miti99bot/docs/deploy-coolify-selfhosted.md

Deploy: Self-host (Coolify + MongoDB Atlas)

Run miti99bot as a long-lived container on Coolify with MongoDB Atlas (free M0) for storage.

Architecture

   Telegram  <── long poll (getUpdates) ──  container  (outbound only)
   in-process scheduler ───────────────────> module crons
   MongoDB Atlas (db / one collection per module + system metadata)
   Coolify env vars (plain secrets)
   NO public ingress (polling = outbound only; no domain, no /webhook, no TLS in)

• Storage — mongodb auto-selected when MONGO_URL is set (no KV_PROVIDER).
• Cron — an in-process scheduler (internal/cron) runs unconditionally and fires each module cron on its Schedule (UTC).
• Transport — long polling (b.Start) is the only transport. The bot opens an outbound connection to Telegram and pulls updates, so there is no public domain, no /webhook, and no webhook secret. The container clears any leftover webhook on startup (deleteWebhook) before polling.

Required environment

Copy .env.example → .env (gitignored) and fill in.

Var	Required	Notes
TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN	✅	from @BotFather
MONGO_URL	✅	Atlas SRV string incl. credentials — secret, never logged
MONGO_DATABASE	✅	e.g. miti99bot
MODULES	optional	CSV; empty = all modules
OWNER_ID	optional	owner-only commands (renamed from BOT_OWNER_ID)
ADMIN_IDS	optional	CSV of admin ids (renamed from ADMIN_USER_IDS)
WHEELOFNAMES_API_URL	optional	full /api/gif endpoint for remote /wheelofnames GIF rendering
WHEELOFNAMES_API_TOKEN	optional	bearer token matching the wheelofnames service API_TOKEN

Leave UNSET on self-host: KV_PROVIDER, PORT, TELEGRAM_WEBHOOK_SECRET, and GOLD_VNAPP_API_KEY. Stock, coin, and gold URL overrides are not supported in runtime env; modules use coded defaults.

Cron runs in-process (internal/cron) — there is no /cron HTTP route and no CRON_SHARED_SECRET. The scheduler is the sole trigger; nothing inbound.

Optional wheelofnames renderer

/wheelofnames uses a remote GIF renderer when WHEELOFNAMES_API_URL is set. The standard renderer is a deployment of tiennm99/wheelofnames, but any service that implements the same /api/gif contract can be used. Set the URL to the full GIF endpoint and set the token to the same value as the service API_TOKEN:

WHEELOFNAMES_API_URL=http://wheelofnames:3000/api/gif
WHEELOFNAMES_API_TOKEN=<same value as wheelofnames API_TOKEN>

Use a public HTTPS URL instead when the bot cannot reach the service on a private Coolify/Docker network:

WHEELOFNAMES_API_URL=https://wheelofnames.example.com/api/gif
WHEELOFNAMES_API_TOKEN=<same value as wheelofnames API_TOKEN>

The bot sends outbound HTTP only; no public bot ingress is required. Remote renders use 512px, 20fps, and 7 seconds total by default. If the remote service is unset, unavailable, unauthorized, or returns a non-GIF response, /wheelofnames falls back to the same plain text winner reply as /random. Successful GIF replies include the result behind Telegram spoiler formatting.

1. MongoDB Atlas (M0)

1. Create a free M0 cluster (512 MB — ample for the tiny paper-trading KV).

2. Database user (least privilege): create a user with role readWrite on the single app database only (e.g. miti99bot) — never Atlas admin or cluster-wide. Use a strong unique password.

3. Network access: add 0.0.0.0/0.

   Accepted trade-off (validated decision). The Coolify host has no stable egress IP, so the Atlas IP allow-list is open to the internet. This widens the database surface. The mandatory compensating controls are: (1) strong unique password, (2) least-privilege readWrite-on-one-db user, (3) the connection string is a secret and is never logged (the bot logs only the database name on startup).

