Weddings are expensive. Be smart with the right software.

Website for Weddings

With astro, you can build pretty cool weddings ssgs themes:

1. https://github.com/Boston343/horizon Ive forked it to https://github.com/JAlcocerT/horizon (could not resist!)

Selfhostable Software for Weddings

1. Few Selfhostable Alternatives for events
2. https://github.com/Cirx08/WeddingShare

GPL3.0 | A place for guests to view and drop pictures of the big day

WeddingShare Setup

• https://docs.wedding-share.org/
  • https://docs.wedding-share.org/docs/Setup/docker
  • https://hub.docker.com/r/cirx08/wedding_share
  • https://www.redditmedia.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1gugnku/weddingshare_a_basic_selfhosted_drop_box_and/

services:
  wedding-share:
    container_name: WeddingShare
    image: cirx08/wedding_share:latest
    ports:
      - '${HTTP_PORT:-8080}:5000/tcp'
    environment:
      TITLE: 'WeddingShare'
      LOGO: 'Url'
      GALLERY_COLUMNS: 4
      ALLOWED_FILE_TYPES: '.jpg,.jpeg,.png'
      MAX_FILE_SIZE_MB: 10
      SECRET_KEY: 'password'
    volumes:
      - data-volume-config:/app/config
      - data-volume-thumbnails:/app/wwwroot/thumbnails
      - data-volume-uploads:/app/wwwroot/uploads
    network_mode: bridge
    hostname: wedding-share
    restart: always

volumes:
  data-volume-config:
    name: WeddingShare-Config
  data-volume-thumbnails:
    name: WeddingShare-Thumbnails
  data-volume-uploads:
    name: WeddingShare-Uploads

Default credentials to localhost:8080/Admin are…admin/admin

Making Deployments Easy

After having tinkered with both, SBCs/Homelabs and with the Cloud.

Once you are clear on the piece of software that you want to use, just decide where that code will be running"

Typically, you can connect to the device/server via SSH:

ssh someuser@192.168.0.232 #pi 2gb
ssh someuser@192.168.0.155 #pi 4gb
# hetzner vps server

And for this one, I will be using a Hetzner VPS

1. Go to Hetzner - https://www.hetzner.com/cloud/

2. See your projects and select OS + Hardware - https://console.hetzner.cloud/projects

3. Create SSH keys and give the public key to Hetzner

ssh-keygen
cat id_ed25519.pub #provide this 

• /home/your_username/.ssh/id_rsa: This is your private key. Keep this file secret! Never share it with anyone.
• /home/your_username/.ssh/id_rsa.pub: This is your public key. You can share this file. You’ll add the contents of this file to the authorized_keys file on the server you want to access.

4. Create the VPS (you can tweak the name), then just login:

ssh cx22@88.198.ip.address

5. Get ready for SelfHosting with Containers

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JAlcocerT/Linux/main/Z_Linux_Installations_101/Selfhosting_101.sh
#nano Selfhosting_101.sh #MAKE SURE YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU WILL BE RUNNING

chmod +x Selfhosting_101.sh
sudo ./Selfhosting_101.sh

6. Check that Docker and Portainer are ready:

docker --version
Docker version 27.5.1, build 9f9e405

Go to ip:9000 and setup Portainer properly:

7. Use the docker-compose stack for weddings share

See that it works at ip:8080

• http://ip:8080/Admin/Login

Example: https://elenayjosesecasan.top/

8. Choose a Reverse Proxy Manager:

As seen on this post, there are few alternatives:

• NGINX
• Caddy
• Traefik

version: "3"
services:
  app:
    image: 'jc21/nginx-proxy-manager:latest'
    restart: unless-stopped
    container_name: nginx
    ports:
      - '80:80' # Public HTTP Port
      - '443:443' # Public HTTPS Port
      - '81:81' # Admin Web Port - UI
    volumes:
      - ~/Docker/Nginx/data:/data
      - ~/Docker/Nginx/letsencrypt:/etc/letsencrypt
    networks:  # Only ONE networks section
      - nginx_network  # Use the desired network name here

networks:  # Only ONE networks section
  nginx_network:  # Define the network with the desired name

sudo docker network ls
docker network connect nginx_nginx_network WeddingShare

#docker network connect nginx_nginx_default WeddingShare

#docker network inspect nginx_nginx_network #now its connected

Thanks to this awsome video!

