CCAI : Cloudron Custom App Installer

[timconsidine]

@IniBudi I didn’t make a video as the process is simple, and Cloudron 9.1 will take over soon.

As @humptydumpty (thank you for stepping in) said, the process is guided.

Some important points :

• CCAI original version is dead : site now directs you to CustomAppGateway which is the new start point
• CustomAppGateway gives you choice of installing individual apps from there, or installing CCAI-P which is maybe more useful if installing multiple custom apps
• for individual installations, CustomAppGateway shows a catalogue, pick an item, popup shows a description and a curl one line installation command. Copy that and paste into your desktop/laptop terminal. It will :
  • prompt for your Cloudron, e.g. my.domain.tld
  • prompt for a token (create this in your Cloudron dashboard | Profile | Tokens
  • prompt for app location, eg myapp.mydomain.tld
  • invoke the installation : note that it will likely complete quickly but your Cloudron needs another couple minutes to install the app
• for multiple custom apps, use CustomAppGateway to install CCAI-P : same process as above.
  • you will then have an app in your Cloudron which can install further apps (displays the same catalog as CustomAppGateway but no more curl download links)
  • store your creds in /app/data
  • pick an app and watch installation proceed
  • wait for completion notice.

Note : your auth creds are now always input in your control (your desktop or your own Cloudron environment), never in a 3rd party site.

Let me know if any other questions

[robi]

@timconsidine it's gone too soon, was needing to use CCAI today.. can you extend it for another month?

[humpty]

@robi It's not gone gone. 9.1 will take some time. Unless you mean CCAI "app" which got superseded by CCAI-P as the main app.

Main site is: https://customappgateway.appx.uk/

[timconsidine]

@robi sorry for confusion
"CCAI" as a whole is not gone
Just the original browser-centric version requiring users to put auth creds in my site (yuk!)

CustomAppGateway lives on, to install CCAI-P and individual apps.
https://customgateway.appx.uk

This will live for a while, definitely for a month after 9.1 is released, maybe as long as 3-6 months after 9.1.

[robi]

@timconsidine I quite enjoyed your 'yuk' site.

[creative567145]

Congratz @timconsidine CCAI-P is an excellent software. I'm looking forward to Cloudron 9.1 and you expanding the Apps list.

I tested installing Moltbot (OpenClaw) and there are errors.

Used settings ---
Repository Location:
http://git.cloudron.io/timconsidine/cloudron-moltbot
+
Docker Image Location:
tcmbp132021/cloudron-moltbot:latest
+
Port Binding:
3000

Basically, it says that the image can't be pulled.

Please see if you can spot something strange:

Error in CCAI-P:
[7:34:50 PM] [2026-02-13 18:34:49] App installation error: Installation failed: Unable to pull image tcmbp132021/cloudron-moltbot:latest. message: (HTTP code 404) unexpected - manifest for tcmbp132021/cloudron-moltbot:latest not found: manifest unknown: manifest unknown statusCode: 404
[7:34:50 PM] [2026-02-13 18:34:49] Installation failed with exit code 1
[7:34:50 PM] ERROR: Installation failed: Unknown error

Error in Cloudron:
Error - Unable to pull image tcmbp132021/cloudron-moltbot:latest. message: (HTTP code 404) unexpected - manifest for tcmbp132021/cloudron-moltbot:latest not found: manifest unknown: manifest unknown statusCode: 404

[timconsidine]

@creative567145 thanks for reporting

I should have clarified moltbot is unfinished
And may never be finished as I am packaging openclaw

Apologies if this caused you wasted time

[creative567145]

@timconsidine Thank you for your fast response. No worries.

Your documentation is very useful:
https://git.cloudron.io/timconsidine/cloudron-moltbot/-/blob/main/POSTINSTALL.md?ref_type=heads
so perhaps it will help me make OpenClaw work on DokPloy.

I'll test additionally if I can self-host an LLM via Ollama on a Cloudron VPS and connect it to OpenClaw