4. Copy the mongodb+srv://… connection string into MONGO_URL and put the db name in MONGO_DATABASE.

Storage layout: one collection per module. Each document is a flattened native document — { _id: <user key>, ...payload fields, version, updatedAt } with no value envelope. Payload fields are hoisted to the document root so they expand and are queryable in Compass. The two non-object values are wrapped in a named field: lol schedule subscribers under subscribers (array) and the daily push date under date. Concurrency uses the version field (optimistic lock); updatedAt is a BSON Date.

The stats collection uses queryable aggregate documents for command/user counts and creates indexes on startup. Deleted legacy command rows are retained with deleted: true; /stats queries filter those rows from visible results. A historical system collection may remain in MongoDB with completed migration records. Stock stores cash as vnd and embeds positions as assets.<symbol>.{quantity,base,dividendCheckedAt}. Coin stores cash as usd and embeds positions as assets.<symbol>.{quantity,base}. Completed migration records remain in system as audit history; the completed one-time migration code no longer runs at startup.

2. Coolify

1. New resource → from this Git repo (Docker Compose), or a prebuilt image. The committed compose.yml defines the single bot service.
2. Set the env vars above in Coolify.
3. No public domain / port is needed — polling is outbound-only. Do not publish a port or attach a domain. expose: 8080 keeps the health endpoint reachable only inside Coolify's network.
4. Exactly one replica. Telegram permits only one getUpdates consumer per bot token; a second poller gets HTTP 409, and a second in-process scheduler double-fires crons. Prefer stop-first redeploys so two containers never overlap near a cron time.
5. deploynotify commit SHA: SOURCE_COMMIT is a Coolify predefined variable. The bot reads it at startup and DMs the owner on every boot; outside Coolify (local docker compose up) it is unset and the DM shows unknown. Keep "Include Source Commit in Build" disabled: that setting affects build args only, is not needed for this runtime path, and would invalidate Docker cache on every commit. Do not add SOURCE_COMMIT to compose.yml; an interpolated empty value can override Coolify's runtime env-file value.
6. Health check: use Coolify's HTTP monitor against GET / (returns text/plain miti99bot ok). Do not use a compose healthcheck — the distroless image has no shell/curl and cmd/server has no -healthcheck flag. Note: / reports healthy even if Mongo is unreachable (the driver auto-reconnects on the next op); a DB outage will not auto-restart the container — accepted trade-off.

3. Command menu

The bot registers its Telegram command menu from loaded public modules on every startup. The Go module registry is the single source of truth; no separate command-menu file or manual registration step is required. A command's description plus optional Parameters metadata feed both surfaces. Telegram renders the command name separately and accepts only a single-line plain-text description. Both the native menu and /help show syntax plus the summary and omit example invocations.

Operations

The live deployment is the Coolify container and MongoDB is the sole system of record. Keep exactly one replica running. To confirm Telegram is in polling mode:

# POSIX shells (Linux/macOS)
curl "https://api.telegram.org/bot${TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN}/getWebhookInfo"

# PowerShell
Invoke-RestMethod "https://api.telegram.org/bot$env:TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN/getWebhookInfo"

url should be empty. If needed, clear the webhook explicitly:

# POSIX shells (Linux/macOS)
curl -X POST "https://api.telegram.org/bot${TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN}/deleteWebhook" \
  --data "drop_pending_updates=false"

# PowerShell
Invoke-RestMethod -Method Post -Uri "https://api.telegram.org/bot$env:TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN/deleteWebhook" -Body @{ drop_pending_updates = "false" }

Local smoke test

# PowerShell
Copy-Item .env.example .env # fill TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN, MONGO_URL, MONGO_DATABASE
docker compose up --build

# POSIX shells (Linux/macOS)
cp .env.example .env # fill TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN, MONGO_URL, MONGO_DATABASE
docker compose up --build

Boot logs should show storage backend backend=mongodb database=… (no connection string), cron scheduler started, and telegram long polling started. A request to http://localhost:8080/ returns miti99bot ok (use Invoke-WebRequest in PowerShell or curl in a POSIX shell). The bot's webhook must be unset (the container clears it on startup) or getUpdates 409s.