Reported after looking at the step: the add button unstyled, the dialog missing
the fields a backup location actually has, and its dropdowns not working. Three
real faults, and one reason all three shipped.
* "+ Add destination" carried class .setup-add-domain, which I invented. The
real one is .setup-domain-add, so no rule matched and it rendered as a bare
browser button in the middle of a styled form.
* The dialog asked for name / type / host / user / path / password. A backup
location has SSH port and auth method (key or password — key is the default
and needs nothing typed), S3 access and secret keys, B2 account id and key,
and a path mode. It now asks for what each backend needs, with the wording
taken from the location config so the wizard and the Backup page describe
the same thing the same way.
* .setup-field styled input[type=text] and [type=email] but not [type=password]
or [type=number], so a credential field and the SSH port rendered unstyled
even inside a correct container.
Only the credentials go through the secret channel — SSH password, S3 secret
key, B2 account key. The rest is ordinary configuration and travels as itself.
The reason all three shipped is that I checked the step by querying the DOM and
never looked at it. Structural checks cannot see an unstyled control, and a
dialog is behind a click so a screenshot cannot reach it either. So:
lp-shot --eval <route> <js> run JS in the page and print the result
LP_SHOT_EVAL=<js> run JS before a capture — open a dialog, then shoot
and scripts/dev/lp-backup-dialog-test drives the whole thing in a real browser:
opens it, swaps every backend and asserts only that backend's fields show,
toggles SSH auth and asserts the password field follows, submits, and asserts
the credential is not left in the DOM.
Its styling check needed two attempts, which is the point of mutation-testing
it: "is the background transparent" passes for an unstyled button, because a
native button is grey rather than transparent. It now compares the control
against a bare <button> in the same parent, so "no rule matched" is what fails.
Verified: reintroducing the wrong class fails the test.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
LibrePortal
Your own private corner of the internet — free, open, and yours.
LibrePortal is a self-hosted platform for running the apps you rely on, on your own server: one-click installs, a reverse proxy with automatic SSL, rootless Docker, optional VPN routing, and a clean web dashboard to manage it all.
⚠️ v0.1.0 — early days. Expect rough edges while things settle.
Why LibrePortal
Too many services today treat your data as theirs to take — quietly overstepping boundaries that should never have been crossed. LibrePortal grew out of frustration with that: it's a way to run the apps you depend on on your own server, where your data stays yours. Privacy here isn't a feature to toggle — it's the whole point.
Free & open — forever
The entire platform is free software under the GNU AGPLv3. Self-host it and you get everything — every feature, no paywalls, no telemetry. See our Promise for exactly what that means.
What you get
- 📦 One-click self-hosted apps (Nextcloud, Vaultwarden, Jellyfin, Gitea, …)
- 🔀 Traefik reverse proxy + automatic Let's Encrypt SSL
- 🔒 Rootless Docker, CrowdSec, sane security defaults
- 🛡️ Optional VPN routing (gluetun) for any app
- 🖥️ A web dashboard to install, configure, back up, and monitor everything
Quick start
curl -fsSL https://get.libreportal.org/install.sh | sudo bash
This installs a versioned, checksum-verified release (Debian/Ubuntu, root). Put
data on separate disks with --system-dir= / --containers-dir= / --backups-dir=.
The
get.libreportal.orghost is still being set up — until it's live, build a release and install from it locally (see the docs below).
Documentation
- docs/guide/install-and-use.md — install, place data on separate disks/drives, update, back up, uninstall.
- docs/contributing/development.md — run a dev copy, cut stable/edge releases, and test them before publishing.
LibrePortal Connect (optional)
Self-hosting is free and complete. If you'd rather not fiddle with the tricky parts — like reaching your server from your phone, or keeping off-site backups — LibrePortal Connect will handle them for you. Here's the catch that makes us different: we work like a courier carrying a sealed box. We move your data between your devices and store backup copies, but it stays locked and you hold the only key — we can't open it, and we never run your apps for you. Everything we offer, you can also set up yourself for free. Our Promise spells out exactly where that line sits.
Contributing
PRs welcome — see CONTRIBUTING.md. We use a lightweight
DCO sign-off (git commit -s), no CLA.
Acknowledgments
LibrePortal has been built from scratch since 2023. Its spark of inspiration
was a small installer script from Brian McGonagill (OpenSourceIsAwesome):
gitlab.com/bmcgonag/docker_installs.
From that seed it grew start to finish — refined, extended, and refactored
into the platform it is today.
License
GNU AGPLv3. What's open stays open.