[FR] more tutorials on how to self-host appflowy

[annieappflowy]

Description

I've been trying to get appflowy selfhosted on my new ubuntu home server for a week. I'm kinda new to all of this and have adhd so it's a work in progress...there doesn't seem to be a walkthrough or any video tutorials on self hosting appflowy and my brain is fried. I seems to have errors in every container, no matter how i change everything. I would really appreciate a walkthrough/tutorial if anyone can point me in the right direction? AI and I have fallen out multiple times over this lol

Impact

New appflowy self-hosters

Additional Context

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[casainho]

I am selfhosting using an old PC running Linux Ubuntu 24.04.

I use Nginx as a reverse proxy to give me the HTTPS to appflowy cloud app (I also have other apps on my selfhost, so I use the Nginx to give the HTTPS to all them).

Then I just configure appflowy cloud as the official instructions.

My Nginx reverse proxy docker compose file:

version: '3.8'
services:
  nginx_reverse_proxy:
    hostname: nginx_reverse_proxy
    image: 'jc21/nginx-proxy-manager:2.12.1'
    restart: unless-stopped
    ports:
      # These ports are in format <host-port>:<container-port>
      - '80:80'  # Public HTTP Port
      - '443:443'  # Public HTTPS Porta
      - '81:81'  # Admin Web Port
      # Add any other Stream port you want to expose
      # - '21:21' # FTP

    environment:
      # Set the SQLite DB file location to a path on the host
      DB_SQLITE_FILE: "/data/database.sqlite"  # Path inside the container

    volumes:
      - /mnt/server_usb_disk_1gb/nginx_reverse_proxy_server/data:/data  # Map the ./data directory on the host to /data in the container
      - /mnt/server_usb_disk_1gb/nginx_reverse_proxy_server/letsencrypt:/etc/letsencrypt  # Existing mapping for Let's Encrypt

    networks:
      - network_reverse_proxy

networks:
  network_reverse_proxy:
    external: true

Access: http://localhost:81/

Email: admin@example.com
Password: changeme

Here my settings for Nginx reverse proxy NPM UI, specific for Appflowy cloud selfhosting:

Nginx reverse proxy

Websockets Support must be enabled!!

Where 192.168.2.2 is the IP of the computer running the selfhosting and 8800 is the port I decided to use for Appflowy cloud.

Advanced --> Custom Nginx Configuration:

location / {
        proxy_pass http://192.168.2.2:8800;
    }

    location /api/websocket {
        proxy_pass http://192.168.2.2:8800;

        proxy_set_header Host $host;

        proxy_http_version 1.1;
        proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
        proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade";
    }