Login to dashboard does not work

[joachimlindenberg]

I installed and configured statping-ng with docker compose. My setup differs from https://github.com/statping-ng/statping-ng/wiki/Docker as I have nginx outside of docker compose serving multiple scenarios, and I didn´t use a bridge network. The relevant section looks as follows:

statup:
container_name: statup
image: adamboutcher/statping-ng:latest
restart: always
depends_on:
- postgres
volumes:
- ./statup/app:/app
ports:
- 8081:8080
environment:
VIRTUAL_PORT: 8080
...

I am getting to the overview page via https://mysubdomain correctly. However trying to login via /https://mysubdomain/login doesn´t work. I don´t even see a network request being issued. I also tried http://hostip:8081, same results. I also tried using a different VIRTUAL_PORT and target port in docker-compose.yaml, but that didn´t work. Actually I am wondering what VIRTUAL_PORT is supposed to do.

Any thoughts?

[adamboutcher]

This is an occasional reported issue, it seems to be something to do with the way people manage their networking/proxy for the containers...

[joachimlindenberg]

Then let me ask, why the example shows bridge configuration, which at least I prefer not to use. Is there any technical reason behind this?

[adamboutcher]

The documentation is inherited and its not all perfect... If you know a better way then feel free to suggest edits :-)

[joachimlindenberg]

If I would understand the need for bridge, I could make or suggest edits. But I am lacking the knowledge here on the technical need. Nobody around that understands the networking needs?

[adamboutcher]

I dont use bridge networking, I proxy it using traefik and a different instance via apache.