@nickchomey

That's not a directory, /soketi is the app binary.

Thanks though.

Ah, sorry. I only just discovered soketi and haven't yet installed it. .env location is one of the things I was wondering about though, as there doesn't seem to be any specific documentation for it. It's just mentioned here https://docs.soketi.app/getting-started/environment-variables

My only other thought, based on some other env experiences, is to ensure that when you enter soketi start, do so from cd /usr/local/bin.

Or, perhaps put the env file elsewhere (/usr/xyz/home/.env) and then navigate to cd /usr/xyz/home and run soketi start from there.

Can anybody clarify please location and format of env file if you have a working installation. It is not clearly described in the documentation.

Alternatively I am struggling to understand how to set the environment variables correctly on Ubuntu 22.04 here https://docs.soketi.app/getting-started/environment-variables and here https://docs.soketi.app/app-management/sql-drivers/mysql

I am trying to set the MySQL environment variables on my system but I feel it keeps ignoring the settings. Or at least I don't see anything in the logs. Soketi does start successfully and I can reach the websocket ports but how I do I know it reads the environment variables I set?

Can somebody please explain step by step how to make the settings work that are described in the documentation, especially when SQL drivers are required.

See my example I tried to set in the system variables:

/$ env

SHELL=/bin/bash
SOKETI_APP_MANAGER_DRIVER=mysql
SOKETI_DB_MYSQL_PASSWORD=mydbpassword
PWD=/
SOKETI_DB_MYSQL_DATABASE=mydb
LOGNAME=localuser
XDG_SESSION_TYPE=tty
DEFAULT_APP_SECRET=12345
SOKETI_DB_MYSQL_PORT=3306
MOTD_SHOWN=pam
SOKETI_DB_MYSQL_HOST=192.168.100.100
HOME=/home/localuser
LANG=C.UTF-8
LS_COLORS=rs=0:di=01;34:ln=01;36:mh=00:pi=40;33:so=01;35:do=01;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33;01:or=40;31;01:mi=00:su=37;41:sg=30;43:ca=30;41:tw=30;42:ow=34;42:st=37;44:ex=01;32:.tar=01;31:.tgz=01;31:.arc=01;31:.arj=01;31:.taz=01;31:.lha=01;31:.lz4=01;31:.lzh=01;31:.lzma=01;31:.tlz=01;31:.txz=01;31:.tzo=01;31:.t7z=01;31:.zip=01;31:.z=01;31:.dz=01;31:.gz=01;31:.lrz=01;31:.lz=01;31:.lzo=01;31:.xz=01;31:.zst=01;31:.tzst=01;31:.bz2=01;31:.bz=01;31:.tbz=01;31:.tbz2=01;31:.tz=01;31:.deb=01;31:.rpm=01;31:.jar=01;31:.war=01;31:.ear=01;31:.sar=01;31:.rar=01;31:.alz=01;31:.ace=01;31:.zoo=01;31:.cpio=01;31:.7z=01;31:.rz=01;31:.cab=01;31:.wim=01;31:.swm=01;31:.dwm=01;31:.esd=01;31:.jpg=01;35:.jpeg=01;35:.mjpg=01;35:.mjpeg=01;35:.gif=01;35:.bmp=01;35:.pbm=01;35:.pgm=01;35:.ppm=01;35:.tga=01;35:.xbm=01;35:.xpm=01;35:.tif=01;35:.tiff=01;35:.png=01;35:.svg=01;35:.svgz=01;35:.mng=01;35:.pcx=01;35:.mov=01;35:.mpg=01;35:.mpeg=01;35:.m2v=01;35:.mkv=01;35:.webm=01;35:.webp=01;35:.ogm=01;35:.mp4=01;35:.m4v=01;35:.mp4v=01;35:.vob=01;35:.qt=01;35:.nuv=01;35:.wmv=01;35:.asf=01;35:.rm=01;35:.rmvb=01;35:.flc=01;35:.avi=01;35:.fli=01;35:.flv=01;35:.gl=01;35:.dl=01;35:.xcf=01;35:.xwd=01;35:.yuv=01;35:.cgm=01;35:.emf=01;35:.ogv=01;35:.ogx=01;35:.aac=00;36:.au=00;36:.flac=00;36:.m4a=00;36:.mid=00;36:.midi=00;36:.mka=00;36:.mp3=00;36:.mpc=00;36:.ogg=00;36:.ra=00;36:.wav=00;36:.oga=00;36:.opus=00;36:.spx=00;36:.xspf=00;36:
DEFAULT_APP_ID=app-id
DEFAULT_APP_KEY=app-key
SOKETI_DB_MYSQL_USERNAME=mydbuser
SSH_CONNECTION=10.168.165.18 56571 192.168.100.110 22
SOKETI_APP_MANAGER_MYSQL_USE_V2=false
SOKETI_APP_MANAGER_MYSQL_TABLE=apps
LESSCLOSE=/usr/bin/lesspipe %s %s
XDG_SESSION_CLASS=user
TERM=xterm-256color
LESSOPEN=| /usr/bin/lesspipe %s
USER=localadmin
SHLVL=1
XDG_SESSION_ID=1
LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000
SSH_CLIENT=10.168.165.18 56571 22
XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/local/share:/usr/share:/var/lib/snapd/desktop
SOKETI_APP_MANAGER_MYSQL_VERSION=8
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin
DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/run/user/1000/bus
SSH_TTY=/dev/pts/0
test=test
OLDPWD=/home
_=/usr/bin/env

Did you find the solution?

@DezyNation

Sorry for the delay, I've been super busy.

I have a production server up and running that serves several development and production websites for myself and my clients.

The UI is running on a Laravel Jetstream app on Laravel Forge. If you're not familiar, Forge by default creates a user account named forge on the Linux server of your chosen cloud provider, mine is (Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS (GNU/Linux 5.15.0-84-generic x86_64)) with all the normal privileges you'd expect with a user host account. Additionally it requires an private key to ssh in, root login is disabled, and it does provide sudo access.

All this as a pretense to say, I placed the .env file in my user home directory ie: /home/forge but I expect that this would be the same on any Linux based distro.

I installed nvm to control the node version (currently v18.16.1) as opposed to allowing the server distro to control it, then installed Soketi via npm globally.

I use PM2 to manage it through the PM2 Keymetrics UI which allows up to 4 servers as I recall. You can read their docs if you're interested in using it.

Hope this helps.

Yeah thanks!
Soketi is now working on my VPS as well.
Seems like we have to place the .env from where we are running soketi start