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Server Setup Guide

Hello! Are you tired of companies like Google and Microsoft? This guide is for you!

Requirements

Domain name

Domains are annual. Personally, I bought mine from GoDaddy and I'm using it comfortably.

Server

I know servers are expensive. However, you can get a VPS for less than $1 for your first year at OVHCloud.

My recommendation is to get a server with Debian 12. The guide will be based on this, you can adapt it to other distros if you want.

Linux Knowledge

If you don't have knowledge, I do not recommend entering this field.

What We Will Do

A Site
Git Server

Getting Started

If you have both, we can start the process.

First, connect to your server via SSH; your password will be in the link sent to your email.

Changing Password

sudo passwd $USER # change user password
sudo passwd root # change root password

Update

sudo apt update # update repositories
sudo apt upgrade # update the system

Linking Domain with Server

First, find the server's IP address using `ip a`; in OVH, it usually starts with 51.

Then, go to the DNS records section of your domain.

Create an A record with the name `@` and the value of your IP address. For example:

Type: A
Name: @
Value: Your IP Address

And we will create many subdomains. Subdomains are the parts before the domain. For example, mail.google.com is a subdomain, google.com is the domain.

For subdomains: Add a CNAME record for the subdomain. For example, in this guide, git and bin subdomains will be used, you can add these records:

CNAME git Your Main Domain
CNAME bin Your Main Domain

Docker Installation

https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/debian

Docker Rootless Installation

sudo systemctl disable --now docker
dockerd-rootless-setuptool.sh install
systemctl --user enable --now docker
echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc

Caddy Installation

We will install Caddy using Docker.

mkdir ~/caddy
cd ~/caddy

docker-compose.yml file:

version: "3.7"

services:
  caddy:
    image: caddy:latest
    restart: unless-stopped
    network_mode: host
    cap_add:
      - NET_ADMIN
    ports:
      - "80:80"
      - "443:443"
      - "443:443/udp"
    volumes:
      - $PWD/Caddyfile:/etc/caddy/Caddyfile
      - $PWD/site:/srv
      - caddy_data:/data
      - caddy_config:/config

volumes:
  caddy_data:
    external: true
  caddy_config:

nano Cadddyfile

example.com {
	root * /srv
	file_server
}

Change example.com with your domain.

Upload your site to ~/caddy/site folder.

docker-compose up -d

You might encounter an error, which might ask you to add something to `/etc/sysctl.conf`. Add the required line and run `sudo sysctl --system`. Then, run the previous command again.

Git Server Installation

We'll use forgejo.

mkdir ~/forgejo
cd ~/forgejo

nano docker-compose.yml

Find the Docker Compose file on the https://forgejo.org/docs/latest/admin/installation-docker page.

docker-compose up -d

cd ~/caddy
nano Caddyfile

git.example.com {
	reverse_proxy localhost:3000
}

Then save and run `docker compose restart`.

Setting Up a Pastebin Alternative

I'll only give compose file, you can do all steps yourself.

version: '3.3'
services:
	pastebin:
		image: wantguns/bin
		container_name: pastebin
		ports:
			- 6163:6163
		environment:
			- BIN_PORT=6163 # Defaults to 6162
			- BIN_LIMITS={form="16 MiB"}
			- BIN_CLIENT_DESC=placeholder
		volumes:
			- ./upload:/upload # upload folder will have your pastes