Self-Hosting: Unable to Create Account - AxiosError: Network Error

[kojid0]

I was able to set up a self-hosted instance of ente following the instructions (running on a debian12 server).
Unfortunately, I get an Unhandled Runtime Error (AxiosError: Network Error) when I try to create an account.

The server has internet access, otherwise the installation of ente would have failed. But I haven't set up a SMTP Email-Server yet. Maybe this is the reason? How to do this?

[mnvr]

But I haven't set up a SMTP Email-Server yet. Maybe this is the reason?

No, the SMTP server is not the reason, that only comes later when you need an OTP. You also don't need to set an SMTP server if you just need an OTP code, there are other ways as mentioned here - https://help.ente.io/self-hosting/faq/otp

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The server has internet access, otherwise the installation of ente would have failed.

The installation worked, but you still need to ask the web app that you're running to connect to the right endpoint. I think the issue here is that the web app is not connecting to the correct endpoint.

e.g. if you run the web app this way

NEXT_PUBLIC_ENTE_ENDPOINT=http://localhost:8080 yarn dev

then you'll need to make sure that your server is indeed running on http://localhost:8080 (or whatever is the IP of the instance your running it on).

You don't even need to run the web app to verify connectivity. e.g. you can run

curl http://localhost:8080/ping

to check that the NEXT_PUBLIC_ENTE_ENDPOINT you are setting is reachable from where you are trying to run the web app.

[acmartinsalmeida]

Hi !
Same error here

Even if

From server

curl http://localhost:8080/ping
{"id":"development-cluster","message":"pong"}

The only difference is that i'm using IP of server instead of localhost to reach webapp eg : http://192.168.1.xxx:3000

Maybe a problem with cors ?

I've set up nginx with static web app and i get the same error

SMTP is indeed configured

Does @kojid0 succed ?

[mnvr]

You will also need to provide the IP of the the server (museum) to the webapp when you're starting the web app

e.g.

NEXT_PUBLIC_ENTE_ENDPOINT=http://192.168.1.xxx:8080 yarn dev

NEXT_PUBLIC_ENTE_ENDPOINT tells the web app where it should connect to for making API requests. Since you're getting axios errors, it means the web app is not able to reach the correct place. SMTP is not the issue.

[acmartinsalmeida]

Thank you for point me out to this.
I've setup my 3 s3 local and now i can upload..
But it does not show thumbnail

What i miss ?

[mnvr]

That is a bit surprising, I'm not sure why your thumbnail cache is not getting created. I've modified the code so that it works even without the thumbnail cache - #1552 - so if you pull the latest main branch, that issue would go away.

But it would be great if you could try and figure out why your thumbnailCache is not being initialized (this issue is not related to self hosting, maybe it is something specific to your browser). Could you tell the following information:

• What browser are you using
• If you are using private mode

In the logs (Sidebar > Debug logs), could you also see if you get some error message when the app tries to initialize this thumbnail cache. You can look for a line like this "Failed to open thumbnail cache, will continue without it" which will be followed by the error. Thank you!

[acmartinsalmeida]

It works now ^^

My browser is Firefox 125.0.2 (64 bits) on Debian Bookworm

I'm not using private mode

In Sidebar > Debug logs

[2024-04-29T05:21:47.197Z] [error] Failed to open thumbnail cache, will continue without it: ReferenceError: caches is not defined
openWebCache@webpack-internal:///../../packages/next/blob-cache.ts:65:19
openCache@webpack-internal:///../../packages/next/blob-cache.ts:22:117
init@webpack-internal:///./src/services/download/index.ts:39:100
main@webpack-internal:///./src/pages/gallery/index.tsx:261:78

Ente is not installed at localhost. It is installed on a server (Debian Bookworm too) on the same network

hope it helps