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Configuring the environment

Before you get started with the installation, you need to configure the environment variables.

Copy the contents of the .env.example file found in the root directory of the cloned repository to .env and add your values for the environment variables.

Ensure that the environment values are not enclosed within quotes ("").
#-----------------------Backend Config------------------------------#
# Prisma Config
DATABASE_URL=postgresql://username:password@url:5432/dbname # or replace with your database URL

# Auth Tokens Config
JWT_SECRET=secretcode123
TOKEN_SALT_COMPLEXITY=10
MAGIC_LINK_TOKEN_VALIDITY=3
REFRESH_TOKEN_VALIDITY=604800000
ACCESS_TOKEN_VALIDITY=86400000
SESSION_SECRET=anothersecretcode123

# Hoppscotch App Domain Config
REDIRECT_URL=http://localhost:3000
WHITELISTED_ORIGINS=http://localhost:3170,http://localhost:3000,http://localhost:3100
VITE_ALLOWED_AUTH_PROVIDERS=GOOGLE,GITHUB,MICROSOFT,EMAIL

# Google Auth Config
GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID=*****
GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET=*****
GOOGLE_CALLBACK_URL=http://localhost:3170/v1/auth/google/callback
GOOGLE_SCOPE=email,profile

# Github Auth Config
GITHUB_CLIENT_ID=*****
GITHUB_CLIENT_SECRET=****
GITHUB_CALLBACK_URL=http://localhost:3170/v1/auth/github/callback
GITHUB_SCOPE=user:email

# Microsoft Auth Config
MICROSOFT_CLIENT_ID=*****
MICROSOFT_CLIENT_SECRET=*****
MICROSOFT_CALLBACK_URL=http://localhost:3170/v1/auth/microsoft/callback
MICROSOFT_SCOPE=user.read
MICROSOFT_TENANT=common

# Mailer config
MAILER_SMTP_URL=smtps://user@domain.com:pass@smtp.domain.com
MAILER_ADDRESS_FROM=from@example.com

# Rate Limit Config
RATE_LIMIT_TTL=60
RATE_LIMIT_MAX=100

#-----------------------Frontend Config------------------------------#

# Base URLs
VITE_BASE_URL=http://localhost:3000
VITE_SHORTCODE_BASE_URL=http://localhost:3000
VITE_ADMIN_URL=http://localhost:3100

# Backend URLs
VITE_BACKEND_GQL_URL=http://localhost:3170/graphql
VITE_BACKEND_WS_URL=wss://localhost:3170/graphql
VITE_BACKEND_API_URL=http://localhost:3170/v1

# Terms Of Service And Privacy Policy Links (Optional)
VITE_APP_TOS_LINK=https://docs.hoppscotch.io/support/terms
VITE_APP_PRIVACY_POLICY_LINK=https://docs.hoppscotch.io/support/privacy

ENABLE_SUBPATH_BASED_ACCESS=false

Let’s understand the major environment variables:

  1. DATABASE_URL: This is where you add your Postgres database URL.
  2. TOKEN_SALT_COMPLEXITY: Defines the complexity of the SALT that is used for hashing - a higher number implies a more complex salt.
  3. MAGIC_LINK_TOKEN_VALIDITY: Duration of the validity of the magic link being sent to sign in to Hoppscotch (in days).
  4. REFRESH_TOKEN_VALIDITY: Validity of the refresh token for auth (in ms).
  5. ACCESS_TOKEN_VALIDITY: Validity of the access token for auth (in ms).
  6. JWT_SECRET, SESSION_SECRET: Secret Keys for security purposes.
  7. REDIRECT_URL: This is a fallback URL to debug when the actual redirects fail.
  8. WHITELISTED_ORIGINS: URLs of Hoppscotch backend, admin dashboard, and the frontend app.
  9. VITE_ALLOWED_AUTH_PROVIDERS: Allows you to specify which auth providers you want to enable.
  10. MAILER_SMTP_URL: The SMTP URL for email delivery.
  11. MAILER_ADDRESS_FROM: The email address that you would be using.
  12. RATE_LIMIT_TTL: The time it takes to refresh the maximum number of requests being received.
  13. RATE_LIMIT_MAX: The maximum number of requests that Hoppscotch can handle under RATE_LIMIT_TTL.
  14. VITE_BASE_URL: This is the URL where your deployment will be accessible from.
  15. VITE_SHORTCODE_BASE_URL: A URL to generate shortcodes for sharing, can be the same as VITE_BASE_URL.
  16. VITE_BACKEND_GQL_URL: The URL for GraphQL within the instance.
  17. VITE_BACKEND_WS_URL: The URL for WebSockets within the instance.
  18. VITE_BACKEND_API_URL: The URL for REST APIs within the instance.
  19. VITE_APP_TOS_LINK and VITE_APP_PRIVACY_POLICY_LINK are optional and are used to configure the links to the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy.

