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# Authelia Scripts
Authelia comes with a set of dedicated scripts doing a broad range of operations such as
building the distributed version of Authelia, building the Docker image, running suites,
testing the code, etc...
You can access the scripts usage by running the following command:
npm run scripts
For instance, you can build Authelia with:
npm run scripts build
Or start the *basic* suite with:
npm run scripts suites start basic
You will find more information in the scripts usage helpers.

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# Build
**Authelia** is written in Typescript and built with [Grunt](https://gruntjs.com/).
**Authelia** is written in Typescript and built with [Authelia scripts](docs/authelia-scripts.md).
In order to build **Authelia**, you need to make sure Node v8 and NPM is
In order to build **Authelia**, you need to make sure Node with version >= 8 and < 10 and NPM is
installed on your machine.
Then, run the following command install the node modules:
Then, run the following command to install the node modules:
npm install
And, this command to build **Authelia** under dist/:
./node_modules/.bin/grunt build
npm run build
Then you can also build the Docker image with:
npm run docker build
## Details
### Build
**Authelia** is made of two components: the client and the server.
**Authelia** is made of two parts: the frontend and the backend.
The client is written in Typescript and uses jQuery. It is built as part of
the global `build` Grunt command.
The server is written in Typescript. It is also built as part of the global `build`
Grunt command.
The frontend is a [React](https://reactjs.org/) application written in Typescript and
the backend is an express application also written in Typescript.
### Tests
Grunt also handles the commands to run the tests. There are several type of
tests for **Authelia**: unit tests for the server, the client and a shared
library and an integration test suite testing both components together.
The unit tests are written with Mocha while integration tests are using
Cucumber and Mocha.
There are two kind of tests: unit tests and integration tests.
### Unit tests
To run the client unit tests, run:
To run the unit tests, run:
./node_modules/.bin/grunt test-client
To run the server unit tests, run:
./node_modules/.bin/grunt test-server
To run the shared library unit tests, run:
./node_modules/.bin/grunt test-shared
npm run unittest
### Integration tests
Integration tests are mainly based on Selenium so they
need a complete environment to be run.
Integration tests run with Mocha and are based on Selenium. They generally
require a complete environment made of several components like redis, mongo and a LDAP
to run.
You can start by making sure **Authelia** is built with:
In order to simplify the creation of such environments, Authelia comes with a concept of
[Suites] that basically act as virtual environments for running either
manual or integration tests.
grunt build
Please read the documentation related to [Suites] in order to discover
how to run related tests.
and the docker image is built with:
./scripts/example-commit/dc-example.sh build
Then, start the environment with:
./scripts/example-commit/dc-example.sh up -d
And run the tests with:
./node_modules/.bin/grunt test-int
Note: the Cucumber tests are hard to maintain and will therefore
be refactored to use Mocha instead.
[Suites]: ./suites.md

