Self-Hosting ValoSpectra

This guide will assume you're using Spectra in a local environment. If you're intending on deploying Spectra to a Server, however, the process will be very similar and only differ in some URLs and individual networking setups, which are hard to cover.

Setting up your own instance of Spectra

Prerequisites

• Docker

Setting up the directory structure

Create a directory in which Spectra will be running. In this directory, create a directory called keys and a directory called config.

It should look like this:

.
├── docker-compose.yml
├── config
│   └── config.json
└── keys

Example Docker compose file

Inside the root directory you want to use for Spectra, create a file named docker-compose.yml with the following contents:

---
services:
  server:
    image: "ghcr.io/valospectra/server:latest"
    ports:
      - "5100:5100"
      - "5101:5101"
      - "5200:5200"
    environment:
      INSECURE: true
      REQUIRE_AUTH_KEY: false
    volumes:
      - ./keys:/app/keys
  frontend:
    image: "ghcr.io/valospectra/overlay:latest"
    ports:
      - "3000:80"
    volumes:
      - ./config:/usr/share/nginx/html/assets/config/

For possible environment variables for use, see Possible Environment Variables

Configuration file

In order to configure some values for use in the Spectra-Frontend, create a file named config.json inside the config directory.

An example of the config here:

{
  "serverEndpoint": "http://localhost:5200",
  "redirectUrl": "https://valospectra.com",
  "sponsorImageUrls": ["/assets/misc/logo.webp"],
  "sponsorImageRotateSpeed": 5000,
  "attackerColorPrimary": "#b82e3c",
  "attackerColorSecondary": "#ff4557",
  "attackerColorShieldCurrency": "#ff838f",
  "defenderColorPrimary": "#25ac79",
  "defenderColorSecondary": "#61eab6",
  "defenderColorShieldCurrency": "#61eab6"
}

Possible Environment Variables

Server

Environment Variable	Description	Possible Values	Default Value
INSECURE	This option determines if the Spectra-Server is going to use HTTPS with the provided SSL certificates.	true/false	false
SERVER_KEY	The path inside the Docker container to use as the SSL key file.		/app/keys/server.key
SERVER_CERT	The path inside the Docker container to use as the SSL certificate file.		/app/keys/server.crt
REQUIRE_AUTH_KEY	If you're self-hosting your server, you might not want it to require using a Key. In this case, set this to false.	true/false	true
USE_BACKEND	tbd