This is just basic hints, not a full guide⌗

This assumes you have some basic linux knowledge⌗

Download identity and storagenode from github (I like to download these things to /opt/storj/)

Create auth token HERE

Create identity HERE (This took about 4 hours on my node | E3-1280 V2)

storagenode setup. This will create config file and other needed files in ~/.local/share/storj/storagenode/config.yaml and ~/.local/share/storj/storagenode/storage

Now you need to edit ~/.local/share/storj/storagenode/config.yaml and make changes as needed (wallet, identity files and data storage locations, email, storage size)

Then move files from ~/.local/share/storj/storagenode/storage to your desireded data storage location

Then move ~/.local/share/storj/storagenode/ to your desired config folder location that will be passed with systemd below

Now you can continue to the next step of configuring systemd

SystemD Config⌗

Make sure to create storj user

nano /etc/systemd/system/storj.service

# This is a SystemD unit file for the Storage Node
# To configure:
# - Update the user and group that the service will run as (User & Group below)
# - Ensure that the Storage Node binary is in /usr/local/bin and is named storagenode (or edit the ExecStart line
#   below to reflect the name and location of your binary
# - Ensure that you've run setup and have edited the configuration appropriately prior to starting the
#   service with this script
# To use:
# - Place this file in /etc/systemd/system/ or wherever your SystemD unit files are stored
# - Run systemctl daemon-reload
# - To start run systemctl start storagenode

[Unit]
Description  = Storage Node service
After        = syslog.target network.target

[Service]
Type         = simple
User         = storj
Group        = storj
ExecStart    = /opt/storj/bin/storagenode run --config-dir "/data/storj/config"
Restart      = always
NotifyAccess = main

[Install]
Alias        = storagenode
WantedBy     = multi-user.target

systemctl start storj

Make sure it’s working journalctl -f -u storj

If it’s working then enable it systemctl enable storj

You are now good to go :-) enjoy the free moneys⌗

If you’d like to use nginx to not have to use port do the following

apt install nginx

unlink /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default

nano /etc/nginx/conf.d/storj.local

server {
        listen 80;
        server_name storj.local;
        allow  192.168.1.0/24; # allow only internal network

        location / {
                proxy_pass http://192.168.9.171:14002/;
                proxy_set_header Host $host;
                proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
                proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        }
}

Make sure to add storj.local into your local DNS server (I use AdGuardHome, PiHole is another great one)