[SOLVED] Sefl-hosted appwrite function domain

[wild pulsar]

Hey all. I'm having trouble hosting my appwrite function domain. First, I already registered a domain say, example.com, and I have configured wildcard ssl certificate and wildcard domain to host my appwrite on this example.domain (appwrite.example.com), and I also configured nginx to proxy_pass appwrite.example.com to localhost. I also changed _APP_DOMAIN_FUNCTIONS in .env to appwrite.example.com. Everything works fine until I deploy a function and a random function ID is assigned to the appwrie.example.com domain. It seems that I have to configure wildcard * to appwrite.example.com. And, the domain section in the function section doesnt have a CNAME.

and how to setup wildcard domain for deployed functions in nginx so it can pass to appwrite on localhost ?

[glass quail]

The function domain should be different than your main domain

Like functions.example.com. then, you'll need to make sure *.functions.example.com points to appwrite.example.com using a cname record.

Then, configure nginx to forward the traffic

[wild pulsar]

Thanks for your quick response. I guess I missed configuring appwrite function domain. _APP_DOMAIN_FUNCTIONS must have functions subdomain on top of backend.example.com right ?

[wild pulsar]

it already points to the IP of my server, when I run nslookup function_id.backend.example.com, it returns the IP of my server

[glass quail]

Hmm okay so maybe something is wrong with nginx. Does the main Appwrite domain work?

[wild pulsar]

yeap. It works perfectly. I already configured wildcard ssl and can visit via https://appwrite.my_domain.com

[glass quail]

Okay what's the nginx config for both domains?

[wild pulsar]

This is my domain config in namecheap

and this is the nginx block for my appwrite

do I need to add a .function.backend.my_domain.com to nginx ?

[glass quail]

Wait what about nslookup function_id.functions.backend.example.com?

[glass quail]

Of course

You need a config that points *.functions.example.com to your Appwrite instance

[glass quail]

And you might need another ssl cert too

[wild pulsar]

Still point to the server’s ip

[wild pulsar]

Yeap. But the proxy_pass is still http://localhost:9000 or it might be another value? I’m not clear about this

[glass quail]

Same value as your main Appwrite domain

[wild pulsar]

I tried that. the https://function_id.backend.my_domain.com display the content of the main page https://my_domain.com

[glass quail]

You mean it shows your Appwrite console?

[wild pulsar]

nope. Another webpage I hosted on https://my_domain.com . Appwrite console is on https://backend.my_domain.com

Do you have a sample nginx configuration in case? I read some threads on appwrite supports already but it doesn't work from my understanding Lol

[glass quail]

What's your nginx config?

I use nginx proxy manager because I don't want to deal with nginx configs 😅

[glass quail]

wait can you make your function domain env var different from your main domain env var?

but also, your nginx config should just be something like:

server_name *.functions.example.com backend.example.com;

[wild pulsar]

Hi @glass quail , thank you so much for your support. I figured out my problem. I didn't create a new txt record for my wildcard *.backend.my_domain.com. Initially I used ssl cerf from letsencrypt for wildcard at the fist level *.my_domain.com for the second level subdomain, and ssl cerf from letsencrypt only works for a single wildcard domain.

[glass quail]

so all good now? Can this be marked as solved?

[wild pulsar]

Yeap