hosting.md

POE STASH

Host your own instance of this tool as a website

It could be useful for you to host this tool as a website to ease usage. For example if you have a guild with trusted members, you may want to provide them an online tool.

Follow these steps!

Step 1: securing (at least a bit)

You can run a server without any securities, but if you want to host this tool publicly, it is advised to enable some safeguards. With the --passwords option, you can choose a file containing a set of allowed users. These users are allow to generate new profile or refresh existing ones.

Usually, creating a pass.txt file containing login:password lines is enough (passwords are in plain text for now).

Example:

mylogin:mypassword
malachai:immortality
user:35*rfs

Step 2: Redirecting logs in a file

When launching this server, redirect everything in a file, like /var/log/poe-stash/logs.txt. You can use logrotate tool if needed.

Step 3: Launch as a daemon

A simple trick to do that, is by using screen. Either directly by using screen <command> or by using:

screen
<your command>
ctrl+a, then d

You can got the instance back by typing screen -r

Launch the server: an example

This how the final command line could looks like:

screen ./poe-stash-server --passwords pass.txt --port 2121 > /var/log/poe-stash/poestash.log