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69 lines
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## Requirements
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This document describes how to do a full deployment of Firefox Send on your own Linux server. You will need:
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* A working (and ideally somewhat recent) installation of NodeJS and NPM
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* GIT
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* An Apache webserver
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* Optionally telnet, to be able to quickly check your installation
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For Debian/Ubuntu systems this probably just means something like this:
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* apt install git apache2 nodejs npm telnet
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## Building
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* We assume an already configured virtual-host on your webserver with an existing empty htdocs folder
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* First, remove that htdocs folder - we will replace it with Firefox Send's version now
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* git clone https://github.com/mozilla/send.git htdocs
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* Make now sure you are NOT root but rather the user your webserver is serving files under (e.g. "su www-data" or whoever the owner of your htdocs folder is)
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* npm install
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* npm run build
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## Running
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To have a permanently running version of Firefox Send as a background process:
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* Create a file "run.sh" with:
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```
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#!/bin/bash
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nohup su www-data -c "npm run prod" 2>/dev/null &
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```
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* chmod +x run.sh
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* ./run.sh
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Now the Firefox Send backend should be running on port 1443. You can check with:
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* telnet localhost 1443
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## Reverse Proxy
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Of course, we don't want to expose the service on port 1443. Instead we want our normal webserver to forward all requests to Firefox send ("Reverse proxy").
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# Apache webserver
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* a2enmod proxy
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* a2enmod proxy_http
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* a2enmod proxy_wstunnel
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In your Apache virtual host configuration file, insert this:
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```
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# Enable rewrite engine
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RewriteEngine on
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# Make sure the original domain name is forwarded to Send
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# Otherwise the generated URLs will be wrong
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ProxyPreserveHost on
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# Make sure the generated URL is https://
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RequestHeader set X-Forwarded-Proto https
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# If it's a normal file (e.g. PNG, CSS) just return it
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RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
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RewriteRule .* - [L]
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# If it's a websocket connection, redirect it to a Send WS connection
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RewriteCond %{HTTP:Upgrade} =websocket [NC]
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RewriteRule /(.*) ws://127.0.0.1:1443/$1 [P,L]
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# Otherwise redirect it to a normal HTTP connection
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RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ http://127.0.0.1:1443/$1 [P,QSA]
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ProxyPassReverse "/" "http://127.0.0.1:1443"
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```
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