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This guide details an initial setup of an EteSync server.
It is specifically written for Ubuntu, but you should be able to use it as a guide for different systems as well.
Making a separate user to run the application is also recommended.
### Download EteSync server
First we install the [Python virtual environment](https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/venv.html) package, clone the repo, set up the virtual environment and install the Python dependencies.
```
apt-get install python3-virtualenv
cd ~ # To set up the server in your home dir
git clone https://github.com/etesync/server-skeleton.git
cd server-skeleton
virtualenv -p python3 venv # If doesn't work, try: virtualenv3 venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
```
### Configure the application
To configure the application, you need a Django `.ini` file.
Luckily, the repo already contains a basic ini called `etesync-server.ini.example` which we can copy.
```
cp etesync-server.ini.example etesync-server.ini
```
Open the file, and set allowed hosts to `*`. (Note: this is just for testing purposes. **Set this to your domain name later**.)
It should now look like this:
```
[global]
secret_file = secret.txt
debug = false
;Advanced options, only uncomment if you know what you're doing:
;static_root = /path/to/static
;static_url = /static/
;language_code = en-us
;time_zone = UTC
[allowed_hosts]
allowed_host1 = example.com
[database]
engine = django.db.backends.sqlite3
name = db.sqlite3
```
### Test the application
After initialising the server, you can run it for the first time.
```
./manage.py migrate
./manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000
```
On the machine, you can now surf to `localhost:8000` and it should show a page saying "It works!"
If you're on a different machine than the one running the server, surf to its local IP address followed by the portnumber, e.g. `192.168.x.x:8000`.
If this works, congratulations!
You now have a functioning Django application.
**Using this server in production is not recommended, so please continue to [this page](https://github.com/etesync/server/wiki/Production-setup-using-uWSGI-and-Nginx) to set up a proper deployment.**