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Provisioning the owner account did not stop anyone else signing up. Stoat ships open, with no captcha and no email verification, so a reachable instance still accepted walk-in registrations. Made a config option rather than hardcoded, because running an open community server is legitimate — but defaulting CLOSED, which is the opposite of the other registration toggle in the tree. Vaultwarden's SIGNUPS_ALLOWED defaults true for a reason that does not apply here: it has to let you register to get in at all, whereas Stoat's owner account is now created for you. Matrix's ENABLE_REGISTRATION already defaults false for the same shape of app. The section name is load-bearing and not guessable. invite_only under [features] or [api.security.authifier] is accepted in silence and does nothing — the API keeps reporting invite_only=false — so it goes under [api.registration], which was found by testing all three against a running instance. Anything but an explicit "false" closes registration, so a blank or misspelled value fails safe. Closing it broke LibrePortal's own tooling, which is the part worth noting: the API answers MissingInvite to create_account too. So account creation now mints a single-use invite and retries when it sees that. Reactive rather than reading the config, so it follows the instance's actual state — someone who edits Revolt.toml by hand gets the same behaviour. Stoat stamps the invite used/claimed_by as it consumes it, and a failed create deletes it, so no reusable invite is left behind; verified that the collection holds zero unused invites after two creations. Verified end to end: a fresh install reports invite_only=true, a walk-in signup is refused with MissingInvite, and the Create User Account tool still succeeds. Flipping the config to false and reinstalling flips the API to open, and the provisioning guard correctly reports "already has accounts" instead of trying to claim a second owner. The value is baked into Revolt.toml at install, so changing it needs a reinstall rather than a reload — now said in the config comment. Unrelated flake seen once during testing and not reproduced: an install left stoat-rabbit with no IP row, so the compose died on a literal IP_DATA_3. A straight uninstall/reinstall allocated all 16 cleanly. Untouched here — it is in the IP allocator, not this change. 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.