Can anyone show me your config.json of gaia hub? I want to run my own gaia hub, but I don't know how to configure

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#1

I’m new to blockstack development, and I want to run my own gaia hub, but I don’t know how to configure my config.json in gaia hub, like what to fill exactly in “readURL” and “awsCredentials”.

Can anyone tell me what should I fill?

#2

Here’s a sample config file:


{
  "servername": "myHubName",
  "port": 3000,
  "driver": "aws",
  "bucket": "aws-bucket-to-store-in",
  "readURL": false, // you don't need to configure this
  "awsCredentials": { // you get these credentials from your AWS account
    "accessKeyId": "AWS-KEY-ID",
    "secretAccessKey": "AWS-SECRET-ACCESS-KEY"
  },

  "argsTransport": {
    "level": "warn",
    "handleExceptions": true,
    "stringify": true,
    "timestamp": true,
    "colorize": false,
    "json": true
  }
}

To get more info on obtaining AWS credentials, see here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-chap-getting-started.html#cli-quick-configuration

#3

Also, you should run the develop branch of Gaia, and whitelist your Blockstack ID owner address(es) in the config.json file. For example:

   "whitelist": ["17ymqi1KpCNFYpkZ6Es3H9Pbhr1rCeYPr4", "1GaUxZtvbTVNw3P5Hd7vSsHNF6pLCbHCPh"]
#4

Thank you very much! You are of great help!

#5

Sorry I don’t quite understand, the doc here didn’t seem to give explanation about the “whitelist” scope, what’s its function?

#6

The whitelist array lets you control who is allowed to write to your Gaia hub. Since you’re running your own, we highly recommend that you whitelist your Blockstack ID-addresses so only you can store data to it. If you don’t supply a whitelist, then anyone can write to your Gaia hub.

#7

Could you tell me how to use my own Gaia hub?
I run it on localhost, and it passed the integration test, but I don’t know what else should I configure to make my private Gaia Hub work for my DAPP

#8

Could you tell me how to use my private Gaia hub?
I run my own Gaia hub on localhost, and it passed all the integration test, What else configuration should I do to make it work?

#9

As of now, the only way to authenticate that uses a private Gaia hub is through the CLI 's authenticator:

We’re working on increasing support for private Gaia hub authentication in the browser.

#10

ok, thank you very much.

#11

after running gaia hub in practice, I figure out the address is not the blockstack ID, rather, it is app specific ID, which was calculated from blockstack ID plus host name

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#12

Regarding whitelist scope, I want to avail the gaia to group of users let’s say 10 K of users. And it is not practical to hard code their IDs in the array. Is there any other way to avail the gaia for such use case?

#13

And it is not practical to hard code their IDs in the array.

This is more of a devops problem than a Gaia problem. For example, you could write a cron job that automatically re-generated your config file with the ~10K addresses. As another example, you could partition your set of ID-addresses into disjoint sets by inspecting the first few bytes of the address, and use a nginx front-end to route POST requests to the right hub.

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