Hashbase
Hashbase is a public peer service for Dat archives. It provides a HTTP-accessible interface for creating an account and uploading Dats. It was created to power a content-community for the Beaker Browser
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Setup
Clone this repository, then run
npm install
cp config.defaults.yml config.development.yml
Modify config.development.yml to fit your needs, then start the server with npm start.
Configuration
Before deploying the service, you absolutely must modify the following config.
Basics
dir: ./.hashbase # where to store the data
brandname: Hashbase # the title of your service
hostname: hashbase.local # the hostname of your service
port: 8080 # the port to run the service on
rateLimiting: true # rate limit the HTTP requests?
csrf: true # use csrf tokens?
defaultDiskUsageLimit: 100mb # default maximum disk usage for each user
Lets Encrypt
You can enable lets-encrypt to automatically provision TLS certs using this config:
letsencrypt:
debug: false # debug mode? must be set to 'false' to use live config
email: '[email protected]' # email to register domains under
If enabled, port will be ignored and the server will register at ports 80 and 443.
Admin Account
The admin user has its credentials set by the config yaml at load. If you change the password while the server is running, then restart the server, the password will be reset to whatever is in the config.
admin:
email: '[email protected]'
password: myverysecretpassword
HTTP Sites
Hashbase can host the archives as HTTP sites. This has the added benefit of enabling dat-dns shortnames for the archives. There are two possible schemes:
sites: per-user
Per-user will host archives at username.hostname/archivename, in a scheme similar to GitHub Pages. If the archive-name is == to the username, it will be hosted at username.hostname.
Note that, in this scheme, a DNS shortname is only provided for the user archive (username.hostname).
sites: per-archive
Per-archive will host archives at archivename-username.hostname. If the archive-name is == to the username, it will be hosted at username.hostname.
By default, HTTP Sites are disabled.
Closed Registration
For a private instance, use closed registration with a whitelist of allowed emails:
registration:
open: false
allowed:
- [email protected]
- [email protected]
Reserved Usernames
Use reserved usernames to blacklist usernames which collide with frontend routes, or which might be used maliciously.
registration:
reservedNames:
- admin
- root
- support
- noreply
- users
- archives
Monitoring
pm2: false # set to true if you're using https://keymetrics.io/
alerts:
diskUsage: 10gb # when to trigger an alert on disk usage
Session Tokens
Hashbase uses Json Web Tokens to manage sessions. You absolutely must replace the secret with a random string before deployment.
sessions:
algorithm: HS256 # probably dont update this
secret: THIS MUST BE REPLACED! # put something random here
expiresIn: 1h # how long do sessions live?
Jobs
Hashbase runs some jobs periodically. You can configure how frequently they run.
# processing jobs
jobs:
popularArchivesIndex: 30s # compute the index of archives sorted by num peers
userDiskUsage: 5m # compute how much disk space each user is using
deleteDeadArchives: 5m # delete removed archives from disk
Emailer
Todo, sorry
Tests
Run the tests with
npm test
To run the tests against a running server, specify the env var:
REMOTE_URL=http://{hostname}/ npm test
License
MIT