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The Plausible Bootstrapper

Navigating the File System

Once your instance is up & running, knowing where things live will be important for further upgrades and maintenance (should it be needed). Here’s where to find those pieces on the file system of your virtual machine.

Application Files

All application code for Plausible is housed in /opt/plausible. In that directory, there are two particularly important files:

compose.override.yml

This defines how the Docker containers that power your instance are configured. You quickly view the contents of that file by running the following:

Terminal window
cat /opt/plausible/compose.override.yml

.env

This is where all environment/configuration variables for Plausible reside. After spinning up your instance, all that’s in this file is what’s minimally required, but more configuration options are available.

View the contents of this file by running the following:

Terminal window
cat /opt/plausible/.env

Server Configuration

All nginx and TLS/SSL configuration lives in lives in the /etc/nginx/sites-available/plausible.conf file. View its contents by running the following:

Terminal window
cat /etc/nginx/sites-available/plausible.conf