Not sure where to connect to the docker images after deploying to server

[jymchng]

Hi, using backend/docker-compose.yml I have deployed the docker containers to my private server. However, I am unable to curl or connect to it using my browser. Can you advise how I should do that?

Thank you.

[jonra1993]

Hello @jymchng you make sure that you set your custom domain in environment variables. or use you public IP

EXT_ENDPOINT1=mycustomwebsite.com so that I can get access with both mycustomwebsite.com or fastapi.mycustomwebsite.com EXT_ENDPOINT1=172.10.10.10 so that I can get access to 172.10.10.10. Subdomains do not work with IP addresses, so I recommend you get a custom domain on servers.

[jymchng]

@jonra1993 Thank you for your reply. Just another follow up question, how can I get from HTTP to HTTPS? Thank you.

[jonra1993]

Hello @jymchng this can be helpful. The project uses Caddy as reverse proxy which automatically creates SSL certificates https://github.com/jonra1993/fastapi-alembic-sqlmodel-async/issues/59#issuecomment-1493015271

Another option could be using cloudflare and providing a certificate using its free https proxy

[jymchng]

Hello @jonra1993, thank you for your helpful reply!

I have another question.

Let's say I have a Project table, shown below:

from sqlmodel import SQLModel

class Project(SQLModel, table=True):
    featured: bool = False

If I have an API that sets the Project.featured = True but I want it to be set to False 3 days later. What suggestions do you have to achieve this?

Thank you.

[jonra1993]

Hello @jymchng I think that is a crontab task you can use celery beats and create a celery task after someone changes featured to True. Something like this https://github.com/jonra1993/fastapi-alembic-sqlmodel-async/blob/main/backend/app/app/api/v1/endpoints/periodic_tasks.py

on crontab you calculate 3 days after right now

periodic_task.crontab = CrontabSchedule(
        hour=22, minute=14, day_of_month=29, month_of_year=3, timezone="UTC"
    )

[jymchng]

Hi @jonra1993, thank you for this awesome template.

After I tried to deploy with your Caddyfile, attempting to enable HTTPS, this is the error I got:

caddy_reverse_proxy  | {"level":"error","ts":1680712202.3448455,"logger":"http.acme_client","msg":"validating authorization","identifier":"static.mycustomdomain.com","problem":{"type":"urn:ietf:params:acme:error:dns","title":"","detail":"DNS problem: NXDOMAIN looking up A for static.mycustomdomain.com - check that a DNS record exists for this domain; DNS problem: NXDOMAIN looking up AAAA for static.mycustomdomain.com - check that a DNS record 
exists for this domain","instance":"","subproblems":[]},"order":"https://acme-staging-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/acme/order/96894614/8124165414","attempt":2,"max_attempts":3}

I am running docker-compose-dev.yml for testing on my local machine. What should I do?

[jonra1993]

Hello @jymchng you can not use SSL perfectly locally because you will require a public static IP also your local router should allow public connections and a DNS server which points A record to your PC public IP.

The error says that mycustomdomain.com is not in your local namespace and Cady can not generate a SSL certificate.

For development, I recommend you use HTTP. If you want to use SSL which is for production better use a remote server and connect a custom domain using a DNS server like Cloudflare which points the custom domain to your remote server. In such a situation, it is going to work perfectly. something like this

I hope it can help.

[jymchng]

Thank you for your response @jonra1993, I wish I can give you more stars than what you have now!