How can i set up my Syncloud as a Web server for hosting my own Websites?

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Hello,

the questions is:
How can i set up my Syncloud as a Web server for hosting my own Websites?
apache or nginx?

Can someone help my or using the device for this use case?
Thanks!

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There is no easy way right now, but there are options:

  1. Try wordpress app to host your content. Access it using wordpress.[domain]

  2. Not very good but ok for experiments. Run your own instance of nginx.

    Config should listen on unix socket file located at /var/snap/[name]/common/web.socket where name is not an existing app and it will be automatically visible under https://[name].[domain] where domain is your device activated domain name. All our apps use nginx to serve files so you could check any of them for config example like this: syncthing/nginx.conf at master · syncloud/syncthing · GitHub

    Certificate problem with this approach is that you will get a browser warning as Let’s Encrypt service we are using at the moment gives a certificate which include only apps in the store (this will be fixed as part of this issue Custom domain name zone amangement · Issue #461 · syncloud/platform · GitHub)

Domain name, not everyone may like their default website to be visible under myapp.[domain] and instead you may want something like www.[domain], that is another request pending implementation Default app · Issue #441 · syncloud/platform · GitHub

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You could use nginx from platform and provide your own config.

root@syncloud:~# /snap/platform/current/nginx/sbin/nginx -v     
nginx version: nginx/1.15.12
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Thank you for your help!

After considering a lot of options, i decided not to host my websites by myself.

To set up a server still is a lot of work with a normal Debian based system or Debian itself.
Also i got sometimes problems with my router. Often a reset is necessary.

Hardware, Resources, a great network and care about the system by myself is to much to do if i can get cheap web hosting everywhere :slight_smile:

Maybe in the future i will consider it again, but for now i only will use syncloud for my personal data over the web! And for that syncloud is a hell of a good tool!