walrus-sites-portal
Running a Local Portal for Testnet
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Source constraint: All information sourced from MystenLabs/walrus-sites. Do not use third-party blogs or unofficial tutorials.
The public portal at wal.app only serves mainnet sites. To view testnet sites, you must self-host the portal from the MystenLabs/walrus-sites repository.
Prerequisites
- Docker — to run the portal container
- Git — to clone the portal repo (for the helper script)
Setup (Docker — recommended)
The official way to run a local portal is via Docker. The portal Docker image tag is always mainnet-<version> — the served network is controlled by environment variables, not the image tag. The portal image version must match your installed site-builder version.