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Requesting Next.js web service through public route returns 404 error on Digital Ocean App Platform

Posted on January 20, 2022
Daniël

By Daniël

Student Creative Development

Problem

I am setting up an App Platform on Digital Ocean using a Strapi web service component as CMS and a Next.js web service component as Front-End. Strapi is accessible on the route /api and Next.js on /sporus. According to the runtime logs building and deployment are both successful and no errors are shown. When I try to access my Next.js web service through the route /sporus I am met with a 404 screen. Strapi on /api is working including the admin panels and requests.

Goal

Next.js Webservice is accessible through the /sporus route and does not return a 404.

##What I’ve tried

Files

next.config.js

const domains = (process.env.APP_URL) ? [process.env.APP_URL] : ['localhost'];

module.exports = {
  reactStrictMode: false,
  images: {
    domains: domains,
  },
  basePath: process.env.BASE_PATH,
}

env variables

App wide:

- key: STRAPI_URL
  scope: RUN_AND_BUILD_TIME
  value: ${APP_URL}/api
- key: NEXT_PUBLIC_STRAPI_URL
  scope: RUN_AND_BUILD_TIME
  value: ${APP_URL}/api
- key: DATABASE_URL
  scope: RUN_AND_BUILD_TIME
  value: ${db.DATABASE_URL}
- key: APP_URL
  scope: RUN_AND_BUILD_TIME
  value: ${APP_URL}

Next component specific:

key: NEXT_URL
    scope: RUN_AND_BUILD_TIME
    value: ${APP_URL}/sporus
  - key: BASE_PATH
    scope: RUN_AND_BUILD_TIME
    value: /sporus

N.B.

I have very experience with D.G. App Platform & Next.js or deploying node.js servers in general. Most of my projects I run locally so I apologise if this question isn’t very descriptive. All additional debugging steps or general tips are welcome.



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So the answer is quite simpel. The App Platform already routes to /sporus. Adding /sporus to the baseUrl will create a double route making the app accesible on /sporus/sporus. Removing baseUrl from next.config.js fixes the issue.

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