servnest/DOCS/configuration.md

Configuration reference

This document describes the config.ini directives. It's an INI file, parsed by PHP's parse_ini_file. Every setting is expected to be present.

[common]

public_domains[]

Allowed server names. Used to make the authentication tokens specific to the service.

You can specify multiple domains:

public_domains[] = "servnest.example"
public_domains[] = "4example4example4example4example4example4example4example.onion"

prefix

Path that is prepended to the HTTP root where the service can be reached. Used for redirections and emitting cookies.

If the service answers at https://servnest.example/servnest/, you need to set prefix = "/servnest".

service_name

String defining the displayed identity of the service.

service_emoji

Pretty string sometimes prefixed to the service name. Can be empty.

services[]

Keys reg, ns and ht are required.

Values can be:

• enabled: the service is provided as usual
• error: the service is temporarily unavailable for maintenance/debugging
• disabled: the service is ignored everywhere ; this installation never provides it

[dns]

This configuration section is used by both the registry (reg) and the public name server (ns).

knotc_path

Filesystem path to the knotc binary.

kdig_path

Filesystem path to the kdig binary. Used to authenticate resources possession using the DNS.

[reg]

suffixes[]

Lists the suffixes that the registry manages.

The key is the suffix (ending with a dot) and the value is its registration availability, which can be one of the following:

• all: every account can register
• approved: only approved accounts can register
• none: nobody can register

This impacts only new registrations, existing domains can always be managed by users if their suffix appears in the list.

suffixes_path

Filesystem path to the registries directory. The full path to the registry zonefile is suffixes_path + / + suffixes (as defined in suffixes[]) + zone.

ttl

The TTL of every DNS record created by users (i.e. NS, DS and glue records).

address

Host where the Knot DNS server answers the registry values. Should be a secure (local) address, as answers are not authenticated.

(Used to check the transfer authentication records.)

[ns]

knot_zones_path

Filesystem path to the zones directory. The full path to created zonefiles will be knot_zones_path/<zone-apex-domain>.zone.

servers[]

The first element is set as the primary server in the SOA.

All elements are listed in the interface so users can know what NS records to set in their zone.

kzonecheck_path

Filesystem path to the kzonecheck binary. Used to check sent plaintext zonefiles.

public_soa_email

Administrator email address published in every SOA record. Ends with a ., @ is replaced by a ., an hypothetical . in the first part of the address is escaped using a \ before, thus contact.admin@servnest.example becomes contact\.admin.servnest.example.

local_only_check

Check for records on the local registry name server when adding a zone.

Development feature, should not be enabled for a public server.

[ht]

ht_path

Apache can be chrooted to this directory.

<ht_path>/fs/<internal-user-id>/ is the users files base directory.

<ht_path>/uri/<address>/ is automatically reachable by Apache (using mod_vhost_alias) and contains relative symlinks to users managed directories.

user_quota_testing, user_quota_approved

Maximum bytes a user can use on its SFTP space, depending on its account type.

subpath_domain and subpath_path

For the feature of sites in subpathes of a single domain:

subpath_domain is the said shared domain, displayed in the interface

subpath_path is the filesystem path to the directory whose address is the HTTP root of subpath_domain

https://<subpath_domain>/example/ maps to <subpath_path>/example/

subdomain_domain and subdomain_path

For the feature of sites in subdomains of a root domain:

(The root domain must have a wildcard TLS certificate and wildcard AAAA and A records.)

subdomain_domain is the root domain, displayed in the interface

subdomain_path is the filesystem path to the directory whose direct subdirectories are mapped to direct subdomains of subdomain_domain

https://example.<subdomain_domain>/ maps to <subdomain_path>/example/

tor_config_path

Filesystem path to the directory containing Tor configuration for onion accesses. The full Tor configuration file path is tor_config_path/<internal-user-id>/<site-dir-name>

tor_keys_path

Tor sets up keys inside the directory tor_keys_path/<internal-user-id>/<site-dir-name>/

tor_user

Linux user as who runs the Tor daemon. Some commands are executed as this user through sudo.

tor_reload_cmd

Command to execute through sudo to reload the Tor daemon.

onion_internal_host

HTTP Onion services listen on port 80 and forward requests to this host.

sudo_path

Filesystem path to the sudo binary.

certbot_path

Filesystem path to the certbot binary. It is used through sudo to get a Let's Encrypt certificate.

chgrp_path, cat_path, rm_path, mkdir_path

Filesystem paths to the corresponding GNU coreutils binary (other implementations are not tested). (Their PHP counterpart can't be used as they need to act as another user through sudo.)

acme_path

Filesystem path to the root directory that is served when a request hits .well-known/acme-challenge on port 80. Certbot places ACME authentication files here to get Let's Encrypt certificates through the HTTP-01 challenge.

sftpgo_group

Linux group as who runs SFTPGo. (Gets full permissions on users directories.)

sftpgo_user

Linux user as who runs SFTPGo. (Used to delete files that users created.)

ipv6_address, ipv4_address

Public IPv6 and IPv4 addresses that users must set in their AAAA and A records for a site with dedicated domain.

sftp_pub

Filesystem path to where the public key of the SFTP service is available.

sftp_fp

Filesystem path to where the public key fingerprint of the SFTP service is available.

sftp_asciiart

Filesystem path to where the ASCII art of the public key of the SFTP service is available.

sftp_domain

Domain name that users need to direct their SFTP clients to. May be the same key as in public_domains[].

public_sftp_port

Network port that users need to direct their SFTP clients to. The common default port is 22.