Getting started with Bookstack

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I am just getting started with balena, so I am not sure how to do anything. I want to be able to make changes from afar and see the results, so I set up a production machine with a public url. Balena tells me that I have bookstack running, but even though I set the APP_URL like it says here: GitHub - klutchell/balena-bookstack: bookstack stack for balenaCloud
the url for my machine still forwards now to a local, broken link. Do I need to change something within the program, and how do I do that?

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Hi,

Thanks for reaching out. The APP_URL should work without any code modifications.

Can we try vanilla service i.e. accessing the service via http://boostack.local (removing the APP_URL var)?

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I started with that, but it did not work either.
Actually, I set the variable at the fleet level but somehow an exception for the main device got set up. After taking away the exception, things still do not work, though now I get something different:
tunneling socket could not be established: 500

One possible reason is because nothing is listening on port 80 on the device.’

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Hello, after setting the APP_URL to your device’s URL (in the format https://.balena-devices.com and making sure you are overriding the default fleet setting) you may still see the tunneling socket error. Sometimes the browser will cache that message and be a bit persistent. Try CTRL + F5 (on Windows) in your browser or test on another browser you haven’t attempted to access the device with. (Simply refreshing may not be enough.)

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Updating my previous post because the URL format was cut off. It should be https://<UUID>.balena-devices.com where <UUID> is the device’s UUID.