start9labs/start9-pages-startos

Wrapper for start9-pages

Start9 Pages is a simple web server that uses directories inside File Browser or Nextcloud to serve Tor websites. This repository creates the s9pk package that is installed to run embassy-pages on [StartOS](https://github.com/Start9Labs/start-os/.

This package was recently renamed from Embassy Pages. Package ids cannot currently be changed, so it remains embassy-pages.

Dependencies

Install the system dependencies below to build this project by following the instructions in the provided links. You can also find detailed steps to setup your environment in the service packaging documentation.

• docker
• docker-buildx
• deno
• make
• start-sdk

Cloning

Clone the project locally.

git clone https://github.com/Start9Labs/start9-pages-startos.git
cd start9-pages-startos

Building

To build the embassy-pages package, run the following commands:

make

Installing (on StartOS)

Run the following commands to determine successful install:

ℹ️ Change adjective-noun.local to your StartOS address

start-cli auth login
# Enter your StartOS password
start-cli --host https://adjective-noun.local package install embassy-pages.s9pk

If you already have your start-cli config file setup with a default host, you can install simply by running:

make install

Tip: You can also install the embassy-pages.s9pk using Sideload Service under the System > Settings section.

Verify Install

Go to your StartOS Services page, select Start9 Pages, configure and start the service. Then, verify its interfaces are accessible.

start9-pages-startos's Issues

[feat]: Generate vanity V2 and V3 onion URLS for TOR

Prerequisites

• I have searched for existing issues that already suggest this feature.

Describe the Feature Request

Hi. Thanks for the awesome work you all are doing :) Just came here after listening to Matt's talk on Denver BitDevs and Value Stack channels.

I understand that this is similar in function to OnionShare's ability to host websites on TOR...

Would it be possible to add functionality to generate vanity V2 and V3 onion URLS for TOR sites being hosted?

Describe the Use Case

I personally prefer the V2 address despite it's drawbacks

This is because for normal users

• their threat model is not that high,
• they just want to put up a simple static website online without going through DNS and paying the associated costs,
• the 16 character length means it can easily be memorised and shared verbally, and now
• some normal browsers like Brave highlight a button to open a website in their TOR window if you land on an onion site

Therefore v2 should be enough and it has the potential to revolutionise website creation and hosting.

Students and people who can't afford a domain name can put their sites online and share their work easily and just tell people to open it in Brave or Tor browsers.

So the goal here is not top-notch privacy, anonymity and security, it's more like usability, adoption and independence from DNS.

Describe Preferred Solution

I haven't read up much on this except this old post:
https://opensource.com/article/19/8/how-create-vanity-tor-onion-address

and this is the official TOR Project page on it:
https://community.torproject.org/onion-services/advanced/vanity-addresses/

Describe Alternatives

The only other thing I know are Lokinet addresses but then I think you have to buy their token and I'm not sure how to host websites on the that network.

Anything else?

Thanks for making StartOS FOSS!

[feat]: Make configuration more robust

Augment config.set action to:

• validate existence of filebrowser paths before saving
• validate existence of any filebrowser folders listed as directory paths in subdomains
• validate that an index.html page exists in folder set as homepage when homepage type is "web page"

[feat]: Ability to host multiple sites

Prerequisites

• I have searched for existing issues that already suggest this feature.

Describe the Feature Request

Self-explanatory. It may be preferred as an OS option to run multiple instances of any particular service, which is a whole can-o-worms

Describe the Use Case

Multiple Onion site-hosting from one device

Describe Preferred Solution

No response

Describe Alternatives

No response

Anything else?

No response

[feat] add Nextcloud as option for file hosting

[feat] LAN interface

Allow a Page to be visited via LAN

embassy-pages for 0.3.0

update to new package format for 0.3.0

• backup create
• backup restore
• configure
• properties
• health checks
• start
• stop
• add subdomain
• logs