Hi.Events Unable to get it working on Caprover

Hi, I am using latest docker images backend fronted, and trying to deploy it on caprover. I got it to the pint where it works the frontend, yet the backend seems to have issues/conflicts with caprover maybe.

this is the template I used:

captainVersion: 4
services:
    hi-events-frontend:
        image: daveearley/hi.events-frontend
        environment:
            VITE_FRONTEND_URL: $$cap_frontend_url
            VITE_API_URL_CLIENT: $$cap_api_url_client
            VITE_API_URL_SERVER: $$cap_api_url_server
            VITE_STRIPE_PUBLISHABLE_KEY: $$cap_stripe_publishable_key
        caproverExtra:
            containerHttpPort: '80'
        restart: always

    hi-events-backend:
        image: daveearley/hi.events-backend
        environment:
            # Mail Configuration
            MAIL_MAILER: $$cap_mail_mailer
            MAIL_HOST: $$cap_mail_host
            MAIL_PORT: $$cap_mail_port
            MAIL_USERNAME: $$cap_mail_username
            MAIL_PASSWORD: $$cap_mail_password
            MAIL_FROM_ADDRESS: $$cap_mail_from_address
            MAIL_FROM_NAME: $$cap_mail_from_name

            # Stripe Configuration
            STRIPE_PUBLIC_KEY: $$cap_stripe_public_key
            STRIPE_SECRET_KEY: $$cap_stripe_secret_key
            STRIPE_WEBHOOK_SECRET: $$cap_stripe_webhook_secret

            # General Application Configuration
            APP_KEY: $$cap_app_key
            APP_SAAS_MODE_ENABLED: $$cap_app_saas_mode_enabled
            APP_SAAS_STRIPE_APPLICATION_FEE_PERCENT: $$cap_app_saas_stripe_application_fee_percent
            APP_FRONTEND_URL: $$cap_app_frontend_url
            APP_CDN_URL: $$cap_app_cdn_url
            APP_DISABLE_REGISTRATION: $$cap_app_disable_registration
            FILESYSTEM_PUBLIC_DISK: $$cap_filesystem_public_disk
            FILESYSTEM_PRIVATE_DISK: $$cap_filesystem_private_disk
            JWT_SECRET: $$cap_jwt_secret
            LOG_CHANNEL: $$cap_log_channel

            # AWS Configuration
            AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: $$cap_aws_access_key_id
            AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: $$cap_aws_secret_access_key
            AWS_DEFAULT_REGION: $$cap_aws_default_region
            AWS_PUBLIC_BUCKET: $$cap_aws_public_bucket
            AWS_PRIVATE_BUCKET: $$cap_aws_private_bucket

            # Database Configuration (Hardcoded)
            DB_CONNECTION: 'pgsql'
            DB_HOST: 'srv-captain--hi-events-db'
            DB_PORT: '5432'
            DB_DATABASE: 'hi_events_db'
            DB_USERNAME: 'hi_events_user'
            DB_PASSWORD: 'hi_events_password'
            DATABASE_URL: 'postgres://hi_events_user:hi_events_password@srv-captain--hi-events-db:5432/hi_events_db'

            # Redis Configuration (Hardcoded)
            REDIS_HOST: 'srv-captain--hi-events-redis'
            REDIS_USER: 'default'
            REDIS_PASSWORD: 'redis_password'
            REDIS_PORT: '6379'
            REDIS_URL: 'redis://default:redis_password@srv-captain--hi-events-redis:6379'

            # Queue Configuration
            QUEUE_CONNECTION: $$cap_queue_connection
        caproverExtra:
            containerHttpPort: '8000'
        restart: always

    hi-events-db:
        image: postgres:13-alpine
        environment:
            POSTGRES_DB: 'hi_events_db'
            POSTGRES_USER: 'hi_events_user'
            POSTGRES_PASSWORD: 'hi_events_password'
        volumes:
            - hi-events-db-data:/var/lib/postgresql/data
        caproverExtra:
            containerHttpPort: '5432'
            notExposeAsWebApp: 'true'
        restart: always

    hi-events-redis:
        image: redis:6-alpine
        environment: {}
        volumes:
            - hi-events-redis-data:/data
        caproverExtra:
            containerHttpPort: '6379'
            notExposeAsWebApp: 'true'
        restart: always

