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  • bonfire – part two – bonfire

    this is the second post about bonfire, the first one bonfire – part one – ubuntu focused on setting up and configuring the bare metal instance with required packages

    for all of these instructions you will be logged into your host as user: bonfire

    set up bonfire

    clone and create environment

    git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bonfire-networks/bonfire-app.git bonfire && cd bonfire

git checkout v1.0.0

export FLAVOUR=social MIX_ENV=prod WITH_DOCKER=no

echo 'eval "$(mise activate bash)"' >> ~/.bashrc && echo "FLAVOUR=social">> ~/.bashrc && echo "MIX_ENV=prod" >> ~/.bashrc && echo "WITH_DOCKER=no" >> ~/.bashrc && source ~/.bashrc

    remove alpine from .tool_versions and install mise tools

    vi .tool_versions
    #alpine  3.22.2

    mise install

    create base configuration

    just config
    just dep-clone-local bonfire_ui_common https://github.com/bonfire-networks/bonfire_ui_common

    generate secrets

    just secrets

    Note: in the part one you used two of the secrets that are generated, (postgres, meilisearch) you can go back and replace them if you want. note your .env file must agree on these values with each of the application configurations. So if you keep your originals be sure to use them in the next step.

    edit the .env file

    HOSTNAME=host.example.com
    PUBLIC_PORT=443
    POSTGRES_USER=bonfire_dbuser
    WITH_DOCKER=no
    SECRET_KEY_BASE=<from just secrets>
    SIGNING_SALT=<from just secrets>
    ENCRYPTION_SALT=<from just secrets>
    ERLANG_COOKIE=<from just secrets>
    POSTGRES_PASSWORD=<password set in part 1>
    MEILI_MASTER_KEY=<password set in part 1>

    set up mail, i used SMTP

    MAIL_BACKEND=smtp
    MAIL_SERVER=example.com
    MAIL_PORT=465
    MAIL_USER=admin@example.com
    MAIL_PASSWORD=
    MAIL_FROM=admin@example.com
    MAIL_SSL=true

    build the binaries

    just setup-prod     # (4 prompts enter N)
    just rei-build
    rm _build/prod/rel/bonfire/bin/bonfire
    just update (ctl-o , enter ctl-x for to accept)
    just rel-build

    test the app

    test install

    just cmd _build/prod/rel/bonfire/bin/bonfire start

    If the system starts there will be a flurry of output to the console but it should settle down to a bunch of ‘oban’ entries like this:

    19:00:05.589 [info] [source: "oban", duration: 2084, event: "plugin:stop", plugin: "Oban.Plugins.Lifeline", discarded_jobs: [], rescued_jobs: []]
    19:00:05.629 [info] [source: "oban", duration: 1622, event: "plugin:stop", plugin: "Oban.Plugins.Pruner", pruned_count: 0]

    If you get a bunch of repeating red database errors it means the migrations didn’t get run and you should try re-building.

    initial signup

    you will want to connect to https://host.example.com/signup and set up the first user. This user will be admin for the site.