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[Getting Started] documentation.
In some cases, like protecting personal websites, it can be fine to use
**Authelia** in a non highly-available manner. Fortunately, we can
achieve to run it along with one reverse proxy meaning the setup is
then reduced to only two components: Authelia and nginx.
**Authelia** in a non highly-available setup. We can
achieve that in order to reduce the number of components to only two: Authelia
and nginx.
As for a regular deployment in production, you need to install **Authelia**
either by pulling the Docker image or installing the npm package and run
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## Deploy Nginx
You also need to install nginx and take [example/compose/nginx/minimal/nginx.conf](./example/compose/nginx/minimal/nginx.conf) as an example of configuration.
You also need to install nginx and take [example/compose/nginx/minimal/nginx.conf](./example/compose/nginx/minimal/nginx.conf)
as an example for your configuration.
## Discard components
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discouraged for production environments.
To use a file backend instead of a LDAP server, you should first duplicate
the file [users_database.yml](../users_database.yml) and edit it to add the
the file [users_database.yml](../test/suites/basic/users_database.yml) and edit it to add the
users you want.
The content of this file is as follows:
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The password is hashed and salted as it is in LDAP servers with salted SHA-512. Here is a one-liner to generate such hashed password:
python3 -c 'import crypt; print("{CRYPT}" + crypt.crypt("mypassword", crypt.mksalt(crypt.METHOD_SHA512, rounds=500000)))'
npm run hash-password mypassword
Once the file is created, edit the configuration file with the following
block (as used in [config.minimal.yml](../config.minimal.yml)):
block (as used in [config.yml](../test/suites/basic/config.yml)):
authentication_backend:
file:
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persisting data and consequently fail access to your platform as the devices
registered by your users will be lost.
### Why is this not automated?
### Why aren't all those steps automated?
Well, as stated before those instructions are not meant to be applied for
a production environment. That being said, in some cases it is just fine and
so writing an Ansible playbook to automate all this process would be great.
writing an Ansible playbook to automate all this process is ok.
We would really be more than happy to review such a PR.
In the meantime, you can check the *basic* [suite](./suites.md) to see all this
in real example.
[Getting Started]: ./getting-started.md

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<img src="/images/kube-logo.png" width="24" align="left">
**Authelia** can also be used on top of [Kubernetes] using [nginx ingress
controller](https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx).
**Authelia** can also be used on top of [Kubernetes] using
[nginx ingress controller](https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx).
Please refer to the following [documentation](../example/kube/README.md)
for more information.
[config.template.yml]: ../config.template.yml
[Getting Started]: ./getting-started.md
[Deployment for Devs]: ./deployment-dev.md
[Kubernetes]: https://kubernetes.io/
## FAQ
### Why is this not automated?
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an infrastructure on bare metal. We would be more than happy to review any PR on that matter.
Regarding Kubernetes, the right way to go would be to write a helm recipe.
Again, we would be glad to review any PR implementing this.
Again, we would be glad to review any PR implementing this.
[config.template.yml]: ../config.template.yml
[Getting Started]: ./getting-started.md
[Deployment for Devs]: ./deployment-dev.md
[Kubernetes]: https://kubernetes.io/

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Make sure you don't have anything listening on port 8080 and 8085.
The port 8080 will be our frontend load balancer serving both **Authelia**'s portal and the applications we want to protect.
The port 8080 will be our frontend load balancer serving both **Authelia**'s portal and the
applications we want to protect.
The port 8085 is serving a webmail used to receive fake emails sent by **Authelia**
The port 8085 is serving a webmail used to receive emails sent by **Authelia**
to validate your identity when registering U2F or TOTP secrets or when
resetting your password.
### Subdomain aliases
In order to simulate the behavior of a DNS resolving some test subdomains of **example.com** to your machine, we
need to add the following lines to your **/etc/hosts**. It will alias the
In order to simulate the behavior of a DNS resolving some test subdomains of **example.com**
to your machine, we need to add the following lines to your **/etc/hosts**. It will alias the
subdomains so that nginx can redirect requests to the correct virtual host.
127.0.0.1 home.example.com
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To deploy **Authelia** using the latest image from [Dockerhub], run the
following command:
./scripts/example-dockerhub/deploy-example.sh
npm run script suites start dockerhub
A Suites is a virtual environment for running Authelia. If you want more details please
read the related [documentation](./suites.md).
## Test it!
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<img src="../images/first_factor.png" width="400">
</p>
You can use one of the users listed in [https://home.example.com:8080/](https://home.example.com:8080/). The rights granted to each user and
group is also provided there.
You can use one of the users listed in [https://home.example.com:8080/](https://home.example.com:8080/).
The rights granted to each user and group is also provided there.
At some point, you'll be required to register your second factor, either
U2F or TOTP. Since your security is **Authelia**'s priority, it will send
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**Note:** If you cannot deploy the fake webmail for any reason. You can
configure **Authelia** to use the filesystem notifier (option available
in [config.template.yml]) that will send the content of the email in a
file instead of sending an email. It is advised to use this option
for testing only.
file instead of sending an email. It is advised to not use this option
in production.
Enjoy!

