How do I install this?

[1337sup3rh4x0r]

Hi there, I am looking for a remotestorage server to use with my laverna setup and I am thinking this might be it. However I am somehow to dumb to figure out what I have to do to set it up.

I assume that I need to create a web server and somehow install this to it, correct? So do I ssh into the webservers directory and install restore there via

npm install restore

? And then what do I do to end up with a server and login credentials that I can pass to laverna to store its data?

I can see "The following Node script will run a basic server:" from the documentation but how do I run a node script? Is this something I execute via CLI on the server?

Sorry if this is a noob question, but I guess a guy has to start somewhere :)

[jcoglan]

I'm not sure exactly what the scope of this question is, or how much you know about deploying web apps, but my hunch is you'd be better off asking the Node mailing list for deployment recommendations. There are so many options out there and I can only tell you what I'd do. You might be able to skip lots of this work if you go with a Node-dedicated hosting platform.

To run the script under https://github.com/jcoglan/restore#usage, you save that code into a file called, say, server.js and then run node server.js.

At a very high-level here's how I would deploy this myself:

• Get a VPS running the latest Ubuntu LTS. I get my VPSs from Linode.
• Do the basic security stuff like setting iptables to open only ports 22, 80 and 443, and disallow password-base ssh logins.
• Install the latest version of Node. I use nvm to do this.
• Create a system user called, say, alice, to run the Node server.
• Make a directory /home/alice/restore with permissions 0700 to that only alice can access any data in this directory.
• As alice, install reStore using npm install restore and place your server script in the same directory. The server should run on some externally inaccessible port, say 8000, and store data inside /home/alice/restore. It should set umask as shown in the readme.
• Create an Upstart job to run your server script as alice when the machine boots.
• Install nginx and create a vhost to proxy traffic from port 443 to port 8000, and redirect traffic from 80 (http) to 443 (https). You'll need an SSL certificate to set up nginx to do this.
• Create an Upstart job to run nginx on as root (nginx workers should run as nobody).

That roughly covers it but there's a lot more detail to all those steps that I don't have time to go into. There are alternatives to all the above with platforms like Heroku and Nodejitsu available, but you must have access to set up filesystem storage as described. There's also other isolation technologies like Docker to consider.

[jcoglan]

Some links I was given when asking for Node deployment guides on twitter:

• http://blog.carbonfive.com/2014/06/02/node-js-in-production/
• https://keymetrics.io/2014/06/25/ecosystem-json-deploy-and-iterate-faster/
• https://github.com/Unitech/PM2/blob/development/ADVANCED_README.md#deployment

[jcoglan]

Did this answer your question? Can I close this issue?

[1337sup3rh4x0r]

Yes, it did give me enough to figure out that this might not be the path I want to persue for my specific issue. Thank you and sorry for not reporting back!

[almereyda]

Despite that, excellent support @jcoglan .

[1337sup3rh4x0r]

Yes, indeed outstanding!