👤 Self-Hosting

Best if you want to keep your data local or want full control and extensibility.

💻 Local Hobby Instance

Minimum requirements:
2 core, 4G ram and 20GB Disk space

1. Install Docker Desktop and make sure docker has started.
2. Clone the repo and navigate to the project
   git clone https://github.com/uselotus/lotus.git && cd lotus
   

3. Run the self-hosting script:
    ./scripts/self-host.sh
   

   If you need to give the script permission to run, run chmod 755 ./scripts/self-host.sh first.
4. You should now be able to access the homepage at localhost/, and sign in using the ADMIN_USERNAME and ADMIN_PASSWORD you defined, or the default, which is:
   username: change_me
   password: change_me
   

Optionally:

• Change the environment variables located in env/.env.prod to suit your needs.

Local Hobby Env variables

Variable Name	(Default) Value	Change?
POSTGRES_USER	lotus	✔
POSTGRES_DB	lotus	✔
POSTGRES_PASSWORD	lotus	✔
SECRET_KEY	change_me	✔
ADMIN_USERNAME	change_me	✔
ADMIN_EMAIL	change_me	✔
ADMIN_PASSWORD	change_me	✔
SELF_HOSTED	True
DOCKERIZED	True
DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE	”lotus.settings”
NODE_ENV	production
VITE_API_URL	”http://localhost/“
STRIPE_LIVE_SECRET_KEY	sk_live_	✔
STRIPE_LIVE_CLIENT	ca_	✔
STRIPE_TEST_SECRET_KEY	sk_test_	✔
STRIPE_TEST_CLIENT	ca_	✔
STRIPE_WEBHOOK_SECRET	whsec_	✔
SVIX_JWT_SECRET	change_me	✔