self-hosting.md

MiroTalk P2P - Self Hosting

Requirements

• Recommended: Hetzner (CPX11 it's enough, OS: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04.1 LTS).
• Use my personal link to receive €⁠20 in cloud credits.
• Node.js at least 12x, better 16.15.1 LTS & npm
• Setup your own TURN server like coturn (recommended) or use third party STUN/TURN servers (configurable on .env file)
• Your domain name, example: your.domain.name
  • Set a DNS A record for that domain that point to Your Server public IPv4

    DNS A Record: The Address Mapping record (or DNS host record) stores a hostname and its corresponding IPv4 address. When users search for your website, the A record redirects this traffic from the web address (xxxxx.com – human-readable domain) to the IPv4 address.

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Install the requirements (Note: Many of the installation steps require root or sudo access)

# Install NodeJS 16.X and npm
$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt -y install curl dirmngr apt-transport-https lsb-release ca-certificates
$ curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_16.x | sudo -E bash -
$ sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
$ npm install -g npm@latest

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Quick start

# Clone MiroTalk P2P repo
$ git clone https://github.com/miroslavpejic85/mirotalk.git
# Go to mirotalk dir
$ cd mirotalk
# Copy .env.template to .env and edit it if needed
$ cp .env.template .env
# Install dependencies
$ npm install
# Start the server
$ npm start

Check if is correctly installed: https://your.domain.name:3000

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PM2

Using PM2 to run it as daemon

$ npm install -g pm2
$ pm2 start app/src/server.js
$ pm2 save
$ pm2 startup

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Docker

If you want to use Docker

# Install docker and docker-compose
$ sudo apt install docker.io
$ sudo apt install docker-compose

# Copy .env.template to .env and edit it if needed
$ cp .env.template .env
# Get official image from Docker Hub
$ docker pull mirotalk/p2p:latest
# Create and start containers
$ docker-compose up -d

Check if is correctly installed: https://your.domain.name:3000

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Nginx & Certbot

In order to use it without the port number at the end, and to have encrypted communications, we going to install nginx and certbot

# Install Nginx
$ sudo apt-get install nginx

# Install Certbot (SSL certificates) : https://certbot.eff.org
$ sudo apt install snapd
$ sudo snap install core; sudo snap refresh core
$ sudo snap install --classic certbot
$ sudo ln -s /snap/bin/certbot /usr/bin/certbot

# Setup Nginx sites
$ sudo vim /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default

Paste this:

# HTTP — redirect all traffic to HTTPS
server {
    if ($host = your.domain.name) {
        return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
    }
        listen 80;
        listen [::]:80  ;
    server_name your.domain.name;
    return 404;
}

# Check if all configured correctly
$ sudo nginx -t

# Active https for your domain name (follow the instruction)
$ sudo certbot certonly --nginx

# Add let's encrypt part on nginx config
$ sudo vim /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default

Paste this:

# MiroTalk P2P - HTTPS — proxy all requests to the Node app
server {
	# Enable HTTP/2
	listen 443 ssl http2;
	listen [::]:443 ssl http2;
	server_name your.domain.name;

	# Use the Let’s Encrypt certificates
	ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/your.domain.name/fullchain.pem;
	ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/your.domain.name/privkey.pem;

	location / {
		proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
		proxy_set_header Host $host;
		proxy_pass http://localhost:3000/;
		proxy_http_version 1.1;
		proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
		proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade";
	}
}

# Check if all configured correctly
$ sudo nginx -t

# Restart nginx
$ service nginx restart
$ service nginx status

# Auto renew SSL certificate
$ sudo certbot renew --dry-run

# Show certificates
$ sudo certbot certificates

Check Your MiroTalk P2P instance: https://your.domain.name

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Update script

In order to have always Your MiroTalk P2P updated to latest, we going to create a script

cd
# Create a file p2pUpdate.sh
$ vim p2pUpdate.sh

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If you use PM2, paste this:

#!/bin/bash

cd mirotalk
git pull
pm2 stop app/src/server.js
sudo npm install
pm2 start app/src/server.js

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If you use Docker, paste this:

#!/bin/bash

cd mirotalk
git pull
docker-compose down
docker pull mirotalk/p2p:latest
docker images |grep '<none>' |awk '{print $3}' |xargs docker rmi
docker-compose up -d

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Make the script executable

$ chmod +x p2pUpdate.sh

Follow the commits of the MiroTalk P2P project here

To update Your MiroTalk P2P instance at latest commit, execute:

./p2pUpdate.sh

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