Setup your own Hubs server
Written by Bruce LANE on December 27, 2020
Hubs, from Mozilla, is great to build your 3D world for art galleries, live performances and private social networks!
Run a development server on your local computer
This is how to run it locally, in my case on Ubuntu in the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) on Windows 10 Terminal. For sure you can use Linux or Mac.
Setup Ubuntu and add nodejs, I use version 15, any version >= 12 is ok.
Clone the Hubs repo (or better, use your own fork) and run it using the following commands
# dependencies apt-get install -y build-essentials curl git # node 15, replace 15 with another version if needed curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_15.x | sudo -E bash - apt-get install -y nodejs mkdir hubs cd hubs/ git clone https://github.com/mozilla/hubs cd hubs/ npm i -G webpack-dev-server #install globally npm ci npm run dev
Open https://hubs.local:8080/ in your browser, accept the insecure website warning and Create your first room !
Replace the grey placeholder images (app-logo.png and company-logo.png) in the assets/images folder
Our local server still relies on services on Internet, let’s try to run them locally.
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Dependencies: setup PostgreSQL (on WSL follow these instructions) and Elixir following these instructions
These command lines are adapted to run on WSL:
# postgreSQL nano ../../etc/apt/sources.list #add pg source wget --quiet -O - https://www.postgresql.org/media/keys/ACCC4CF8.asc | sudo apt-key add - apt-get update apt-get install postgresql-10 passwd postgres #add password service postgresql start nano .profile #optional add aliases for pg: alias pgstart='sudo service postgresql start' and alias runpg='sudo -u postgres psql' # erlang wget https://packages.erlang-solutions.com/erlang-solutions_2.0_all.deb && sudo dpkg -i erlang-solutions_2.0_all.deb apt-get update apt-get install esl-erlang # elixir apt-get install elixir nano .profile #add elixir to path: export PATH="$PATH:/usr/bin/elixir" elixir --version # ansible apt-add-repository --yes --update ppa:ansible/ansible apt install ansible # change postgres password to postgres sudo -u postgres psql ALTER USER postgres WITH PASSWORD 'postgres';
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git clone https://github.com/mozilla/reticulum.git cd ./reticulum/ mix deps.get mix ecto.create cd ./assets/ /usr/bin/npm install cd .. mkdir -p storage/dev iex -S mix phx.server # or ./scripts/run.sh but I don't have the Vault password
Deploy to a dedicated production server
tbd