Installation

Getting the proxy

To obtain the latest version of the App Suite Proxy, clone the repository via git from https://gitlab.open-xchange.com/middleware/appsuite-proxy and follow the tutorial found in the README.md file to build an archive. Extract the archive into folder /opt/ and continue with the setup of groups and users.

Create a symlink to simplify later version changes and permission settings:

ln -s appsuite-proxy-<proxy_version> /opt/appsuite-proxy``

Note

At the moment there is no distribution package available for the App Suite Proxy. This will change as soon as the first release is published. There will also be full docker images available by then.

Create permissions

Create an own system user alongside a dedicated group to run the later created App Suite Service.

Create a dedicated group:

groupadd -r appsuite-proxy

Create system user without login or home:

useradd -r appsuite-proxy

Set permissions:

chgrp appsuite-proxy /opt/appsuite-proxy/bin/appsuite-proxy
chmod -R 650 /opt/appsuite-proxy/bin/appsuite-proxy
chgrp appsuite-proxy /opt/appsuite-proxy/conf/application.properties
chmod -R 640 /opt/appsuite-proxy/conf/application.properties

Create logging folder:

mkdir /var/log/appsuite-proxy
chgrp appsuite-proxy /var/log/appsuite-proxy
chmod -R 750 /var/log/appsuite-proxy

Create service

Create a systemd service unit to control the process. For this purpose, create a file appsuite-proxy.service in directory /etc/systemd/system followed by a systemctl daemon-reload.

appsuite-proxy.service:

[Unit]
Description=appsuite-proxy
After=syslog.target
After=network.target

[Service]
User=appsuite-proxy
ExecStart=/opt/appsuite-proxy/bin/appsuite-proxy
SuccessExitStatus=143
LimitNOFILE=65536
LimitNPROC=65536

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target