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So I have a Raspberry Pi that collects data and sends it to a flask server. I want to get data over to android app that I built. I was able to do this on the local network through flask by sending a get request from the android app to the ...

So I have a Raspberry Pi that collects data and sends it to a flask server. I want to get data over to android app that I built. I was able to do this on the local network through flask by sending a get request from the android app to the flask server.

I then followed this tutorial from digital ocean and set up a nginx server that would be publicly available. When it came time to enter a domain, I entered my personal domain. The problem is that that domain currently points to a Wix website.

Calling get requests to my domain simply loads the website. I’ve experimented with backend code on Wix and I tried fetch(request) but that returns undefined. Perhaps that’s an issue on the nginx side, but I don’t think so. The logs look ok. I’ve looked into all of the following and I don’t know which avenue could yield success. So I don’t know where to spend my time learning.

Rabbit holes I’ve gone down:

  1. backend javascript in the website (e.g. fetch())
  2. setting up an api
  3. routing in Wix
  4. creating a subdomain
  5. using a different location on my subdomain (wix loads a page that says no page found or something similar)
  6. setting up a proxy server
  7. setting up a reverse proxy server
  8. moving my domain away from Wix entirely.

Thank you for your time and any help towards ending this confusion would be greatly appreciated!

Edit: I should add that I did set up portforwarding on my router.

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