This tutorial explains how one can run a custom Hive Plug & Play node, publicly or locally. I released a stable version of Hive Plug & Play about 2 weeks ago and made a public node available at https://plug-play.imwatsi.com.

I released parts of this tutorial in the wiki: https://github.com/imwatsi/hive-plug-play/wiki/Run-your-own-node

Running a custom Hive Plug & Play node

Installation

Clone the repo
cd hive-plug-play
pip3 install .

Configuration

Hive Plug & Play looks for a config.ini file in /etc/hive-plug-play by default. To set a custom folder, use an environment variable: export PLUG_PLAY_HOME=/home/ubuntu/.config/hive-plug-play.

db_username=postgres
db_password=password
server_host=127.0.0.1
server_port=8080
ssl_cert=
ssl_key=
start_block=53877365
op_ids=["community","notify"]

Customization

choose a start_block and enter it in the config as an integer. You can leave it blank to start from block 1
to filter by op_id, enter an array of strings in the config field op_ids representing the ones you want to allow
to make the node available to the public, set server_host to 0.0.0.0
to use HTTPS, set the ssl_cert and ssl_key fields to link to the respective certificate files on the machine, and finally set the server_port to 443