Third-party auth configs have to be obtained from the respective providers. You can choose and configure the auth providers by following the configuring OAuth guide.

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Docker

Once the environment variables are configured, you may proceed to the next step of setting up the Hoppscotch instance. Currently, there are two ways to set up Hoppscotch:

  1. Using individual containers for the services.
  2. Using the AIO container.
  • Before proceeding further, ensure that you have a running instance of Postgres.

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Using individual containers for the services

To self-host Hoppscotch Community Edition, you will need the following services running via Docker:

  • Hoppscotch frontend
  • Hoppscotch backend
  • Hoppscotch admin dashboard

Pull the containers from DockerHub with the following command:

docker pull hoppscotch/hoppscotch-frontend
docker pull hoppscotch/hoppscotch-backend
docker pull hoppscotch/hoppscotch-admin

After pulling the containers, start Hoppscotch by running all three services:

docker run -p 3000:3000 --env-file .env --restart unless-stopped hoppscotch/hoppscotch-frontend
docker run -p 3170:3170 --env-file .env --restart unless-stopped hoppscotch/hoppscotch-backend
docker run -p 3100:3100 --env-file .env --restart unless-stopped hoppscotch/hoppscotch-admin
  • Ensure that the environment variables are configured in the .env file and the restart policy is mentioned.

Open admin dashboard or PORT 3100 in the browser to setup and access the Hoppscotch instance.

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Using the AIO container

The All-In-One (AIO) container is a single container that provides all the services required to run Hoppscotch.

Pull the container from DockerHub with the following command:

docker pull hoppscotch/hoppscotch

After pulling the container, start Hoppscotch by running the container:

docker run -p 3000:3000 -p 3100:3100 -p 3170:3170 --env-file .env --restart unless-stopped hoppscotch/hoppscotch
  • Ensure that the environment variables are configured in the .env file and the restart policy is mentioned.

Open admin dashboard or PORT 3100 in the browser to setup and access the Hoppscotch instance.

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Subpath Based Access

To enable subpath based access the following .env variable must be set to true, it is set to false by default.

ENABLE_SUBPATH_BASED_ACCESS=false

When set to true the following is the expected behavior:

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Using individual containers for the services

When using the individual containers it is up to the users to configure a reverse proxy to allow requests made to a specific route to be rerouted to the relevant containers.

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Using the AIO container

When using AIO, when subpath access is set to true the services can be accessed from the following routes

ServiceRoute
Hoppscotch App/
Hoppscotch Admin App/admin
Hoppscotch Backend/backend

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Migrations

Once the instance of Hoppscotch is up, you need to run migrations on the database to ensure that it has the relevant tables. Depending on how Hoppscotch was set up, the method to run the migrations changes.

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Using individual containers for the services

Run the following command to copy the ID of the backend container:

docker ps

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Using the AIO container

Run the following command to copy the ID of the AIO container:

docker ps

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Running migrations

Once the respective container ID is copied, execute the following command to open an interactive shell within the container to execute the migration command:

docker exec -it <container_id> /bin/sh

Once inside the container, run the migration using:

pnpx prisma migrate deploy

Should the user ever encounter the following error:

Database migration not found. Please check the documentation for assistance: https://docs.hoppscotch.io/documentation/self-host/community-edition/install-and-build#running-migrations

It means the user is trying to start the backend (or AIO) service before the database has all the relevant tables in it. In order to run the migration to populate the database run the following command.

docker run -it --entrypoint sh --env-file .env <container_name>

Making sure to pass in the .env file containing the right .env variables for the instance. On executing the aforementioned command will result in a shell being opened inside a instance of the container following which user can execute a database migration normally with

pnpx prisma migrate deploy

Once the database has been successfully run and the database populated with tables the backend containers ( or AIO container) can be started normally.

Note: If user is using docker compose to run the services the following command can be used to open a shell inside the backend (or AIO) service.

docker compose run --entrypoint sh <Service_name>

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