> You need a lot of infrastructure to run a complete version of the website including: Ghost CMS deployment, Authentik authentication, a Discord channel with a webhook and a hCaptcha sitekey and secret from a hCaptcha account.
In production you can run the website through Docker Compose or locally. We strongly recommend using Docker since it makes everything 10 times easier.
### Docker
First install Docker and Docker Compose on your system (use Linux if you are sane). After that add the environment variables from the [environment variables section](#environment-variables) and run `docker compose up -d` in the directory of the source code (or just the compose.yml file if you aren't building from source). If you are using Portainer (if you aren't, start using it) you should add a new stack in the Stacks section and select the compose file option, then copy the compose.yml file.
### Locally
If you want to run the website locally in production follow the steps in [developing](#developing) but use `node build` instead of `pnpm dev` and expect the website to be in `http://localhost:3000`.
## Environment variables
The website has the following **mandatory** environment variables
