# Error using Vikunja in Portainer **URL:** \ **Category:** Support\ **Created:** [2 October 2023 09:03 UTC](https://community.vikunja.io/t/error-using-vikunja-in-portainer/1673 "2023-10-02T09:03:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![puppet9](https://community.vikunja.io/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/a88e4f/32.png) [@puppet9](https://community.vikunja.io/u/puppet9)\ **Post date:** [2 October 2023 09:03 UTC](https://community.vikunja.io/t/error-using-vikunja-in-portainer/1673/1 "2023-10-02T09:03:18Z")
Hello, this is my first post so I want to thank the vikunja ppl and the community for this terrific tool 🙂 I had Vikunja running for some weeks in my local network only with no problems. Then I decided to make it available from outside using my Domain, SSL and **nginx proxy manager** using **portainer** but ran into some strange behaviour making it impossible to use vikunja. **The Symtoms:** - The Loginpage wasn´t reachable using the Domain. I had to use the IP of my host system to create my user. Error: API wasn´t reachable. Althoug I´m gettin a response from [https://myDomain.tld/api/v1](https://myDomain.tld/api/v1) - Sometimes my Tasks dont show up and it shows a “Internal Server Error” in the left bottom corner of the screen. After refreshing the page… everythings loads fine. - I´m getting this error 500 in my API logs from time to time (maybe 50% of connections) ![Bildschirmfoto 2023-10-02 um 11.04.46](https://community.vikunja.io/uploads/default/original/1X/1e63b71c0f69ed8d3a80750a6b25fe04c60358eb.png) ```auto 2023-10-02T08:50:06.290581029Z: ERROR ▶ handler/ReadAllWeb 1812 Error 1698 (28000): Access denied for user 'vikunja'@'172.24.0.9' ``` Pinging the DB from API Container is possible without any errors and I can´t see any container beeing unstable or rebooting… Here is my docker-compose.yaml… ```auto version: '3' services: db: image: mariadb:10 command: --character-set-server=utf8mb4 --collation-server=utf8mb4_unicode_ci environment: MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: SOMEPASSWORD MYSQL_USER: vikunja MYSQL_PASSWORD: SOMEPASSWORD MYSQL_DATABASE: vikunja volumes: - /home/manu/volumes/vikunja/db:/var/lib/mysql restart: unless-stopped networks: - nginxproxymanager_default api: image: vikunja/api environment: VIKUNJA_DATABASE_HOST: db VIKUNJA_DATABASE_PASSWORD: SOMEPASSWORD VIKUNJA_DATABASE_TYPE: mysql VIKUNJA_DATABASE_USER: vikunja VIKUNJA_DATABASE_DATABASE: vikunja VIKUNJA_SERVICE_JWTSECRET: SOMEPASSWORD VIKUNJA_SERVICE_FRONTENDURL: https://todos.mydomain.de/ volumes: - /home/manu/volumes/vikunja/files:/app/vikunja/files depends_on: - db restart: unless-stopped networks: - nginxproxymanager_default frontend: image: vikunja/frontend restart: unless-stopped networks: - nginxproxymanager_default proxy: image: nginx ports: - 8081:80 volumes: - /home/manu/volumes/vikunja/nginx.conf:/etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf:ro depends_on: - api - frontend restart: unless-stopped networks: - nginxproxymanager_default networks: nginxproxymanager_default: name: nginxproxymanager_default external: true ``` Here is some more info on my network: (docker ps) ```auto CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES 893d8fb1a340 nginx "/docker-entrypoint.…" 57 minutes ago Up 57 minutes 0.0.0.0:8081->80/tcp, :::8081->80/tcp vikunja-proxy-1 b617da98b978 vikunja/api "/sbin/tini -g -- /e…" 57 minutes ago Up 57 minutes 3456/tcp vikunja-api-1 f6387b9d94cb mariadb:10 "docker-entrypoint.s…" 57 minutes ago Up 57 minutes 3306/tcp vikunja-db-1 d5f27eca07c1 vikunja/frontend "/docker-entrypoint.