Running Firefox Sync Server on Uberspace

Deprecated: Switched to my own NAS

Switched to a new account on an Uberspace 7 instance.

Install Syncserver

~~~
git clone https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncserver
cd syncserver
make build
~~~

• syncserver.ini

    [server:main]
    use = egg:gunicorn
    host = [::]
    port = 40000
    workers = 1
    timeout = 30
  
    [app:main]
    use = egg:syncserver
  
    [syncserver]
    public_url = https://USERNAME.uber.space/syncserver
    identity_provider = https://accounts.firefox.com/
    secret = SOMESECRETKEY
    allow_new_users = true
    force_wsgi_environ = true

• Install service: nano ~/etc/services.d/syncserver.ini

    [program:fxsync]
    command=/home/USERNAME/syncserver/local/bin/gunicorn --chdir /home/USERNAME/syncserver --paste /home/USERNAME/syncserver/syncserver.ini
    autostart=yes
    autorestart=yes

• Start service: supervisorctl reread, supervisorctl update

• Open as web backend: uberspace web backend set /syncserver --remove-prefix --http --port 40000

Firefox (Client) Settings

See https://www.msdigital.de/entries/firefox-sync Use host: https://USERNAME.uber.space/syncserver/

References

• (en) https://mozilla-services.readthedocs.io/en/latest/howtos/run-sync-1.5.html (Archive)
• (en) https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncserver (Archive)
• (de) https://manual.uberspace.de/index.html