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      Environment Variables

      Phrase On-Premise Environment Variables

      Phrase On-Premise Environment Variables

      All configuration is done via the setting of environment variables inside the phraseapp.env file. An example file with arbitrary values could look similar to this purely illustrative file. 192.168.99.100 should be replaced by your actually used host names or IPs reachable from the Docker container running Phrase On-Premise. Also, make sure to replace the secrets at the end of the file according to the section about SECRETs at the end of this document:

      DATABASE_URL=mysql2://root@192.168.99.100:3306/phraseapp?collation=utf8mb4_unicode_ci&encoding=utf8mb4

      ELASTICSEARCH_URL=http://192.168.99.100:9200

      REDIS_URL=redis://192.168.99.100:6379

      BASE_URL=http://192.168.99.100:8080
      CUSTOM_ASSET_HOST=http://192.168.99.100:8080

      MAIL_RAISE_DELIVERY_ERRORS=0
      MAIL_ADDRESS=192.168.99.100
      MAIL_PORT=1025
      MAIL_ENABLE_STARTTLS_AUTO=0
      MAIL_USER_NAME=
      MAIL_PASSWORD=
      MAIL_AUTHENTICATION=plain
      MAIL_DEFAULT_SENDER_ADDRESS=phraseapp@mycompany.tld
      MAIL_DOMAIN=mycompany.tld

      SIGNUPS_DISABLED=0

      SESSION_COOKIE_NAME=_translate_session_sec
      SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE_FLAG=false

      RAILS_APP_OAUTH_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET=uo7peejia8peceeng4iete[...]
      RAILS_APP_SECRET_TOKEN=ePeiPhai1hie9mahxil5ushie6cua1ahkae[...]
      RAILS_APP_SECRET_KEY_BASE=rei5ohXocu2Biesiew4oFoTi1elohthi[...]
      DEVISE_SECRET_KEY=Doh1iekeeshu0uzah8so8Iethohzaiv1ohvauze3[...]
      DB_ENCRYPTION_SECRET=yei3Iey0eith5iep0Shohthech9mahNaip0Ph[...]

      This file may not contain double-quotes “ - do not enclose string values with any quotes. See docker documentation for more on Environment variable settings.

      Environment Variables

       
      Database

      DATABASE_URL
      The Database URL to connect to, e.g. mysql2://user:pass@db-host:port/db?local_infile=true . You must set the scheme to the pseudo-scheme mysql2  for the Ruby application of Phrase On-Premise to be able to connect to your MySQL server. User and pass must be url-encoded with the Percent-encoding.
       

      elasticsearch

      ELASTICSEARCH_URL
      The URL of the Elasticsearch cluster to connect to, e.g.  http://es-host:9200  
       

      Redis

      REDIS_URL
      The URL of the Redis host to connect to, e.g. http://redis-host:6379
       

      Domain settings

      BASE_URL Hostname used for links in emails e.g. https://phraseapp.mycompany.com

      CUSTOM_ASSET_HOST
      Hostname used for CSS/JavaScript assets e.g. https://phrase-assets.mycompany.com
       

      SMTP mail settings

      Available SMTP mail server settings are explained in the smtp_settings section of the Ruby on Rails guides on mailer configuration.

      MAIL_ADDRESS                                    
      Hostname of the SMTP server, e.g. smtp.mycompany.com  

      MAIL_PORT                                            
      SMTP port, e.g. 25  

      MAIL_USER_NAME                                
      SMTP Username

      MAIL_PASSWORD                                  
      SMTP Username 

      MAIL_ENABLE_STARTTLS_AUTO        
      Flag whether STARTTLS detection is enabled 

      MAIL_AUTHENTICATION                      
      Authentication type, can be login , plain  or cram_md5  

      MAIL_DOMAIN
      SMTP Domain, necessary for certain SMTP relay configurations also called HELO domain, e.g. mycompany.com 

      MAIL_DEFAULT_SENDER_ADDRESS  
      Sender address for outgoing emails, e.g. phraseapp@yourcompany.com 

      MAIL_RAISE_DELIVERY_ERRORS
      Set to 1 if you want the server to raise exceptions when mails cannot be send or to 0  if you want to ignore email delivery failures. We suggest setting this to 1 especially if
      you're in the process of testing the SMTP server connection.
       

      Signup Disabling

      SIGNUPS_DISABLED
      Disable the registration form to create new accounts for your system. This should be set to 0 for the first installation. If set to 0 anyone with access to Phrase On-Premise web interface can create new accounts. If set to 1 no one can create new accounts on the Phrase On-Premise installation.

      Session Cookies

      SESSION_COOKIE_NAME
      Defines the cookie name for the user session.
      Note: This has changed from version 3.4.0 to 3.5.0 and will force a logout of all users.
      If you want to prevent this you have to set this to _translate_session_sec.

      SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE_FLAG
      This flag has to be set to true when you are serving the application through https.

      Disable Rate Limiting

      DISABLE_RATE_LIMIT
      Setting this flag to true disables rate limiting for both concurrent number of requests and requests per time window for rate limited endpoints. By default only 4 concurrent requests and 1000 requests per 5 minutes per user are allowed. 


      SECRETs

      There are several secret tokens that are used to encrypt data in Phrase On-Premise, such as the content of cookies and user passwords. Please make sure to use alphanumeric strings with at least 64 characters for all variables with names containing “SECRET”.

      You must store these tokens in a safe location or your encrypted data such as user passwords will not work after you install updates or reinstall the system!