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Setup Webserver

Self-Hosted

The Django webserver is not recommended due to missing transport encryption, missing performance and security tests.
We recommend a webserver like Caddy, nginx or Apache and to enable https.

Easy setup with Caddy (recommended)

You can run setup.sh in deploy/caddy to set up an additional Docker container with Caddy as a webserver. 

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bash deploy/caddy/setup.sh

Optional: LetsEncrypt HTTPS certificate

If you want Caddy to take care of your LetsEncrypt certificate, you must set up:

  1. a valid domain name resolving to your public IP address
  2. port 80 of your must be publicly reachable

nginx

Install nginx on your host system:

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sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y nginx

Copy our nginx boilerplate configuration from the deploy/nginx directory to your nginx directory:

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sudo cp deploy/nginx/sysreptor.nginx /etc/nginx/sites-available/
sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/sysreptor.nginx /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/
sudo rm /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default

You can optionally generate self-signed certificates: 

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sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y ssl-cert
sudo make-ssl-cert generate-default-snakeoil

Modify sysreptor.nginx and update the certificate paths in case you have trusted certificates (recommended).

(Re)Start nginx: 

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sudo systemctl restart nginx
# sudo /etc/init.d/nginx restart