anki-sync-server/README.md

ankisyncd

A personal Anki sync server (so you can sync against your own server rather than AnkiWeb). This version has been simplified to remove some dependencies.

Installing

Manual installation

1. First, you need to install "virtualenv". If your system has easy_install, this is just a matter of:

    $ easy_install virtualenv
   

   If your system doesn't have easy_install, I recommend getting it!

2. Next, you need to create a Python environment for running ankisyncd and install some of the dependencies we need there:

    $ virtualenv ankisyncd.env
    $ ankisyncd.env/bin/easy_install webob simplejson
   

3. Download and install libanki. You can find the latest release of Anki here:

   http://code.google.com/p/anki/downloads/list

   Look for a *.tgz file with a Summary of "Anki Source". At the time of this writing that is anki-2.0.11.tgz.

   Download this file and extract.

   Then either:

   a. Run make install, or

   b. Copy the entire directory to /usr/share/anki

4. Copy the example.ini to production.ini and edit for your needs.

5. Create authentication database:

    $ sqlite3 auth.db 'CREATE TABLE auth (user VARCHAR PRIMARY KEY, hash VARCHAR)'
   

6. Create user:

    # Enter username and password when prompted.
    $ read -p "Username: " USER && read -sp "Password: " PASS
    $ SALT=$(openssl rand -hex 8)
    $ HASH=$(echo -n "$USER$PASS$SALT" | sha256sum | sed 's/[ ]*-$//')$SALT
    $ sqlite3 auth.db "INSERT INTO auth VALUES ('$USER', '$HASH')"
    $ mkdir -p "collections/$USER"
    $ unset USER PASS SALT HASH
   

7. Then we can run ankisyncd like so:

    $ ankisyncd.env/bin/python src/sync_app.py
   

Via PKGBUILD

There's PKGBUILD available for Arch Linux. To install, simply run:

$ wget https://codeload.github.com/jdoe0/ankisyncd-pkgbuild/zip/master
$ unzip master
$ cd ankisyncd-pkgbuild-master
$ makepkg -s
$ sudo pacman -U *.xz

Configuration file is at /etc/ankisyncd/ankisyncd.conf

To start the server run:

$ sudo systemctl start ankisyncd

Setting up Anki

To make Anki use ankisyncd as its sync server, create a file (name it something like ankisyncd.py) containing the code below and put it in ~/Anki/addons.

import anki.sync

anki.sync.SYNC_URL = 'http://127.0.0.1:27701/sync/'

Replace 127.0.0.1 with the IP address or the domain name of your server if ankisyncd is not running on the same machine as Anki.