Can we host the FarmOS on our own server?

Hosting farmOS
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Hi this is me Sanjay from Nepal. Can we host FarmOS in our own server ? Our site is remote and availability of the internet is not possible.

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Hi @psunjay - welcome to the farmOS community! :slight_smile:

Yes - farmOS is open source and can be hosted on your own server. For more information, see Getting started - farmOS.org (for farmOS 1.x, for farmOS 2.x see Introduction - farmOS 2.x Docs).

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farmOS 2.x will work better without an internet connection than farmOS 1.x. However, without internet connection, the maps will not work in either, because the map tiles come from Google/MapBox/OpenStreetMap servers. That said, a lot can be done in farmOS even without maps.

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Sorry to be pedantic; the map should “work” with local data, but won’t be able to load basemap (background) tile images.

You could work around that in a few ways;

  • By mapping sufficient geometry - like your field/property boundaries - with an internet connection, then mapping everything else relative to that.
  • By implementing a module like farm_nrcs but which bundles its own XYZ tiles for your area.
  • By self-hosting part of a standard tile-set like Open Street Map and implementing a module like farm_nrcs which points to those tiles.
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