Configuration

Environment variables

GA_TRACKING_ID

Google Analytics ID, used for the Performance Platform.

GOVUK_START_PAGE

Visiting / will redirect to this URL, if supplied, or the new booking page otherwise. On production, this must be set to https://www.gov.uk/prison-visits, the official start page for the service.

SECRET_KEY_BASE

This key is used to verify the integrity of signed cookies. If it is changed, all old signed cookies will become invalid.

Make sure the secret is at least 30 characters and all random, no regular words or you’ll be exposed to dictionary attacks. You can use rake secret to generate a secure secret key.

EMAIL_DOMAIN

This is the email domain used in the generation of email addresses shown on the site (currently only the no-reply address from which to expect bookings).

On production this must be set to email.prisonvisits.service.gov.uk.

STAFF_SERVICE_URL

The url for the staff service.

ASSET_HOST (optional)

If specified this will configure Rails' config.asset_host, resulting in all asset URLs pointing to this host.

SENTRY_DSN (optional)

If specified, exceptions will be sent to the given Sentry project.

SENTRY_JS_DSN (optional)

If specified, Javascript exceptions will be sent to the given Sentry project.

VSIP_OAUTH_CLIENT_ID

Client ID to be used for grant_type, client_credentials for oauth2 authorisation against the VSiP orchestration api end points.

VSIP_OAUTH_CLIENT_SECRET

Client Secret to be used for grant_type, client_credentials for oauth2 authorisation against the VSiP orchestration api end points.

VSIP_HOST

Host for the VSiP orchestration endpoint.

Files to be created on deployment

META

This file, located in the root directory, should be a JSON document containing build information to be returned by /ping.json. e.g.:

{
  "build_date": "2015-12-08T10:18:04.357122",
  "commit_id": "a444e4b05276ae7dc2b1d4224e551dfcbf768795"
}