Do you need a powerfull VPS?

Not really, see how much im using a CX22: Portainer + NGINX + Wedding share ~500mb RAM

Conclusions

Using cloudflared for a sub.sub.domain.com will be problematic with the https/SSL.

So I restarted everything (with a hetzner CPX11, AMD x86).

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JAlcocerT/Linux/main/Z_Linux_Installations_101/Selfhosting_101.sh
#nano Selfhosting_101.sh #MAKE SURE YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU WILL BE RUNNING

chmod +x Selfhosting_101.sh
sudo ./Selfhosting_101.sh

This preparation step took ~42s.

Tech for a Trip

Software for trips far from home

Wireguard with Hetzner as VPS

OoO days after a wedding? VPN Setup

services:
  app:
    image: 'jc21/nginx-proxy-manager:latest' #admin@example.com / changeme
    restart: always
    container_name: nginx    
    ports:
      - '80:80' # Public HTTP Port
      - '443:443' # Public HTTPS Port
      - '81:81' # Admin Web Port - UI
    volumes:
      - nginx_data:/data #  - ~/Docker/Nginx/data:/data
      - nginx_letsencrypt:/etc/letsencrypt #  - ~/Docker/Nginx/letsencrypt:/etc/letsencrypt    

volumes:
  nginx_data:
  nginx_letsencrypt:      

networks:
  nginx_default:
    name: nginx_default      

services:
  filebrowser:
    image: filebrowser/filebrowser
    container_name: filebrowser
    ports:
      - 8080:80
    volumes:
      - /root/Docker/FileBrowser/config:/config
      - /root/Docker/FileBrowser/data:/srv
    restart: unless-stopped    
    networks:
      - nginx_default #this will allow communication between chevereto service and the existing nginx service  
  
networks:
  nginx_default:
    external: true

This requires ~309mb/1.87GB of RAM.

And for DNS Challenge with Cloudflare:

You will need their API Token from here

• Go to Create token: Edit zone DNS. Zone Resources -> Include all zones (or a specific domain only) and create it. Add it as dns_cloudflare_api_token=
• In NginX UI, you will add the: container name and port of the services

Then you will be done in under a minute:

And…

if you are looking for a Theme for a Wedding landing page: you can have a look to Astro Theme Horizon.

FAQ

Getting a Domain Name

Get a TLD, there are many places, like: https://sered.net/dominios

Or the typical: These have an API to play…

0. Porkbun
1. NameCheap
2. Cloudflare Domains (but does not allow to buy via API)

Alternatives to Weddingshare

The good thing about Weddingshare, is that it creates a QR to point to the url.

But, it does NOT support .HEIC files.

And having the https done right was a headache.

So I went with FileBrowser

services:
  filebrowser:
    image: filebrowser/filebrowser
    container_name: filebrowser
    ports:
      - 8080:80
    volumes:
      - /home/Docker/FileBrowser/config:/config
      - /home/Docker/FileBrowser/data:/srv #same as Syncthing!
    restart: unless-stopped    

networks:
  nginx_nginx_default:
    external: true

Not like this:

But like this, also with the CNAME record for CF if using CF:

And this is how they get to work, with the container port:

More

What I learnt

1. Another HUGO cool theme! https://tmuguet.gitlab.io/hugo-split-gallery/

2. To generate QR’s with logo thanks to Python

QRs can also be done with Inkscape or with IT-Tools as a container or emn178

3. Make sure to secure your Hetzner Server

sudo apt update
sudo apt install ufw

sudo ufw deny 111/tcp
sudo ufw deny 111/udp

sudo ufw allow ssh

sudo ufw status
#sudo ufw enable

4. For https, cloudflared tunnels are tricky for sub.sub.domain.com (ok for sub.domain.com ). With the NGINX setup and proper DNS records (A and CNAME) before creating the certificates, it works.

Creating a tunnel is fine:

But this will not create SSLs:

Fortunately, we can get that SSL for the sub sub domain with NGINX and these records set:

5. After the event has finished, you just have to copy the files to your own laptop. You can try with rSync:

rsync -avz root@157.678.45.123:/root/Docker/FileBrowser/ ./

6. [Optionally] You can use Selfhostable Photo Management tools and see what have been uploaded to Filebrowser