How to Set Up Wallabag on Uberspace

Today, I want to show you how to set up your own Wallabag instance on an Uberspace server.

Set Up Composer

First of all, we will need Composer for using Wallabag. You can find the guide I used for this here:

mkdir /var/www/virtual/$USER/wallabag
cd /var/www/virtual/$USER/wallabag
php -r "copy('https://getcomposer.org/installer', 'composer-setup.php');"
php -r "if (hash_file('SHA384', 'composer-setup.php') === '544e09ee996cdf60ece3804abc52599c22b1f40f4323403c44d44fdfdd586475ca9813a858088ffbc1f233e9b180f061') { echo 'Installer verified'; } else { echo 'Installer corrupt'; unlink('composer-setup.php'); } echo PHP_EOL;"
php composer-setup.php
php -r "unlink('composer-setup.php');"

Set Up Wallabag

We will use this guide for installing Wallabag on our server. For that, let’s concentrate on the shared hosting part here:

wget https://wllbg.org/latest-v2-package && tar xvf latest-v2-package -C /var/www/virtual/$USER/wallabag --strip-components=1
cd /var/www/virtual/$USER/wallabag
php bin/console wallabag:install --env=prod #Remember the username + password

You can shut down this Wallabag instance, because it uses port 8000, which Uberspace doesn’t open for the outside world.

Adapt Wallabag for Uberspace

Now, we’re going to set up our domain and after that, we want to start Wallabag, but with a different port:

uberspace-add-domain -d "*.$USER.$HOSTNAME" -w
uberspace-add-port -p both -f #Remember the number of the port.
php bin/console server:start 0.0.0.0:PORTNUMBER -e prod

Finally, you have access to your Wallabag server from anywhere under $USER.$HOSTNAME:PORTNUMBER. You can login with the username and password you used when you set up Wallabag (default is Wallabag/Wallabag).

Thanks for reading and have a nice day, please leave some feedback too!

Niklas