ferdi-server

Official Server software for the Ferdi Messaging Browser

ferdi-server

Why use a custom Ferdi server?

A custom server allows you to manage the data of all registered users yourself and add your own recipes to the repository.

If you are not interested in doing this you can use our official instance of Ferdi server at https://api.getferdi.com.

Features

Setup

with Docker

The easiest way to set up Ferdi server on your server is with Docker.

The Docker image can be run as is, with the default sqlite database or you can modifying your ENV variables to use an external database (e.g. MySQL, MariaDB, Postgres, etc). After setting up the docker container we recommend you to set up an NGINX reverse proxy to access ferdi-server outside of your home network and protect it with an SSL certificate.

Pull the Docker image
```
docker pull getferdi/ferdi-server
```

Create a new Docker container with your desired configuration

    docker create \
    --name=ferdi-server \
    -e NODE_ENV=development \
    -e EXTERNAL_DOMAIN=<ferdi-serverdomain> \  
    -e DB_CONNECTION=<database> \
    -e DB_HOST=<yourdbhost> \
    -e DB_PORT=<yourdbport> \
    -e DB_USER=<yourdbuser> \
    -e DB_PASSWORD=<yourdbpass> \
    -e DB_DATABASE=<yourdbdatabase> \
    -e DB_SSL=false \
    -e MAIL_CONNECTION=smtp \
    -e SMPT_HOST=<smtpmailserver> \
    -e SMTP_PORT=<smtpport> \
    -e MAIL_SSL=true/false \
    -e MAIL_USERNAME=<yourmailusername> \
    -e MAIL_PASSWORD=<yourmailpassword> \
    -e MAIL_SENDER=<sendemailaddress> \
    -e IS_CREATION_ENABLED=true \
    -e IS_DASHBOARD_ENABLED=true \
    -e IS_REGISTRATION_ENABLED=true \
    -e CONNECT_WITH_FRANZ=true \
    -p <port>:80 \
    -v <path to data>:/config \
    -v <path to database>:/app/database \
    -v <path to recipes>:/app/recipes \
    --restart unless-stopped \
    getferdi/ferdi-server

Alternatively, you can also use docker-compose v2 schemas

---
version: "2"
services:
ferdi-server:
    image: getferdi/ferdi-server
    container_name: ferdi-server
    environment:
    - NODE_ENV=development
    - EXTERNAL_DOMAIN=<ferdi-serverdomain>	 
    - DB_CONNECTION=<database>
    - DB_HOST=<yourdbhost>
    - DB_PORT=<yourdbPORT>
    - DB_USER=<yourdbuser>
    - DB_PASSWORD=<yourdbpass>
    - DB_DATABASE=<yourdbdatabase>
    - DB_SSL=true/false
    - MAIL_CONNECTION=<mailsender>
    - SMPT_HOST=<smtpmailserver>
    - SMTP_PORT=<smtpport>
    - MAIL_SSL=true/false
    - MAIL_USERNAME=<yourmailusername>
    - MAIL_PASSWORD=<yourmailpassword>
    - MAIL_SENDER=<sendemailaddress>
    - IS_CREATION_ENABLED=true/false
    - IS_DASHBOARD_ENABLED=true/false
    - IS_REGISTRATION_ENABLED=true/false
    - CONNECT_WITH_FRANZ=true/false
    volumes:
    - <path to data>:/config
    - <path to database>:/app/database
    - <path to recipes>:/app/recipes
    ports:
    - <port>:80
    restart: unless-stopped

Optionally, you can now set up Nginx as a reverse proxy.

For more information on configuring the Docker image, visit the Docker image repository at https://github.com/getferdi/server-docker.

Manual setup

Clone this repository
Install the AdonisJS CLI
Copy .env.example to .env and edit the configuration to your needs
Have env DB_SSL=true only if your database is postgres and it is hosted online on platforms like GCP, AWS, etc
Run npm install to install local dependencies
Run the database migrations with
```
adonis migration:run
```
Start the server with
```
adonis serve --dev
```
If on previous step it does not run the server then run with
```
npm start
```
or
```
node server.js
```

Configuration

franz-server's configuration is saved inside the .env file. Besides AdonisJS's settings, ferdi-server has the following custom settings:

IS_CREATION_ENABLED (true or false, default: true): Whether to enable the creation of custom recipes
IS_REGISTRATION_ENABLED (true or false, default: true): Whether to enable the creation of new user accounts
IS_DASHBOARD_ENABLED (true or false, default: true): Whether to enable the user dashboard
CONNECT_WITH_FRANZ (true or false, default: true): Whether to enable connections to the Franz server. By enabling this option, ferdi-server can:
- Show the full Franz recipe library instead of only custom recipes
- Import Franz accounts

Importing your Franz account

ferdi-server allows you to import your full Franz account, including all its settings.

To import your Franz account, open http://[YOUR FERDI-SERVER]/import in your browser and login using your Franz account details. ferdi-server will create a new user with the same credentials and copy your Franz settings, services and workspaces.

Transferring user data

Please refer to https://github.com/getferdi/ferdi/wiki/Transferring-data-between-servers

Creating and using custom recipes

ferdi-server allows to extends the Franz recipe catalogue with custom Ferdi recipes.

For documentation on how to create a recipe, please visit the official guide by Franz.

To add your recipe to ferdi-server, open http://[YOUR FERDI-SERVER]/new in your browser. You can now define the following settings:

Author: Author who created the recipe
Name: Name for your new service. Can contain spaces and unicode characters
Service ID: Unique ID for this recipe. Does not contain spaces or special characters (e.g. google-drive)
Link to PNG/SVG image: Direct link to a 1024x1024 PNG image and SVG that is used as a logo inside the store. Please use jsDelivr when using a file uploaded to GitHub as raw.githubusercontent files won't load
Recipe files: Recipe files that you created using the Franz recipe creation guide. Please do not package your files beforehand - upload the raw files (you can drag and drop multiple files). ferdi-server will automatically package and store the recipe in the right format. Please also do not drag and drop or select the whole folder, select the individual files.

Listing custom recipes

Inside Ferdi, searching for ferdi:custom will list all your custom recipes.

License

ferdi-server is licensed under the MIT License

cromefire/server