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Environment Variables

Server Port: [Optional]

QLedger server by default runs in port 7000, which can be overridden by the following:

export PORT=7000

Authentication Token:

QLedger API requests are authenticated using the secret token, which can be set using the following:

export LEDGER_AUTH_TOKEN=XXXXX

Database URL:

QLedger uses PostgreSQL database to store the accounts and transactions.

The PostgreSQL database URL can be set using:

export DATABASE_URL="postgres://localhost/ledgerdb?sslmode=disable"

For the purpose of running test cases, a separate database URL can be set using:

export TEST_DATABASE_URL="postgres://localhost/qw_ledger_test?sslmode=disable"

Note:

• The database URL can be in one of the mentioned formats here: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/libpq-connect.html#LIBPQ-CONNSTRING

Sharing Load Balancer/Domain Name: [Optional]

In staging/production environments, the services are usually deployed in the same domain, differentiated and routed using the definite path prefixes.

To access all QLedger APIs with prefix /qledger/api, set the following:

export HOST_PREFIX=/qledger/api