Installation

Audience

Currently aimed at people running their own cloud storage or home storage that are able to understand running a server or follow instructions.

Pre requisites

• A server with some disk space is required to run bitmark storage.

• nodejs -- Version 6 or higher

• git

• (optional) having your own domain is an advantage

Instructions

Instructions to run bitmark storage

1. Clone the bitmark storage repo

   git clone https://github.com/project-bitmark/bitmark-storage && cd bitmark-storage

2. run

   npm install

3. run

   node bin/solid init

   to generate a config (or use a pre determined config and keys)

   to generate keys see the section below : generating keys

   Note: this is the hardest step -- visit slack for help -- see also answering the init questions below

4. install pm2 ( npm install -g pm2 )

5. run

   node bin/solid -v start

(Optional)

1. use pm2 to ensure the process restarts automatically

2. (optional) forward a port to the outside world if not already

3. (optional) if running on your home pc add a dyndns service like noip.com.

4. (optional) CNAME a domain to your storage server

5. (optional) remove SSL warnings using letsencrypt

Answering the init questions:

It is possible to use the defaults for most questions. Some notes:

Path to the folder you want to serve.

This is where you want to host files. Perhaps use ~/data/

Generating keys

There are two ways. 1 is locally

`openssl genrsa 2048 
>
 ./privkey.pem`
`openssl req -new -x509 -nodes -sha256 -days 3650 -key ./privkey.pem -subj '/CN=*.localhost' 
>
 ./fullchain.pem`

The second way is to use letsencrypt

Issue tracker

https://waffle.io/project-bitmark/bitmark-storage