How to change URL?

[Century1026]

I made changes here, but when I rebuild the project, server cant boot up for some errors. is this the correct way to modify url?

[wolflu05]

Please provide more information on what you're trying to do. It seems like you're using the development environment. I would recommend to start with the devcontainer, as with them it's really easy to spin up an development environment. But from your change with the site url, I'm thinking you want to run a production setup. So please follow these docs. They guide you on how to get started. If anything is still unclear then, feel free to comment again.

[Century1026]

Hi,
Thank you for your prompt response. I'm trying to costomize the URL, so that not only local user can access the system over the Internet.

[Century1026]

I'm acturally running devcontainer:)

[SchrodingersGat]

server cant boot up for some errors.

When making a question here, please include any error messages you are seeing. Otherwise there is no way we can help you out.

[Century1026]

After encountering the errors, I restored changes in docker-compose.yml and restarted my computer, then rebuilt dev-container again and no errors occurred. I just wanna make sure if this is the only way to change site URL because the huge amount of time of building the project is so annoying :(
If it is, I would write down the error messages and ask here again.

[Century1026]

Here's ouput when I rebuild devcontainer after making changes in docker-compose.yaml.
Honestly I don't think this can make others access system over Internet by simply altering localhost to another

Python version 3.11.8 - /home/inventree/dev/venv/bin/python3
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/django/core/validators.py", line 130, in call
super().call(value)
File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/django/core/validators.py", line 55, in call
raise ValidationError(self.message, code=self.code, params={"value": value})
django.core.exceptions.ValidationErrorPython version 3.11.8 - /home/inventree/dev/venv/bin/python3
: <exception str() failed>

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/inventree/src/backend/InvenTree/manage.py", line 24, in
main()
File "/home/inventree/src/backend/InvenTree/manage.py", line 20, in main
execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)
File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/django/core/management/init.py", line 442, in execute_from_command_line
utility.execute()
File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/django/core/management/init.py", line 382, in execute
settings.INSTALLED_APPS
File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/django/conf/init.py", line 102, in getattr
self._setup(name)
File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/django/conf/init.py", line 89, in _setup
self._wrapped = Settings(settings_module)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/django/conf/init.py", line 217, in init
mod = importlib.import_module(self.SETTINGS_MODULE)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/lib/python3.11/importlib/init.py", line 126, in import_module
return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "", line 1204, in _gcd_import
File "", line 1176, in _find_and_load
File "", line 1147, in _find_and_load_unlocked
File "", line 690, in _load_unlocked
File "", line 940, in exec_module
File "", line 241, in _call_with_frames_removed
File "/home/inventree/src/backend/InvenTree/InvenTree/settings.py", line 1026, in
validator(SITE_URL)
File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/django/core/validators.py", line 140, in call
super().call(url)
File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/django/core/validators.py", line 55, in call
raise ValidationError(self.message, code=self.code, params={"value": value})
django.core.exceptions.ValidationErrorPython version 3.11.8 - /home/inventree/dev/venv/bin/python3
: <exception str() failed>

[SchrodingersGat]

@Century1026 two questions:

SITE_URL

File "/home/inventree/src/backend/InvenTree/InvenTree/settings.py", line 1026, in
validator(SITE_URL)

This would indicate that the SITE_URL is invalid (for some reason). Can you share what you are trying to set it to?

Devcontainer

Honestly I don't think this can make others access system over Internet by simply altering localhost to another

Are you trying to get others to access a system you are running in the devcontainer setup? That is only intended for devlopment and not production, I doubt it would work in that way at all...

[Century1026]

1. I made it my username: "century1026" lol
   

2. Altight, I'll try to figure out how production work, thanks!

[SchrodingersGat]

made it my username: "century1026"

That's.. not going to work. You have to point it to a location that is resovable by DNS

[Century1026]

Yeah, you're right, URL like that requires DNS.
I configured production successfully but it's like running on original static code. Is it possible to turn modified code under development into production so that people over Internet can access my redeveloped system?

[SchrodingersGat]

@Century1026 yes, but requires some tweaking to get working.

If you have a DNS pointing to the server where you're running the devcontainer docker setup, it should work. However it is up to you to ensure that the routing is working correctly (webserver setup is outside the scope of what we'd normally help debug on here)...

[Century1026]

@wolflu05 @SchrodingersGat
I used ngrok to create a url with port 80 forwarded and added port 80 on firewall. I also changed devcontainer.json and docker-compose.yml and rebuilt dev-container. It generated a link 0.0.0.0:80, but I failed to access it even on my computer.
I know it's out of the scope of questioning. Any suggestions would help, please.

[SchrodingersGat]

Is it possible that you have another server already running on port 80?

I tried the following, from the "stock" devcontainer config (i.e. no changes out of the box).

From the command line, run invoke server -a 0.0.0.0:8888

Then, the server is available on port 8888 (change as per your requirements). No other adjustments should be needded.

[Century1026]

Is it possible that you have another server already running on port 80?

I tried the following, from the "stock" devcontainer config (i.e. no changes out of the box).

From the command line, run invoke server -a 0.0.0.0:8888

Then, the server is available on port 8888 (change as per your requirements). No other adjustments should be needded.

Thank you so much! It worked!!
However, I encountered the same login issue as before while logging in from the new forwarded url.

This is the last step, I'm so excited!

[Century1026]

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[SchrodingersGat]

What IP are you accessing the site from? You will need to add the IP to the "ALLOWED_HOSTS" and "CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS" config values:

https://docs.inventree.org/en/stable/start/config/#server-access

[Century1026]

Thank you so much! I finally made it!
Oliver you are goat!