How to self host Activepieces on your home and access it over the internet

PFernandez98 · March 21, 2024, 10:09pm

Hello y’all, I’m back (kinda)

If you have a Raspberry PI, other “mini” server, or anything capable of running Linux; you can host Activepieces at home and get all benefits of the Self-hosted version. You can even process webhooks!!! For free!!!

You can get access to the tutorial here: How to self-host Activepieces at home

If you need any help, feel free to comment there, or here. I’ll try to answer your questions ASAP.

Bram · March 22, 2024, 9:31am

Hi Pablo,

Welcome back, happy to see you again!

I’ve been thinking about self hosting, but not technical at all. Can you see if having a Linux server like this one will do the trick from HyperHost? It is pretty cheap I think and it would be great if that is possible.

KR Bram

ashrafsam · March 22, 2024, 12:58pm

@Bram What’s your incentive to self host Activepieces? Geeking out or saving money? Or something else?

PFernandez98 · March 22, 2024, 2:08pm

I think they don’t sell VPSs, you need a VPS in order to install docker and then AP. I recommend you to check this out: https://lowendtalk.com/categories/offers

There is a lot of offers of VPSs for cheap.

Bram · March 23, 2024, 2:29pm

Hi @ashrafsam, yeah geeking out. For now I have enough tasks to do everything I like. Maybe the future things will be different, but still not planning on moving away from the cloud.

Met technical knowledge of hosting and setting up systems is very limited. But I do believe it would be good to understand. There are many more open-source solution I would like to make use of but all future plans.

Kr Bram

Bram · March 23, 2024, 2:31pm

Thanks I will check it out! Looking forward to dive in deeper

TomB · May 23, 2024, 8:48pm

Hey @PFernandez98
I tried following your blog post, but I’m stuck:

Webhook is not getting anything when testing and
my local IP is in the Webhook URLs.

Could you help?
Thank you in advance,

PFernandez98 · May 23, 2024, 9:04pm

Hi @TomB! For number 1, I think this is a AP thing, I think I saw an issue on the community the other day, regarding to this.

For number 2, did you change the env variable here : How to self-host Activepieces at home ?? (How to receive webhooks section)

TomB · May 23, 2024, 9:17pm

Hey @PFernandez98
I only realized I needed to change the .env after I had already followed your steps.
Now, I found the .env file and changed from:
AP_FRONTEND_URL=http://localhost:8080
to:
AP_FRONTEND_URL=http://sub.domain.com
Or should it be?:
AP_FRONTEND_URL=https://sub.domain.com

Once that is done, what should I do now? What are the next steps?

Thank you for replying,

PFernandez98 · May 23, 2024, 10:25pm

if you are using the tunnel from cloudflare, it should be the https one… after that go to the AP directory (where the .env and the docker-compose.yml files are located) and run this (exactly like that):

docker compose up -d

PFernandez98 · May 23, 2024, 11:06pm

Just in case, I’m tagging you @TomB

TomB · May 24, 2024, 12:00am

Hey @PFernandez98
Should I first stop my current container of AP?
As when I ran you command, I got:

:~/activepieces $ docker compose up -d
WARN[0000] /home/dr/activepieces/docker-compose.yml: `version` is obsolete 
[+] Running 2/2
 ✔ Container redis         Recreated                                                                                                                                                                                                    2.6s 
 ✔ Container postgres      Recreated                                                                                                                                                                                                    2.6s 
 ⠋ Container activepieces  Creating                                                                                                                                                                                                     0.0s 
Error response from daemon: Conflict. The container name "/activepieces" is already in use by container "LONGSTRINGALPHANUMERICSEQUENCE". You have to remove (or rename) that container to be able to reuse that name.

So I had to remove it first? Or stop? Or both?

TomB · May 24, 2024, 12:01am

Thank you for tagging me.

PFernandez98 · May 24, 2024, 12:48am

@TomB I think this error is because of something else… maybe you have two different AP containers?

Nonetheless, I recommend you to do this

docker stop activepieces 
docker rm activepieces

then, try again the docker compose up -d.

If this doesn’t work, execute docker ps and send a screenshot of the result.

TomB · May 24, 2024, 1:17am

Thank you @PFernandez98
All is well and working properly
I got my domain to show within webhook’s URL and the test went through.

PFernandez98 · May 24, 2024, 1:28am

Nice!! I’m glad it worked

TomB · May 24, 2024, 2:42am

@PFernandez98
After running the above, my AP version changed from 0.26.1 to 0.26.0
I’m sure of this because I had checked yesterday that my version was up to date and 0.26.1 has been out for two weeks now.
Any thoughts? Guidance?
Thank you again

PFernandez98 · May 24, 2024, 1:12pm

in your docker-compose.yml, just change the activepieces image version

PFernandez98 · May 24, 2024, 1:13pm

After that, you need to do the docker compose up -d again

TomB · May 24, 2024, 1:26pm

Pablo,
Thank you very much for replying.
Please clarify if I don’t need to run

docker stop activepieces 
docker rm activepieces

and not:

docker compose up -d --remove-orphans

just:

docker compose up -d

Sorry I ask, we are not going at the same speed…
I’m a , while you are a