skynet-webportal/setup-scripts/README.md

# Skynet Portal Setup Scripts

This directory contains a setup guide and scripts that will install and
configure some basic requirements for running a Skynet Portal. The assumption is
that we are working with a Debian Buster Minimal system or similar.

## Initial Setup

You may want to fork this repository and replace ssh keys in
`setup-scripts/support/authorized_keys` and optionally edit the `setup-scripts/support/tmux.conf` and `setup-scripts/support/bashrc` configurations to fit your needs.

### Step 0: stack overview

- dockerized services inside `docker-compose.yml`
  - [sia](https://sia.tech) ([docker hub](https://hub.docker.com/r/nebulouslabs/sia)): storage provider, heart of the portal setup
  - [caddy](https://caddyserver.com) ([docker hub](https://hub.docker.com/r/caddy/caddy)): reverse proxy (similar to nginx) that handles ssl out of a box and acts as a transparent entry point
  - [openresty](https://openresty.org) ([docker hub](https://hub.docker.com/r/openresty/openresty)): nginx custom build, acts as a cached proxy to siad and exposes all api endpoints
  - [health-check](https://github.com/NebulousLabs/skynet-webportal/tree/master/packages/health-check): simple service that runs periodically and collects health data about the server (status and response times) - [read more](https://github.com/NebulousLabs/skynet-webportal/blob/master/packages/health-check/README.md)
  - [handshake](https://handshake.org) ([github](https://github.com/handshake-org/hsd)): full handshake node
  - [handshake-api](https://github.com/NebulousLabs/skynet-webportal/tree/master/packages/handshake-api): simple API talking to the handshake node - [read more](https://github.com/NebulousLabs/skynet-webportal/blob/master/packages/handshake-api/README.md)
  - [webapp](https://github.com/NebulousLabs/skynet-webportal/tree/master/packages/webapp): portal frontend application - [read more](https://github.com/NebulousLabs/skynet-webportal/blob/master/packages/webapp/README.md)
- discord integration
  - [funds-checker](funds-checker.py): script that checks wallet balance and sends status messages to discord periodically
  - [health-checker](health-checker.py): script that monitors health-check service for server health issues and reports them to discord periodically
  - [log-checker](log-checker.py): script that scans siad logs for critical errors and reports them to discord periodically
- [blocklist-skylink](../scripts/blocklist-skylink.sh): script that can be run locally from a machine that has access to all your skynet portal servers that blocklists provided skylink and prunes nginx cache to ensure it's not available any more (that is a bit much but that's the best we can do right now without paid nginx version) - if you want to use it, make sure to adjust the server addresses

### Step 1: setting up server user

1. SSH in a freshly installed Debian machine on a user with sudo access (can be root)
1. `apt-get update && apt-get install sudo -y` to make sure `sudo` is available
1. `adduser user` to create user called `user` (creates `/home/user` directory)
1. `usermod -aG sudo user` to add this new user to sudo group
1. Quit the ssh session with `exit` command

You a can now ssh into your machine as the user `user`.

### Step 2: setting up environment

1. On your local machine: `ssh-copy-id user@ip-addr` to copy over your ssh key to server
1. On your local machine: `ssh user@ip-addr` to log in to server as user `user`
1. You are now logged in as `user`

**Following step will be executed on remote host logged in as a `user`:**

1. `sudo apt-get install git -y` to install git
1. `git clone https://github.com/NebulousLabs/skynet-webportal`
1. run setup scripts in the exact order and provide sudo password when asked (if one of them fails, you can retry just this one before proceeding further)
   1. `/home/user/skynet-webportal/setup-scripts/setup-server.sh`
   1. `/home/user/skynet-webportal/setup-scripts/setup-docker-services.sh`
   1. `/home/user/skynet-webportal/setup-scripts/setup-health-check-scripts.sh` (optional)

### Step 3: configuring siad

At this point we have almost everything running, we just need to set up your wallet and allowance:

1. Create new wallet (remember to save the seeds)
   > `docker exec -it sia siac wallet init`
1. Unlock wallet (use seed as password)
   > `docker exec -it sia siac wallet unlock`
1. Generate wallet addresse (save them for later to transfer the funds)
   > `docker exec -it sia siac wallet address`
1. Set up allowance
   > `docker exec -it sia siac renter setallowance`
   1. 10 KS (keep 25 KS in your wallet)
   1. default period
   1. default number of hosts
   1. 4 week renewal time
   1. 500 GB expected storage
   1. 500 GB expected upload
   1. 5 TB expected download
   1. default redundancy
1. Instruct siad to start making 10 contracts per block with many hosts to potentially view the whole network's files
   > `docker exec -it sia siac renter setallowance --payment-contract-initial-funding 10SC`

