I leaving this project up, though I will likely never touch it again.

This is a webserver designed to serve and maintain archived internet-based content (such as websites, webpages, or file collections) with metadata, in a format that is easily searchable and user-friendly.

This project makes use of Django, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, Celery and nginx inside Docker containers.

Presently, this project consists only of a Django backend, with a basic HTML frontend. This may change to include a backend API and a JavaScript frontend, but there are no plans for this to happen in the foreseeable future.

The Django project is stored under the DigitalArchiveServer directory.

Both docker and docker-compose are required to run this project

Firstly, git clone or otherwise download this repository onto the target system.

Check and follow the instructions in .env and .env.db. This makes sure that your instance is secure, and able to be accessed.

NOTE: This assumes there is not an already set up web server on the server this is being installed on. If there is, it will conflict with the nginx reverse proxy that is built-in. To fix, in docker-compose.yml change 80 in "1337:80" under ports to whatever outwards-facing port you want.

NOTE: The static directory setup in docker-compose.yml (the default is /srv/digital-archive-server/) needs to be writable sudo chmod 777 /srv/digital-archive-server/.

Then sudo docker-compose up -d --build to build and start the container.

Use sudo docker-compose exec web python DigitalArchiveServer/manage.py createsuperuser to create a starter super-user

Now your instance should be up and running, and accessible from your server's IP address.

This Django app holds the interfaces used to serve and sort content to the web. It is stored under DigitalArchiveServer/ContentViewer. It is served under /.

• / - A customizable view that points to any other view as the server's index page
• /content - A ListView that shows all content archived by the server, sorted by the time retrieved
• /content/[content-id] - A DetailView that shows the details of the content
• /tags - A ListView that shows all the tags that the server has indexed, sorted by number of references
• /tags/0 - A ListView that lists the content without any set tags
• /tag/[tag-id] - A ListView that shows the details of a tag and lists the content with that tag
• /creators - A ListView that shows all the creators of the content stored by the server, sorted alphabetically
• /creator/0 - A ListView that lists the content without a set creator
• /creator/[creator-id] - A ListView that shows the details of a creator and lists the content created by that creator
• /search - A ListView that shows content that matches the relevant submitted query

Content can be acquired and sorted automatically using different Archiver utilities.

It is stored under DigitalArchiveServer/ContentManager/Archivers, and this directory contains the interfaces used to archive and store new content from the web.

It is served under /archivers

The archive is populated using content obtained by ArchiveWorkers. These are individual python plugins that extend the base ArchiveWorker class. These ArchiveWorkers contain their own web interface, with a base interface provided by the parent class, and pass an action off to the celery worker for asynchronous processing.

By default, this project comes with a single archive worker (GenericArchiveWorker), used for generic web archiving. Currently it can archive single files and complete webpages.

• /archivers - A list of all available ArchiveWorkers
• /archivers/[archiver-codename] - A view on that ArchiveWorker, allowing you to see the logs and request archival

Users mostly exist to be assigned to groups, and for a individual to track content.

A basic user can only see content not marked as adult.

There are two groups you can assign to users, Adult and Archivers.

• /user/[username] - A page showing details about a user
• /user/[username]/seen - A ListView showing the content seen by a user
• /user/[username]/liked - A ListView showing the content liked by a user
• /user/[username]/collections - A ListView showing the collections owned by a user

Assigning a user to this group means that they can access anything marked as adult content

Archivists can access the archivers page, it's utilities, and can execute orders to ArchiveWorkers.

If you encounter a bug, please report the issue on this repository's issues page.

If you wish to request a feature, please open an issue and use the 'Feature Request' tag.

There is currently no system in place to directly contribute code. (coming soon!)

This project, and all files within, are licensed under the GNU General Public License version three or any later version (SPDX code GPL-3.0-or-later), as published by the Free Software Foundation. See LICENSE.

Digital Archive Server Copyright (C) 2022-2023 Digital Archive Server Contributors (See CONTRIBUTORS.md)

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.