[SOLVED] Where to locate web page to confirm password recovery

[broken rose]

Hi. I'm trying to implement password recovery in my app, but I have met issue with locating web page on my server. I created simple html file which will confirm password recovery called recovery.html. Also I have my own domain - https://chowapp.site, which opens appwrite console. I want to open c password recovery confirm page by such link https://chowapp.site/recovery.html. Where should I locate file to achieve that?

[dreamy cave]

Are you using a VPS to host your appwrite instance?

Considering that you've self-hosted, you should have access to some sort of a terminal, which you must have used to install and setup appwrite.

You can use this terminal to point chowapp.site/recovery.html to the html file you created.

That's a very high-level explanation, so here's what I did.

I use nginx as my webserver.
my domain is example.com.

in my nginx config, all requests to example.com/ go to the appwrite console.
a request to example.com/fail will take the user to a locally-hosted html file.
and so on

you can do this with any webserver

[broken rose]

Thanks for answer! I will work on this direction.

[dreamy cave]

If you face any issues or need any help, feel free to tag me in this thread!

[SOLVED] Where to locate web page to confirm password recovery

[broken rose]

Hello again. I'm sorry to bother you. I probably almost did it, but I got stuck in one place. I decided to use Nginx Proxy Manager like here: https://medium.com/@stnguyen90/how-to-run-appwrite-behind-nginx-19348ed34243. Next, I created a docker container with an html file that I need. Via IP:Port I get access to file without any problems, as well as through the main domain using NPM, but I want my file to be located in this way example.com/recovery and when using the custom-domains tab with such parameters, I get a 404 error.

[broken rose]

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[olive bough]

Next, I created a docker container with an html file that I need.

How does that work exactly?

[eager elk]

Appwrite let you to set the url to redirect when a user asks for a password recovery:

Check:
https://appwrite.io/docs/client/account?sdk=web-default#accountCreateRecovery

[broken rose]

Firstly I created image by this Dockerfile:

COPY . /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/

COPY cert1.pem /usr/local/apache2/conf/server.crt
COPY privkey1.pem /usr/local/apache2/conf/server.key

RUN sed -i \
        -e 's/^#\(Include .*httpd-ssl.conf\)/\1/' \
        -e 's/^#\(LoadModule .*mod_ssl.so\)/\1/' \
        -e 's/^#\(LoadModule .*mod_socache_shmcb.so\)/\1/' \
        conf/httpd.conf

And then run container with following command: docker run -dit --name recovery -p 2024:80 -p 2025:443 recovery

[olive bough]

Interesting...so you can browser to port http://<ip>:2024/recovery and it works?

[broken rose]

Yes

[olive bough]

so chowapp.site is already for appwrite...you want to use a different domain for this recovery page?

[broken rose]

I want to use chowapp.site/recovery for recovery page.

[olive bough]

i think forward hostname and port are incorrect. that should be how you access the page

[broken rose]

You mean error somewhere here? I've tried launch this container on chowapp.site instead of appwrite-traefik and it was working fine.

[olive bough]

yes, there.

I've tried launch this container on chowapp.site

I don't know what you mean.

How are you testing the page when it works? what are you browsing to?

[broken rose]

I mean, if I use docker container (in my case recovery) in Details tab, everything works. When you enter chowapp.site, it throws you to the password recovery page. But if I specify this on the custom locations tab, then when I enter show chowapp/recovery, I have a 404 error. Maybe I'm moving in the wrong direction at all, because this is my first big project.

[olive bough]

if I use docker container (in my case recovery) in Details tab, everything works

What do you mean?

[olive bough]

you said you got this running. how did you verify it's running? What did you browse to in your browser?

[broken rose]

I mean recovery from npm_gateway, where I added docker container which contains html file earlier.

        "Name": "npm_gateway",
        "Id": "08281cac18ef52c3e017952eda1567c50a09c6d2ed2694b3b7a3dc948fc92682",
        "Created": "2023-05-11T14:35:48.217696676+03:00",
        "Scope": "local",
        "Driver": "bridge",
        "EnableIPv6": false,
 ///
        "Containers": "217b1763e5f2717d6c42bde61d71fbadae330e45a5b347943e35068efd82e066": {
                "Name": "recovery",
                "EndpointID": "35d81b3ef7aec828acadb090ca4a1c84fbe355ec52fe940ccf56553c123a0954",
                "MacAddress": "02:42:ac:15:00:02",
                "IPv4Address": "172.21.0.2/16",
                "IPv6Address": ""
            },
            "32ccc54dd367f7d479181cf278b4dd7a351f36304a11412e871b1fd30edd0bf6": {
                "Name": "npm-app-1",
                "EndpointID": "42a6efa66fbb9ce7daa30eba67cca6302ec37d700141f0f68f5f6d5a31f9f1d1",
                "MacAddress": "02:42:ac:15:00:03",
                "IPv4Address": "172.21.0.3/16",
                "IPv6Address": ""
            },
            "efad25ce4ae75f56ad7cbb1099ab9ce7c55e85491160e410e69c379cf113a60b": {
                "Name": "appwrite-traefik",
                "EndpointID": "9f306ada0577d375443d23ed6b2fbd12b1c7f4d027889b1baba76db23c6ee0e8",
                "MacAddress": "02:42:ac:15:00:04",
                "IPv4Address": "172.21.0.4/16",
                "IPv6Address": ""
            }
        },
        "Options": {},
        "Labels": {
            "com.docker.compose.network": "gateway",
            "com.docker.compose.project": "npm",
            "com.docker.compose.version": "2.15.1"
        }
    }

[olive bough]

you said you browsed to it and it worked...what did you browse to?

[broken rose]

Just browsing https://chowapp.site and I got to the needed page

[olive bough]

Do you see the recovery page when you browse to this?

How do you see the recovery page?

[broken rose]

I just temporarily replaced it to check if recovery works as hostname. Now I have returned everything and the appwrite console returns on request. Previously, it opened as needed.

[olive bough]

What exactly did you put in the url without NPM?

[olive bough]

How about you try putting recovery/recovery for the hostname?

[broken rose]

I can't understand you. Checked through https://chowapp.site/. As forward hostname used recovery with the same protocol and port.

[broken rose]

I didn't help.

[olive bough]

would you please share a screenshot of your npm config?

[broken rose]

Where I can find that?

[olive bough]

these

[broken rose]

I haven't changed them, they are the same so far.

[olive bough]

i asked you to change hte hostname from recovery to recovery/recovery

[olive bough]

would you please share the output of docker inspect recovery?

[olive bough]

is your recovery page blank?

btw, your recovery page doesn't need to be on the same domain as your appwrite instance

[broken rose]

It contained a simple form for entering a password and confirmation, but I only noticed that it is empty and the Index OF was written when accessing by IP. Before that, I was restarting the server, perhaps because of this. Anyway thanks for taking the time. It seems to me that I need to completely go through all the stages of creation, because I have recreated and changed a lot of things, and because of this something is probably going wrong.