Render Deployment
Note:
Some features will not work: - Bing/Sydney: success may vary - Meilisearch: additional configuration is needed, see guide here .
Also: - You need to create an online MongoDB Atlas Database to be able to properly deploy
Create an account
1. visit https://render.com/ and click on 'Get Started for Free` to create an account and Login
2. Go into your dashboard
3.
Select
New
then
Web Service
4.
Add
https://github.com/danny-avila/LibreChat
in the public repositories section and click
continue
5.
Give it a unique name and continue with the free tier and click on the
create web service
button in the bottom of the page
6. At that point it will try to automatically deploy, you should cancel the deployment as it is not properly configured yet.
Add Environement Variables
1.
Next you want to go in the
Environement
section of the menu to manually add the
Environement Variables
- You need to use the
Add Environement Variables
and add them one by one as adding a secret file will not work in our case.
2. You will need to copy and paste all of these:
| Key | Value |
|---|---|
| ALLOW_REGISTRATION | true |
| ANTHROPIC_API_KEY | user_provided |
| BINGAI_TOKEN | |
| CHATGPT_TOKEN | user_provided |
| CREDS_IV | e2341419ec3dd3d19b13a1a87fafcbfb |
| CREDS_KEY | f34be427ebb29de8d88c107a71546019685ed8b241d8f2ed00c3df97ad2566f0 |
| HOST | 0.0.0.0 |
| JWT_REFRESH_SECRET | secret |
| JWT_SECRET | secret |
| OPENAI_API_KEY | user_provided |
| GOOGLE_KEY | user_provided |
| PORT | 3080 |
| SESSION_EXPIRY | (1000 * 60 * 60 * 24) * 7 |
⬆️ Add a single space in the value field for any endpoints that you wish to disable.
DO NOT FORGET TO SAVE YOUR CHANGES
3.
Also add
DOMAIN_CLIENT
DOMAIN_SERVER
and use the custom render address you were attributed in the value fields
| Key | Value |
|---|---|
| DOMAIN_CLIENT |
add your custom
onrender.com
address here
|
| DOMAIN_SERVER |
add your custom
onrender.com
address here
|
Create and Configure your Database
The last thing you need is to create a MongoDB Atlas Database and get your connection string. You can also restrict access to your Mongodb to only the static outgoing IP addresses for your Render hosted web service.
Follow the instructions in this document but add each of the outgoing IP addresses to the list instead of all hosts: Online MongoDB Database
Complete the Environment Variables configuration
1.
Go back to render.com and enter one last key / value in your
Environment Variables
| Key | Value |
|---|---|
| MONGO_URI |
mongodb+srv://USERNAME:PASSWORD@render-librechat.fgycwpi.mongodb.net/?retryWrites=true&w=majority
|
2.
Important
: Remember to replace
<password>
with the database password you created earlier (when you did
step 6
of the database creation
(do not leave the
<
>
each side of the password)
3. Save Changes
4. You should now have all these variables
Deployment
1.
Now click on
Manual Deploy
and select
Deploy latest commit
2. It will take a couple of minutes
3.
When it's ready you will see
your service is live 🎉
in the console and the green
Live
icon on top
Conclusion
You can now access it by clicking the link, congrattulation, you've sucessfully deployed LibreChat on render.com