initial-setup.md

Setup

DNS setup

Know the IPv4 and IPv6 address of your server.

Go to your Domain Registrar, and add A and AAAA DNS records pointing to your IPv4 and IPv6 address respectively. Wait a while for it to propagate; check the progress here.

Create linux user

ssh to your server as root (or run the commands with sudo)

Create a new Linux user for the purpose of running the CSS

# as root run
useradd -m -s /bin/bash [user]

Prepare project folder structure

Switch to your new user and create a folder structure

Switch user

# as root run
su [user]

Go to home folder of [user]

# as [user] run
cd ~

Create project folder (feel free to choose different)

# as [user] run
mkdir -p ~/www/[projectname]

Ultimately, this is the folder structure we're aiming for:

www/[projectname]/
├── CommunitySolidServer/ (only if you're running CSS from github repository)
├── data/
├── mashlib/
├── run.sh
└── config.json

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