From bf415ad42d531410edb41f93cc27b9902ce2cdf7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gorden Jin <yijin2@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2026 01:58:56 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] fix: microservice API URL for VM deployment

---
 docker-compose-redis.yml | 2 ++
 src/translate/index.js   | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/docker-compose-redis.yml b/docker-compose-redis.yml
index 755744d962..132616023a 100644
--- a/docker-compose-redis.yml
+++ b/docker-compose-redis.yml
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ services:
     restart: unless-stopped
     ports:
       - '4567:4567' # comment this out if you don't want to expose NodeBB to the host, or change the first number to any port you want
+    extra_hosts:
+      - "host.docker.internal:host-gateway"
     volumes:
       - nodebb-build:/usr/src/app/build
       - nodebb-uploads:/usr/src/app/public/uploads
diff --git a/src/translate/index.js b/src/translate/index.js
index f1079edfd2..1f26b77f8a 100644
--- a/src/translate/index.js
+++ b/src/translate/index.js
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ translatorApi.translate = async function (postData) {
 		return [true, postData.content];
 	}
 
-	const TRANSLATOR_API = 'http://17313-team06.s3d.cmu.edu:5000';
+	const TRANSLATOR_API = 'http://host.docker.internal:5000';
 	try{
 		const response = await fetch(TRANSLATOR_API + '/?content=' + postData.content);
 		const data = await response.json();