Running Forest Admin on multiple servers

Please be sure of your agent type and version and pick the right documentation accordingly.

Node.js

This is the documentation of the forest-express-sequelize and forest-express-mongoose Node.js agents that will soon reach end-of-support.

forest-express-sequelize v9 and forest-express-mongoose v9 are replaced by @forestadmin/agent v1.

Please check your agent type and version and read on or switch to the right documentation.

Ruby on Rails

Python

PHP

Running Forest Admin on multiple servers

If you're running multiple instances of your agent (with a load balancer for example), you will need to set up a static client id.

Without a static client id, authentication will fail whenever a user makes a request to a different instance than the one he logged into.

First you will need to obtain a client id for your environment by running the following command:

curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
     -H "Authorization: Bearer FOREST_ENV_SECRET" \
     -X POST \
     -d '{"token_endpoint_auth_method": "none", "redirect_uris": ["APPLICATION_URL/forest/authentication/callback"]}' \
     https://api.forestadmin.com/oidc/reg

Then assign the client_id value from the response (it's a JWT) to a FOREST_CLIENT_ID variable in your .env file.