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A bubbly Portr

Server setup

For quick setup, use the docker-compose.yml.

https://github.com/amalshaji/portr/blob/main/docker-compose.yaml

Services

The compose file has 4 services

  • caddy - the reverse proxy
  • admin - the admin server
  • tunnel - the tunnel server
  • postgres - the postgres database

Setup environment variables

Once you copy the compose file, create a .env with the following values.

.env
PORTR_ADMIN_GITHUB_CLIENT_ID= #optional
PORTR_ADMIN_GITHUB_CLIENT_SECRET= #optional


PORTR_DOMAIN=example.com
PORTR_DB_URL=postgres://postgres:postgres@localhost:5432/postgres


PORTR_SERVER_URL=example.com
PORTR_SSH_URL=example.com:2222


CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN=


POSTGRES_USER=postgres
POSTGRES_PASSWORD=postgres
POSTGRES_DB=postgres


PORTR_ADMIN_ENCRYPTION_KEY=

Generate an encryption key using the following command

Terminal window
python -c "import base64, os; print(base64.urlsafe_b64encode(os.urandom(32)).decode())"

If you want to run postgres separately and not as a service, you can exclude the following environment values

  • POSTGRES_USER
  • POSTGRES_PASSWORD
  • POSTGRES_DB

Run docker compose up to start the servers. Once the servers are up, go to example.com and login in to the admin. First login will be treated as a superuser.