Get started without a publicly accessible database

Help me!
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Feature(s) impacted

Getting started to test the product by running the agent locally without a publicly accessible database.

Observed behavior

I’m being pushed to create what seems to be a cloud-driven project, and have no other options.
I managed by going to “Project settings” to get an environment secret, but it’s being rejected when I run an agent locally with the following error message: “Forest Admin server failed to find the project related to the envSecret you configured. Can you check that you copied it properly in the Forest initialization?”

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Expected behavior

I’d like to create a self-hosted project and be able to test the product.

Context

  • Project name: mderriey-sandbox
  • Team name: Operations, which was automatically created
  • Environment name: Development, I think
  • Agent technology: Node.js
  • Agent (forest package) name & version: @forestadmin/agent v1.59.2
  • Database type: Postgres
  • Recent changes made on your end if any: N/A
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Hi @mderriey-makerx,

Yes there is only a public cloud installation.
But you can do a self hosted installation by using this link :wink:
https://app.forestadmin.com/mderriey-sandbox/onboarding?customHosting=true

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Thanks, that seems to have worked, I’ll continue the onboarding process.

Did I miss that link with the query string parameter somewhere, or is it missing from the docs?

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It seems I’m now blocked on this screen, where no matter which option I pick, clicking the “Next step” button doesn’t do anything (no network request visible in DevTools).

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It’s something we only share t people who don’t want cloud. Cloud onboarding is way more easier and less error prone than a self hosted onboarding. That’s why we suggest only the Cloud onboarding :wink:

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Do you have anything in your console ? Any error or debug logs that could help me ?

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I created a new project and went with custom hosting onboarding, and I seem to have gone a bit further now. I’ll let you know if I run into any more issues. Cheers.

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