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11 Jul, 2026, 14:16

Hello Appwrite Community,

I've got the problem, that when I try to migrate my Appwrite Project from the cloud to my self-hosted Appwrite, that an API Key is missing. But I have no clue, if it's meant online or on my self hosted instance. Can you help me with my problem?

Thanks πŸ™‚

TL;DR
Migration from Cloud to Self-Hosted requires using the API key from the source cloud project during the process. Generate an API key in the cloud project's settings with the necessary scopes for the migration, and paste it in when prompted. No API key is needed for the self-hosted destination.

Yeah, it’s broken right now, I was trying to also move from self hosted to cloud and it failed, they are working on the fix I think

12 Jul, 2026, 08:34

Ok, thank you for the information πŸ™‚

13 Jul, 2026, 05:58

cc <@1356535431834898634> ^

13 Jul, 2026, 06:25

for a cloud β†’ self-hosted migration, the API key is the one from your source project β€” i.e. the cloud project you're migrating from. When you kick off the migration, Appwrite asks for the source endpoint, source project ID, and a source API key, and it uses those credentials to read your data out of cloud. So you'll want to generate an API key inside your cloud project's settings (with the scopes for the resources you're migrating) and paste that in. The self-hosted side is just the destination and doesn't need a key for this.

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