Personal ShareX Server

Setup XBackBone as my ShareX server today. Fairly simple process, just needed caddy server and PHP and extensions.

0. Install Caddy webserver

sudo apt install -y debian-keyring debian-archive-keyring apt-transport-https

curl -1sLf 'https://dl.cloudsmith.io/public/caddy/stable/gpg.key' | sudo tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/caddy-stable.asc

curl -1sLf 'https://dl.cloudsmith.io/public/caddy/stable/debian.deb.txt' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/caddy-stable.list

sudo apt update

sudo apt install caddy

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1. We are just going install the PHP dependencies.

sudo apt install zip php-fpm php-mysql php-gd php-json php-intl php-fileinfo php-zip php-ldap

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Don’t forget to change the PHP config for timezone and upload size.

For Ubuntu, go to 

/etc/php/7.4/fpm

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And edit php.ini for timezone, post_max_size and upload_max_filesize

We now need to install maria-db for the database part.

sudo apt install mariadb-server mariadb-client

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Then we need to do the initial setup, 

sudo mysql_secure_installation

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Give it a root password when asked. Y, Y, Y, Y the next 4 questions and move on.

Log into MySQL by 

sudo mysql -u root -p

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Enter root password when prompted.

Proceed to create user, database, and grant privileges.

CREATE DATABASE 'yourDB';
CREATE USER 'newuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '';
GRANT ALL ON xbackbone.* TO 'user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

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Once that is done. Proceed to Download XbackBone

• Download latest release from GitHub: Latest Release
• Extract the release zip to your document root.

I made mine in /var/www so

sudo mkdir /var/www

cd /var/www

sudo unzip thexbackboneversion.zip -d xbackbone

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Then the PHP process needs to have permission over the folder to complete the setup

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/xbackbone

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Finish setting up caddy

sudo nano /etc/caddy/Caddyfile

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domainhere {
       root * /var/www/xbackbone
       file_server
        php_fastcgi unix//run/php/php7.4-fpm.sock
}

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• Navigate to the webspace root (ex. http://example.com, this should auto-redirect your browser to the install page http://example.com/install/)
• Follow the instructions.