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💻 Local Hobby Instance

Minimum requirements:
2 core, 4G ram and 20GB Disk space

  1. Install Docker Desktop and make sure docker has started.
  2. Clone the repo and navigate to the project 
    git clone https://github.com/uselotus/lotus.git && cd lotus
  3. Run the self-hosting script: 
     ./scripts/self-host.sh
    If you need to give the script permission to run, run chmod 755 ./scripts/self-host.sh first.
  4. You should now be able to access the homepage at localhost/, and sign in using the ADMIN_USERNAME and ADMIN_PASSWORD you defined, or the default, which is: 
    username: change_me
password: change_me

Optionally:

  • Change the environment variables located in env/.env.prod to suit your needs.

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Local Hobby Env variables

Variable Name(Default) ValueChange?
POSTGRES_USERlotus✔
POSTGRES_DBlotus✔
POSTGRES_PASSWORDlotus✔
SECRET_KEYchange_me✔
ADMIN_USERNAMEchange_me✔
ADMIN_EMAILchange_me✔
ADMIN_PASSWORDchange_me✔
SELF_HOSTEDTrue
DOCKERIZEDTrue
DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE“lotus.settings”
NODE_ENVproduction
VITE_API_URL”http://localhost/”
STRIPE_LIVE_SECRET_KEYsk_live_✔
STRIPE_LIVE_CLIENTca_✔
STRIPE_TEST_SECRET_KEYsk_test_✔
STRIPE_TEST_CLIENTca_✔
STRIPE_WEBHOOK_SECRETwhsec_✔
SVIX_JWT_SECRETchange_me✔
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