Etebase
Etebase is an end-to-end encrypted backend as a service. Think Firebase, but encrypted in a way that only your users can access their data.
This is a basic configuration to run the Etebase server:
networking.firewall.allowedTCPPorts = [ 443 ];
services = {
etebase-server = {
enable = true;
unixSocket = "/var/lib/etebase-server/etebase-server.sock";
user = "etebase-server";
settings = {
global.debug = false;
global.secret_file = "/path/to/secret"; # Needs to be a non-existing filepath, which is writeable by configured user
allowed_hosts.allowed_host1 = "etebase.your.domain";
};
};
nginx = {
enable = true;
recommendedOptimisation = true;
recommendedProxySettings = true;
recommendedTlsSettings = true;
recommendedGzipSettings = true;
virtualHosts."etebase.your.domain" = {
enableACME = true;
forceSSL = true;
locations."/".proxyPass = "http://unix:/var/lib/etebase-server/etebase-server.sock";
};
};
};
For the server to accept requests from a remote machine allowed_host1 variable should be set as the server's subdomain/domain name and your proxy has to present a Host header.
The django secret key is preferably a randomly generated key, the use of a secret managing scheme might prove useful. see Comparison_of_secret_managing_schemes.
Admin user
To use the Etebase server, the creation of an admin account is required. This requires manual intervention:
CLI Method
sudo etebase-server createsuperuser
INI Method
First you need to find where the generated .ini configuration file is located:
ls /nix/store | grep etebase-server.ini
As a super user, run this command: ETEBASE_EASY_CONFIG_PATH=/path/to/etebase-server.ini etebase-server createsuperuser and that should prompt you to create a user.
After
Login with these credentials to https://etebase.your.domain/admin and create users for your etebase clients through the GUI.