Failed to call API on server

[EmanueleGuidotti]

Link to reproduction

arkage.staging.arkage.it

Describe the Bug

Hi there,

I’ve just started with Payload. I’ve hosted a simple website copying the website template on a Plesk server and it is up and running here, https://arkage.staging.arkage.it/.
However, when I want to create the admin user https://arkage.staging.arkage.it/admin/create-first-user the system is looking for an API from localhost and I get an error:
http://localhost:3000/api/users/me. While the first API works correctly https://arkage.staging.arkage.it/api/users/init.
Why I have one api working with the correct endpoint and the second one looking from localhost?

To Reproduce

Copy the website template: npx create-payload-app@latest my-project -t website
Run yarn install
Run yarn build
Upload the dist, build, media, package.json and .env on remote Plesk
Connect to remote Plesk and launch yarn install
On remote Plesk launch the node server
Visit the /admin url

Payload Version

"payload": "^2.0.0"

Adapters and Plugins

db-mongodb

[jmikrut]

Hey @EmanueleGuidotti this is likely due to your serverURL being defined and pointed at localhost:3000 whenever you run payload build. You should not have to set serverURL at all, so try and remove that from your config and build / deploy again.

This is not a problem with Payload itself though so I will convert this to a Q&A discussion and we can continue to help!

[EmanueleGuidotti]

Hi @jmikrut do you mean to change the payload.config.ts?