How to solve "There was a problem proxying the request"?

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Hi,

I have a question which is quite similar to my previous question (Is it the target URL in API definition must be publicly reachable?).

Basically I have Tyk components running using Docker compose. When I add some public URL to my API definition, it works fine.

Now I have word press application running using Docker compose, and the Docker compose file is available here (WordPress samples). This application is running on http://localhost:8000.

Now when I create an API in Tyk, and pass this http://localhost:8000 to the target url, as I call this API, I got this ‘There was a problem proxying the request’ error message.

In my previous post, I got the suggestion to use ‘host.docker.internal’. So I added it in the Docker compose file. Here is the Docker compose file:

version: “2.2”

services:
db:
image: mysql:5.7
volumes:
- db_data:/var/lib/mysql
restart: always
environment:
MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: somewordpress
MYSQL_DATABASE: wordpress
MYSQL_USER: wordpress
MYSQL_PASSWORD: wordpress

wordpress:
depends_on:
- db
image: wordpress:latest
volumes:
- wordpress_data:/var/www/html
ports:
- “8000:80”
restart: always
environment:
WORDPRESS_DB_HOST: db
WORDPRESS_DB_USER: wordpress
WORDPRESS_DB_PASSWORD: wordpress
WORDPRESS_DB_NAME: wordpress
extra_hosts:
- “host.docker.internal: 172.17.0.1”
volumes:
db_data: {}
wordpress_data: {}

Did I miss anything in this Docker compose file? Anything I have to add/ change to solve this ‘There was a problem proxying the request’ problem?

Thanks and regards,

Maan Tarng

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I don’t know too much configuration with docker and I am not sure what mapping the default host.docker.internal will do. But setting the target_url in the API definition to host.docker.internal should do the trick.

I have also dropped a response on the previous thread.

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@Olu Thanks for your help and information.

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@Olu I found a solution in Tyk documentation. The link is here:

Basically we need to follow those steps and change the settings in the tyk.analytic file.

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