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 ↑