run you own sync server with nix

README.rst

Change the configuration in firefox (with about:config):

services.sync.tokenServerURI: http://localhost:5000/token/1.0/sync/1.5

See the pull request to have the packages for nix.

The nix commands are:

$ nix-build ./default.nix -A pythonPackages.syncserver -o syncserver
$ nix-build ./default.nix -A pythonPackages.pasteScript -o paste

Then, start your very own shiny new server with:

$ PYTHONPATH=$(pwd)/syncserver/lib/python2.7/site-packages ./paste/bin/paster serve syncserver.ini

syncserver.ini

[server:main]
use = egg:Paste#http
host = 0.0.0.0
port = 5000

[app:main]
use = egg:syncserver

[syncserver]
# This must be edited to point to the public URL of your server,
# i.e. the URL as seen by Firefox.
public_url = http://localhost:5000/

# This defines the database in which to store all server data.
sqluri = sqlite:////tmp/syncserver.db

# This is a secret key used for signing authentication tokens.
# It should be long and randomly-generated.
# The following command will give a suitable value on *nix systems:
#
#    head -c 20 /dev/urandom | sha1sum
#
# If not specified then the server will generate a temporary one at startup.
secret = 7e19d94410b4c77b8c6bb08c694efec10fb79553

# Set this to "false" to disable new-user signups on the server.
# Only request by existing accounts will be honoured.
# allow_new_users = false

# Uncomment and edit the following to use a local BrowserID verifier
# rather than posing assertions to the mozilla-hosted verifier.
# Audiences should be set to your public_url without a trailing slash.
[browserid]
backend = tokenserver.verifiers.LocalVerifier
audiences = http://localhost:5000