Vercel Introduction

Vercel is a serverless runtime environment with a free usage tier, including PostgreSQL, Redis, file storage services, all with certain free quotas. NextBB supports one-click installation on Vercel for a quick experience.

Installation Steps

Click the one-click install link

Go to Vercel to install NextBB with one click

Once opened, it looks like this. Simply click the Create button below:

Add database, cache, object storage

After clicking Create above, you will be redirected to this page, which guides you to add the necessary storage services. A total of 3 storage services need to be added. Blob Store is for avatars and various images, Upstash for Redis is a cache database, and Neon is a PostgreSQL database. Add these 3 services one by one.

Configure environment variables

After adding the 3 services above, you can configure the environment variables.

Environment Variable Description

Variable Name	Description	Generation Method
`JWT_AUTH_SECRET`	JWT Authentication Secret	`openssl rand -base64 32` or random string
`NEXTAUTH_SECRET`	Session Encryption Secret	`openssl rand -base64 32` or random string
`NEXTAUTH_URL`	Authentication Callback URL	`https://nextbb.org` (replace with the actual deployed domain access address)
`IS_SERVERLESS`	Serverless Mode	Set to `true`
`NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED`	SSL Verification	Set to `0`

🎉 After filling in the variables, you can deploy it. Enjoy your experience!

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