etesync-server/example-configs/nginx-uwsgi/README.md

Running etebase under nginx and uwsgi

This configuration assumes that etebase server has been installed in the home folder of a non privileged user called EtebaseUser following the instructions in https://github.com/etesync/server. Also that static files have been collected at /srv/http/etebase_server by running the following commands:

sudo mkdir -p /srv/http/etebase_server/static
sudo chown -R EtebaseUser /srv/http/etebase_server
sudo su EtebaseUser
cd /path/to/etebase
ln -s /srv/http/etebase_server/static static
./manage.py collectstatic

It is also assumed that nginx and uwsgi have been installed system wide by root, and that nginx is running as user/group www-data.

In this setup, uwsgi running as a systemd service as root creates a unix socket with read-write access to both EtebaseUser and nginx. It then drops its root privilege and runs etebase as EtebaseUser.

nginx listens on the https port (or a non standard port https port if desired), delivers static pages directly and for everything else, communicates with etebase over the unix socket.