…" 57 minutes ago Up 57 minutes 80/tcp vikunja-frontend-1 adb2b4aa9c4d nextcloud "/entrypoint.sh apac…" 2 hours ago Up 2 hours 0.0.0.0:8084->80/tcp, :::8084->80/tcp nextcloud bdcf8636481b mariadb "docker-entrypoint.s…" 2 hours ago Up 2 hours 3306/tcp maria-db 5280a1b77548 lscr.io/linuxserver/duplicati:latest "/init" 20 hours ago Up 20 hours 0.0.0.0:8082->8200/tcp, :::8082->8200/tcp duplicati b79b2b68a530 jc21/nginx-proxy-manager:latest "/init" 24 hours ago Up 23 hours 0.0.0.0:80->80/tcp, :::80->80/tcp, 0.0.0.0:443->443/tcp, :::443->443/tcp, 0.0.0.0:8080->81/tcp, :::8080->81/tcp nginxproxymanager-app-1 b63442530005 jc21/mariadb-aria:latest "/scripts/run.sh" 24 hours ago Up 23 hours 3306/tcp nginxproxymanager-db-1 fd19786dbf3a portainer/portainer-ce:latest "/portainer" 5 days ago Up 23 hours 0.0.0.0:8000->8000/tcp, :::8000->8000/tcp, 0.0.0.0:9443->9443/tcp, :::9443->9443/tcp, 9000/tcp portainer ``` Thank you! ---
**Author:** ![kolaente](https://community.vikunja.io/user_avatar/community.vikunja.io/kolaente/32/5_2.png) [@kolaente](https://community.vikunja.io/u/kolaente)\ **Post date:** [3 October 2023 09:24 UTC](https://community.vikunja.io/t/error-using-vikunja-in-portainer/1673/2 "2023-10-03T09:24:51Z")
> [@puppet9](#): > > The Loginpage wasn´t reachable using the Domain. I had to use the IP of my host system to create my user. Error: API wasn´t reachable. Althoug I´m gettin a response from [https://myDomain.tld/api/v1](https://myDomain.tld/api/v1) Did you expose the api and frontend? Did you set up cors so that it is reachable via the domain? > [@puppet9](#): > > Althoug I´m gettin a response from [https://myDomain.tld/api/v1](https://myDomain.tld/api/v1) Which response? Any errors in the logs? ---
**Author:** ![puppet9](https://community.vikunja.io/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/a88e4f/32.png) [@puppet9](https://community.vikunja.io/u/puppet9)\ **Post date:** [3 October 2023 11:43 UTC](https://community.vikunja.io/t/error-using-vikunja-in-portainer/1673/3 "2023-10-03T11:43:49Z")
Hello, when I visit [https://myDomain.tld/api/v1](https://mydomain.tld/api/v1) in the browser, im getting this response: `{"message":"missing or malformed jwt"}` I did not set up CORS but vikunja is handling 50% of the requests fine, so I didn´t think it could be a CORS problem. I´ll give it a try anyway. Thank you! ---
**Author:** ![puppet9](https://community.vikunja.io/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/a88e4f/32.png) [@puppet9](https://community.vikunja.io/u/puppet9)\ **Post date:** [3 October 2023 12:02 UTC](https://community.vikunja.io/t/error-using-vikunja-in-portainer/1673/4 "2023-10-03T12:02:40Z")
When i log in, sometimes my Projects are not showing up, but after hitting F5 for a couple of times the projects and tasks are suddenly loading. This is the error in the API-Log: ```auto 2023-10-03T12:00:26.576951672Z: ERROR ▶ handler/ReadAllWeb 5a20 Error 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'vikunja'@'172.24.0.9' (using password: YES) ``` Looks like the API sometimes cant access the DB. But I cant see why… It looks like CORS is enabled by default. > **[Config options | Vikunja](https://vikunja.io/docs/config-options/)** ---
**Author:** ![puppet9](https://community.vikunja.io/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/a88e4f/32.png) [@puppet9](https://community.vikunja.io/u/puppet9)\ **Post date:** [3 October 2023 12:11 UTC](https://community.vikunja.io/t/error-using-vikunja-in-portainer/1673/5 "2023-10-03T12:11:35Z")
hmm, I just tried to access vikunja using the local IP of my host and I´m getting the same errors. Looks like some DB problem to me. ---
**Author:** ![puppet9](https://community.vikunja.io/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/a88e4f/32.png) [@puppet9](https://community.vikunja.io/u/puppet9)\ **Post date:** [3 October 2023 12:56 UTC](https://community.vikunja.io/t/error-using-vikunja-in-portainer/1673/6 "2023-10-03T12:56:17Z")
ok, I switched to sqlite. Everything works fine now… Problem solved 🙂