URL problem

[roberto-tenil]

WAHA is a sensational tool. When I run it locally, on my computer, everything works fine.

I'm trying to deploy using a specific subdomain for WAHA, like: waha.myserver.com.

     environment:
       # Environment variables from https://waha.devlike.pro/docs/how-to/config/
       - WHATSAPP_HOOK_URL=https://httpbin.org/post
       - WHATSAPP_HOOK_EVENTS=message
       - WHATSAPP_DEFAULT_ENGINE=WEBJS
       - WHATSAPP_API_PORT=80
       - WHATSAPP_API_HOSTNAME=http://waha.myserver.com
       - WHATSAPP_RESTART_ALL_SESSIONS=True

After running the service in docker-compose the log shows me that the service is running as below
WhatsApp HTTP API is running on: http://[::1]:80

However, it doesn't work, when I try to access the api, I get the error: ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED.

Shouldn't the service be running at http://waha.myserver.com:80?

Thanks in advance for your help.

[roberto-tenil]

Got it.

     ports:
       - "80:3000/tcp"
     environment:
       # Environment variables from https://waha.devlike.pro/docs/how-to/config/
       - WHATSAPP_HOOK_URL=https://httpbin.org/post
       - WHATSAPP_HOOK_EVENTS=message
       - WHATSAPP_DEFAULT_ENGINE=WEBJS
       - WHATSAPP_API_PORT=3000

[allburov]

Hi, it's a great question, thank you for the answer!

Btw, you should set it with no http, this way WHATSAPP_API_HOSTNAME=waha.myserver.com. It's important because if you're working with media you'll still get "http://localhost:3000" instead
So the best configuration should work like this

     ports:
       - "80:80/tcp"
     environment:
       # Environment variables from https://waha.devlike.pro/docs/how-to/config/
       - WHATSAPP_HOOK_URL=https://httpbin.org/post
       - WHATSAPP_HOOK_EVENTS=message
       - WHATSAPP_DEFAULT_ENGINE=WEBJS
       - WHATSAPP_API_PORT=80
       - WHATSAPP_API_HOSTNAME=waha.myserver.com

[allburov]

Also one suggestion if you publish API to the internet - you should use https connection. I usually put API behind ngnix reverse proxy that handles ssl connection and uses pure http to communicate with WAHA. #42 (comment)

It's import to set up security for WAHA for both Swagger (with WHATSAPP_SWAGGER_USERNAME WHATSAPP_SWAGGER_PASSWORD) and api key with WHATSAPP_API_KEY.