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October 22, 2020 at 12:30pm

For example, in Wekan Snap, set ROOT_URL to your computer IP address:

sudo snap set wekan root-url='http://192.168.0.100'
sudo snap set wekan port='80'

There is no need for Nginx, you can stop that.

Alternatively, set some other port:

sudo snap set wekan root-url='http://192.168.0.100:2000'
sudo snap set wekan port='2000'
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    Boards do have human readable names at end of URL, it is generated from board name/title/topic, whichever you like to call it. When you change board name, also board URL changes.

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      Thanks, you are right I forgot to mention that I am using Wekan Snap. I have followed the instructions about root-url. And though it works as you say with http://192.168.0.100 but it doesn't work if root-url='http://example.com'. I only provided the url format to indicate that I have set up root-url correctly and it is trying to do the right thing, but something is preventing it from actually loading the card. I understand this https://github.com/wekan/wekan/issues/2896#issuecomment-577257140 and I can make it work with solution 1. For solution 2, I have enabled the DHCP server on my router and matched the root-url with the hostname for my laptop. Do you know of any router or linux network settings that may affect this? I will try again without nginx to see if that makes a mess of things and failing that try to actually set wekan up to be accessible from the internet as example 1 from https://github.com/wekan/wekan/wiki/Settings Thanks again, really nice application.

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        If you have some exising domain, or buy some domain and set it's nameserver A record pointing to your IP addess, it does work.

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          Hosts file probably does not work for domain names that have dot

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            Or, set some subdomain pointing to your Wekan server IP address

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              For some website to be visible at Internet, usually it needs ports 80 and 443 open to Internet

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                Also, if you have subdomain that points to your private IP address like 192.168.0.100 , it does work inside your local network for all devices, but not at Internet, because private LAN IP addresses are not routed to Internet

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                  BTW, for programmers: There is currently in progress Meteor.js Impact free online conference https://impact.meteor.com , some talks are now in progress, and all of the conference talks are recorded

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                    There are talks about scaling Meteor, PWAs, etc etc

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                      October 22, 2020 at 2:40pm

                      Thanks again for the pointers.

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                        November 18, 2020 at 3:07pm

                        Hello, How can I transfer my Wekan docker-db? I transer "volumes:

                        - ./wekan-db:/data/db" but if I start docker-compose it's didn't start (eternal restarting docker-db)
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                          how can I migrate Wekan-db if I have only "./wekan-db:/data/db" from my other server

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                            November 18, 2020 at 7:53pm

                            You copy raw MongoDB files to same version of MongoDB database server raw file directory, start MongoDB, do mongodump, restore to Wekan Snap or Wekan Docker

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                              November 18, 2020 at 10:52pm

                              thanks for reply, I have broken docker container with wekan I can't start any docker services on my old VM so can I just transfer my wekan-db directory? because I can't start wekan-db docker and do backup. Have you any advise?

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                                Yes, you just copy your wekan-db directory with those raw mongodb database files to another computer where you have working mongodb of same version

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                                  you replace those mongodb files on when mongodb is not running

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                                    and then start mongodb

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                                      and then try mongodump

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                                        November 19, 2020 at 9:44am

                                        and then start mongodb

                                          can't start wekan-mongo-db container if I replace all mongodb files

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                                            if I replaced mongodb files it trigered to infinoty restarting wekan db container

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                                              but if I delete / clear back mongo-db directory it's works fine again

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                                                November 19, 2020 at 1:44pm

                                                Does it give any errors? docker logs wekan-db

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