Hey folks! I've tried two different VPS providers ...
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thankful-waiter-26391
12/22/2022, 4:44 PMHey folks! I've tried two different VPS providers to spin VMs with GrowthBook using both the latest docker image and one from a week ago from Docker Hub.
I had edited docker-compose.yml to include my VM's external IP address
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growthbook:
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environment:
- APP_ORIGIN=http://<my ip>:3000
- API_HOST=http://<my ip>:3100f
fresh-football-47124
12/22/2022, 4:47 PM
Can you go directly the API url?
fresh-football-47124
12/22/2022, 4:47 PM
you should see a json object
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thankful-waiter-26391
12/22/2022, 4:56 PMI sadly get ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT
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fresh-football-47124
12/22/2022, 4:58 PM
ya, that’s the problem
fresh-football-47124
12/22/2022, 4:59 PM
why are you using two different VPS providers?
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thankful-waiter-26391
12/22/2022, 5:00 PMI just meant that I was using my go-to one, but I got this error. To troubleshoot, I decided to switch to another one.
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fresh-football-47124
12/22/2022, 5:00 PM
I see
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thankful-waiter-26391
12/22/2022, 5:00 PMI'm only using one at a time, it's not distributed. Both growthbook and mongo images are running on one VM.
thankful-waiter-26391
12/22/2022, 5:01 PMIt's weird, because it seems that APP_ORIGIN setting works, but not API_HOST
thankful-waiter-26391
12/22/2022, 5:01 PMThough I'm litterally using the same IP in them
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fresh-football-47124
12/22/2022, 5:09 PM
what VPS are you using?
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thankful-waiter-26391
12/22/2022, 5:13 PMCurrently Ubuntu 22.04 with 1 vCPU and 2 GB RAM. but initially I tried it on Ubuntu 22.04 with 12 CPU and 64 GB RAM
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fresh-football-47124
12/22/2022, 5:13 PM
I mean, aws?
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thankful-waiter-26391
12/22/2022, 5:15 PMOh, no, just cheaper Eastern European VPS provders...
thankful-waiter-26391
12/22/2022, 5:21 PM Copy code
git clone <https://github.com/growthbook/growthbook.git>
cd growthbook
<then I edited docker-compose.yml to include my IP>
docker-compose up -df
fresh-football-47124
12/22/2022, 5:22 PM
okay
fresh-football-47124
12/22/2022, 5:28 PM
It should work, seems there is some networking issues with the VPS
fresh-football-47124
12/22/2022, 5:28 PM
Sometimes communication between docker containers is problematic
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thankful-waiter-26391
12/22/2022, 5:36 PM@fresh-football-47124 Okay, thank you! I'll try maybe another VPS provider and a different distro... Luckily nowadays you can pay per hour or even minute of your instance running 🙂
thankful-waiter-26391
12/22/2022, 5:38 PMCan I ask in this very thread as well about ClickHouse support? I've been reading contradicting posts online. Is it possible to connect to ClickHouse from GrowthBook?
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fresh-football-47124
12/22/2022, 5:38 PM
We use ubuntu - I dont think that’s the issue
fresh-football-47124
12/22/2022, 5:38 PM
if you can’t get packets to the the API
fresh-football-47124
12/22/2022, 5:39 PM
Yes, you can connect from GrowthBook to Clickhouse
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thankful-waiter-26391
12/22/2022, 5:42 PM@fresh-football-47124 Thank you for your help, I'll post here if something new pops up in regards to this issue for the communnity benefit 👍
thankful-waiter-26391
12/24/2022, 2:44 AMTurns out one has also to set up JWT_SECRET with a random string in docker-compose.yml to run it on external IP:
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version: "3"
services:
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growthbook:
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environment:
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- JWT_SECRET='<random_string>' Copy code
Error: Cannot use JWT_SECRET=dev in production. Please set to a long random stringf
fresh-football-47124
12/24/2022, 2:56 AM
ah, yes
fresh-football-47124
12/24/2022, 2:57 AM
thanks for the update
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fresh-football-47124
12/24/2022, 2:57 AM
perhaps I’ll add something to the FAQ for this
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