why was I summoned lol

n/a

Lol, darn I'm sorry if I woke you up or something, not urgent. Just siteground redirecting me when I'm running a reverse proxy to my blog.

I was awake, just curious as to why I was picked to be pinged haha

Honestly, because you are a 🐐 . Not because you are the only person I know who is supporting railway on his shoulders. 😅 🙏

LMK if there's someone else I should have pinged instead lol.

I assume the blog is wordpress right?

Yes sir. WP on siteground.

so the obvious solution is to run wordpress on Railway 🙂

I tried doing that but failed multiple times. You can have imagifyr.com on one container and blog.imagifyr.com on another and reverse proxy into each other?

why do you need a reverse proxy? they are different domains

Because imagifyr.com is a rails app hosted on railway and i just wanted imagifyr.com/blog to point to blog.imagifyr.com for SEO purposes which is why I did it that way.

by point do you mean redirect?

Yes sir, my poor choice of wording. 🙂

and that's an in-code redirect?

can you send clickable links to both domains, I'm on mobile

Yeah, my route is

get "/blog", to: redirect('https://imagifyr.com/blog/', status: 301)

On my rails app.
https://imagifyr.com

https://imagifyr.com/blog (the redirect)

https://blog.imagifyr.com (blog hosted on siteground)

do you need access to the filesystem of your wordpress install on siteground?

I have access, but do I need to get in there? No.

so let's just move your wordpress install to Railway?

you could keep the same blog. subdomain

Hm. Ok, I will try again. What you're saying is just create a new project "imagifyr-wordpress" for example and that will have the blog. subdomain and I will reverse proxy into that instead?

You would want to have all services that relate to the other services in the same project, from that screenshot it looks like you are taking backups of your database over the public network and subjecting yourself to egress fees, instead of using the private network, you would want the backup service in the same project so that it can connect to the database via the private network.

you would also want the wordpress site in the same project as well.

and I'm still not seeing any need for a reverse proxy? can you please explain where you think it fits in?

RE: Backup, yeah it's on AWS right now and I'm not doing such volume that it will cost me much (right now it's nothing).

RE: So I would put the WP site in imagifyr from what it sounds like?

RE: Reverse proxy. Networking noob here. But I'm imagining, if I have another service (Wordpress with blog.imagifyr.com). It would be accessed via blog.imagifyr.com.

But I want that blog accessible at imagifyr.com/blog instead. That's where I think the reverse proxy is necessary?

so you aren't happy with just the redirect?

Sorry, not on the same page I think. I'm fine with the redirect. imagifyr.com/blog just needs to be able to reach the wordpress blog.

If your suggested setup accomplishes that, I'm good.

yeah then you don't need a reverse proxy, you just attach the blog subdomain to the wordpress service

why does the imagifyr service have a wildcard?

It was just setup that way. Should I not have the wildcard?

if you don't need a wildcard, there's no reason to have one

Gotcha, I will give this a shot over the weekend. Thanks for the lessons sir!

yeah just deploy the wordpress template Jack made, don't worry about the domain yet, just use the railway provided domain to get it all setup, then use some kind of wordpress backup and restore plugin to backup the wordpress install on your old host and restore it to the wordpress install on railway

See. G.O.A.T i tell you! G.O.A.T!

Thanks for your help this morning sir! Hope you have a happy 4th!

haha I'm not American, but thank you 🙂

@Jack anyway to increase the max upload filesize to more than 50mb? https://help.servmask.com/2018/10/27/how-to-increase-maximum-upload-file-size-in-wordpress/

I am importing my WP from siteground to here but the file size is about 150mb…

Would be nice if I can go access the .htaccess or something and just edit it.

how large is your backup file?

About 150MB.

try setting the WORDPRESS_CONFIG_EXTRA variable to -

define('DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE','${{RAILWAY_PUBLIC_DOMAIN}}');define('WP_HOME','https://${{RAILWAY_PUBLIC_DOMAIN}}');define('WP_SITEURL','https://${{RAILWAY_PUBLIC_DOMAIN}}');@ini_set('upload_max_filesize','200M');@ini_set('post_max_size','200M');@ini_set('memory_limit','500M');@ini_set('max_execution_time','500');@ini_set('max_input_time','500');

OK trying. Would
@ini_set('upload_max_filesize','128M') be something like @ini_set('upload_max_filesize','170M') if my import file is 157MB though?

oh, sorry didnt notice the edit

edited

Np. Deploying now! Thanks for the help!

Sorry to keep bugging you, but the WORDPRESS_CONFIG_EXTRA didn't seem to update the upload limit or do I have to wait for post deploy to finish because it's been stuck like that for some time.

are you sure that isnt a limitation of the plugin?

Pretty certain. I made another edit to bring up Plugin Editor:
https://www.ionos.com/digitalguide/hosting/blogs/activate-wordpress-theme-and-plug-in-editor/

define('DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE','blog.pinagenda.com');define('WP_HOME','https://blog.pinagenda.com');define('WP_SITEURL','https://blog.pinagenda.com');@ini_set('upload_max_filesize','200M');@ini_set('post_max_size','200M');@ini_set('memory_limit','500M');@ini_set('max_execution_time','500');@ini_set('max_input_time','500');define('DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT', false);

With define('DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT', false)

And it isn't being applied. I'm using All in one WP Migration and according to this blog: https://wpadventure.com/how-to-increase-the-all-in-one-wp-migration-plugin-upload-import-limit/

The default seems to be 512MB.

My hunch is that the deploying isn't taking notice of the WORDPRESS_CONFIG_EXTRA

okay ill deploy wordpress and see what i can figure out

Sorry for the trouble and thanks for your help!

no problem!

> Remove upload limits

you might have better luck with backing up the database on your current host and restoring it to the database on railway, and then copying over your /var/www/html folder on your current host into the volume on the mysql service

Might just copy and paste the posts, I'm not sure how to do that. There's only 9 posts so far.

whatever works best for you

Thanks for your help today anyways!

no problem