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<title>simple nixos config for vps static site</title>
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<p>I&rsquo;m going to go through a bit of the nixos config I&rsquo;ve got for my vps.</p>
<h3 id="ssh">SSH</h3>
<p>Having a way to to get into your server is useful. Managing ssh on nix is very simple; this enables the ssh daemon, tells it what port to run on, disables plain text passwords, and disables root login.</p>
<div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" class="chroma"><code class="language-nix" data-lang="nix"><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="n">services</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">openssh</span> <span class="err">=</span> <span class="p">{</span>
<div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" class="chroma"><code class="language-nix" data-lang="nix"><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="n">services</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">openssh</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">{</span>
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"> <span class="n">enable</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="no">true</span><span class="p">;</span>
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"> <span class="n">ports</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">[</span> <span class="mi">69</span> <span class="p">];</span>
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"> <span class="n">settings</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">{</span>
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</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="p">};</span>
</span></span></code></pre></div><h3 id="adding-a-user">ADDING A USER</h3>
<p>Generally, it&rsquo;s nice to have a user so you&rsquo;re not just rawdogging everything as root. This adds a user called ronald, sets their default shell, and adds them to some useful groups. You can even add your public ssh keys here for ultimate convenience.</p>
<div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" class="chroma"><code class="language-nix" data-lang="nix"><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="n">users</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">users</span> <span class="err">=</span> <span class="p">{</span>
<div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" class="chroma"><code class="language-nix" data-lang="nix"><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="n">users</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">users</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">{</span>
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"> <span class="n">ronald</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">{</span>
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"> <span class="n">isNormalUser</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="no">true</span><span class="p">;</span>
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"> <span class="n">shell</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">pkgs</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">fish</span><span class="p">;</span>
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</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="p">};</span>
</span></span></code></pre></div><h3 id="nginx">NGINX</h3>
<p>I use nginx to serve my sites. Compared to the nginx config I used to mess around with, the equivalent nix config is very clean. This chunk tells nginx to serve the contents of <code>/var/www/example-site</code> at <code>example-site.here</code>. It also opens the ports for http and https in the firewall.</p>
<div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" class="chroma"><code class="language-nix" data-lang="nix"><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="n">services</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">nginx</span> <span class="err">=</span> <span class="p">{</span>
<div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" class="chroma"><code class="language-nix" data-lang="nix"><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="n">services</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">nginx</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">{</span>
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"> <span class="n">enable</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="no">true</span><span class="p">;</span>
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"> <span class="n">virtualHosts</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="s2">&#34;example-site.here&#34;</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">{</span>
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"> <span class="n">enableACME</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="no">true</span><span class="p">;</span>
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</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"> <span class="n">root</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s2">&#34;/var/www/example-site/&#34;</span><span class="p">;</span>
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"> <span class="p">};</span>
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="p">};</span>
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="n">networking</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">firewall</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">allowedTCPPorts</span> <span class="err">=</span> <span class="p">[</span> <span class="mi">80</span> <span class="mi">443</span> <span class="p">];</span>
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="n">networking</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">firewall</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">allowedTCPPorts</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">[</span> <span class="mi">80</span> <span class="mi">443</span> <span class="p">];</span>
</span></span></code></pre></div><h3 id="https">HTTPS</h3>
<p>You can also make nix deal with all the let&rsquo;s encrypt certbot stuff. It looks like this:</p>
<div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" class="chroma"><code class="language-nix" data-lang="nix"><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="n">security</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">acme</span> <span class="err">=</span> <span class="p">{</span>
<div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" class="chroma"><code class="language-nix" data-lang="nix"><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="n">security</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">acme</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">{</span>
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"> <span class="n">acceptTerms</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="no">true</span><span class="p">;</span>
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"> <span class="n">defaults</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">email</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s2">&#34;ronald@email.yes&#34;</span><span class="p">;</span>
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="p">};</span>
</span></span></code></pre></div><p>This will set up certificates for any sites you set the <code>enableAMCE</code> to true option for.</p>
<h3 id="cron">CRON</h3>
<p>This is one final little tidbit I set up the other day. I had got bored of having to ssh into my server to manually copy my updated site to the website root. The problem was I would need root privileges on the server to rsync the files to the website root. This seemed like a whole minefield I didn&rsquo;t want to mess with. Instead I set up a little cron job which copies a directory from my home to the website root every hour.</p>
<div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" class="chroma"><code class="language-nix" data-lang="nix"><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="n">services</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">cron</span> <span class="err">=</span> <span class="p">{</span>
<div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" class="chroma"><code class="language-nix" data-lang="nix"><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="n">services</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">cron</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">{</span>
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"> <span class="n">enable</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="no">true</span><span class="p">;</span>
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"> <span class="n">systemCronJobs</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">[</span>
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"> <span class="s2">&#34;@hourly root cp -r /home/ronald/example-site /var/www/&#34;</span>
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