volumes:
    hi-events-db-data:
    hi-events-redis-data:

caproverOneClickApp:
    variables:
        # Frontend Variables
        - id: $$cap_frontend_url
          label: VITE_FRONTEND_URL
          defaultValue: 'https://your-app.com'
          description: 'Frontend URL.'
          validRegex: /^https?:\/\/.*$/
        - id: $$cap_api_url_client
          label: VITE_API_URL_CLIENT
          defaultValue: 'https://your-app.com/api'
          description: 'API URL for use in the browser.'
          validRegex: /^https?:\/\/.*$/
        - id: $$cap_api_url_server
          label: VITE_API_URL_SERVER
          defaultValue: 'https://your-app.com/api'
          description: 'API URL for use on the server.'
          validRegex: /^https?:\/\/.*$/
        - id: $$cap_stripe_publishable_key
          label: VITE_STRIPE_PUBLISHABLE_KEY
          defaultValue: 'pk_test_51...'
          description: 'Stripe publishable key for the frontend.'
          validRegex: /^pk_[a-zA-Z0-9_]+$/

        # Backend Mail Variables
        - id: $$cap_mail_mailer
          label: MAIL_MAILER
          defaultValue: 'smtp'
          description: 'Mail driver to be used.'
          validRegex: /^smtp$/
        - id: $$cap_mail_host
          label: MAIL_HOST
          defaultValue: 'smtp.mailtrap.io'
          description: 'Mail server host.'
          validRegex: /^.*$/
        - id: $$cap_mail_port
          label: MAIL_PORT
          defaultValue: '2525'
          description: 'Mail server port.'
          validRegex: /^[0-9]+$/
        - id: $$cap_mail_username
          label: MAIL_USERNAME
          defaultValue: 'your-username'
          description: 'Mail server username.'
          validRegex: /^.*$/
        - id: $$cap_mail_password
          label: MAIL_PASSWORD
          defaultValue: 'your-password'
          description: 'Mail server password.'
          validRegex: /^.*$/
        - id: $$cap_mail_from_address
          label: MAIL_FROM_ADDRESS
          defaultValue: '[email protected]'
          description: 'Mail from address.'
          validRegex: /^.*@.*$/
        - id: $$cap_mail_from_name
          label: MAIL_FROM_NAME
          defaultValue: 'Your App Name'
          description: 'Mail from name.'
          validRegex: /^.*$/

        # Backend Stripe Variables
        - id: $$cap_stripe_public_key
          label: STRIPE_PUBLIC_KEY
          defaultValue: 'pk_test_51...'
          description: 'Stripe public key.'
          validRegex: /^pk_[a-zA-Z0-9_]+$/
        - id: $$cap_stripe_secret_key
          label: STRIPE_SECRET_KEY
          defaultValue: 'sk_test_51...'
          description: 'Stripe secret key.'
          validRegex: /^sk_[a-zA-Z0-9_]+$/
        - id: $$cap_stripe_webhook_secret
          label: STRIPE_WEBHOOK_SECRET
          defaultValue: 'whsec_...'
          description: 'Stripe webhook secret.'
          validRegex: /^whsec_[a-zA-Z0-9_]+$/

