Wave

The Open Source Blogging Engine

⚠ Under Construction ⚠

alpha-2 image available for the brave

Quickstart

This docker compose file will give you everything you need to run Wave. See the following sections for explanations about the configuration and makeup of Wave. Replace <*_password> with generated passwords, just in case.

For extensive configuration you want to mount /configuration to a location on your system.

Afterwards you can access Wave on http://localhost.

To see how to create an admin account, read the following section. Afterwards for security you should Configure an Email Server.

version: '3.4'

name: wave
services:
  web:
    image: miawinter/wave
    restart: unless-stopped
    ports:
      - "80:8080"
    links:
        - database:db
    environment:
      - "WAVE_ConnectionStrings__DefaultConnection=Host=db; Username=wave; Password=<db_password>"
      - "WAVE_ConnectionStrings__Redis=redis,password=<redis_password>"
    volumes:
      - wave-files:/app/files
      - wave-config:/configuration
    networks:
      - wave
    depends_on:
      - database
  database:
    image: postgres:16.1-alpine
    restart: unless-stopped
    environment:
      - "POSTGRES_DB=wave"
      - "POSTGRES_USER=wave"
      - "POSTGRES_PASSWORD=<db_password>"
    volumes:
      -  wave-db:/var/lib/postgresql/data
    networks:
      - wave 
  redis:
    image: redis:7-alpine
    restart: unless-stopped
    command: redis-server --requirepass <redis_password> --save 60 1 --loglevel warning
    volumes:
      - wave-redis:/data
    networks:
      - wave

volumes:
  wave-files:
  wave-config:
  wave-db:
  wave-redis:
networks:
  wave:

Admin Access

When Wave does not detect any admin account in it's database on startup , which usually happens during setup, a message will be printed to it's server console, in docker accessible with docker logs wave-web-1:

There is currently no user in your installation with the admin role, go to /Admin and use the following password to self promote your account: [password]

The password is 16 digits long, navigate to http://localhost/Admin, if you are not logged in you will be redirected to the login page. Once you are authenticated and have entered the password on the admin page, the tool will be disabled and you will be a member of the Admin role, giving you full access to all of Waves' features. Keep in mind that the password is generated every time on startup as long as there is no admin, so if you restart the container, there will be a different password in the console.

Configuring Wave

Wave allows you to configure it in many different formats and in multiple places, and you can even use multiple of the following methods to supply configuration information. Please keep in mind that first, asp.net configuration keys are case-insensitive, and second, that there is a precedence in the different formats, so a value for the same key in two formats will be overwritten by one.

Configuration Locations

There are two main locations where Wave (and asp.net) takes it's configuration from: The Environment, and the /configuration volume. Environment variables allow you to quickly set up a docker container, but the more you need to configure the more unmaintainable an .env file (or an environment: section in docker compose) becomes, so if you find yourself customizing a lot of Waves behavior, consider using one of the many supported configuration file formats.

Configuration Keys

I will provide you the different configuration keys with a dot notation, like Email.Smtp.Host. In environment variables, these dots need to be replaced with two underscore characters: __ and prefixed with WAVE_.
In config files, those dots are hierarchy level, and you need to implement that dialects' syntax for it. Here some examples for Email.Smtp.Host:

Environment

WAVE_Email__Smtp__Host=smtp.example.com

JSON

{
    "Email": {
        "Smtp:": {
            "Host": "smtp.example.com"
        }
    }
}

YAML

Email:
  Smtp:
    Host: smtp.example.com

Supported Configuration Formats

Wave will take configuration from the following files in the /configuration volume, files later in this chain will have precedence over files earlier in that chain:

• config.json
• config.yml
• config.toml
• config.ini
• config.xml

After this, values from the Environment will take the highest precedence.

Configuring Email

Wave may send user related mails every now and then, to confirm an account, reset a password, etc. In order to support that, Wave needs to have a way to send Emails, currently SMTP is supported

SMTP

The following configuration is required for Wave to connect to an smtp server (formatted in YAML for brevity).

Email:
  Smtp:
    Host: smtp.example.com
    Port: 25
    SenderEmail: noreply@example.com
    SenderName: Wave
    Username: user
    Password: password
    Ssl: true

Username and Password are optional if your server does not require it, and Ssl is true by default, only set it to false if you really need to, keeping security in mind.

Redis

Wave will generate a variety of keys for anti-forgery and logged in users during it's runtime. By default, these will be persisted into an in-memory key store, which will be lost when restarting the Wave container, causing all users to be logged out. To persist these keys outside of the containers' lifetime, you can configure a redis connection string using ConnectionStrings.Redis.

Reverse Proxy

In order to make your Wave installation available to the web, you want to use a reverse proxy to handle things like SSL Certificates. Here are some examples.

Caddy

In the Caddyfile add:

<your domain> {
  reverse_proxy localhost:8080
}

If Caddy runs as a docker container, you need to use the Wave container name:

<your domain> {
  reverse_proxy wave-web-1:8080
}

Nginx

TODO

Customizations

TODO implement more customizations, add description

Currently supported:

Customization:
  AppName: My cool blog

Additional Notes

TODO ?

License and Attribution

Wave by Mia Winter is licensed under the MIT License.

Copyright (c) 2024 Mia Rose Winter