Openremote webui on digitalocean debian droplet not working

Custom Deployment
#1

steps to reproduce:

  1. create DigitalOcean droplet : 1 GB Memory / 1 Intel vCPU / 25 GB Disk / FRA1 - Debian 11 x64

  2. follow install instructions according to openremote/README.md at master · openremote/openremote · GitHub

  3. use ‘OR_HOSTNAME=[public ip address] OR_SSL_PORT=8443 docker-compose -p openremote up -d’

as start command.

Multiple issues occur at this point:

  1. COMPOSE_HTTP_TIMEOUT=300 needs to be included in command due to always timing out. This could be digitalocean slow connection I guess…
  2. System reboot is always required after the command, due to container ‘openremote/manager’ getting stuck in infinite restart cycle.
  3. After reboot all containers report healthy, but cpu is at 100%. ‘top’ command tells me some java process is using most of it.
  4. webui is not reachable, only blank page. ‘page is not reachable’. I’ve tried various combinations of ssl/non ssl, ports and /manager or /auth and my external ip address, but it’s definitely not there.

I must be doing something wrong; could it be that the specs of the droplet are too low? If anyone has any suggestions, please let me know!

#2

did you check the minimum system requirements, your instance it quite small

#3

Can’t really find any, but I’ll try with 2 gb mem and 50gb hdd and see if it helps. I’ll report back here.

#4

Please try with at least 4GB to be safe.

#5

Ok, the situation has improved. Current issue is that the ip address sends me to the /manager page, but still displays ‘this page isn’t working’ . One of the containers has these errors:

[NOTICE]   (17) : haproxy version is 2.7.0-437fd28
[ALERT]    (17) : config : parsing [/etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg:67] : 'bind *:443' in section 'frontend' : unable to stat SSL certificate from file '/etc/haproxy/certs/00-cert' : No such file or directory.
[ALERT]    (17) : config : parsing [/etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg:81] : 'bind *:8883' in section 'listen' : unable to stat SSL certificate from file '/etc/haproxy/certs/00-cert' : No such file or directory.
[ALERT]    (17) : config : Error(s) found in configuration file : /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg
[ALERT]    (17) : config : Fatal errors found in configuration.
[ERROR][2023-02-14 18:47:37] Cannot start proxy until config file errors are resolved in '/etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg'
#6

Hello.

I just a beginner with openremote but, I got a similar error when I was trying to configure the android app to connect to my openremote in my local network. I change the file on …\deployment\manager\consoleappconfig, in my case “master.json” to point to my local ip address and port, but i got that error o similar. So I decide to not try the app in my local network for the moment.

regards.

#7

For anyone reading this; I solved it by removing the ‘OR_SSL_PORT=8443’ of the startup command. You guys should really consider removing it from the installation instructions!

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