        # General Backend Configuration Variables
        - id: $$cap_app_key
          label: APP_KEY
          defaultValue: 'base64:$$cap_gen_random_hex(64)'
          description: 'Application key generated using cap_gen_random_hex. Must be unique.'
          validRegex: /^base64:.*$/
        - id: $$cap_app_saas_mode_enabled
          label: APP_SAAS_MODE_ENABLED
          defaultValue: 'true'
          description: 'Enable SaaS mode.'
          validRegex: /^(true|false)$/
        - id: $$cap_app_saas_stripe_application_fee_percent
          label: APP_SAAS_STRIPE_APPLICATION_FEE_PERCENT
          defaultValue: '1.5'
          description: 'Stripe application fee percentage.'
          validRegex: /^[0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?$/
        - id: $$cap_app_frontend_url
          label: APP_FRONTEND_URL
          defaultValue: 'https://your-app.com'
          description: 'Frontend URL for backend configuration.'
          validRegex: /^https?:\/\/.*$/
        - id: $$cap_app_cdn_url
          label: APP_CDN_URL
          defaultValue: 'https://cdn.your-app.com'
          description: 'CDN URL.'
          validRegex: /^https?:\/\/.*$/
        - id: $$cap_app_disable_registration
          label: APP_DISABLE_REGISTRATION
          defaultValue: 'false'
          description: 'Disable user registration.'
          validRegex: /^(true|false)$/
        - id: $$cap_filesystem_public_disk
          label: FILESYSTEM_PUBLIC_DISK
          defaultValue: 's3-public'
          description: 'Public filesystem disk.'
          validRegex: /^.*$/
        - id: $$cap_filesystem_private_disk
          label: FILESYSTEM_PRIVATE_DISK
          defaultValue: 's3-private'
          description: 'Private filesystem disk.'
          validRegex: /^.*$/
        - id: $$cap_jwt_secret
          label: JWT_SECRET
          defaultValue: 'base64:$$cap_gen_random_hex(64)'
          description: 'JWT secret key generated using cap_gen_random_hex.'
          validRegex: /^base64:.*$/
        - id: $$cap_log_channel
          label: LOG_CHANNEL
          defaultValue: 'stderr'
          description: 'Log channel.'
          validRegex: /^.*$/

        # AWS Configuration Variables
        - id: $$cap_aws_access_key_id
          label: AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
          defaultValue: 'your-access-key-id'
          description: 'AWS access key ID.'
          validRegex: /^.*$/
        - id: $$cap_aws_secret_access_key
          label: AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
          defaultValue: 'your-secret-access-key'
          description: 'AWS secret access key.'
          validRegex: /^.*$/
        - id: $$cap_aws_default_region
          label: AWS_DEFAULT_REGION
          defaultValue: 'us-west-1'
          description: 'AWS region.'
          validRegex: /^.*$/
        - id: $$cap_aws_public_bucket
          label: AWS_PUBLIC_BUCKET
          defaultValue: 'your-public-bucket'
          description: 'AWS public bucket name.'
          validRegex: /^.*$/
        - id: $$cap_aws_private_bucket
          label: AWS_PRIVATE_BUCKET
          defaultValue: 'your-private-bucket'
          description: 'AWS private bucket name.'
          validRegex: /^.*$/

        # Queue Configuration Variable
        - id: $$cap_queue_connection
          label: QUEUE_CONNECTION
          defaultValue: 'redis'
          description: 'Queue connection type (redis for production deployments).'
          validRegex: /^.*$/

    instructions:
        start: 'Deploying hi.events with separate frontend and backend services along with PostgreSQL and Redis.'
        end: 'Deployment complete. Access your services via the provided URLs.'
    displayName: 'hi.events Production'
    isOfficial: false
    description: 'Deploy hi.events with production-grade services for frontend and backend, integrated with PostgreSQL and Redis.'
    documentation: 'https://hi.events/docs/getting-started/deploying'

the frontend can be tested at https://hi-events-frontend.uhl.cloud/ while the backedn should deliver at https://hi-events-backend.uhl.cloud/api it seems to not work. Frontend console logs:

2025-03-20T19:54:22.399460727Z yarn run v1.22.22
2025-03-20T19:54:22.444237976Z $ cross-env NODE_ENV=production node server.js
2025-03-20T19:54:23.129014300Z SSR Serving at http://localhost:5678
2025-03-20T19:54:45.810294780Z No routes matched location "/api/organizers"
2025-03-20T19:54:45.921030085Z No routes matched location "/api/organizers"
2025-03-20T19:57:16.644868461Z No routes matched location "/api/organizers"
2025-03-20T19:57:16.696801099Z No routes matched location "/api/organizers"
2025-03-20T19:57:19.921642181Z No routes matched location "/api/organizers"
2025-03-20T19:57:20.249045022Z No routes matched location "/api/organizers"
2025-03-20T19:58:37.287964741Z No routes matched location "/api/organizers"
2025-03-20T19:58:37.425230336Z No routes matched location "/api/organizers"

backend console logs:

