Tiddlyhost

About

Tiddlyhost is the new Tiddlyspot, a hosting service for TiddlyWiki.

It aims to be the easiest and best way to use TiddlyWiki online.

Unlike the original Tiddlyspot, Tiddlyhost features:

• Secure SSL
• Password recovery
• TiddlyWiki5 support
• Open source code

For more information please see FAQ.

Current Status

Tiddlyhost is in active development.

For status updates see the Journal.

Getting Started (for developers)

Todo: Describe the other way to bring up a development system where you run rails directly.

Prepare environment

You need to have docker and docker compose installed on your system.

Check out the code:

git clone git@github.com:tiddlyhost/tiddlyhost-com.git
cd tiddlyhost-com

Build the development container and set up rails

Build the container image used for development:

make build-base

Install all ruby gems, node modules, and initialize the databases:

make rails-init

Run the test suite. Hopefully it's all passing:

make test

Tiddlyhost uses wildcard subdomains. To simulate this for local development, add some entries to your /etc/hosts:

127.0.0.1 tiddlyhost.local
127.0.0.1 aaa.tiddlyhost.local
127.0.0.1 bbb.tiddlyhost.local
127.0.0.1 foo.tiddlyhost.local
127.0.0.1 bar.tiddlyhost.local

You should now be able to start rails like this:

(It runs in the foreground, so I suggest you do this in a second terminal window.)

make start

Visit https://tiddlyhost.local/ in your browser and you should see a working web application.

Note that the development environment is using a self-signed SSL certificate, so you will need to accept the warnings about insecure connections.

Create an account and create a site

Click "Sign up" and enter some details. A fake email address is fine.

Emails won't be sent when running locally, but you can find the email confirmation link by running this:

make signup-link

Click that link and then you should be able to sign in.

Note: For the very first user created, the confirmation step will be skipped and you'll be logged in immediately.

Click "Create Site" to create a site. Note that you need to use a site name that matches something that you added to your /etc/hosts file, aaa or bbb for example.

Click on the site to open it. Accept the certificate warnings again. Click the save button and confirm your site was able to be saved.

Create other sites or other local accounts as required.

Other useful commands

Note that the container mounts the rails directory, so the code can be edited there outside the container while rails is running inside the container.

You can shell into the running container in another terminal like this:

make join

From there you can access the rails console, run tests, etc, inside the container.

You can hit Ctrl-C in the terminal where you ran make start to shut it down.

You can also shut down and clean up like this:

make cleanup

Note that the make tasks are mostly just wrappers for docker compose so you can use your own docker compose commands directly if you prefer. See the Makefile for details.

Run make by itself to see a full list of make commands. Read the Makefile to learn more about what they do.

License

Tiddlyhost is open source software. It uses a BSD license. See LICENSE.md.