Help needed deploying Appsmith: Error: listen EADDRINUSE: address already in use | Railway | Page 1

weary wren Jan 20, 2023, 12:57 AM

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Hey there!
We've recently started using Railway to deploy some internal tools for the team. I've been trying to deploy Appsmith for quite some time now since there is no template (yet?) from a github repo where I basically just copied the dockerfile that Appsmith provides for Heroku. The building worked, but the deployment always fails with "Error: listen EADDRINUSE: address already in use" followed by the Port. It then tries again with a new port no +1. I even tried setting the port to a set number through the variables. Also, Railway returns "Looks like your app is listening on 127.0.0.1. You may need to listen on 0.0.0.0 instead.". The app itself is accessible through the domain assigned automatically, but returns a 503 error. The MongoDB database I created and connected with the service is empty as well, but maybe it only gets populated later on?

I'd really appreciate any help! 🙂

📎 appsmith_error_log.txt

wheat drumBOT Jan 20, 2023, 12:57 AM

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Project ID: de8fd40f-5c56-4b76-9a51-565aeaa22151

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stable loom Jan 20, 2023, 12:59 AM

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Hey there @weary wren, can you give me your Project Id and I can look right into that for you.

weary wren Jan 20, 2023, 12:59 AM

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de8fd40f-5c56-4b76-9a51-565aeaa22151

stable loom Jan 20, 2023, 12:59 AM

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Sweet!

weary wren Jan 20, 2023, 12:59 AM

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Hey Angelo, that would be awesome! 🙂

stable loom Jan 20, 2023, 1:01 AM

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Can you give me the link to the Appsmith dockerfile?

weary wren Jan 20, 2023, 1:01 AM

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The one I created in our repo or where it fetches the env from?

stable loom Jan 20, 2023, 1:01 AM

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My gut feeling is that the Appsmith dockerfile is trying to use more than one port. This can be solved by spinning up additonal services in the way the service expects.

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The one that Appsmith provides.

weary wren Jan 20, 2023, 1:02 AM

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https://github.com/appsmithorg/appsmith/blob/ff6d8244d77641c2118e9ee06d020dc9be521cc6/deploy/heroku/Dockerfile

GitHub

appsmith/Dockerfile at ff6d8244d77641c2118e9ee06d020dc9be521cc6 · a...

Low code project to build admin panels, internal tools, and dashboards. Integrates with 15+ databases and any API. - appsmith/Dockerfile at ff6d8244d77641c2118e9ee06d020dc9be521cc6 · appsmithorg/ap...

stable loom Jan 20, 2023, 1:03 AM

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Perfect, breaking this down.

weary wren Jan 20, 2023, 1:03 AM

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Thanks a lot for your swift help! :9

stable loom Jan 20, 2023, 1:03 AM

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The big thing here that I see from your repo is that I see the docker-compose, I just wanna make sure we arent missing anything there

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Np!

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This is the highlight of my day

weary wren Jan 20, 2023, 1:04 AM

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Ya, just deleted it from our repo since I was fiddeling around with Github deploys, never done that before 😄

weary wren Jan 20, 2023, 1:04 AM

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stable loom This is the highlight of my day

same :p

stable loom Jan 20, 2023, 1:05 AM

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Okay one sec, digging into the logs and going to run it in my env. One sec

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Unrelated: Its a little funny, I just saw one of the PMs from Appsmith sign up for Railway

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We might be on their radar for support.

weary wren Jan 20, 2023, 1:08 AM

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as template?

stable loom Jan 20, 2023, 1:08 AM

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Anyway, I am adding some vars that they suggest.

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That would be good for us to have.

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I haven't emailed them but I will use this as a forcing function to email them.

weary wren Jan 20, 2023, 1:09 AM

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definitely, I was researching some of the options for low-code app-building UIs and this is by far the best one I found for our team.

stable loom Jan 20, 2023, 1:09 AM

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okay, a newer and more fun error

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*************************************************************************************************************
*      MongoDB Replica Set is not enabled                                                                   *
/opt/appsmith/entrypoint.sh: line 177: readWrite: command not found
/opt/appsmith/entrypoint.sh: line 177: clusterMonitor: command not found
*      Please ensure the credentials provided for MongoDB, has  and  roles.      *
*************************************************************************************************************

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Looking into this

weary wren Jan 20, 2023, 1:10 AM

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I also found this in their docs and tried the variables for MongoDB: https://docs.appsmith.com/getting-started/setup/installation-guides/docker/migrate

Migrate from Multi-Container setup | Appsmith

This guide will help you migrate your Appsmith instance running on the old stack (multiple containers), to the new stack (single container).

