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content/Obsidian/Self-hosted Obsidian sync with CouchDB.md

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+- [Main documentation](https://github.com/vrtmrz/obsidian-livesync)
+- [Setting up couchdb](https://github.com/vrtmrz/obsidian-livesync/blob/main/docs/setup_own_server.md)
+
+## Setting up environment 
+
+First, you should create `docker-compose.yml` with the following contents:
+
+```yaml
+version: '3'
+services:
+  couchserver:
+    container_name: obsidian__database
+    image: couchdb
+    restart: always
+    ports:
+      - "5984:5984"
+    environment:
+      - COUCHDB_USER=user
+      - COUCHDB_PASSWORD=somepassword
+    volumes:
+      - ./couchdb/dbdata:/opt/couchdb/data
+      - ./couchdb/local.ini:/opt/couchdb/etc/local.ini
+```
+
+Then create initial config at `./couchdb/local.ini`:
+
+```ini
+[couchdb]
+single_node=true
+max_document_size=50000000
+max_http_request_size=4294967296
+
+[chttpd]
+require_valid_user = true
+
+[chttpd_auth]
+require_valid_user = true
+authentication_redirect = /_utils/session.html
+
+[httpd]
+WWW-Authenticate = Basic realm="couchdb"
+enable_cors = true
+
+[cors]
+origins = app://obsidian.md,capacitor://localhost,http://localhost
+credentials = true
+headers = accept, authorization, content-type, origin, referer
+methods = GET, PUT, POST, HEAD, DELETE
+max_age = 3600
+```
+
+Then, in order to have sync on mobile devices, we will need a reverse proxy with nginx at `/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/obsidian-couchdb`:
+
+```nginx
+server {
+    listen 80;
+    listen [::]:80;
+    server_name couchdb.yourhost.com;
+    return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
+}
+
+server {
+        listen 443 ssl http2;
+        listen [::]:443 ssl http2;
+
+        ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/yourhost.com/fullchain.pem; # managed by Certbot
+        ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/yourhost.com/privkey.pem; # managed by Certbot
+        ssl_trusted_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/yourhost.com/chain.pem;
+
+        server_name couchdb.yourhost.com;
+        client_max_body_size 200M;
+
+        location / {
+                proxy_redirect off;
+                proxy_set_header Host $host;
+                proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
+                proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
+
+                proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:5984;
+        }
+}
+```
+
+## Setting up Obsidian
+
+1. Install `Self-hosted LiveSync` plugin
+2. Change host to `https://yourhost.com`
+3. Specify username and password
+4. Press `test`, then `fetch database`