Docker installation accessible from the web with apache

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I am running a docker-compose of vikunja and all the services work well in my local network (db, api, frontend, proxy), my compose yml file is below.

services:
  db:
    image: mariadb:10
    command: --character-set-server=utf8mb4 --collation-server=utf8mb4_unicode_ci
    environment:
      MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: supersecret
      MYSQL_USER: vikunja
      MYSQL_PASSWORD: secret
      MYSQL_DATABASE: vikunja
    volumes:
      - ./db:/var/lib/mysql
    restart: unless-stopped
####
  api:
    image: vikunja/api
    environment:
      VIKUNJA_DATABASE_HOST: db
      VIKUNJA_DATABASE_PASSWORD: secret
      VIKUNJA_DATABASE_TYPE: mysql
      VIKUNJA_DATABASE_USER: vikunja
      VIKUNJA_DATABASE_DATABASE: vikunja
      VIKUNJA_SERVICE_JWTSECRET: supersecret
      VIKUNJA_SERVICE_FRONTENDURL: http://vikunja.myurl.com/
    ports:
      - 3456:3456
    volumes:
      - ./files:/app/vikunja/files
    depends_on:
      - db
    restart: unless-stopped
###  
  frontend:
    image: vikunja/frontend
    ports:
      - 8081:80
    environment:
      VIKUNJA_API_URL: http://192.168.40.200:3456/api/v1
    restart: unless-stopped
  proxy:
    image: nginx
    ports:
      - 75:80 #<== custom port
    volumes:
      - ./nginx.conf:/etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf:ro
    depends_on:
      - api
      - frontend
    restart: unless-stopped

I want to make my installation available from outside my LAN, and since my server runs apache, I figure I could use apache as my reverse proxy to route my url ( http://vikunja.myurl.com/ ) to the Nginx proxy server that Vikunja is using (in my case in localserver port 75). I created an apache conf as below,

<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerName vikunja.myurl.com

        # reverse proxy
        RewriteEngine on
        ProxyPreserveHost On
        ProxyRequests Off
        AllowEncodedSlashes On
        ProxyPass / http://localhost:75/
        ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:75/
</VirtualHost>

But my url http://vikunja.myurl.com/ fails to properly load the login page (it is stuck on loading). If I use the url in my local network, it works without issues.

Am I doing something wrong with the apache config file? Thanks for the help.

2

What’s in the apache logs?

Is your apache running on the docker host or in another docker container?

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Apache was running locally in the machine. The issue was the line below that had to be commented out otherwise it would conflict with the public url.

VIKUNJA_API_URL: http://192.168.40.200:3456/api/v1