Question about installing FormsFlow x VPS Linux

[danielwebart]

Hello, I would like some help with questions regarding the installation of FormsFlow in a Linux environment.

We attempted to install using Ubuntu 22.04 and Debian 11 in a VPS environment from a cloud provider. We had several problems with the installation of Docker Desktop, for example, after the installation was completed and the services started, when clicking on the Docker Desktop icon nothing happened. Interestingly, we did the same procedure on a local machine and managed to make it work. Our questions are:

1. Is it really necessary to install Docker Desktop? Or would it only be in the dev environment and in production we could just keep the Docker engine?
2. Is there any other possible way to use a Linux VPS without the need to use Docker, to use FormsFlow?

Thank's very much.

[sumesh-aot]

@alanraju-aot please check

[alanraju-aot]

In ubuntu we don't need to use docker desktop, instead we can install docker and docker compose manually. Please refer the following links to install docker and docker compose properly:-

docker compose:- https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/standalone/
for docker run the following command:-
$ apt install docker.io
$ service docker start

[danielwebart]

Thanks for the help.

We did the installation and initially everything went well. When accessing the forms link (port 3000) externally, we saw that a certificate was needed for external access (outside the vps). However, the redash and documents-api services are not active, they start and after a few seconds they crash and so on in a loop. Is it possible for us to send the log so they can help us with this installation?