2025-03-20T19:53:29.986149650Z
2025-03-20T19:53:29.986191387Z --------------------------------------------------------------------
2025-03-20T19:53:29.986197865Z ____ ____ _ _ _ _
2025-03-20T19:53:29.986202255Z / ___| ___ _ ____ _____ _ __ / ___|(_) __| | ___ | | | |_ __
2025-03-20T19:53:29.986206478Z \___ \ / _ \ __\ \ / / _ \ __| \___ \| |/ _` |/ _ \ | | | | _ \
2025-03-20T19:53:29.986223504Z ___) | __/ | \ V / __/ | ___) | | (_| | __/ | |_| | |_) |
2025-03-20T19:53:29.986228797Z |____/ \___|_| \_/ \___|_| |____/|_|\__,_|\___| \___/| .__/
2025-03-20T19:53:29.986232376Z |_|
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2025-03-20T19:53:30.015728717Z -------------------------------------
2025-03-20T19:53:30.015730914Z ℹ️ Container Information
2025-03-20T19:53:30.015733150Z -------------------------------------
2025-03-20T19:53:30.048176415Z
2025-03-20T19:53:30.048211229Z OS: Alpine Linux v3.21
2025-03-20T19:53:30.048217273Z Docker user: root
2025-03-20T19:53:30.048220870Z Docker uid: 0
2025-03-20T19:53:30.048224189Z Docker gid: 0
2025-03-20T19:53:30.048227267Z OPcache: ✅ Enabled
2025-03-20T19:53:30.048231433Z PHP Version: 8.4.5
2025-03-20T19:53:30.048234558Z Image Version: v3.5.2-13918277297
2025-03-20T19:53:30.048237754Z
2025-03-20T19:53:30.053795711Z (init-webserver-config): Processing /etc/nginx/nginx.conf.template → /etc/nginx/nginx.conf...
2025-03-20T19:53:30.059235424Z (init-webserver-config): Processing /etc/nginx/site-opts.d/http.conf.template → /etc/nginx/site-opts.d/http.conf...
2025-03-20T19:53:30.064794266Z (init-webserver-config): Processing /etc/nginx/site-opts.d/https.conf.template → /etc/nginx/site-opts.d/https.conf...
2025-03-20T19:53:30.066750135Z ℹ️ NOTICE (init-webserver-config): Enabling NGINX site with SSL "off"...
2025-03-20T19:53:30.071814303Z /package/admin/s6-overlay/libexec/preinit: info: /run belongs to uid 82 instead of 0 - fixing it
2025-03-20T19:53:30.141917084Z [20-Mar-2025 19:53:30] NOTICE: fpm is running, pid 90
2025-03-20T19:53:30.143062130Z [20-Mar-2025 19:53:30] NOTICE: ready to handle connections
2025-03-20T19:53:31.157106765Z ✅ NGINX + PHP-FPM is running correctly.
2025-03-20T19:58:20.528791593Z
2025-03-20T19:58:20.528827744Z --------------------------------------------------------------------
2025-03-20T19:58:20.528834821Z ____ ____ _ _ _ _
2025-03-20T19:58:20.528839876Z / ___| ___ _ ____ _____ _ __ / ___|(_) __| | ___ | | | |_ __
2025-03-20T19:58:20.528843582Z \___ \ / _ \ __\ \ / / _ \ __| \___ \| |/ _` |/ _ \ | | | | _ \
2025-03-20T19:58:20.528847634Z ___) | __/ | \ V / __/ | ___) | | (_| | __/ | |_| | |_) |
2025-03-20T19:58:20.528850971Z |____/ \___|_| \_/ \___|_| |____/|_|\__,_|\___| \___/| .__/
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2025-03-20T19:58:20.555547159Z -------------------------------------
2025-03-20T19:58:20.555549318Z ℹ️ Container Information
2025-03-20T19:58:20.555551509Z -------------------------------------
2025-03-20T19:58:20.587971318Z
2025-03-20T19:58:20.587998902Z OS: Alpine Linux v3.21
2025-03-20T19:58:20.588003626Z Docker user: root
2025-03-20T19:58:20.588006046Z Docker uid: 0
2025-03-20T19:58:20.588008226Z Docker gid: 0
2025-03-20T19:58:20.588010327Z OPcache: ✅ Enabled
2025-03-20T19:58:20.588013565Z PHP Version: 8.4.5
2025-03-20T19:58:20.588015827Z Image Version: v3.5.2-13918277297
2025-03-20T19:58:20.588018005Z
2025-03-20T19:58:20.592313636Z (init-webserver-config): Processing /etc/nginx/nginx.conf.template → /etc/nginx/nginx.conf...
2025-03-20T19:58:20.597176645Z (init-webserver-config): Processing /etc/nginx/site-opts.d/http.conf.template → /etc/nginx/site-opts.d/http.conf...
2025-03-20T19:58:20.601412917Z (init-webserver-config): Processing /etc/nginx/site-opts.d/https.conf.template → /etc/nginx/site-opts.d/https.conf...
2025-03-20T19:58:20.603162059Z ℹ️ NOTICE (init-webserver-config): Enabling NGINX site with SSL "off"...
2025-03-20T19:58:20.607074916Z /package/admin/s6-overlay/libexec/preinit: info: /run belongs to uid 82 instead of 0 - fixing it
2025-03-20T19:58:20.673046851Z [20-Mar-2025 19:58:20] NOTICE: fpm is running, pid 91
2025-03-20T19:58:20.673834670Z [20-Mar-2025 19:58:20] NOTICE: ready to handle connections
2025-03-20T19:58:21.676971493Z ✅ NGINX + PHP-FPM is running correctly.