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Note that using [HSTS] has consequences. That's why you should read the blog
post nginx has written on [HSTS].
## Content-Security-Policy
Authelia's portal is protected against XSS using the content
security policy mechanism that is documented
[here](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/CSP). This protection
will reject untrusted payloads threatening your users during the authentication
workflow.
## More protections measures with Nginx
You can also apply the following headers to your nginx configuration for

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# Suites
Authelia is a single component in interaction with many others. Consequently, testing the features
is not as easy as we might think. Consequently, a suite is kind of a virtual environment for Authelia,
it allows to create an environment made of components such as nginx, redis or mongo in which Authelia can
run and be tested.
This abstraction allows to prepare an environment for manual testing during development and also to
craft and run integration tests.
## Start a suite.
Starting a suite called *simple* is done with the following command:
npm run scripts suites start simple
It will start the suite and block until you hit ctrl-c to stop the suite.
## Run tests of a suite
### Run tests of running suite
If you are already running a suite with the previous command, you can simply type:
npm run scripts test
and this will run the tests related to the running suite.
### Run tests of non-running suite
However, if no suite is running and you still want to test a particular suite like *complete*.
You can do so with the next command:
npm run scripts test complete
This command will run the tests for the *complete* suite using the built version of Authelia that
should be located in *dist*.
WARNING: Authelia must be built before running this command.
### Run all tests of all suites
Running all tests is as easy as making sure that there is no running suite and typing:
npm run scripts test
## Create a suite
Creating a suite is as easy as creating a new directory with at least two files:
* **environment.ts** - It defines the setup and teardown phases when creating the environment. The *setup*
phase is the phase when the required components will be spawned and Authelia will start while the *teardown*
is executed when the suite is destroyed (ctrl-c hit by the user).
* **test.ts** - It defines a set of tests to run in the virtual environment of the suite.

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"test": "./scripts/authelia-scripts suites test",
"travis": "./scripts/authelia-scripts travis",
"cover": "NODE_ENV=test nyc npm t",
"scripts": "./scripts/authelia-scripts"
"scripts": "./scripts/authelia-scripts",
"hash-password": "./scripts/authelia-scripts hash-password"
},
"repository": {
"type": "git",

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# Authelia Suites
Authelia is a single component in interaction with many others. Consequently, testing the features
is not as easy as we might think. Consequently, a suite is kind of a virtual environment for Authelia,
it allows to create an environment made of components such as nginx, redis or mongo in which Authelia can
run and be tested.
This abstraction allows to prepare an environment for manual testing during development and also to
craft and run integration tests.
## Start a suite.
Starting a suite called *simple* is done with the following command:
npm run scripts suites start simple
It will start the suite and block until you hit ctrl-c to stop the suite.
## Run tests of a suite
### Run tests of running suite
If you are already running a suite with the previous command, you can simply type:
npm run scripts test
and this will run the tests related to the running suite.
### Run tests of non-running suite
However, if no suite is running and you still want to test a particular suite like *complete*.
You can do so with the next command:
npm run scripts test complete
This command will run the tests for the *complete* suite using the built version of Authelia that
should be located in *dist*.
WARNING: Authelia must be built before running this command.
### Run all tests of all suites
Running all tests is as easy as making sure that there is no running suite and typing:
npm run scripts test
## Create a suite
Creating a suite is as easy as creating a new directory with at least two files:
* **environment.ts** - It defines the setup and teardown phases when creating the environment. The *setup*
phase is the phase when the required components will be spawned and Authelia will start while the *teardown*
is executed when the suite is destroyed (ctrl-c hit by the user).
* **test.ts** - It defines a set of tests to run in the virtual environment of the suite.
A **suite** is a kind of virtual environment for Authelia. Please
read the related documentation [here](../docs/suites.md) to get more
details.