Install BTCPayServer on the RaspiBlitz

Installation

Log in to your RaspiBlitz as and work in the terminal:

• Install Dot-Net for ARM

• Install Nginx & Certbot
  

• Install NBXplorer

• Create the NBXplorer system unit file
  

  • Copy and paste the following code: ``` ## Start of nbxplorer service file ## [Unit] Description=NBXplorer daemon Requires=bitcoind.service After=bitcoind.service

  [Service] ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/dotnet “/home/admin/NBXplorer/NBXplorer/bin/Release/netcoreapp2.1/NBXplorer.dll” -c /home/admin/.nbxplorer/Main/settings.config User=admin Group=admin Type=simple PIDFile=/run/nbxplorer/nbxplorer.pid Restart=on-failure

  PrivateTmp=true ProtectSystem=full NoNewPrivileges=true PrivateDevices=true

  [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target ## end of nbxplorer service file ## ```

• reload the systemd daemon
  

• enable nbxplorer service
  

• start nbxplorer service
  

• check to see if nbxplorer is running
  

• add your Raspiblitz RPC credentials to the nbxplorer configuration settings
  

• Locate the “* By user name and password” section and uncomment these two lines and change the username and password.
  The username is raspibolt and the password is what you set while installing raspiblitz

• restart nbxplorer
  

• Install BTCPayServer

• create the BTCPayServer system unit file
  

• copy and paste the following code:

• reload the systemd daemon
  

• enable btcpayserver service
  

• start btcpayserver
  

• check to see if btcpayserver is running
  

• update your btcpayserver settings
  

• make sure the following items are uncommented and correct. Replace with your domain name
• save the file we will get the cert thumbprint next

• get your cert thumbprint for BTCPayServer Lightning configuration
  
  

• copy thumbprint output to clipboard

• replace thumbprint for lightning configuration
  

• paste thumbprint at the end of this line
  

• restart btcpayserver
  

• Open Port 80, 443 on the router

• Get your SSL certification using certbot. Change
  

• add reverse proxy for btcpayserver

• remove default nginx configuration
  

• create the btcpayserver configuration
  

• Paste the following, make sure you change the domain name to yours. Change all 4x ```

  start of Nginx config

map $http_x_forwarded_proto $proxy_x_forwarded_proto { default $http_x_forwarded_proto; ‘’ $scheme; }

map $http_x_forwarded_port $proxy_x_forwarded_port { default $http_x_forwarded_port; ‘’ $server_port; }

map $http_upgrade $proxy_connection { default upgrade; ‘’ close; }

#server_names_hash_bucket_size 128;

server_tokens off;

map $scheme $proxy_x_forwarded_ssl { default off; https on; }

gzip_types text/plain text/css application/javascript application/json application/x-javascript text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript; log_format vhost ‘$host $remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] ‘ ‘“$request” $status $body_bytes_sent ‘ ‘“$http_referer” “$http_user_agent”’; access_log off;

proxy_http_version 1.1; proxy_buffering off; proxy_set_header Host $http_host; proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade; proxy_set_header Connection $proxy_connection; proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $proxy_x_forwarded_proto; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Ssl $proxy_x_forwarded_ssl; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Port $proxy_x_forwarded_port;

proxy_set_header Proxy “”;

server { listen 80 default_server; server_name _; return 301 https://$host$request_uri; }

server { listen 443 ssl; server_name btcpay.example.com; ssl on;

ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/btcpay.example.com/fullchain.pem; ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/btcpay.example.com/privkey.pem; ssl_session_timeout 1d; ssl_session_cache shared:SSL:50m; ssl_session_tickets off; ssl_protocols TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2; ssl_ciphers ‘ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:DHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:DHE-DSS-AES128-GCM-SHA256:kEDH+AESGCM:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:DHE-DSS-AES128-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA256:DHE-DSS-AES256-SHA:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:!aNULL:!eNULL:!EXPORT:!DES:!RC4:!3DES:!MD5:!PSK’; ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on; ssl_stapling on; ssl_stapling_verify on; ssl_trusted_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/btcpay.example.com/chain.pem;

location / { proxy_set_header Host $host; proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme; proxy_pass http://localhost:23000; } }

end of Nginx config

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• add symlink for btcpayserver site
  

• restart nginx
  

Continue with Setting up BTCPayServer