start-up-server.md

📡 P3X Redis UI: A highly functional and convenient database GUI that fits in your pocket, accessible on both responsive web and desktop applications

Start up with a server

Config skeleton @ p3xrs.json

sudo npm i -g p3x-redis-ui

# help info
p3x-redis --help

# help info detailed
Usage: p3x-redis [options]

Options:
  -V, --version                           output the version number
  -c, --config [config]                   Set the p3xr.json p3x-redis-ui-server configuration, see more help in https://github.com/patrikx3/redis-ui-server
  -r, --readonly-connections              Set the connections to be readonly, no adding, saving or delete a connection
  -n, --connections-file-name [filename]  Set the connections file name, overrides default .p3xrs-conns.json
  -h, --help                              output usage information


# startup with default settings on 7843 port
p3x-redis 

# if you want to disable changing of connections
p3x-redis --readonly-connections
# or
p3x-redis -r
# or
p3x-redis --config /home/p3x-redis-ui/p3xrs.json
# mix
p3x-redis --config /home/p3x-redis-ui/p3xrs.json --readonly-connections

Create a Linux SystemD service

adduser --disabled-password p3x-redis-ui
touch /etc/systemd/system/p3x-redis-ui.service
nano /etc/systemd/system/p3x-redis-ui.service

Place this file with this content:

[Unit]
Description=p3x-redis
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=simple
User=p3x-redis-ui
WorkingDirectory=/home/p3x-redis-ui
# or if you want readonly connections as it is public
#ExecStart=/usr/bin/p3x-redis --readonly-connections
#ExecStart=/usr/bin/p3x-redis --readonly-connections --config /home/p3x-redis-ui/p3xrs.json
ExecStart=/usr/bin/p3x-redis
Restart=on-abort

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Finally:

systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl enable p3x-redis-ui
service p3x-redis-ui start

The server is loading at:
http://localhost:7843

The best is, if you have an NGINX with a valid, secure HTTPS certificate for example Let's Encrypt and then use it as a proxy, for example my own:

/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/p3x.redis.patrikx3.com

For free SSL certificate, I use acme.sh:
https://github.com/Neilpang/acme.sh

Config:

server {
        listen 80 ;
        listen [::]:80 ;        
        server_name p3x.redis.patrikx3.com;        
        error_log /var/log/nginx/p3x.redis.patrikx3.com-error.log;
        access_log /var/log/nginx/p3x.redis.patrikx3.com-access.log combined;
        location ~ /.well-known {        
                auth_basic off;
                auth_pam off;
                allow all;
                # make sure this path existing and has read for nginx
                root /var/www/acme-challenge;
        }      
        location = /robots.txt {
                allow all;
                log_not_found off;
                access_log off;
        }
        return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
}

server {
        server_name p3x.redis.patrikx3.com;        
        error_log /var/log/nginx/p3x.redis.patrikx3.com-error.log;
        access_log /var/log/nginx/p3x.redis.patrikx3.com-access.log combined;
        location ~ /.well-known {        
                auth_basic off;
                auth_pam off;
                allow all;
                root /var/www/acme-challenge;
        }
        
        location = /robots.txt {       
                allow all;
                log_not_found off;
                access_log off;
        }        
        ssl_certificate /home/p3x-redis-ui/acme/ssl/p3x.redis.patrikx3.com/fullchain.cer;
        ssl_certificate_key /home/p3x-redis-ui/acme/ssl//patrikx3.com/patrikx3.com.key;

        location / {
                proxy_pass "http://127.0.0.1:7843";
                proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $remote_addr;
                proxy_set_header Host $host;
                proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
                proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade";

        }
        listen 443 ssl http2;
        listen [::]:443 ssl http2;
        ssl on;
        add_header Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=31536000; " always;
        add_header X-Content-Type-Options nosniff;
        add_header X-XSS-Protection "1; mode=block";
}

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