The following environment variables configure the addresses of the databases, some credentials, some application behaviours and the localization preferences. If you are in a development environment, your can keep most of the default values, otherwise, in production, values must be configured carefully.
The settings in .env configure the environment variables when the application run in development mode. If you run the application in production with docker, the settings are localized in config/env.
POSTGRES_HOST
DNS name or IP address of the server hosting the PostgreSQL database of the application (see PostgreSQL).
This value is only used when deploying in production, otherwise this is configured in config/database.yml.
When using docker-compose, you should provide the name of the service in your docker-compose.yml file (postgres by default).
POSTGRES_USERNAME, POSTGRES_PASSWORD
Username and password for the connection to the PostgreSQL database.
This value is only used when deploying in production, otherwise this is configured in config/database.yml.
When using docker-compose, the default configuration (with postgres user) does not uses any password as it is confined in the docker container.
REDIS_HOST
DNS name or IP address of the server hosting the redis database.
When using docker-compose, you should provide the name of the service in your docker-compose.yml file (redis by default).
ELASTICSEARCH_HOST
DNS name or IP address of the server hosting the elasticSearch database.
When using docker-compose, you should provide the name of the service in your docker-compose.yml file (elasticsearch by default).
SECRET_KEY_BASE
Used by the authentication system to generate random tokens, eg. for resetting passwords.
Used by Rails to verify the integrity of signed cookies.
You can generate such a random key by running rails secret.
DELIVERY_METHOD
Configure the Rails' Action Mailer delivery method. See http://guides.rubyonrails.org/action_mailer_basics.html#action-mailer-configuration for more details.
SMTP_ADDRESS, SMTP_PORT, SMTP_USER_NAME, SMTP_PASSWORD, SMTP_AUTHENTICATION, SMTP_ENABLE_STARTTLS_AUTO & SMTP_OPENSSL_VERIFY_MODE
When DELIVERY_METHOD is set to smtp, configure the SMTP server parameters. See https://guides.rubyonrails.org/action_mailer_basics.html#action-mailer-configuration for more details.
SMTP_CA_FILE
The path to a file containing a PEM-format CA certificate.
See OpenSSL::SSL::SSLContext.
This is an undocumented setting of mail gem.
In production with Docker, you may need to mount your certificate into the running container, by adding an entry in your docker-compose.yml, under services > fabmanager > volumes, like the following: - ${PWD}/certs/ca-cert-file.pem:/etc/ssl/my-certs/ca-cert-file.pem
SMTP_CA_PATH
The path to a directory containing CA certificates in PEM format.
See OpenSSL::SSL::SSLContext.
This is an undocumented setting of mail gem.
In production with Docker, you may need to mount your certificate into the running container, by adding an entry in your docker-compose.yml, under services > fabmanager > volumes, like the following: - ${PWD}/certs:/etc/ssl/my-certs
SMTP_TLS
Enables the SMTP connection to use SMTP/TLS (SMTPS: SMTP over direct TLS connection).
DEFAULT_HOST, DEFAULT_PROTOCOL
Your members will receive email notifications containing links to your of Fab-manager.
You must properly configure these variables to match URL of this instance, to prevent broken links.
Typically, DEFAULT_PROTOCOL will be https (http if you are in development, or if you set ALLOW_INSECURE_HTTP).
The variable DEFAULT_HOST should be your domain name (eg. fabmanager.example.com), and is also used for visits statistics (configuration of Google Analytics).
These two variables are also used for SSO authentication.
LOG_LEVEL
This parameter configures the logs verbosity. Available log levels can be found here.
RAILS_LOG_TO_STDOUT
Enable redirecting logs (including errors) to stdout.
Set this variable to true in production environments.
MAX_IMAGE_SIZE
Maximum size (in bytes) allowed for image uploaded on the platform. This parameter concerns events, plans, user's avatars, projects and steps of projects. If this parameter is not specified the maximum size allowed will be 2MB.
