Setting up nebula on Ubuntu 22.04

nebula.md

Deploying Nebula Web Proxy for Free!

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Initial configuration

• Create an account at https://www.cloudflare.com/
• Create an account at https://www.freenom.com/
• Find a free domain name at Freenom
• Click checkout
  • Select (12 Months @ FREE)
  • Select "Use DNS"
    • Select Use your own DNS
• Go to cloudflare, click add new site, and enter the free domain name
• Select "Free Plan"
• Click continue, ignore DNS
  • Copy the name servers cloudflare gives you
• Go back to your Freenom tab, enter in the name servers which cloudflare gave you
  • You can keep IP blank
• Click continue
• Click complete order
• Go back to cloudflare tab, click "Check Nameservers"
• Select DNS on your right bar
• Enter in the IP of the server which will be hosting Nebula
  • Target will be @
• Click Enable proxy (little gray cloud icon, if active its orange)
• Select SSL/TLS in your right bar
• Click "Flexible"

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Server configuration

• SSH into the server you'll be using, I'll assume its running Ubuntu 22.04 (though the commands are the same for debian 10+ versions, and Ubuntu versions 20.04+)
• run

curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_18.x | sudo -E bash - \ &&
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs npm
git clone https://github.com/NebulaServices/Nebula.git
cd Nebula
npm i
npm ci
sudo nohup PORT=80 node . &

Make sure your firewall is configured to let through port 80 traffic!
Note: Server will need to run cd Nebula && sudo nohup PORT=80 node . & on reboot