### Step 4: configuring docker services

1. edit `/home/user/skynet-webportal/.env` and configure following environment variables
   - `DOMAIN_NAME` (optional) is your domain name if you have it
   - `EMAIL_ADDRESS` (required) is your email address used for communication regarding SSL certification (required)
   - `SIA_WALLET_PASSWORD` (required) is your wallet password (or seed if you did not set a password)
   - `HSD_API_KEY` (optional) this is a random security key for a handshake integration that gets generated automatically
   - `CLOUDFLARE_AUTH_TOKEN` (optional) if using cloudflare as dns loadbalancer (need to change it in Caddyfile too)
   - `AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID` (optional) if using route53 as a dns loadbalancer
   - `AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY` (optional) if using route53 as a dns loadbalancer
1. if you have a custom domain and you configured it in `DOMAIN_NAME`, edit `/home/user/skynet-webportal/docker/caddy/Caddyfile` and uncomment `import custom.domain`
1. only for siasky.net domain instances: edit `/home/user/skynet-webportal/docker/caddy/Caddyfile`, uncomment `import siasky.net`
1. `docker-compose up -d` to restart the services so they pick up new env variables
1. `docker exec caddy caddy reload --config /etc/caddy/Caddyfile` to reload Caddyfile configuration

## Subdomains

It might prove useful for certain skapps to be accessible through a custom subdomain. So instead of being accessed through `https://portal.com/[skylink]`, it would be accessible through `https://[skylink_base32].portal.com`. We call this "subdomain access" and it is made possible by encoding Skylinks using a base32 encoding. We have to use a base32 encoding scheme because subdomains have to be all lower case and the base64 encoded Skylink is case sensitive and thus might contain uppercase characters.

You can convert Skylinks using this [converter skapp](https://convert-skylink.hns.siasky.net). To see how the encoding and decoding works, please follow the link to the repo in the application itself.

There is also an option to access handshake domain through the subdomain using `https://[domain_name].hns.portal.com`.

To configure this on your portal, you have to make sure to configure the following:

### Wildcard SSL Certificate

We need to ensure SSL encryption for skapps that are accessed through their
subdomain, therefore we need to have a wildcard certificate. This is very easily
achieved using Caddy.

```
(siasky.net) {
    siasky.net, *.siasky.net, *.hns.siasky.net {
        ...
    }
}
```

(see [docker/caddy/Caddyfile](../docker/Caddy/Caddyfile))

### Nginx configuration

In Nginx two things need to happen:

#### Match the specific parts of the uri

```
# understand the regex https://regex101.com/r/BGQvi6/6
server_name "~^(((?<base32_subdomain>([a-z0-9]{55}))|(?<hns_domain>[^\.]+)\.hns)\.)?((?<portal_domain>[^.]+)\.)?(?<domain>[^.]+)\.(?<tld>[^.]+)$";
```

#### Redirect the requests to the appropriate location

First you need to redirect the requests based on the regex above matching either `base32_subdomain` or `hns_domain`.

```
location / {
  # This is the only safe workaround to reroute based on some conditions
  # See https://www.nginx.com/resources/wiki/start/topics/depth/ifisevil/
  recursive_error_pages on;

  # redirect links with base32 encoded skylink in subdomain
  error_page 418 = @base32_subdomain;
  if ($base32_subdomain != "") {
    return 418;
  }

  # redirect links with handshake domain on hns subdomain
  error_page 419 = @hns_domain;
  if ($hns_domain  != "") {
    return 419;
  }

  ...
}
```

Define locations for `@base32_subdomain` and `@hns_domain` redirects.

```
location @base32_subdomain {
  include /etc/nginx/conf.d/include/proxy-buffer;

  proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1/$base32_subdomain/$request_uri;
}

location @hns_domain {
  include /etc/nginx/conf.d/include/proxy-buffer;

  proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1/hns/$hns_domain/$request_uri;
}
```

(see [docker/nginx/nginx.conf](../docker/nginx/nginx.conf))

## Useful Commands

- Starting the whole stack
  > `docker-compose up -d`
- Stopping the whole stack
  > `docker-compose down`
- Accessing siac
  > `docker exec -it sia siac`
- Portal maintenance
  - Pulling portal out for maintenance
    > `scripts/portal-down.sh`
  - Putting portal back into place after maintenance
    > `scripts/portal-up.sh`
  - Upgrading portal containers (takes care of pulling it and putting it back)
    > `scripts/portal-upgrade.sh`
- Restarting caddy gracefully after making changes to Caddyfile (no downtime)
  > `docker exec caddy caddy reload --config /etc/caddy/Caddyfile`
- Restarting nginx gracefully after making changes to nginx configs (no downtime)
  > `docker exec nginx openresty -s reload`
- Checking siad service logs (since last hour)
  > `docker logs --since 1h $(docker ps -q --filter "name=^sia$")`
- Checking caddy logs (for example in case ssl certificate fails)
  > `docker logs caddy -f`
- Checking nginx logs (nginx handles all communication to siad instances)
  > `tail -n 50 docker/data/nginx/logs/access.log` to follow last 50 lines of access log
  > `tail -n 50 docker/data/nginx/logs/error.log` to follow last 50 lines of error log