Setup private IPFS node

README.md

Notes for setting up your private IPFS node

Setup the Node with SSL

I used docker-go-ipfs with traefik but this helped : https://willschenk.com/articles/2019/setting_up_an_ipfs_node/

Only ports 8080 (API) and 9999 (websocket) are needed for a single private node

Make it private

Following https://github.com/ahester57/ipfs-private-swarm

to generate the swarm.key: docker run mattjtodd/ipfs-swarm-key-gen > swarm.key

put the key in your $IPFS_PATH and restart the node

browser.js

// IPFS in the browser 
 const ipfs = await IPFS.create({
      preload: { enabled: false },
      //repo: "./ipfs",
      EXPERIMENTAL: { pubsub: true },
      config: {
        Bootstrap: [
          "/dns4/ipfs-ws.xxx.com/tcp/443/wss/ipfs/QmSEbJSiVabcyaG9oBJRs2sJ5sttrNQJvbSeGe7Vt8ZBqt",
        ],
        Addresses: { Swarm: [] },
      },
      ...options,
    });

ipfs_start.sh

#!/bin/sh

docker rm -f ipfs || true;
docker run -d --restart=always \
	--name ipfs \
        -e IPFS_PROFILE=server \
	-v $PWD/ipfs_staging:/export \
	-v $PWD/ipfs_data:/data/ipfs \
        --label traefik.http.routers.ipfs.rule="Host(\`ipfs.xxx.com\`)" \
        --label traefik.http.routers.ipfs.middlewares="https-redirect@file" \
        --label traefik.http.routers.ipfs.service=svc_ipfs \
        --label traefik.http.services.svc_ipfs.loadbalancer.server.port=8080 \
        --label traefik.http.routers.ipfsws.rule="Host(\`ipfs.xxx.com\`)" \
        --label traefik.http.routers.ipfsws.service=svc_ipfs_ws \
        --label traefik.http.services.svc_ipfs_ws.loadbalancer.server.port=9999 \
        --network traefik \
	ipfs/go-ipfs