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Install Slashbase Server IDE

Self-hosting Slashbase on your own server is easy. You need a Linux server. Follow the following steps to install it.

Prerequisites​

  • Linux server instance in AWS/Google Cloud/Azure/Digital Ocean or any other cloud provider.
  • Docker & Docker compose installed on server instance. If you don't have docker installed, follow the docker installation page

Running Install Script​

  1. SSH into your server instance.
  2. Run the following commands:
mkdir slashbase && cd slashbase
curl --location --output install.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/slashbaseide/slashbase/main/deploy/install.sh
chmod +x install.sh
./install.sh
  1. Enter root user email and password & wait till the setup completes.
  2. If install succeeds, Slashbase Server is running on port 3000.
  3. (Additionally) You can point the server to a URL like slashbase.yourcompany.com by using nginx/apache or any other server software and add an SSL certificate.

Manual Instructions​

  1. SSH into your server instance.
  2. Run the following commands:
mkdir slashbase && cd slashbase
touch docker-compose.yml
touch app.env
  1. Update the contents of docker-compose.yml with this file contents.
  2. Update the contents of app.env with this file contents.
  3. Update the required docker-compose.yml variables file as below:
    • ${POSTGRES_DB} as a postgres database name. Or use slashbase.
    • ${POSTGRES_USER} as postgres user name.
    • ${POSTGRES_PASSWORD} as postgres password.
  4. Update the required app.env variables in file as below:
    • ${slashbase_root_email} to root user's email address.
    • ${slashbase_root_password} to root user's password.
    • ${auth_secret} to value generated by the command tr -dc A-Za-z0-9 </dev/urandom | head -c 64 ; echo ''.
    • ${crypted_data_secret} to value generated by the command openssl rand -hex 32.
    • ${app_db_host} to the value slashbase-db.
    • ${app_db_port} to the value 5432.
    • ${app_db_user} to the db user value that you use in docker-compose.yml file.
    • ${app_db_pass} to the db password value that you use in docker-compose.yml file.
    • ${app_db_name} the the db name that you use in docker-compose.yml file.
  5. Run docker compose up.
  6. Slashbase Server is running on port 3000.
  7. (Additionally) You can point the server to a URL like slashbase.yourcompany.com by using nginx/apache or any other server software and add an SSL certificate.

Troubleshooting

If you face any issues installing or using slashbase, send us a mail at [email protected] or contact support chat on our website slashbase.com.