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okay, go into that service and remove the custom domain

then delete the entire service

then create a new project, with an applicable name "My Portfolio"
and an empty service within that project, name it as well
then add your custom domain to it, setting up the cname as needed
then deploy your code to it

Ok, can we just do that later ? Because i'll have to connect to cloudflare, i don't remember exactly what i did to set up the proxy so it's maybe going to take a while

the proxy for the custom domain name

and use the empty service i created with the variables

sure we can do that later, for now we will ignore the portfolio service

ok cool

did you have a custom domain for this new app? or where you just going to use the railway provided domain for now?

no because i have to see with my client for the custom domain so i was just going to use the railway domain

gotcha

okay go and generate a domain, this will be the backend's domain so name the subdomain applicably

musiquizdata.up.railway.app

what do you have in mind for the frontend railway domain?

musiquizapp.fr for the custom domain name

else musiquizapp.up.railway.app

thats a custom domain? you said you didnt have one yet

ah gotcha

okay the service now has that domain?

yep

did you commmit the railway.json to the repo?

now yes haha

okay in the service settings, set the root directory to /Back-End

done

add the repo to the service

ok just one thing tho. In media, i wasn't able to download all the audio files that are needed for the game. For now they are on the media file on my computer. Will we be able to bundle them with all the other files for the deployment ?

how much audio do you have size wise?

569 Mo

is this dmca free audio or do you have the rights to it?

Don't think they are dmca free, these are all old songs from french singers

doesnt sound like something you should be uploading to github then, especially when the repo is being deployed to railway.
look into a cdn you can upload the media to, but thats slightly out of the scope of this thread

what if i use the cli in vs code to deploy the project ? The files are in the folder. That's what i did for my portfolio but only had images

railway does not want you uploading/playing/using music you dont have the rights to, thats why music bots are a big no no and often get people banned

id strongly recommend you host the music elsewhere on a cdn, just dont want you getting banned

thats also far more data than you can railway up to the service (max 40 or 50mb i forget the exact number)

Ok so like if i host the samples on soundcloud for example, then i'll just have to modify their address on the db and it'll be good to go

sounds about right, dont know if soundcloud would like that, but as long as its not on railway im good with it

Ok i'm in the phone with my client to see how we're going to do it

sounds good, but in the mean time, would your backend fail to deploy without those audio files?

Sorry i just finished the call

Yes i think so

okay are you gonna update your code and then after that continue with the railway deployment?

He said that he will download the songs on soundcloud but doesn't know when. So i think i'll wait until he's done it to continue. I'll send you a DM, is it ok for you ?

we can continue this thread when you are ready

you can ping me here

Alright cool thank you brody

no problem!

Hey Brody, the music is hosted on a CDN, we can continue if that's ok for you !

haha sure, but unfortunately im not available right now due to some irl stuff

Sure nothing's urgent, just ping me when you're ready !

Hello Brody, are you free now ?

I am now

where did we leave off

hey @Dadz did you still need help with this?

Hey Brody, yes i do, don't know why i didn't receive the notification of your answer

no worries

lets pick up where we left off

did you share your github repo with me?

Yes i did

I tried to deploy, i was missing pillow and python-dotenv in requirements.txt, i'm currently trying to deploy again

But it's taking way too long something's wrong

haha okay let's slow down a bit

let me get caught up before we try things again

can I have a screenshot of your railway project canvas

haha every screenshot but none of them are the project canvas

Back End is deployed and seems to be working

https://musiquizapp.up.railway.app/api/

going forward these cropped screenshots are not the best, can you please send full screenshots of the browsers viewport, I can always zoom in if I need to

for all I know you could very well have a 3rd service off the to the left of those two

Ok i didn't think the other services would matter as they don't link to MusiQuiz. Here you have the full screen

every little bit of information matters

We discussed about the fact that i had the database for MusiQuiz set up in my portfolio project (a mistake) and decided to keep it that way because the db had data so it would have been better to move the portfolio but as i have a private domain name with cloudflare as a proxy it would take too much time to remove the custom domain

okay so would you be interested in adding me to both of your railway projects (for the portfolio and music quiz) and your github repo for music quiz? that way i can make all the changes needed without the back and forth

The thing is i would like to understand the changes so that i'll be able to deploy this type of configuration by myself in the future

fair enough

then we shall walk through it

Sorry for the late response

so what was the situation with the database again?, does both your portfolio and musicquiz app have data on that same database?