MAX_CAO_SIZE
Maximum size (in bytes) allowed for CAO files uploaded on the platform, as project attachments. If this parameter is not specified, the maximum size allowed will be 5MB.
MAX_IMPORT_SIZE
Maximum size (in bytes) allowed for import files uploaded on the platform. Currently, this is only used to import users from a CSV file. If this parameter is not specified, the maximum size allowed will be 5MB.
MAX_SUPPORTING_DOCUMENT_FILE_SIZE
Maximum size (in bytes) allowed for suporting document files uploaded on the platform. If this parameter is not specified, the maximum size allowed will be 5MB.
DISK_SPACE_MB_ALERT
Threshold in MB of the minimum free disk space available on the current mount point. The check will run every week and if the threshold is exceeded, an alert will be sent to every administrator.
ADMIN_EMAIL, ADMIN_PASSWORD
Credentials for the first admin user created when seeding the project.
By default, these variables are not present in the env file, because they are only used once, when running the database seed with the command rails db:seed.
ADMINSYS_EMAIL
Optional email of the administrator account in charge of the system administration. If specified, he will be hidden from the administrators list, and he will exclusively receive the notifications related to the system administration. If not specified, every administrator will receive system administration notifications. Please note that setting this parameter does not automatically create the corresponding account in Fab-manager: you must specify here the email of an existing admin account.
FORCE_VERSION_CHECK
In test and development environments, the version won't be check automatically, unless this variable is set to "true".
ALLOW_INSECURE_HTTP
In production and staging environments, the session cookie won't be sent to the server unless through the HTTPS protocol.
If you're using Fab-manager on a non-public network or for testing purposes, you can disable this behavior by setting this variable to true.
Please, ensure you know what you're doing, as this can lead to serious security issues.
LOCKED_SETTINGS
A comma separated list of settings that cannot be changed from the UI.
Please refer to https://github.com/sleede/fab-manager/blob/master/app/models/setting.rb for a list of possible values.
Only the system administrator can change them, with the command: ENV=value rails fablab:setup:env_to_db
SSO_DEBUG
If set to true, the SSO authentication process will print more debug logs.
Use in accordance with LOG_LEVEL=debug.
Please do not enable this in production, as it can expose sensitive information.
APP_LOCALE
Configure application's main localization and translation settings.
See config/locales/app.*.yml for a list of available locales. Default is en.
RAILS_LOCALE
Configure Ruby on Rails localization settings (currency, dates, number formats ...).
Please, be aware that the configured locale will imply the CURRENCY symbol used to generate invoices.
Eg.: configuring es-ES will set the currency symbol to € but es-MX will set $ as currency symbol, so setting the RAILS_LOCALE to simple es (without country indication) will probably not do what you expect.
Available values: en, en-AU-CA, en-GB, en-IE, en-IN, en-NZ, en-US, en-ZA, fr, fr-CA, fr-CH, fr-CM, fr-FR, es, es-419, es-AR, es-CL, es-CO, es-CR, es-DO, es-EC, es-ES, es-MX, es-MX, es-PA, es-PE, es-US, es-VE, no, pt, pt-BR, it, it-CH, zu.
When not defined, it defaults to en.
If your locale is not present in that list or any locale doesn't have your exact expectations, please open a pull request to share your modifications with the community and obtain a rebuilt docker image. You can find templates of these files at https://github.com/svenfuchs/rails-i18n/tree/rails-5-x/rails/locale.
MOMENT_LOCALE
Configure the moment.js library for l10n.
See github.com/moment/momentlocale/*.js for a list of available locales. When not defined, it defaults to en (even if it's not listed).
SUMMERNOTE_LOCALE
Configure the javascript summernote editor for l10n.
See github.com/summernote/summernote/lang/summernote-*.js for a list of available locales. When not defined, it defaults to en-US (even if it's not listed).
