Run-Your-Own Firefox Sync Server

This is an all-in-one package for running a self-hosted Firefox Sync server. If bundles the "tokenserver" project for authentication and the "syncstorage" project for storage, produce a single stand-alone webapp.

Complete installation instructions are available at:

https://docs.services.mozilla.com/howtos/run-sync-1.5.html

Quickstart

The Sync Server software runs using python 2.6 or later, and the build process requires make and virtualenv. You will need to have the following packages (or similar, depending on your operating system) installed:

• python2.7
• python2.7-dev
• python-virtualenv
• make

Take a checkout of this repository, then run "make build" to pull in the necessary python package dependencies:

$ git clone https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncserver
$ cd syncserver
$ make build

To sanity-check that things got installed correctly, do the following:

$ make test

Now you can run the server:

$ make serve

This should start a server on http://localhost:5000/.

Now go into Firefox's about:config page, search for a setting named "tokenServerURI", and change it to point to your server:

services.sync.tokenServerURI:  http://localhost:5000/token/1.0/sync/1.5

Firefox should now sync against your local server rather than the default Mozilla-hosted servers.

For more details on setting up a stable deployment, see:

https://docs.services.mozilla.com/howtos/run-sync-1.5.html

Customization

All customization of the server can be done by editing the file "syncserver.ini", which contains lots of comments to help you on your way. Things you might like to change include:

• The client-visible hostname for your server. Edit the "public_url" key under the [syncstorage] section.
• The database in which to store sync data. Edit the "sqluri" setting under the [syncstorage] section.

Questions, Feedback

• IRC channel: #sync. See http://irc.mozilla.org/
• Mailing list: https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/services-dev