via http://blog.posativ.org/2011/weave-minimal-a-firefox-sync-full-server-fork/

The first time I tried to get a custom Firefox Sync server running, I used server-full and even though I know python (the server is written in python), the configuration was highly difficult. There’s no click & install. You have to choose between Redis, MySQL, PostgreSQL and Sqlite3. For most people, sqlite3 is quite fine. Sqlite and sync-server config files have summed up almost 80 LoC. And you still don’t know how to authenticate unless you have already a LDAP server running.

There are some alternatives: ffpyweave, django sync server and formerly weave-minimal too, written in PHP but not supported anymore. But I’ve forked the official server-full (well I completely rewrote) to a more easier installation without multiple backends but completely relying on a simple sqlite database.

Requirements

Installation

$ easy_install -U werkzeug



$ wget https://github.com/posativ/weave-minimal/tarball/0.1.2 -O weave-minimal.tar.gz
$ tar xfz weave-minimal.tar.gz
$ cd posativ-weave-minimal-76d16ee
$ chmod +x weave.py

Usage

Currently, Firefox does not you create a user account on your own server. I filed a bug in a week ago. Therefore you need to set up every account manually:

$ ./weave.py --register myname:mypassword
[info] database for `myname` created at `.data/myname.91dfd9ddb4198aff`
$ ./weave.py -p 8080

Please note that only alpha-numerical characters are allowed!

The last command launches weave.py on port 8080. You can now configure mod_proxy in your webserver of choice or you some mod_fastcgi magic. See README.md for an example configuration.

For the Firefox Sync Setup see in README.md, too.

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