manual production deploy of alf.io

[Matthijs Cornil]

Hi,

I am trying to have alf.io running on a separate cloud server running ubuntu 20.04.
It is on a sub-domain which is pointed towards the cloud server ip-address via DNS A-record. (main domain is a website on a shared hosting provider).

I was following the configuration as explained in this github guide :

https://gist.github.com/flexwie/a8572e8e7ef06ae844925ec857fa3b5b#alfio-jar-and-configuration

I can't seem to get it to work. The log shows that it booted up, but when I then go to my url I get too many redirects.

Regardless of adding or removing "spring.profiles.active=dev" from the application.properties file.

Any suggestions on how I can fix this?

Kind regards,

Matthijs

[Matthijs Cornil]

Fixed the too many redirects, but now I don't get it to work without the spring.profiles.active=dev setting.

Any help for that?

[Celestino Bellone]

Hi,

you need to set X-Forwarded-For and X-Forwarded-Proto headers

see https://github.com/alfio-event/alf.io/search?q=x-forwarded&type=issues and https://github.com/alfio-event/alf.io/issues/841#issuecomment-645257732 for an NGINX example

Celestino

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[Matthijs Cornil]

Thanks for the reply.

I seem to be one step further now after following the examples given. I now just get a page that says that nginx is working correctly but needs further configuration.

This is my current nginx config file (my actual domain exchanged with my.domain.com):

# default server config #

server {

        server_name my.domain.com;

        location /home/alfio/ {

          proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;

          proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;

          proxy_set_header Host $http_host;

          #Must set X-forwarded-proto to enable sesion cookies secure

          proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;

          proxy_pass http://localhost:8080;

        }

    listen 443 ssl; # managed by Certbot

    ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/my.domain.com/fullchain.pem>

    ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/my.domain.com/privkey.p>

    include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-nginx.conf; # managed by Certbot

    ssl_dhparam /etc/letsencrypt/ssl-dhparams.pem; # managed by Certbot

}

Is there something I am still doing wrong?

[Celestino Bellone]

Alf.io must be exposed at context root, so 

location /home/alfio/ 

should be 

location /

see http://nginx.org/en/docs/beginners_guide.html#proxy and https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/understanding-nginx-server-and-location-block-selection-algorithms for more info on NGINX location directive/block

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[Matthijs Cornil]

Ok, before I had made some other changes I couldn't get through and somehow changing it to /home/alfio/ it worked when dev was active.

But now with the settings as they are changing it back to / did indeed do the trick.

Thank you for your help.