MyWeb

MyWeb is a simple web application for managing blog posts, media files, and animations. It is built with Go and uses a bbolt + storm database for dynamic content.

Features

• Blogs - A page for looking at blog descriptions to navigate to the full blog post.
• Media - Upload media files and automatically convert them to webp if possible.
• Animations - A page for displaying pictures and videos with short descriptions.
• Manage - A page for managing blog posts, media files, and animations.

Recommendations

• Use a reverse proxy such as Caddy to serve the application.
• Only listen on 127.0.0.1 or a local network address.
• Use a firewall to block all incoming traffic except for the reverse proxy.

Installation

1. Set up configuration:

   • Edit the webhome/myweb.conf file.

   • Set the URL, maintainer name, and email.

   • Set the listen ip or port if needed.

     nano webhome/myweb.conf
     

     1. Make a bcrypt password for the admin user:
     • Run the following command to create a password hash.
     • Replace “username” and “password” with your desired admin username and password. sh name="username" \ pass="password" \ caddy hash-password --plaintext="$name:$pass" > webhome/userpass

   • You can also use another implementation of bcrypt to create the password hash.

   • Format the file as hash where hash is the hash of the string “username:password”.

2. Copy the webhome directory to your http user directory:

   # Copy files to http user directory. Use the actual user name for httpuser on your system.
   sudo cp -r ./webhome ~httpuser/
   # Change the owner of directory only, so the server can create new files.
   sudo chown httpuser ~httpuser/webhome
   

   1. Build the application: sh go build -ldflags="-w -s" -trimpath -o build/

3. Install the application:

   sudo install ./build/myweb /usr/local/bin/myweb
   

   Systemd Service

   1. Edit the service file:
   • Edit the myweb.service file.
   • Change the User to the user that your web server runs as.
   • Change the WorkingDirectory to the directory where you copied the webhome directory.
   • Change the ExecStart to the path where you installed the application if different.
   1. Install the systemd service: sh sudo install ./myweb.service /etc/systemd/system/myweb.service sudo systemctl daemon-reload

4. Start the service:

   sudo systemctl start myweb
   sudo systemctl enable myweb
   sudo systemctl status myweb
   

   Run from Command Line

   myweb /path/to/myweb.conf
   

Manage Content

1. Log in to the manage page:
   • Go to the manage page at /manage/.
   • Log in with the username and password you created earlier.
   • Select management options from the menu.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.