deploy-strapi-on-uberspace.md

How to deploy the headless cms strapi on your uberspace 7

This summary describes the collection of necessary tutorials to host strapy on your uberspace

1. Install mongodb on your uberspace

just follow this well written tutorial.

2. Install strapi and pm2 within a subdirectory of your public html folder on your uberspace

take just a segment of this tutorial. be sure to use the before defined credentials (like, ip address, port, username e.g. of your freshly created database)

3. Define a webdomain under which your api shall be accessible

just follow this tutorial

4. Use the web backends function to connect your installed cms with the defined webdomain

a list of detailed steps can be found here

Your cms should be now available under https://subdomain.yourdomain.com/admin

In case anybody is reading this, you need node 14 to run strapi on uberspace.

uberspace tools version use node 14

Also, use this for bullet point 4.

uberspace web backend set api.domain.com --http --port 1337

The rest can be followed from the notes above.

To anyone new to strapi. Strapi V4 deprecated MongoDB, have a look at MySQL/MariaDB or PostgreSQL
https://manual.uberspace.de/en/database-mysql.html
https://manual.uberspace.de/database-postgresql/

I wrote a tutorial on how I got it running lately: https://gist.github.com/jnsprnw/be73def30e93ed79a3ecfd7d06b29da7