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don't know if those are the ones they are expecting; maybe also the ones in their Heroku doc: https://docs.appsmith.com/getting-started/setup/installation-guides/heroku

Heroku | Appsmith

Deploy appsmith on Heroku with our one click deploy option

stable loom Jan 20, 2023, 1:11 AM

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Well, I am wondering if its an issue with our Mongo or an issue with the vars I have yet to add

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Okay, lemme see if we expose that knob to enable replication.

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It seems like its us with our Mongo.

weary wren Jan 20, 2023, 1:15 AM

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sounds great, let me know if you need anything from my side 🙂

stable loom Jan 20, 2023, 1:24 AM

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Okay, just went back to the team. This is dependent on us allowing users to provision more than one DB per project, which is due for this quarter. You can give this an upvote -> https://feedback.railway.app/feature-requests/p/add-more-than-1-instance-of-an-addon

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We have hands on the keyboard as we speak.

weary wren Jan 20, 2023, 1:25 AM

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I see, thanks for looking into that! Will I get notified if I upvode once the feature has an ETA?

stable loom Jan 20, 2023, 1:39 AM

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Yep!

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Well I need to update that 😐

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Its in progress

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Out engineer: Greg is working on it

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personal two cents: one service that isn't cheap but I think worth for no code tooling is also Retool if you haven't tried it out

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in the meantime, I will try to engage with the Appsmith people

weary wren Jan 20, 2023, 1:02 PM

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Hey Angelo, thanks a lot, really! Extraordinary technical support, I'm super happy. I think we'll just keep using the cloud version of Appsmith until there's an update. Have a gret weekend! 🙂

unique nexus Aug 19, 2023, 11:19 AM

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Do you guys have a template to get Appsmith on Railway?

analog thorn Aug 19, 2023, 3:49 PM

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unique nexus Do you guys have a template to get Appsmith on Railway?

I'll give it a shot

analog thorn Aug 19, 2023, 4:34 PM

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unique nexus Do you guys have a template to get Appsmith on Railway?

let me know how this works for you!
https://railway.app/template/8cHdPG

unique nexus Aug 19, 2023, 6:11 PM

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yes works 👌

analog thorn Aug 19, 2023, 7:16 PM

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awesome, let me know if you have any issues with it in the future!

compact thistle Aug 25, 2023, 8:48 AM

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Hello @analog thorn I'm having an issue. After deploying Appsmith and open URL a keep getting error like on the image. Is there anything else need to be done beside deploying Appsmith? Thanks

analog thorn Aug 25, 2023, 2:44 PM

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is there any logs in the deployment?

compact thistle Aug 25, 2023, 3:28 PM

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On Deployment log the last two items

2023-08-25 15:21:16,171 INFO exited: backend (terminated by SIGKILL; not expected)
2023-08-25 15:21:16,173 INFO gave up: backend entered FATAL state, too many start retries too quickly

analog thorn Aug 25, 2023, 3:29 PM

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can you show me a screenshot of the service metrics?

compact thistle Aug 25, 2023, 3:32 PM

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Just upgrade to Hoby plan to try with it

analog thorn Aug 25, 2023, 3:34 PM

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yep this doesn't look like an issue with the template, it looks like you are running into the memory limitations of the trial plan (512mb) and the app crashed

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once you upgrade to the hobby plan, be sure to redoploy the app

compact thistle Aug 25, 2023, 3:37 PM

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just deleted everything and started from the scratch

analog thorn Aug 25, 2023, 3:37 PM

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damn okay

compact thistle Aug 25, 2023, 3:38 PM

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and it's up! thanks

analog thorn Aug 25, 2023, 3:44 PM

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no problem!!

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