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The API Server tells a charger to dial the host it was itself asked on. The panel asks through the Web App, so the address handed out is the Web App's — which proxied /api/ and nothing else, and answered the WebSocket handshake at /ocpp/ with index.html. A charger pointed at the endpoint the screen showed could never connect to it, and the screen went on saying "Not connected" without a hint as to why. Both front doors now carry /ocpp/ through to the API Server: the BFF via the same reverse proxy, which relays the 101 by hijacking, and the all-in-one image's nginx via a location of its own, with timeouts long enough for a session that is idle between heartbeats. The proxied hop also has to say how the client arrived, since the API Server reads X-Forwarded-Proto to decide a charger reached it over TLS. That header is set from this server's own connection and overwrites whatever came in: believing a client on that point would let a plaintext charger claim wss and walk past OCPP_REQUIRE_TLS. TRUST_FORWARDED_PROTO opts into the inbound value for the one deployment where it is true — TLS ending at a proxy in front of the stack. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
DriverVault — Docker (multi-container stack)
Three containers — PocketBase, API Server, Web App — on one compose
network. This is the deployment to use unless you specifically want everything
in a single image; for that see ../Docker-AIO.
Browser ─► Web App BFF (:8090) ──/api/*──► API Server (:8080) ─► PocketBase (:8070)
Only the Web App port is meant to be public. The API Server and the PocketBase
admin UI are published for convenience and, in the prod file, bound to
127.0.0.1 by default.
| File | Use |
|---|---|
docker-compose.yml |
builds from source in this repo — for development and local testing |
docker-compose.prod.yml |
pulls prebuilt images from the registry — for deployment |
.env.example / .env.prod.example |
copy to .env for the matching compose file |
pocketbase/ |
the PocketBase image (official release binary on alpine) |
Run it
cd Docker
cp .env.example .env # then edit — PB_ADMIN_* have no safe defaults
docker compose up -d --build
Production, from the registry:
cp .env.prod.example .env # then edit
docker compose -f docker-compose.prod.yml pull
docker compose -f docker-compose.prod.yml up -d
Then: web app on http://host:8090/, the API Server's superadmin panel on
http://host:8080/, PocketBase admin on http://host:8070/_/.
First boot
Both steps are idempotent, so restarts and upgrades are safe:
- PocketBase upserts its superuser from
PB_ADMIN_EMAIL/PB_ADMIN_PASSWORD. This is the only way to create the first superuser — the REST API cannot bootstrap it. The API Server then authenticates with the same credentials. - The API Server creates any missing collections and reconciles existing
ones, then creates the first app
superadminfromDRIVERVAULT_SUPERADMIN_EMAIL/_PASSWORDif no such user exists.
Leave
PB_BOOTSTRAPattrue, including across upgrades. A release can add collections or fields the server needs, and a stack that skipped the bootstrap never gets them. The API Server self-heals exactly one thing —app_settings, the collection holding the plugin settings, which it creates on demand because it cannot serve the plugin panel without it. Every other schema change still depends on this flag, so turn it off only for a database you know already matches the release you are running.
No manual setup-pocketbase.mjs step is needed here — the server runs the same
schema reconcile itself.
Volumes
| Volume | Holds |
|---|---|
pb_data |
the PocketBase SQLite database and uploaded files — everything that persists |
One volume, because the API Server keeps no state on disk. Plugin enable-state
and global config live in the database like the rest of the settings, so backing
up pb_data backs up the whole stack. It defaults to a Docker-managed named
volume; set PB_DATA to an absolute host path in the prod file for a bind mount
instead. PocketBase runs as root, so a root-owned host directory is fine.
One thing does not persist: the API Server panel's Settings → PocketBase and Settings → Web App screens apply immediately but only for the life of the container. Set
POCKETBASE_URL,PB_ADMIN_EMAIL/PB_ADMIN_PASSWORD,WEBAPP_URLandCORS_ALLOW_ORIGINSin.envto change them permanently — in this stack the compose environment wins over anything the panel writes.
Charger control (OCPP)
Chargers in own/proxy mode dial in to /ocpp/{serial} on the API Server
port, authenticating with a per-charger control token in an OCPP Basic-auth
header. A plaintext ws:// would put that token on the wire in the clear, so
OCPP_REQUIRE_TLS defaults to true and non-TLS connections are rejected.
This stack serves plain HTTP, so to actually use charger control you need to
terminate TLS in a reverse proxy in front of it and set OCPP_PUBLIC_URL to the
public wss:// base (behind a proxy, deriving it from request headers is
unreliable). OCPP_REQUIRE_TLS=false is for trusted networks only. You will
also need API_BIND set so the proxy can reach the port.
Notes
docker-compose.ymlbuilds the API Server and Web App from../API Serverand../Web App, so run it from this directory with the repo checked out.- The Web App's Vue bundle is built with an empty
VITE_API_BASE, so the browser uses same-origin/apiand the BFF proxies it — no CORS in play. CORS_ALLOW_ORIGINStherefore only matters if a browser calls the API Server directly. Native mobile apps are not subject to CORS at all.