Any help is appreciated.

Mar 20 '25 20:03 uhlhosting

Hi @uhlhosting, it just so happens, that I have been setting up hi.events inside caprover today. You can paste the hi-events-setup.txt file in the empty OneClick App template and it should just work. Notice: Not all .env variables are exposed.

After that head over to your frontend container and change the nginx configuration for ngnix-frontend.txt (if your backend-service isn't called ticketing-backend you must set the correct name accordingly). This will forward all the requests going to /api to the backend container.

As last step ssh into your server and open the shell inside the backend docker container via docker exec -it <container_id> sh. Then run php artisan migrate to setup the db. That is everything you need to get going.

hi-events-setup.txt

ngnix-frontend.txt

Mar 20 '25 23:03 DreiDe

@DreiDe thanks so much for this, will give it a try asap and provide feedback.

Mar 24 '25 12:03 uhlhosting

@DreiDe so I deployed it, yet seems the events page it's not working, beside that, all seems to be working fine... https://events-frontend.uhl.cloud/event/1/latino-party-fleda

Mar 24 '25 13:03 uhlhosting

@uhlhosting Right, good catch. Seems like we have to provide the full API Url in the frontend container to make this work.

VITE_FRONTEND_URL https://events-frontend.uhl.cloud VITE_API_URL_CLIENT https://events-frontend.uhl.cloud/api VITE_API_URL_SERVER https://events-frontend.uhl.cloud/api

Mar 25 '25 15:03 DreiDe

@DreiDe so that helped, the only left issue its with S3 connection that also works, and all uploads are done, yet then they do not display on the frontend. So the connection to the buckets works fine, yet the images do not get displayed. getting this from frontend logs:

2025-03-27T21:11:41.941645757Z No routes matched location "/storage/event_cover/pagination-bg-1aBZd.jpg"
2025-03-27T21:13:14.077881497Z No routes matched location "/storage/event_cover/pagination-bg-Yebgy.jpg"
2025-03-27T21:13:14.651281938Z No routes matched location "/storage/event_cover/pagination-bg-Yebgy.jpg"
2025-03-27T21:13:25.614654672Z No routes matched location "/storage/event_cover/pagination-bg-Yebgy.jpg"

Mar 27 '25 21:03 uhlhosting

Yes, I also noticed this. My fix was to add a rule that forwards all requests to /storage directly to the backend and run artisan storage:link (propably only needed for the local filesystem driver) inside the backend container.

This nginx rule must be added to the frontend-config:

        # Forward all calls to /storage directly to backend's /storage
        location /storage {
            proxy_pass http://srv-captain--ticketing-backend:8080;
            proxy_set_header Host $host;
            proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
            proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
            proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
        }

Mar 27 '25 23:03 DreiDe

@DreiDe do you use local storage or s3 buckets?

Mar 27 '25 23:03 uhlhosting

I'm using local storage.

Mar 28 '25 09:03 DreiDe