AWS EC2 Instance and omitting port 8080 in URL

[lanchingmaa]

Sorry for the n00b question, but I hacked my way through a Wekan install using Snap. Thank you, it was super easy. I am demo'ing this for a local BSA troop and I will commit to a paid version of AWS and support WeKan anyway I can, but I am not familiar with how to point the app URL to a subdomain I am hosting somewhere else. I think I got that part right, but since the AWS EC2 instance needs port 8080 as defined in the config, it needs to be https://0.0.0.0:8080

I want to create a subdomain with my paid host that will point to the EC2 instance, but how can I omit the need to tell AWS to use 8080?

[xet7]

@lanchingmaa

Hmm, it's not so easy actually. It's tricky.

If this shows you are running Stable, it's the old version:

sudo snap list

So you need to delete all data, and change to newest WeKan this way:

sudo snap refresh wekan --channel=latest/candidate

sudo snap stop wekan

sudo rm -rf /var/snap/wekan/common/*

sudo snap start wekan

For setting up at what port WeKan is running:

sudo snap set wekan port='8080'

If you have some SSL/TLS webserver proxy like Caddy/Nginx/Apache (see config at https://github.com/wekan/wekan/wiki right menu) that proxies from HTTPS port 443 https://boards.example.com to WeKan HTTP port 8080 of Node.js, then you setup that URL this way:

sudo snap set wekan root-url='https://boards.example.com'

First registered user will be Admin, and have available menu option right top username / Admin Panel. There at Settings/Layout it's possible to add custom logo. There are also settings for disabling self-registation, adding people/users, etc.

If you install mongodb tools, you can make backup with:

sudo snap stop wekan.wekan

mongodump --port 27019

sudo snap start wekan.wekan

That will create dump subdirectory.
Restoring is with:

sudo snap stop wekan.wekan

mongorestore --drop --port 27019

sudo snap start wekan.wekan

For Snap, there is automatic updates. Or, you can manually force immediate update, with:

sudo snap refresh