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Just like AWS S3, in MinIO you can set up a bucket, generate access keys, and configure access rules from the graphical client… but the client can be accessed right on http://localhost:9090 by logging in with the user and password set in the file above. Very cool!

In the MInIO console:

1. Create a bucket and record its name. (you You will put its this name to put into both the API & webapp .env file files at a later point)

2. Set its Access Policy to “public” (under Buckets > Bucket Name)
   

   

3. Then create an Access Key (screenshot below) and record the key/secret key for use in the next step

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Connecting MinIO to the LiteFarm API

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In packages/api/.env you will have to add one three new environment variablevariables:

# The default minio port
MINIO_ENDPOINT=http://localhost:9000

And change the value of two environment variables that should might already exist in your .env (otherwise, please add them):

# Set both of these to your MinIO bucket name 
PRIVATE_BUCKET_NAME=<MinIO bucket name here>
PUBLIC_BUCKET_NAME=<MinIO bucket name here>

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The S3 configurations in digitalOceanSpaces.js (access key, secret access key) are not used by the export server, which instead spawns a node.js child process that runs the aws-cli. (Note: you may have to download aws-cli first to complete the next step).

Set your credentials with your MinIO access key + secret directly in the terminal using

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These changes have already been done on this branch on GitHub: https://github.com/LiteFarmOrg/LiteFarm/tree/minio

Update: April 2023: As of https://github.com/LiteFarmOrg/LiteFarm/pull/2515 these code changes are now merged into integration and live.

Update the frontend .env (for download link only)

So that the email link actually leads to a successful download, you will want to add two variables to your frontend .env file:

In packages/webapp/.env` (these are both new variables):

VITE_DEV_BUCKET_NAME=<MinIO bucket name here>
VITE_DEV_ENDPOINT=localhost:9000

(Finally!) Running the export server

Run Have the normal LiteFarm backend already running in a separate terminal window, then run the export server in packages/api using

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