docs/features/proxy.md

# Proxy

If your server cannot connect to the chatGPT API server by some reason, (eg in China). You can set a environment variable PROXY. This will be transmitted to node-chatgpt-api interface.

Warning: PROXY is not reverseProxyUrl in node-chatgpt-api

Set up proxy in local environment

• Option 1: system level environment export PROXY="http://127.0.0.1:7890"

• Option 2: set in .env file PROXY="http://127.0.0.1:7890"

Change http://127.0.0.1:7890 to your proxy server

Set up proxy in docker environment

set in docker-compose.yml file, under services - api - environment

    api:
        ...
        environment:
                ...
                - "PROXY=http://127.0.0.1:7890"
                # add this line ↑

Change http://127.0.0.1:7890 to your proxy server