No only MusiQuiz

can we remove the music quiz service from the project then? and start fresh in a new project

Yes sure

Without moving the database then ?

well you said the database is only used by the portfolio, so you dont need to touch it and it can stay in that project

No when you asked me i said that only MusiQuiz has data in that database

oops, my bad

haha no worries

so we can move the portfolio to another project, since its easier to move an app service than it is to move a database

Yes that is what you told me last time we talked but remember i asked you if this was necessary as moving the portfolio project would require to remove the custom domain and i didn't remember what i did exactly to set up the proxy so it would maybe take a while. You told me then let's ignore the portfolio service

you wouldnt actually need to do any dns setup given the fact that you have already done the dns setup once

just remove the domain from old service and then add it to the new service, and it will work instantly with zero dns setup, at least it always has for me

Ok that's done but i get Internal Server Error for the first version of the portfolio

The V2 with the custom domain is working fine

check its logs?

I forgot the Secret Key in the variables

It's all good now

okay now you can remove the domain from the old service and then add it to the new service, ignore any dns setup as it is not needed

Yes it's done

okay now you can remove those two old services and rename the project

Just had to change the CNAME on cloudflare

Done also

you didnt

What ?

ignore any dns setup as it is not needed

it will work instantly with zero dns setup

Railway asked me to copy a variable and to add it as a cname

I had to do that also when i changed from V1 to V2

And it's working fine

yes, but it wasn’t strictly needed, no harm either way though

Ah ok

i was just trying to simplify the process for you by telling you it wasnt needed

Ok thanks

can i have a screenshot of the project now?

perfect

rename that service to MusiQuiz - Frontend since it will be the frontend service

and then add a new empty service that is named MusiQuiz - Backend you get the point 😉

This is the back end

But yes i get the point haha

the domain name would suggest otherwise

frontend domain -> [musiquizapp.up.railway.app](musiquizapp.up.railway.app)
backend domain -> api-[musiquizapp.up.railway.app](musiquizapp.up.railway.app)
at least until you add your custom domains

Ok

let me know when you have that done!

I'm solving a lot of issues since my last message haha, serving of static files for django rest, fetching the right api, chunks of code i forgot to push on my git hub repo, and now i'm struggling on Django Admin Panel CSRF token validation

okay no worries, let me know when you are ready to proceed, just make sure you arent trying to get django to serve the frontend

The app is up and running !

Thanks for your help Brody

you have your frontend and backend running as seprate services?

Yes

what have you done to not run your frontend as a dev server?

i didn't do anything

then you are likely running a development server for your frontend

thats going to cause random issues and cost a lot when running on railway

Oh yes i just saw the metrics

😂

Then i guess we're not done yet

https://github.com/brody192/vite-react-template

Copy the nixpacks.toml and Caddyfile from this repo into your frontend folder.

If you have any build or start commands set in the frontend's service settings, please remove them.

done

and let me know if there any issues with the new deployment

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full build logs please

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can you link your repo again?

why do you now have two seprate repos?

Because i was confused so i separated the back and front in two separate repos

But now that i understand how it works i could merge them

Does this have anything to do with the deployment problem?

oh i see what i did wrong

i linked you the wrong repo

use the nixpacks.toml and Caddyfile from this repo instead

Yes it's working but it still taking the same memory space

show me the source settings you have on your frontend service please

What do you mean the source settings ?

the package-json ?

in your railway service

That's all i have in the source settings

i dont even know how thats working

set the root directory to /Front-End/musiquizapp/

Yep memory is low now

do you know why ?

wrong directory

Ok, we're all set ?

i think so haha

Ok perfect thank you again Brody

happy to help