Tribes environment variables

This is a breakdown of the neccessary environment variables needed to run a Tribes server. All of these environment variables can be found in the example.env file in the Tribes repo.

The variables

Variable Name	Description	Default Value
REDIS_HOST	Redis DB hostname	localhost
REDIS_PORT	Redis DB port	6379
REDIS_DB	Redis DB number	0
REDIS_USERNAME	Redis DB username	an empty string
REDIS_PASSWORD	Redis DB password	an empty string
SERVER_PUBLIC_KEY	Location of the server’s public key	path/to/public.key
SERVER_PRIVATE_KEY	Location of the server’s private key	path/to/private.key
PUBLIC_ACCESS	Tribes privacy setting; 0 means the server is private; 1 means the server is public	0
OTP_KEY	Secret value for the OTP settings. This should be base32 encoded	myotpkey
APP_KEY	Secret value for Flask server for encrypting cookies; this should be base32 encoded	mysecretappkey
ADMIN_KEY	Location of the admin’s public key on the server	path/to/public.key
PORT	Port where the Tribes server will run	8000