Paperless ngx not connecting to Apache Tika

Unraid 7.2.4

Apache/tika:latest

ghcr.io/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx

gotenberg/gotenberg

postgres:16

bitnamisecure/redis:latest

Hello

I followed spaceinvader video to install Paperless and it works fine with PDFs. The problem starts when I try to upload a Word file which requires Tika for parsing.

Paperless returns this error:

worddocument.docx: Error occurred while consuming document worddocument.docx: Could not parse /tmp/paperless/paperless-ngxihibf9dw/worddocument.docx with tika server at http://localhost:9998: [Errno 111] Connection refused

It suggests a connection issue with the Tika container but I checked at CLI and its seems to be connected:

docker exec -it paperless-ngx curl http://Apache-Tika-Server:9998/tika

This is Tika Server (Apache Tika 3.2.3). Please PUT

After some investigation it looks like the localhost address is an issue even so I configured the container parameter to proper IP address, I actually tried every possible configuration of addresses and it just keeps returning localhost.

I also created a custom network after I tried the Bridge network that spaceinvader has setup. The annoying bit is that I followed his instructions step by step religiously and his setup works and mine doesn't.

Any help would be greatly appreciated thanks.

tower-diagnostics-20260314-1406.zip

Edited March 14Mar 14 by lusitanium