HEADWAY_PUBLIC_URL always points to 127.0.0.1

[sorcer1122]

Hello, after deploying the stack I am getting the following error no matter what I enter for public_url variable in .env

BaseMap.9427e3c8.js:4 
 GET http://127.0.0.1:8080/tileserver/data/default.json net::ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED

I am running nginx as a reverse proxy. Tried to change the default public_url from http://localhost:8080 to https://mydomain.com but still getting the same error after recreating containers, seems like 127.0.0.1 is persistent.

Any thoughts?

[michaelkirk]

Hi! What steps are you taking to deploy the stack?

[sorcer1122]

earthly -P +build --area="turkey-latest" --countries="TR" cp .env.example .env (in my .env I changed HEADWAY_AREA to turkey-latest, HEADWAY_BBOX to correct coordinates, and left HEADWAY_PUBLIC_URL as default http://127.0.0.1:8080 since I am running Headway behind nginx) docker-compose up -d

In my nginx.conf file I have got the following to reverse proxy requests to headway:

location / { proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080; 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;

[michaelkirk]

I'm not totally sure what's going on, so I'll just say some things you might already know in case they're helpful:

HEADWAY_PUBLIC_URL should be the URL that the user types into their browser to get to your site.

For example, for our headway deployment, HEADWAY_PUBLIC_URL=https://maps.earth

If you look in your network tab when loading maps.earth, you'll see a request corresponding to your reported failure: https://maps.earth/tileserver/data/default.json

When a user requests HEADWAY_PUBLIC_URL, e.g. curl https://maps.earth ultimately your nameserver and any load balancer / reverse proxy should direct that request to the "frontend" container, which will then proxy the request to the corresponding backend service (tiles, routing, etc.).

[sorcer1122]

Thanks, this is really bizarre but once I changed HEADWAY_PUBLIC_URL to https://mydomain.com it worked! I think I was a bit confused by .env.example where the port was added to the URL. Thanks a lot! Next step is to find a way to keep the default position of the map in certain point (I am self-hosting only one region, not world map).

[ellenhp]

You can use this variable to set the default bounding box. https://github.com/headwaymaps/headway/blob/main/.env-example#L16 but IIRC the viewport is saved from visit to visit.

[sorcer1122]

Thanks, it worked. Sorry, forgot to comment. Closing now.