80.2 CSS Public Setup

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After installing Ubuntu (Section 4.1), a Caddy web server (Section 95.3), and the community solid server (Section 80.1) we can configure Caddy as a web server using reverse proxy to expose the Solid server publicly, for example as https://solid.example.org. As an admin user we edit this file:

sudo emacs /etc/caddy/Caddyfile

A new entry for the reverse proxy can be added as below, being sure to change example.org to your own domain name.

example.org {
        root * /var/www/html
        file_server
}

solid.example.org {
        reverse_proxy localhost:3000
}

The new configuration is loaded into the caddy server with:

sudo systemctl reload caddy

To test that it is working login as the solid user:

sudo -su solid

Then run the server with the --baseUrl (or -b) option, being sure to change example.org to your own domain.

community-solid-server --baseUrl https://solid.example.org

Visit your domain name like https://solid.example.org (which will need a DNS A record with the required IP address) to ensure the solid server is publicly accessible. You should see a Welcome from the developers. Below we share the updated welcome for our solid server.

See Section 80.3 to set up scripts to manage the server. Section 80.4 covers the systemd configurations to manage the Solid server and ensure it is started after a reboot. Pods can be added as in Section 80.5.

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