How to deploy FarBox on your owner VPS?

Initialize environment

Ubuntu 18.04 is the recommended operating system, other Linux operating systems, the basic logic is same.

Setup basic environment and install Docker first.

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y python-pip  && sudo apt-get install -y docker.io

Note: the installation steps of Docker may also change dynamically, you can refer to the official Docker installation documentation for details.

Deploy FarBox (FarBox Bucket)

sudo docker pull hepochen/farbox_bucket:latest                                         
sudo pip install xserver
sudo xserver_package deploy farbox memcache=200mb && sudo xserver start farbox

Execute the following command to automatically start the FarBox service when the server is restarted:

sudo xserver install_start

Alternatively, you can run the following command to watch and auto-restart failed FarBox service container every 2 minutes:

sudo xserver install_live

At this point, FarBox is already running, visit http://your-ip for the first installation on the web side.

After initializing the first Bucket on the web side, you may need to restart the service (if the data on the web side is normal, you don't need to deal with it):

docker exec -it farbox bash
supervisorctl restart all

Where the data stored?

• /data/farbox_ssdb: core database
• /data/farbox_es: Elasticsearch indexes
• /data/farbox: core web server data
• /data/log/farbox: log files
• /home/run/farbox: env configs for FarBox

Note: if you want to re-install Farbox, maybe you should try to remove /data/farbox_ssdb first, it depends.

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Clients

On iPhone and iPad, you can try Metion, for macOS, you can try MarkEditor and Markdown.app.

Of course Python script can sync with FarBox too, the contents of script are similar to the blow:

from farbox_bucket.client.sync import sync_to_farbox, sync_from_farbox

sync_to_farbox(
    node = "<your_web_server_node>",
    root = "<your_local_folder_path>",
    private_key = "<private_key_for_bucket>"
)