Server

👨🏾‍🍳 Server for Ferdium that you can re-use to run your own

Why use a custom server?

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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 the server at api.ferdium.org.

Features

Deploying the App

Setup with Docker

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

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

Warning, please note that the use of the previous config.txt is now deprecated and a number of environment variables have changed, specifically the default database name and location, the internal container port, and an additional DATA_DIR variable has been added. Make sure to pass the correct environment variables to your container at runtime. If you are an existing Ferdium-server user, please see the Ferdium docker documentation for more information about migrating to the new image.

Pull the Docker image

docker pull ferdium/ferdium-server:latest

Create a new Docker container with your desired configuration Existing users please seee the warning above.

    docker create \
    --name=ferdium-server \
    -e NODE_ENV=development \
    -e APP_URL=<ferdium-server-url> \
    -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 SMTP_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 \
  -e DATA_DIR=data \
    -p <port>:3333 \
    -v <path to data>:/data \
    -v <path to recipes>:/app/recipes \
    --restart unless-stopped \
    ferdium/ferdium-server:latest

Alternatively, you can also use docker-compose v2 schema. An example can be found in the docker folder.

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

For more information on configuring the Docker image, please read the Ferdium docker documentation.

Manual setup

Clone repository with submodule
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
```
node ace migration:run
```
Start the server with
```
npm start
```

Configuration

Ferdium-server's configuration is saved inside an .env file. Besides AdonisJS's settings, Ferdium-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, Ferdium-server can:
- Show the full Franz recipe library instead of only custom recipes
- Import Franz accounts

Importing your Franz/Ferdi account

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

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

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

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

To add your recipe to Ferdium-server, open http://[YOUR FERDIUM-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 SVG image: Direct link to a 1024x1024 SVG image 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 recipe creation guide. Please do not package your files beforehand - upload the raw files (you can drag and drop multiple files). Ferdium-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.