Strapi on my Coolify

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Can someone here explain to me exactly how I can get STRAPI to run on my coolify instance? So far I haven’t been able to do it myself. Neither with docker or via deploy

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go check on coolify discord channel, there are a thread talked about it and someone had figured it out

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I added a nixpacks.toml file in the root of the Strapi v5 project. ```[phases.install]
cmds = [‘yarn install’]

[phases.build]
cmds = [‘yarn build’]

[variables]
NODE_ENV = ‘production’
NIXPACKS_NODE_VERSION = ‘20’

[start]
cmd = ‘yarn start’```

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I managed to host it on Coolify but i get this error when trying to transfer data to it:

error: [FATAL] restore failed Error: The backup folder for the assets could not be created inside the public folder. Please ensure Strapi has write permissions on the public directory Transfer process failed.

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That’s a docker issue, you mount uploads instead of public

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Yes thanks I figured it out but seems like you first have to create the uploads folder in public.

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I can deploy strapi on my coolify alone but can not deploy nextjs frontend with it. any one figured it out?

8

Can you share the config/steps for mounting the public folder please?

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For those wondering how to configure persistent storage for the public folder(where strapi upload stuff), follow these steps before deploying your app on Coolify.

  • Click on the Configuration tab
  • Clock on the Storages menu option
  • Click Add to add a new location to store stuff
  • Under the Volume Mount heading, enter the values for the name & destination path
  • Ensure that the destination path starts with /app. So for persisting the public folder items, the destination path should be set to /app/public
  • Click the Save button that is below the Volume Mount section.
  • Redeploy your app.
  • Go to the url and log into your Strapi app then upload something.
  • Redeploy your app
  • Log back into strapi to see if the file is still there and can be viewed in a new window
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Thanks for this guide! But I don´t get why I should start the destination path with /app. In addition, I have a configuration with ssd + hdd and I was wondering how I should link just the heavy files in my hdd. I think I need a way to link just /public to an internal folder such as /mnt/hdd/uploads and for the other directories just let coolify doing its job setting a persistent volume. Do you have any suggestion?