Strapi 3

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On this page, we explain step by step how to setup Strapi 3 with CloudPanel.

Installation

In the following example we will setup Strapi under the subdomain api.domain.com.

Preparation

Before we can start with the installation, we need to create an SSH User and a Domain.

When you Add the Domain, make sure to select the Strapi 3 Vhost Template.



Installation

To install Strapi do the following steps:

  1. In the first step, we need to downgrade (as root user) Node.js to version 12.x:

Open the nodesource list file:

nano /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nodesource.list

Replace:

deb https://deb.nodesource.com/node_14.x buster main
deb-src https://deb.nodesource.com/node_14.x buster main

With:

deb https://deb.nodesource.com/node_12.x buster main
deb-src https://deb.nodesource.com/node_12.x buster main
  1. Update the package sources and remove the old Node.js version:
apt update && dpkg -r --force-depends nodejs
  1. Install Node.js Version 12.x:
apt -y install nodejs
  1. Login via SSH to the server e.g. with john-ssh and go htdocs directory:
cd /home/cloudpanel/htdocs/
  1. Delete the project directory which has been created by CloudPanel:
rm -rf /home/cloudpanel/htdocs/api.domain.com
  1. We create the Strapi app via yarn:
yarn create strapi-app api.domain.com --quickstart
  1. Done! Open the admin url in your browser to create an admin user: https://api.domain.com/admin


Development

For the development, you can start Strapi from the commandline with a detailed output:

  1. Login via SSH to the server e.g. with john-ssh and go the project directory:
cd /home/cloudpanel/htdocs/api.domain.com/
  1. Start Strapi via yarn:
yarn develop

Production Deployment

For running Strapi in production it's recommended to use a process control system like supervisor, which restarts the node processes automatically in case of a failure.

Setup Supervisor

  1. Got to the project directory and build Strapi with user john-ssh:
cd /home/cloudpanel/htdocs/api.domain.com/ && NODE_ENV=production yarn build
  1. Install the supervisor package:
apt update && apt -y install supervisor
  1. Create a supervisor configuration file.
touch /etc/supervisor/conf.d/strapi-api.conf
  1. Open the configuration file and put the following content:
[program:strapi-api]
process_name=%(program_name)s_%(process_num)02d
environment=NODE_ENV=production
command=/usr/bin/yarn --cwd /home/cloudpanel/htdocs/api.domain.com/ start
numprocs=1
user=john-ssh
autostart=true
autorestart=true
stopsignal=KILL
stdout_logfile=/var/log/supervisor/strapi-api.log
Attention

Make sure that the user is correct to avoid permission problems.

  1. Update the configuration and start the node processes :
supervisorctl reread
supervisorctl update
supervisorctl start strapi-api:*

With the command supervisorctl you get information about the status, pid, and uptime:

Troubleshooting

You may want to see what happens in the background; you can do that by tailing the log file:

tail -f /var/log/supervisor/strapi-api.log -n1000
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