# ── Domain ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── # Public domain Caddy will serve and obtain a TLS certificate for. DOMAIN=my-event.example.com # ── App server ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── APP_PORT=3000 # Set to `production` in real deployments. This activates the secret guard that # refuses to boot with placeholder JWT_SECRET / ADMIN_PASSWORD_HASH values. # (docker-compose.yml already sets APP_ENV=production for the app service.) APP_ENV=production # ── Database ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── # Set a strong password and keep it in sync between DATABASE_URL and # POSTGRES_PASSWORD. Generate one with: openssl rand -hex 24 # # SET THIS BEFORE THE FIRST `docker compose up -d`. Postgres reads POSTGRES_PASSWORD # only when it initialises its data directory, on that very first boot. Change it # afterwards and the app authenticates with the new password against a volume still # holding the old one — a permanent restart loop ("password authentication failed"). # The only ways out are restoring the old password or `docker compose down -v`, which # deletes the database, the media and the exports. In production the app refuses to # boot while this is still the placeholder below, so it cannot be missed by accident. DATABASE_URL=postgres://eventsnap:CHANGE_ME_use_a_strong_password@db:5432/eventsnap POSTGRES_USER=eventsnap POSTGRES_PASSWORD=CHANGE_ME_use_a_strong_password POSTGRES_DB=eventsnap # Connection pool size. Default 10. For a busy event (~100 guests polling the feed # + SSE + uploads at once) raise to ~30 so requests don't queue on a pool permit. # PAIRED WITH THE DB CONTAINER'S MEMORY LIMIT: 30 backends plus Postgres 16's default # shared_buffers is already snug in the 1G that docker-compose.yml allots the `db` # service. If you raise this, raise `db.deploy.resources.limits.memory` with it — an # OOM in Postgres doesn't degrade one feature, it takes the whole event down. DATABASE_MAX_CONNECTIONS=30 # Log level. `info` is the right production default: at `debug` the tower-http trace # layer writes a line per request AND per response, which on a busy event is a large # multiple of the useful output. Container logs are capped at 10m x 3 per service # (docker-compose.yml), so a chatty level buys you a shorter history, not more of it. # To debug a live event: RUST_LOG=eventsnap_backend=debug docker compose up -d app RUST_LOG=info # ── Authentication ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── # Generate with: openssl rand -hex 64 JWT_SECRET=change_me_to_a_random_64_byte_hex_string SESSION_EXPIRY_DAYS=30 # Admin dashboard password (bcrypt hash). # Generate with an image the stack already pulls (htpasswd needs apache2-utils, which # a stock VPS does not have): # docker run --rm caddy:2-alpine caddy hash-password --plaintext 'yourpassword' # IMPORTANT: keep the SINGLE QUOTES. A bcrypt hash is full of `$` (e.g. $2b$12$…$…), # and both Docker Compose's env_file interpolation and dotenvy's variable substitution # would otherwise eat the `$…` segments (reading them as unset vars) and corrupt the # hash — every admin login then 401s. Single quotes make both read it literally. ADMIN_PASSWORD_HASH='$2y$12$placeholder_replace_me' # ── Event ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── EVENT_NAME=Max & Maria's Wedding EVENT_SLUG=max-maria-2026 # ── Storage ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── MEDIA_PATH=/media # Export archives (Gallery.zip / Memories.zip). MUST be outside MEDIA_PATH — # /media is publicly served, so exports here would be downloadable without auth. EXPORT_PATH=/exports # ── Runtime settings (upload limits, rate limits, capacity) ─────────────────── # NOTE: These are NOT environment variables. Upload size caps, rate limits, guest # count and quota tolerance are stored in the database `config` table (seeded once # at first boot) and changed at runtime from the ADMIN DASHBOARD — the backend does # not read them from .env. Setting them here has no effect. Current seeded defaults: # upload rate 100 / hour / guest (raised from 10 by migration 015) # feed rate 60 / minute # export rate 3 / day # max image size 20 MB # max video size 500 MB # estimated guests 100 # quota tolerance 0.75 (see below — NOT a warning threshold) # Adjust these in the admin UI before the event if needed. # # quota_tolerance is the MULTIPLIER IN THE PER-USER QUOTA FORMULA, not the point at # which anything warns you: # # per_user_limit = floor(free_disk * quota_tolerance / active_uploaders) # # It is recomputed against LIVE free space on every upload, so it self-throttles: guests # converge on a fixed point at tolerance/(1+tolerance) of the free space you started # with — 43% at 0.75, i.e. ~30 GB of a fresh 70 GB. # # Raising it therefore AUTHORISES GUESTS TO FILL MORE OF THE DISK. Setting 0.95 in the # belief that it means "warn me later" moves the fixed point to ~49% and eats the # headroom the keepsake needs — and the keepsake needs a lot, because Gallery.zip and # Memories.zip are each roughly a second copy of every original (both store media # uncompressed). Budget for media + 2x media, or move exports to their own volume. # # 0.75 is the tested default. Lower it if the box is tight; raise it only if you have # provisioned export headroom separately. # ── Workers ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── # Number of parallel image/video compression workers. Default 2. This is the main # throughput bottleneck: with 2 workers a burst of uploads can take ~5s to appear. # For a large event (100+ guests) 4 is a good target — but each worker can run an # ffmpeg transcode, so if you raise this ALSO raise the app container's memory limit # in docker-compose.yml (`app.deploy.resources.limits.memory`) from 1G to ~2G, or a # burst of large videos can OOM the box and take Postgres down with it. COMPRESSION_WORKER_CONCURRENCY=2