The Molly fork of Signal now has a variant that supports UnifiedPush, but it requires a helper called Mollysocket to be installed on a server somewhere. I can’t get my head around the (we’ll call them ‘lean’) docs, and I’ve never encountered such a helper for other UP apps. They just ask what to attach to, and they attach.

Has anyone fought through this?

  • pootriarch@poptalk.scrubbles.techOPEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Prerequisites

    • Internet-facing web server with reverse proxy and domain name (preferably SSL of course)
    • Server behind the reverse proxy with Rust environment

    Installation

    • Don’t bother downloading the source code to your server; installing it that way gives you a big debug executable
    • Instead just cargo install mollysocket
    • Move the mollysocket executable if desired
    • Run mollysocket once so that it will emit the default config

    Configuration

    • Fish the config file out of .config/mollysocket/default-config.toml and copy it somewhere.

    config.toml

    • In the new file, replace the allowed_endpoints line with allowed_endpoints = ['*']. The default 0.0.0.0 config appears to be a bug; this setting controls access to endpoints within the app, not IPs from outside. Leaving the original value causes mollysocket to reject everything.
    • Put a proper path in the db = './mollysocket.db' line rather than just having it land wherever you’re sitting.
    • Delete the mollysocket.db that was created on first run (even if it’s already where you’re intending to put it). This is just to make sure the web server creates it and has the correct permissions.

    Run script

    • The environment variable ROCKET_PORT must be set or the server will sit and do nothing. It’s best to create all of the environment variables mentioned in the README, whether that is in a user profile script or in a shell script that wraps startup. You can change any of these values, but they must exist.
    • export ROCKET_PORT=8020
export RUST_LOG=info
export MOLLY_CONF=/path/to/your/config.toml

    Proxy server

    • You’ll need to proxy everything from / to your mollysocket server and ROCKET_PORT.
    • Exclude anything that you may need served from your web server, such as .well-known.

    Things to know