Unable to start Plausible using docker-compose

[stefanomarty]

I'd like to test a self-hosted instance of Plausible, so I started following the instructions:

• git clone of hosting
• docker-compose up --detach

Server is Debian 10. I just put an Apache proxy in front of Plausible to use https, and changed the variables in plausible-conf.env.

Everything looks fine and I can see the process listening on port 8888/tcp (I changed from 8000 to 8888 to avoid a conflict with another container):

ss -tulpn | grep 8888
tcp    LISTEN  0       128                                              *:8888                                             *:*                                   users:(("docker-proxy",pid=18166,fd=4))

Server at https://URL:8888 is unreacheable.

If I try to load the page with https I get a Proxy error:

Proxy Error
The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server.
The proxy server could not handle the request

Reason: Error reading from remote server

Checking the docker-compose logs I found the following warnings:

plausible_events_db_1  | 2020.12.23 17:35:50.452592 [ 1 ] {} <Warning> Application: Listen [::]:8123 failed: Poco::Exception. Code: 1000, e.code() = 0, e.displayText() = DNS error: EAI: Address family for hostname not supported (version 20.12.3.3 (official build)). If it is an IPv6 or IPv4 address and your host has disabled IPv6 or IPv4, then consider to specify not disabled IPv4 or IPv6 address to listen in <listen_host> element of configuration file. Example for disabled IPv6: <listen_host>0.0.0.0</listen_host> . Example for disabled IPv4: <listen_host>::</listen_host>
plausible_events_db_1  | 2020.12.23 17:35:50.453092 [ 1 ] {} <Warning> Application: Listen [::]:9000 failed: Poco::Exception. Code: 1000, e.code() = 0, e.displayText() = DNS error: EAI: Address family for hostname not supported (version 20.12.3.3 (official build)). If it is an IPv6 or IPv4 address and your host has disabled IPv6 or IPv4, then consider to specify not disabled IPv4 or IPv6 address to listen in <listen_host> element of configuration file. Example for disabled IPv6: <listen_host>0.0.0.0</listen_host> . Example for disabled IPv4: <listen_host>::</listen_host>
plausible_events_db_1  | 2020.12.23 17:35:50.453386 [ 1 ] {} <Warning> Application: Listen [::]:9009 failed: Poco::Exception. Code: 1000, e.code() = 0, e.displayText() = DNS error: EAI: Address family for hostname not supported (version 20.12.3.3 (official build)). If it is an IPv6 or IPv4 address and your host has disabled IPv6 or IPv4, then consider to specify not disabled IPv4 or IPv6 address to listen in <listen_host> element of configuration file. Example for disabled IPv6: <listen_host>0.0.0.0</listen_host> . Example for disabled IPv4: <listen_host>::</listen_host>
plausible_events_db_1  | 2020.12.23 17:35:50.453649 [ 1 ] {} <Warning> Application: Listen [::]:9004 failed: Poco::Exception. Code: 1000, e.code() = 0, e.displayText() = DNS error: EAI: Address family for hostname not supported (version 20.12.3.3 (official build)). If it is an IPv6 or IPv4 address and your host has disabled IPv6 or IPv4, then consider to specify not disabled IPv4 or IPv6 address to listen in <listen_host> element of configuration file. Example for disabled IPv6: <listen_host>0.0.0.0</listen_host> . Example for disabled IPv4: <listen_host>::</listen_host>
plausible_events_db_1  | Include not found: clickhouse_remote_servers
plausible_events_db_1  | Include not found: clickhouse_compression

I know nothing of clickhouse-server, could these warnings be the cause of the server error?

Please note that I didn't change anything (besides the ports and the variables), it's just the plain configuration as cloned from github.

Help highly appreciated here, as I really like the Plausible UI and it looks quite simpler than Matomo, which is frankly an overkill for some websites.

[stefanomarty]

Sorry guys, this was due to a very stupid mistake I made: when I first started the plausible container I received an error because the 8000/tcp was already in use on localhost, so I changed the port in docker-compose.yml directive, from 8000 to 8888.

My mistake was changing the port number on BOTH sides of the ports directive, like this:

  plausible:
    image: plausible/analytics:latest
    command: sh -c "sleep 10 && /entrypoint.sh db createdb && /entrypoint.sh db migrate && /entrypoint.sh db init-admin && /entrypoint.sh run"
    depends_on:
      - plausible_db
      - plausible_events_db
      - mail
    ports:
      - 8888:8888    <-- obviously this is wrong!
    env_file:
      - plausible-conf.env

I kept looking on errors on the Proxy configuration, then I realized the Proxy was ok, it was the port mapping to be wrong!

If you need to change the port on localhost the correct line (assuming you wanna use port 8888 on localhost) is:

    ports:
      - 8888:8000

This sounds so obvious AFTER you find it. :-)))

[ukutaht]

Glad you found the issue and got it working before I could even answer :)