This help text was compiled using Ubuntu 16.04 server LTS
Install Shinobi using the online documentation
Become a super user
sudo su
Make sure your distribution is up to date
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade
First change the login email address and password for the super user in super.json
Create an md5 hash of your password
echo -n 'password' | md5sum
Copy the result and edit the super.json file replacing the email and password with your info.
cd /home/user/Shinboi
nano super.json
Ctrl O, Enter to Save and Ctrl X to exit
Install certbot
apt-get update
apt-get install software-properties-common
add-apt-repository ppa:certbot/certbot
apt-get update
apt-get install certbot
Setup the folder structure you are going to use for certbot
cd /home/user/Shinobi
mkdir certs
cd /home/user/Shinobi/web
mkdir -p .well-known/acme-challenge
Generate the certificate
certbot certonly --webroot -w /home/user/Shinobi/web -d shinobi.website.com --cert-path /home/user/Shinobi/certs --key-path /home/user/Shinobi/certs --fullchain-path /home/user/Shinobi/certs --chain-path /home/user/Shinobi/certs
Edit the Shinobi super configuration file to turn on SSL
nano conf.json
{
"port": 80,
"addStorage": [
{
"name": "second",
"path": "__DIR__/videos2"
}
],
"db": {
"host": "127.0.0.1",
"user": "majesticflame",
"password": "",
"database": "ccio",
"port": 3306
},
"mail": {
"service": "gmail",
"auth": {
"user": "your_email@gmail.com",
"pass": "your_password_or_app_specific_password"
}
},
"ssl": {
"key": "/home/user/Shinobi/certs/privkey.pem",
"cert": "/home/user/Shinobi/certs/cert.pem",
"port": 443
},
"cron": {
"key": "change_this_to_something_very_random__just_anything_other_than_this"
},
"pluginKeys": {
"Motion": "change_this_to_something_very_random____make_sure_to_match__/plugins/motion/conf.json",
"OpenCV": "change_this_to_something_very_random____make_sure_to_match__/plugins/opencv/conf.json",
"OpenALPR": "SomeOpenALPRkeySoPeopleDontMessWithYourShinobi"
}
}
Ctrl O, Enter to Save and Ctrl X to exit
Edit the Shinobi configuration file to add a static refernce to the .well-known folder
nano cameras.js
Hit Ctrl W, type //pages followed by enter to search for //pages
make it look like the below by adding this line of text – app.use('/.well-known',express.static(__dirname + '/web/.well-known'));
////Pages
app.enable('trust proxy');
app.use('/libs',express.static(__dirname + '/web/libs'));
app.use('/.well-known',express.static(__dirname + '/web/.well-known'));
app.use(bodyParser.json());
Ctrl O, Enter to save and Ctrl X to quit
Restart Shinobi
pm2 start camera.js
pm2 start cron.js
Profit