parse-server-example

Parse Server Example with SSL and File System Storage using docker-compose

Prerequisites

Make sure the following folders are created with writing rights enabled or create them using :

mkdir ./db
mkdir ./db/logs
mkdir ./api/logs
mkdir ./web/logs

Environment variables

Make sure the following environment variables are defined in a .env file:

APP_NAME=AppName
APP_DB_NAME=appdb
APP_ID=appid
APP_MASTER_KEY=secretappkey
SERVER_HOST=localhost
SERVER_PORT=443
PARSE_DASHBOARD_USER=admin
PARSE_DASHBOARD_USE_ENCRYPTED_PASSWORD=false
PARSE_DASHBOARD_PASSWORD=secretpassword

If you are deploying the server on the internet replace the SERVER_HOST=localhost with SERVER_HOST=[your_server_name.domain.com].

SSL certificates

Create SSL certificates using Certbot (https://certbot.eff.org/) instructions and modify docker-compose.yml file accordinly.

File System Storage Adapter

Make sure the following folder is created with writing rights enabled (All parse-server instances need to be able to read and write to the same storage)

mkdir ./api/files

Note: Enable File upload by public to avoid errors

Maintenance during deploy

Keep the size of log files (for example: /var/lib/docker/containers//-json.log) below a default limit or delete them after reaching that size. For example, list files larger than 100MB:

find / -size +100MB -ls

To delete the mentioned log file you can use the command: