Changing Your Instance URL

Danger

We highly recommend not to change your instance URL. Members of the community tried to do this and documented their steps here. This guide might be incomplete or fail for your instance. There is no support for this procedure and likely no way back.

At some point, you may wish to change your instance URL. In order to do this, you will need to change the following:

  • The instance URL in your .env file

  • The instance URL in your /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/funkwhale.conf or /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/funkwhale.conf depending on your web server setup

  • Any references to the old URL in your database

The changes to the database can be achieved with the fix_federation_ids script in the manage.py file.

Example output:

# For Docker setups
docker-compose run --rm api python manage.py fix_federation_ids https://old-url https://new-url --no-dry-run --no-input

# For non-Docker setups
python manage.py fix_federation_ids https://old-url https://new-url --no-dry-run --no-input

# Output
Will replace 108 found occurrences of 'https://old-url' by 'https://new-url':

- 20 music.Artist
- 13 music.Album
- 39 music.Track
- 31 music.Upload
- 1 music.Library
- 4 federation.Actor
- 0 federation.Activity
- 0 federation.Follow
- 0 federation.LibraryFollow

Replacing on 20 music.Artist…
Replacing on 13 music.Album…
Replacing on 39 music.Track…
Replacing on 31 music.Upload…
Replacing on 1 music.Library…
Replacing on 4 federation.Actor…
Replacing on 0 federation.Activity…
Replacing on 0 federation.Follow…
Replacing on 0 federation.LibraryFollow…

On Docker Installations

If you have followed the Docker installation instructions, you will need to do the following:

  • Edit your .env file to change the FUNKWHALE_HOSTNAME and DJANGO_ALLOWED_HOSTS value to your new URL

  • Edit your /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/funkwhale.conf file to change the server_name values to your new URL

  • Run the following command to change all mentions of your old instance URL in the database:

docker-compose run --rm api python manage.py fix_federation_ids https://old-url https://new-url --no-dry-run --no-input

  • Restart Nginx or Apache to pick up the new changes

# For Nginx
sudo systemctl restart nginx

# For Apache
sudo systemctl restart apache2

On Non-Docker Installations

If you have followed the non-docker setup, you will need to do the following:

  • Edit your .env file to change the FUNKWHALE_HOSTNAME and DJANGO_ALLOWED_HOSTS value to your new URL

  • Edit your /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/funkwhale.conf file to change the server_name values to your new URL

  • Run the following command to change all mentions of your old instance URL in the database:

python manage.py fix_federation_ids https://old-url https://new-url --no-dry-run --no-input

  • Restart Nginx or Apache to pick up the new changes

# For Nginx
sudo systemctl restart nginx

# For Apache
sudo systemctl restart apache2