'production', 'ci', 'local'

NODE_ENV=production
MONGO_MAX_POOL_SIZE=200
MONGO_MIN_POOL_SIZE=75

MONGO USER

MONGO_INITDB_ROOT_USERNAME=root

MONGO PASSWORD

MONGO_INITDB_ROOT_PASSWORD=secret
MONGO_URL=mongodb://$MONGO_INITDB_ROOT_USERNAME:$MONGO_INITDB_ROOT_PASSWORD@mongodb:27017/novu-db?authSource=admin
REDIS_HOST=redis

DOCKER_REDIS_SERVICE_PORT=6379
REDIS_PASSWORD=
REDIS_CACHE_SERVICE_HOST=

AWS

S3_LOCAL_STACK=$HOST_NAME: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=$HOST_NAME:3002

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://20.51.212.149:3000
API_ROOT_URL=$HOST_NAME:3000
DISABLE_USER_REGISTRATION=false
FRONT_BASE_URL=$HOST_NAME:4200
WIDGET_EMBED_PATH=$HOST_NAME:4701/embed.umd.min.js
WIDGET_URL=$HOST_NAME:4500

Context Paths

Only needed for setups with reverse-proxies

GLOBAL_CONTEXT_PATH=
WEB_CONTEXT_PATH=web
API_CONTEXT_PATH=api
WS_CONTEXT_PATH=ws
WIDGET_CONTEXT_PATH=widget

Analytics

SENTRY_DSN=

change these values

NEW_RELIC_APP_NAME=
NEW_RELIC_LICENSE_KEY=

BROADCAST_QUEUE_CHUNK_SIZE=100
MULTICAST_QUEUE_CHUNK_SIZE=100

👍 Expected behavior

the actual requests should go to my azure VM IP and not to localhost

👎 Actual Behavior with Screenshots

the request should ideally go to my azure VM IP and not to my localhost

Novu version

docker:latest

npm version

docker

node version

docker

📃 Provide any additional context for the Bug.

No response

👀 Have you spent some time to check if this bug has been raised before?

• I checked and didn't find a similar issue

🏢 Have you read the Contributing Guidelines?

• I have read the Contributing Guidelines

Are you willing to submit PR?

None

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NV-4459 🐛 Bug Report: api requests going to localhost:3000 when self hosting

[abhishek-singh0710]

Hi, I'm completely new to open-source so if you could guide me I would like to work on this issue.
How can I reproduce this?
Thanks.

[arkodeep3404]

i just followed this guide on the official website and for some reason it doesn't seem to be working
https://docs.novu.co/community/self-hosting-novu/deploy-with-docker

[ArjixWasTaken]

Please edit your issue description to use a code block for the .env file.
The comments are interpreted as markdown headers...

https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/writing-on-github/working-with-advanced-formatting/creating-and-highlighting-code-blocks

[jainpawan21]

@arkodeep3404

comment this line

REACT_APP_API_URL=http://20.51.212.149:3000

clean all the containers and restart using docker-compose up

[L-U-C-K-Y]

@jainpawan21 I am facing the same issue:

I directly pass the URL to the container, why should I comment the line?

REACT_APP_API_URL=https://novu.domain.com

Many thanks!

[bledar]

Seems that env variables are not loaded correctly on container is started. Updating the start command of the container will fix the problem.
npm run envsetup:docker && http-server build -p 4200 --proxy http://127.0.0.1:4200

[L-U-C-K-Y]

Seems that env variables are not loaded correctly on container is started. Updating the start command of the container will fix the problem. npm run envsetup:docker && http-server build -p 4200 --proxy http://127.0.0.1:4200

Thanks for your reply @bledar, are you using Novu with docker?
I think I cannot add this to the docker images, or is there a way?

Thanks!

[ArjixWasTaken]

@L-U-C-K-Y you can always create a child image that overrides the entry point.

[L-U-C-K-Y]

@ArjixWasTaken @bledar many thanks for your help, it's working!

If helpful for other people, I created a PR: #6722

[awbx]

try this

#!/bin/bash

docker compose up --force-recreate novu-web -d

docker compose exec -T novu-web bash <<'EOF'
        sed -i 's|src="/|src="/novu/web/|g; s|href="/|href="/novu/web/|g' build/index.html
        
        # hardcoded for now
        export GLOBAL_CONTEXT_PATH="/novu/web"
        echo -e "\nGLOBAL_CONTEXT_PATH=" >> .env

        ./env.sh
        mv ./env-config.js ./build/env-config.js
EOF

[katyaterletskaya]

@jainpawan21 Would it be possible to consider publishing a new image to address this issue? 🙂

[jainpawan21]

@katyaterletskaya

This issue should be resolved with this PR merge. Could you pull latest changes as there is one change in docker-compose.yml file?