StoreDown

How to Install StoreDown

We are still in the early days. I hope to reduce the skills required to use StoreDown.

Remember you need to Deploy StoredDown and configure an Apache CouchDB instance. StoreDown uses a CouchDB database to sync. Instructions on how to setup CouchDB are at the bottom of this file.
TLDR: Pick an option AND configure CouchDB

Option 1:

You can download a zip of the most recent release and extract it in your webserver of choice(S3, Apache, NGINX, etc ….)

Option 2: Using docker

docker run -d -p 8080:80 foxusa/storedown

Option 3: Using docker-compose

If you want to use SSL/TLS skip this and go down to that section

Put the following text in a docker-compose.yml. Make sure to set all the items marked #TODO.
Also make sure this file is in a secure place.
Your credentials are stored in it.

version: "2"
services:
  storedown:
    image: foxusa/storedown
    restart: always
    ports:
      - "80:80"
  couchdb:
    image: couchdb
    restart: always
    volumes:
      - "<HOST_LOCATION>:/opt/couchdb/data" #TODO set this to prevent accidentally deleting your database data
    ports:
      - "5984:5984"
    environment:
      COUCHDB_USER: user #TODO set this
      COUCHDB_PASSWORD: password #TODO set this

You can then run docker-compose up -d to start the services.

SSL/TLS

Create a folder with a SSL private.key and public.crt this gets mounted by nginx to encrypt connections.
The public.crt file should have your servers cert and the whole cert chain appended to it.

Create a nginx config file that proxies CouchDB traffic via SSL.
Here is an example you can use as is.

Mount these files using the following docker-compose.yml

version: "2"
services:
  storedown:
    image: foxusa/storedown
    restart: always
    volumes:
      -  $HOST_LOCATION/certs:/root/certs:ro  #TODO set this
      -  $HOST_LOCATION/storedown.default.conf:/etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf:ro #TODO file created above
    ports:
      -  80:80
      -  443:443
      -  6984:6984 #CouchDB Proxy
    links:
      - couchdb:couchdb

  couchdb:
    restart: always
    image: couchdb
    volumes:
      -   /opt/StoreDown/couchdb:/opt/couchdb/data
    ports:
      -   5984:5984
    environment:
      COUCHDB_USER: $user #TODO set this
      COUCHDB_PASSWORD: $password #TODO set this

You can then run docker-compose up -d to start the services.

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CouchDB config

• Go to http://$serverurl:5984/_utils/#_config/nonode@nohost/cors and enable CORS for your domain.
• Go to Go to http://$serverurl:5984/_utils/#_config/nonode@nohost and set in the httpd section, WWW-Authenticate to Basic realm="administrator"
• Go to http://$serverurl:5984/_utils/#_config/nonode@nohost and set in the chttpd section require_valid_user to true.

  If you are unable to get to the login screen after setting that, you can access it via http://$serverurl:5984/_utils/#login

• Then open StoreDown and log in with the username, password, url, port, and database you configured.

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