Strapi provides many deployment options for your project or application. Your Strapi applications can be deployed on traditional hosting servers or your preferred hosting provider.

The following documentation covers the basics of how to prepare Strapi for deployment on with several common hosting options.

General guidelines​

Hardware and software requirements​

To provide the best possible environment for Strapi the following requirements apply to development (local) and staging and production workflows.

Before installing Strapi, the following requirements must be installed on your computer:

• Node.js: OnlyActive LTS or Maintenance LTS versions are supported (currentlyv20 andv22). Odd-number releases of Node, known as "current" versions of Node.js, are not supported (e.g. v21, v23).
• Your preferred Node.js package manager:
  • npm (v6 and above)
  • yarn
  • pnpm
• Python (if using a SQLite database)

• Standard build tools for your OS (thebuild-essentials package on most Debian-based systems)

• Hardware specifications for your server (CPU, RAM, storage):

  Hardware	Recommended	Minimum
  CPU	2+ cores	1 core
  Memory	4GB+	2GB
  Disk	32GB+	8GB

• A supported database version:

• A supported operating system:

  Operating System	Recommended	Minimum
  Ubuntu (LTS)	22.04	20.04
  Debian	11.x	10.x
  CentOS/RHEL	9.x	8.x
  macOS	11.0	10.15
  Windows Desktop	11	10
  Windows Server	2022	2019

Application Configuration​

1. Configure​

We recommend using environment variables to configure your application based on the environment, for example:

module.exports=({ env})=>({
host:env('HOST','0.0.0.0'),
port: env.int('PORT',1337),
});

Then you can create a.env file or directly set environment variables in your chosen deployment platform:

HOST=10.0.0.1
PORT=1338

2. Launch the server​

Before running your server in production you need to build your admin panel for production:

NODE_ENV=productionyarn build

NODE_ENV=productionnpm run build

npminstall cross-env

"build:win":"cross-env NODE_ENV=production npm run build",

npm run build:win

Run the server with theproduction settings:

NODE_ENV=productionyarn start

NODE_ENV=productionnpm run start

npminstall cross-env

"start:win":"cross-env NODE_ENV=production npm start",

npm run start:win

If you need a server.js file to be able to runnode server.js instead ofnpm run start then create a./server.js file as follows:

const strapi=require('@strapi/strapi');
strapi.createStrapi(/* {...} */).start();

Advanced configurations​

If you want to host the administration on another server than the API,please take a look at this dedicated section.

Additional resources​

Theintegrations page of the Strapi website include information on how to integrate Strapi with many resources, including how to deploy Strapi on the following 3rd-party platforms:

In addition, community-maintained guides for additional providers are available in theStrapi Forum. This includes the following guides:

The following external guide(s), not officially maintained by Strapi, might also help deploy Strapi on various environments: