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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 .env.example file in the Tribes repo.

Variable NameDescription
REDIS_HOSTRedis DB hostname
REDIS_PORTRedis DB port
REDIS_DBRedis DB number
REDIS_USERNAMERedis DB username
REDIS_PASSWORDRedis DB password
PUBLIC_ACCESSTribes privacy setting; 0 means the server is private; 1 means the server is public
APP_KEYSecret value for Flask server for encrypting cookies; this should be base32 encoded
PORTPort where the Tribes server will run