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#ellidri installation guide

This document will walk you through the necessary and recommended steps to have a working installation of ellidri. Namely,

  1. Download ellidri
  2. Create an systemd unit/init script
  3. Create a user on your system
  4. Generate or localize your certificates
  5. Write ellidri's configuration file

This guide assume the following locations:

  • /usr/bin/ellidri is the path to ellidri
  • /etc/ellidri.yaml is ellidri's configuration file,
  • /etc/motd is the Message Of The Day

You may change these locations whenever they appear (either in this guide or files pointed by this guide).

#1. Download ellidri

Some Linux distributions already have ellidri packaged:

If you have installed ellidri through one of these packages, you can skip the second step. Otherwise, you can download the latest release here: https://git.sr.ht/~taiite/ellidri/refs.

You can also install ellidri from source. Instructions are in README.md at the root of the repository.

#2. Create an systemd unit/init script

If you haven't installed ellidri through one of the previous packages, you need to create a systemd unit, or a init script (this guide only covers systemd usage). You may find one in the repository, at doc/ellidri.service. Download this file and move it to /etc/systemd/system/ellidri.service.

#3. Create a user on your system

To avoid running ellidri as root, you may want to create a dedicated user. To do so, use the following command:

useradd -r -s /usr/bin/nologin ellidri

#4. Generate or locate your certificates

If you want your installation to be public (i.e. available from the Internet), you'll need a valid certificate. You can obtain one from Let's Encrypt for example, with certbot: https://certbot.eff.org/.

By default, certbot installs certificates at /etc/letsencrypt/live/your.domain/.

#5. Write ellidri's configuration file

Copy doc/config_example.yaml to /etc/ellidri.yaml and modify its contents to your liking. domain should be the same as the domain of the certificate you've got from step 4.

You can now start ellidri with systemctl start ellidri.

After any change you make to the configuration file, you can apply them with systemctl reload ellidri.