Hi everyone. I’m Abu, I’ve recently begun working on a project on ERPNext. From my searches on google and Github I figured there are 2 modes: developer and production mode. I installed the ERPNext Version 14 using VS Code and Docker on my Windows 11. I’ve used the following guide to install the software: ERPNext 14 docker installation guide
Now, I have looked over multiple sites and in this forum as well to help me find a guide to help switch from Developer to Production mode. I think if I am using https://localhost:8000 it is in developer mode and if I am using https://localhost then it is in production mode?
The developer mode works fine, I think since I get a prompt to sign in and then it shows the ERPNext Website. However, the page for the https://localhost does not load at all.
These are some of the steps I followed (I do not recall how I set up the supervisor and nginx):
I stopped the developer mode by clicking Ctrl+C in the terminal in VSCode
Then started supervisor and nginx
Then I tried bench setup production frappe (This gives me the Warning; WARN: superuser privileges required for this command)
I tried entering https://localhost into my browser, however, it simply says: The site can’t be reached.
I have attached a screenshot of my terminal
Can I request if I could receive some advice or link to guides that could help me switch from developer to production mode and vice versa?
P.S. I might have butchered some terminologies or ideas, but feel free to question them since I am not a software developer I just recently started learning stuff. Thank you all.
Hi @revant_one,
I had checked out the setup last week and it would seem that in the sub-heading “Setup Options” there are 2 different ways to set up Frappe and ERPNext - one without proxy and external MariaDB and Redis, while the other being containerized MariaDB and Redis with Letsencrypt certificates.
So, I am trying out the latter option, which requires me to set LETSENCRYPT_EMAIL and SITES environment variables in .env file or certificates won’t work. My understanding after reading the environment variables file is that:
LETSENCRYPT_EMAIL value is any email that I use in case I am required to ensure that the https certificates are being registered.
As for the SITES value, the environment-variables.md, doesn’t specify anything. Meanwhile in the .env file there are 2 links right above the SITES variable: Link 1 | Link 2. What do I put in the SITES variable? Could you please guide me, since I did not understand this part?
In case, the SITES variable takes the site name I created in development mode (let’s say e.g. lite.com), does this mean while I set up production I also need to have the bench running (so that the site is running) in development mode?
Thank you.
Noted. Then is there a requirement to have a website, since we’re asked to fill in the site details? Or is it the name of the site we want to create (that doesn’t exist), like my example lite.com
