Gotify Server

• Motivation
• Features
• Installation
• Configuration
• Setup Dev Environment
• Add Message Examples
• Building
• Tests
• Versioning
• License

Motivation

We wanted a simple server for sending and receiving messages (in real time per web socket). For this, not many open source projects existed and most of the existing ones were abandoned. Also, a requirement was that it can be self-hosted. We know there are many free and commercial push services out there.

Features

• REST-API for

  • sending messages
  • receiving messages per websocket
  • user management
  • client/device & application management

• REST-API Documentation (also available at /docs)

• Web-UI

• Android-App -> gotify/android

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Installation

Docker

The docker image is available on docker hub at gotify/server.

$ docker run -p 80:80 gotify/server

Also there is a specific docker image for arm-7 processors (raspberry pi), named gotify/server-arm7.

$ docker run -p 80:80 gotify/server-arm7

Binary

Visit the releases page and download the zip for your OS.

Configuration

File

server:
  port: 80 # the port for the http server
  ssl:
    enabled: false # if https should be enabled
    redirecttohttps: true # redirect to https if site is accessed by http
    port: 443 # the https port
    certfile: # the cert file (leave empty when using letsencrypt)
    certkey: # the cert key (leave empty when using letsencrypt)
    letsencrypt:
      enabled: false # if the certificate should be requested from letsencrypt
      accepttos: false # if you accept the tos from letsencrypt
      cache: data/certs # the directory of the cache from letsencrypt
      hosts: # the hosts for which letsencrypt should request certificates
      - mydomain.tld
      - myotherdomain.tld
database: # for database see (configure database section)
  dialect: sqlite3
  connection: data/gotify.db
defaultuser: # on database creation, gotify creates an admin user
  name: admin # the username of the default user
  pass: admin # the password of the default user
passstrength: 10 # the bcrypt password strength (higher = better but also slower)
uploadedimagesdir: data/images # the directory for storing uploaded images

Environment

GOTIFY_SERVER_PORT=80
GOTIFY_SERVER_SSL_ENABLED=false
GOTIFY_SERVER_SSL_REDIRECTTOHTTPS=true
GOTIFY_SERVER_SSL_PORT=443
GOTIFY_SERVER_SSL_CERTFILE=
GOTIFY_SERVER_SSL_CERTKEY=
GOTIFY_SERVER_SSL_LETSENCRYPT_ENABLED=false
GOTIFY_SERVER_SSL_LETSENCRYPT_ACCEPTTOS=false
GOTIFY_SERVER_SSL_LETSENCRYPT_CACHE=certs
# lists are a little weird but do-able (:
GOTIFY_SERVER_SSL_LETSENCRYPT_HOSTS=- mydomain.tld\n- myotherdomain.tld
GOTIFY_DATABASE_DIALECT=sqlite3
GOTIFY_DATABASE_CONNECTION=gotify.db
GOTIFY_DEFAULTUSER_NAME=admin
GOTIFY_DEFAULTUSER_PASS=admin
GOTIFY_PASSSTRENGTH=10
GOTIFY_UPLOADEDIMAGESDIR=images

Add Message Examples

You can obtain an application-token from the apps tab inside the UI or using the REST-API (GET /application).

NOTE: Assuming Gotify is running on http://localhost:8008.

curl

curl -X POST "http://localhost:8008/message?token=<token-from-application>" -F "title=My Title" -F "message=This is my message"

More examples can be found here

Database

Dialect	Connection
sqlite3	path/to/database.db
mysql	gotify:secret@/gotifydb?charset=utf8&parseTime=True&loc=Local
postgres	host=localhost port=3306 user=gotify dbname=gotify password=secret

Setup Dev Environment

Setup Server

Download go dependencies with golang/dep.

$ dep ensure

Run golang server.

$ go run app.go

Setup UI

Commands must be executed inside the ui directory.

Download dependencies with npm.

$ npm install

Star the UI development server.

$ npm start

Open http://localhost:3000 inside your favorite browser.

The UI requires a Gotify server running on localhost:80 this can be adjusted inside the ui/src/index.tsx.

Building

Build Server

$ go build app.go

Build UI

$ npm run build

Cross-Platform

The project has a CGO reference (because of sqlite3), therefore a GCO cross compiler is needed for compiling for other platforms. See .travis.yml on how we do that.

Tests

The tests can be executed with:

$ make test
# or
$ go test ./...

Versioning

We use SemVer for versioning. For the versions available, see the tags on this repository.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details