[Query] Self-host without docker

[vdbhb59]

How to host without docker? I cannot do it with docker for various reasons, hence need to self-host without docker.

[mzch]

I hope this help you...

1. Install Node.JS
2. Install pnpm. e.g.) corepack enable pnpm or npm install -g pnpm
3. Clone this repo.
4. cd working directory.
5. pnpm install
6. pnpm --filter picsur-shared build
7. pnpm --filter picsur-frontend build
8. pnpm --filter picsur-backend build
9. Edit environment variables as below:

PICSUR_PRODUCTION=true
#
PICSUR_ADMIN_PASSWORD=admin_password'
PICSUR_JWT_SECRET='secret'
# PICSUR_JWT_EXPIRY=7d
PICSUR_HOST=127.0.0.1
PICSUR_PORT=3000
PICSUR_DEMO=false
# PICSUR_DEMO_INTERVAL=1000 * 60 * 5
PICSUR_VERBOSE=false
# PICSUR_TELEMETRY=
PICSUR_MAX_FILE_SIZE=128000000
PICSUR_REDIS_URL='redis://127.0.0.1:6379/'
PICSUR_STATIC_FRONTEND_ROOT='{repo working directory}/frontend/dist'
PICSUR_DB_HOST='localhost'
PICSUR_DB_PORT=5432
PICSUR_DB_USERNAME='picsur'
PICSUR_DB_PASSWORD='password'
PICSUR_DB_DATABASE='picsur'

11. PICSUR_PRODUCTION=true pnpm --filter picsur-backend startt:prod

[vdbhb59]

@mzch thanks mate. Where can I find the environment file?
I can only see 2 .ts files, but I cannot see the same format compared to what you gave above mate.

[mzch]

Hi @vdbhb59 , This repository doesn't have such an environemtnt file. I found them with find . -type f -exec grep -H EnvPrefix {} \; in the ./backend/src. You can also find some of them in the ./support/picsur.docker-compose.yml. You have to give them in a startup script or a systemd unit file on the Linux.

[CaramelFur]

Yes, that's probably the best way of doing it.

Also @vdbhb59 just out of curiosity, what environment have you found yourself in that you cannot use docker?

[vdbhb59]

@CaramelFur mate, I hate Docker. It just over-complicates stuffs. Moreover, I host/deploy things which I can control easily and not have to spend hours behind it.