ANGULAR_LOCALE
Configure the locale for angular-i18n.
Please, be aware that the configured locale will imply the CURRENCY displayed to front-end users.
Eg.: configuring fr-fr will set the currency symbol to € but fr-ca will set $ as currency symbol, so setting the ANGULAR_LOCALE to simple fr (without country indication) will probably not do what you expect.
See code.angularjs.org/i18n/angular-locale_*.js for a list of available locales. When not defined, it defaults to en.
FULLCALENDAR_LOCALE
Configure the fullCalendar JS agenda library.
See github.com/fullcalendar/fullcalendar/locale/*.js for a list of available locales. When not defined, it defaults to en.
INTL_LOCALE
Configure the locale for the javascript Intl Object. This locale must be a Unicode BCP 47 locale identifier. See Intl - Javascript | MDN for more info about configuring this setting.
INTL_CURRENCY
Configure the currency for the javascript Intl Object. Possible values are the ISO 4217 currency codes, such as "USD" for the US dollar, "EUR" for the euro. See Current currency & funds code list for a list of available values. There is no default value; this setting MUST be provided.
POSTGRESQL_LANGUAGE_ANALYZER
This variable configures the language analyzer for indexing and searching in projets with PostgreSQL.
Available values: danish, dutch, english, finnish, french, german, hungarian, italian, norwegian, portuguese, romanian, russian, simple, spanish, swedish, turkish
TIME_ZONE
In Rails: set Time.zone default to the specified zone and make Active Record auto-convert to this zone. Run rails time:zones:all for a list of available time zone names.
When not defined, it defaults to UTC.
WEEK_STARTING_DAY
Configure the first day of the week in your locale zone (generally monday or sunday).
D3_DATE_FORMAT
Date format for dates displayed in statistics charts. See D3 Wiki for available formats.
UIB_DATE_FORMAT
Date format for dates displayed and parsed in date pickers. See AngularUI documentation for a list available formats.
BEWARE: years format with less than 4 digits will result in problems because the system won't be able to distinct dates with the same less significant digits, eg. 50 could mean 1950 or 2050.
EXCEL_DATE_FORMAT
Date format for dates shown in exported Excel files (eg. statistics) See Microsoft support for a list a available formats.
ENABLE_IN_CONTEXT_TRANSLATION
If set to true, and the application in started into a staging environment, this will enable the Crowdin In-context translation layer for the front-end application.
See Crowdin documentation for more details about this.
Accordingly, RAILS_LOCALE and APP_LOCALE must be configured to zu.
NO_COLOR
If set to any value, this will set config.colorize_logging to false, disabling ANSI color codes when logging information.
ENABLE_SENTRY
Sentry is an automated error reporting tool. It is disabled by default, but you can enable it by setting ENABLE_SENTRY=true.
OPENLAB_BASE_URI
Set this variable to https://openprojects.fab-manager.com if you want to use the common projects repository or set it to your own OpenLab server.
Typically, DEFAULT_PROTOCOL will be https (http if you are in development, or if you set ALLOW_INSECURE_HTTP).
The variable DEFAULT_HOST should be your domain name (eg. fabmanager.example.com), and is also used for visits statistics (configuration of Google Analytics).
These two variables are also used for SSO authentication.
OPENLAB_SSL_VERIFY
Set this variable to false if you do not want to verify the OpenLab's server's certificate against the CA certificate.
OPENLAB_SSL_VERIFY_PEER
Set this variable to false if you want to turn off the OpenLab's server's verification but still send client certificate.
In the previous versions of Fab-manager, much more settings were configurable from environment variables. Starting with Fab-manager v4.5.0, these settings can be configured from the graphical interface, when logged as an administrator.
Nevertheless, it is possible to keep the configuration in the env file, using a combination of LOCKED_SETTINGS, rails fablab:setup:env_to_db and the mapping table of env_to_db.