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%title Getting Web-Services to run on NixOS
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:ops:bowl:nix:reflection:
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%date 2020-11-18 15:22
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= Summary =
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Shaarli
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- Haven't configured a systemd service to ln -s the nix derivation yet
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Wallabag
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- Upstream seems broken
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- Docker works, but data is not persistent
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- Find a way to use overlay so I can use an older version
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Wireguard
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- broken on 20.09
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- not sure what to do
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LUKS / LVM
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- does not mount the big partition
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- not sure why
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Borg
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- Unconfigured
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- Need to restore nextcloud data
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- Most other data is missing
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Basically I've learnt that running php web-apps are a nightmare, and that I don't really understand nginx, fastcgi, phpfpm at all really.
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For the past ~2 weeks I've been trying to rebuild [[bowl]] to be running on NixOS, and I've come up against many difficulties, and lost all the data in both of these services...
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I had issues with getting shaarli to read the environment variable as defined in it's nix derivation. So instead, Timo (the package maintainer) told me another solution is to just `ln -s` the package directory into somewhere it can read/write to since that's what the environment variable is supposed to do anyway. Once I did this it was easy enough to get Shaarli running. I did have to be careful with the nginx config because I'd accidentally disabled the API. Currently my Shaarli install
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Wallabag has been another story. It seems like upstream is broken because it's overwriting a php function (`mb_string` is the package and `mb_str_replace` is the function) that php says it can't overwrite.
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Before I managed to get these to run on bare metal, I was using docker once again to run the services. But since Nix is declarative, and I have no idea how docker volumes work, it wiped everytime I ran `nixos-rebuild switch`, which remains a problem I haven't quite solved. I somehow managed to get the docker install working, but I don't believe it to be declarative because I did exec into the docker container and ran some esoteric database migration in order to get it to work.
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Further more my main issue currently is that in order to do anything in nixOS I need to be able to write the language, understand the options, and then all the services that the options declaratively define. The way I currently run any of the infrastructure is through googling around and hoping to find a module or someone else trying to run the same software, but more profficient at nixOS than I am. That needs to change, since even for services written in easy to run languages like Go, I can't write the nix file to get them to work.
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