After getting a lot of trouble with the Xmarks sync on the quit old iceweasel that is installed on my desktop machine (Debian lenny), I decided to look for alternatives and found the firefox sync server. To run my own sync server I followed the installation instructions from mozilla and also some other nice guides available via websearch. Here are the basic steps:
\nget the necessary packages:
\naptitude install python-dev mercurial sqlite3 python-virtualenv<\/p>\n
Create a new user for the sync server using the apropriate commands and include www-data, the apache user, in the newly created group to give acces to the python script.<\/p>\n
install the server from source:<\/p>\n
$ hg clone https:\/\/hg.mozilla.org\/services\/server-full
\n$ cd server-full
\n$ make build<\/p>\n
Create some directories as there are<\/p>\n
And now edit the configuration files: os.environ['PYTHON_EGG_CACHE'] = '\/path\/to\/tmp\/python-eggs'<\/p>\n [..]<\/code> [..]<\/p>\n [handler_syncserver_errors] [..]<\/p>\n [storage] [auth] [..]<\/p>\n fallback_node = https:\/\/ After getting a lot of trouble with the Xmarks sync on the quit old iceweasel that is installed on my desktop machine (Debian lenny), I decided to look for alternatives and found the firefox sync server. To run my own sync server I followed the installation instructions from mozilla and also some other nice guides … Continue reading Firefox Sync Server<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sheevaplug","category-tutorials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olkn.myvnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olkn.myvnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olkn.myvnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olkn.myvnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olkn.myvnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olkn.myvnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olkn.myvnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olkn.myvnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olkn.myvnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n
\n$ vi sync.wsgi
\n[..]<\/p>\n
\n
\n $ vi development.ini<\/p>\n
\n class = handlers.RotatingFileHandler
\n args = (\u2018\/path\/to\/logs\/sync-error.log\u2019,)
\n [..] <\/code>
\n
\n $ vi etc\/sync.conf<\/p>\n
\n backend = syncstorage.storage.sql.SQLStorage
\n sqluri = sqlite:\/\/\/\/path\/to\/data\/usersettings.db
\n [..]<\/p>\n
\n backend = services.auth.sql.SQLAuth
\n sqluri = sqlite:\/\/\/\/path\/to\/data\/usersettings.db<\/p>\n
\n [..]<\/code>
\nAnd finally add the directives for apache to access the wsgi interface:
\n
\nWSGIProcessGroup ffsync
\n WSGIDaemonProcess ffsync user=ffsync group=ffsync processes=2 threads=25
\n WSGIPassAuthorization On
\n WSGIScriptAlias \/ffsync \/home\/ffsync\/server-full\/sync.wsgi
\n<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"