2024-12-24
Update: the server software stack is a mess to maintain, I have given up
Wger is a nice workout manager, to track your workout history and sets.
While cool, the central server is in Germany and accessing takes a significant amount of time. So I decided to self-host it and use my own version.
I'm using wger in a FreeBSD thin jail, in order to separate the dependencies and ease management.
Follow FreeBSD handbook on creating a thin jail with zfs[1], and use the following configuration:
wger {
# STARTUP/LOGGING
exec.start = "/bin/sh /etc/rc";
exec.stop = "/bin/sh /etc/rc.shutdown";
exec.consolelog = "/var/log/jail_console_${name}.log";
# PERMISSIONS
allow.raw_sockets;
exec.clean;
mount.devfs;
# HOSTNAME/PATH
host.hostname = "${name}";
path = "/usr/local/jails/containers/${name}";
# NETWORK
ip4 = inherit;
interface = em0;
}
Start it up with service jail start wger
Add a user wger to run and manage the service:
jexec -l wger adduser -w no
Append kern.racct.enable=1 to /boot/loader.conf to enable rctl, and use it to limit the Jail resourse usage to prevent DDOS:
# /etc/rctl.conf
jail:wger:memoryuse:deny=4G/jail
jail:wger:pcpu:deny=4/jail
According to the wiki of wger, you need the following packages[2]:
pkg -j wger install node npm git cairo yarn python311-pip rust
jexec -l wger npm install -g sass
pkg -j wger install ap24-py311-mod_wsgi
Optional dependency for video:
pkg -j wger install py311-ffmpeg-python
python3.11 -m venv venv-wger
. venv-wger/bin/activate
git clone https://github.com/wger-project/wger.git src
cd src
pip install --upgrade pip
pip install -r requirements_prod.txt
pip install -e .