The BSQ explorer provides basic information about BSQ transactions. It is based on static html pages which are rendered from json files generated by a Bisq application running on the server. Beside http server and Bisq (we run a seednode instance) we require bitcoind as the Bisq node is running in fullnode mode.

Requires Bisq seednode with --dumpBlockchainData=true

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nginx

Check that it's running

systemctl status nginx

Copy nginx.config to /etc/nginx/sites-available and symlink from /etc/nginx/sites-enabled. Remove sym link to default site. Replace hostname with site name.

Install certificate

sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository universe
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:certbot/certbot
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python-certbot-nginx
sudo certbot --nginx

Set automatic certificate renewal in crontab. Try to renew every month. Edit crontab...

sudo crontab -e

...and paste this line2

0 0 1 * * certbot renew

Some needed pyhton packages

sudo pip install python-bitcoinrpc
sudo pip install simplejson
sudo pip install gitpython

Setup symlink inside explorer/www to Bisq seednode db directory

ln -s /home/sqrrm/.local/share/dao_test/seed_2002/btc_regtest/db data

HTML need to point to explorer/www

cd /var/www
ln -s @EXPLORER_HOME/www html

Bitcoin blocknotify script needs nc

sudo apt install netcat-openbsd

Example bitcoin.conf

testnet=1
lang=en

whitelist=127.0.0.1
rpcallowip=127.0.0.1
rpcport=18332  

server=1
txindex=1
rpcuser=bisquser
rpcpassword=bisqpasswd
blocknotify=bash $HOME/.bitcoin/blocknotify %s

Example blocknotify

#!/bin/bash
echo $1 | nc -w 1 127.0.0.1 5110

Run the python script from inside the explorer directory

cd @EXPLORER_HOME
python bsq_json.py

Best to set that up in a crontab for now