Request failedPlease check if your credentials are filled in correctly in the previous step

I’m trying to migrate my local Appwrite setup (running in Docker) to Appwrite Cloud, but I’m hitting an issue during the deployment process.

My Setup
• Local Appwrite version: 1.5.7
• Running via Docker on Mac
• Everything works fine locally, and my client connects successfully.
• I set up an Appwrite Cloud project and tried to migrate my local database, storage, and settings.

Problem

When I try to configure my Appwrite Cloud project, I keep getting this error:
❌ “Request failed – Please check if your credentials are filled in correctly in the previous step.”

I'm confused by the error, as in the previous step I just enter the project name, nothing more.

Thanks 🤝

Tom

What are the steps you were following?

@tom
https://appwrite.io/docs/advanced/migrations/self-hosted

This can help

Hey, Raman. Thanks for the reply, I'm following the doc, but no help.

Steps:

1. Run my local docker
2. Navigate to the Appwrite project I want to migrate to cloud
3. Navigate to Settings -> Migrations -> Deploy to cloud -> {I'm logged in in the cloud with the same e-mail} -> Enter a project name -> OK -> Get error

Either you entered localhost which is simply not accessible by the cloud or your entered your IP which can't be access by the cloud either due to being blocked by the firewall or so

That is correct, I'm accessing the local version of my Appwrite here http://localhost:8080/

What can I do? I understood the goal to Migrate to cloud is to get from local to cloud?

While you are at it I would google what localhost means, so you get a better understanding

I appreciate your concern. I'm going to need a bit more context, why are you assuming that I don't know what localhost is and how is this relevant in this.

Am I correct to understand that how the migration works that the cloud instance of Appwrite tries to connect to my local instance and can't connect to localhost?

It's not the other way around, that the local instance "sends" the data to cloud?

Cloud does the fetching. Your instance is not sending the data on its own. Since localhost is only accessible by you, the cloud can simply not reach your instance. You have to make it accessible via your ip or you can expose it via cloudflare tunnel

I am not too sure but can we forward the port and than do this can this happen?

Forwarding the port on the router / firewall?

Simply how to forward a port using VSCode

Can you elaborate a little bit more? I'm not sure I understand what you mean.

Like this we forward our port

Oh great idea! That could potentially work. @tom might give it a try