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+Open the page http://localhost:8080/api/sync to view the sync status (available API endpoints). After sync is at 100%, you can open the page http://localhost:8080. If you open the homepage while it is still syncing, you will quickly get rate limited, as the UI makes a request for every block update that comes in (this is a bug that may be fixed at some point in the future).
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+## Environment Variables
+Flo Explorer uses Environment Variables to allow for configuration settings. You set the Env Variables in your docker run startup command. Here are the config settings offered by this image.
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+NETWORK: [mainnet|testnet] The Flo network you wish to run the Flo Explorer on (Default mainnet).
+ADDNODE: [ip-address] An IP address of a Flo node to be used as a source of blocks. This is useful if you are running isolated networks, or if you are having a hard time connecting to the network.
+CUSTOM_FCOIN_CONFIG: [String] A string (seperated with \n to split lines lines) of extra config variables to add to fcoin.conf (fcoin is the internal Flo Fullnode for the Flo Explorer)