verdaccio/docs/env.variables.md

Environment variables

A full list of available environment variables that allow override internal features.

VERDACCIO_LEGACY_ALGORITHM

Allows to define the specific algorithm for the token signature which by default is aes-256-ctr

VERDACCIO_LEGACY_ENCRYPTION_KEY

By default, the token stores in the database, but using this variable allows to get it from memory

VERDACCIO_PUBLIC_URL

Define a specific public url for your server, it overrules the Host and X-Forwarded-Proto header if a reverse proxy is being used, it takes in account the url_prefix if is defined.

This is handy in such situations where a dynamic url is required.

eg:

VERDACCIO_PUBLIC_URL='https://somedomain.org';
url_prefix: '/my_prefix'

// url -> https://somedomain.org/my_prefix/

VERDACCIO_PUBLIC_URL='https://somedomain.org';
url_prefix: '/'

// url -> https://somedomain.org/

VERDACCIO_PUBLIC_URL='https://somedomain.org/first_prefix';
url_prefix: '/second_prefix'

// url -> https://somedomain.org/second_prefix/'

VERDACCIO_FORWARDED_PROTO

The default header to identify the protocol is X-Forwarded-Proto, but there are some environments which uses something different, to change it use the variable VERDACCIO_FORWARDED_PROTO

$ VERDACCIO_FORWARDED_PROTO=CloudFront-Forwarded-Proto verdaccio --listen 5000

VERDACCIO_STORAGE_PATH

By default, the storage is taken from config file, but using this variable allows to set it from environment variable.

VERDACCIO_STORAGE_NAME

The database name for @verdaccio/local-storge is by default .verdaccio-db.json, but this can be update by using this variable.