Solidway v0.1.0 is released under AGPL-3.0; source and releases are on GitHub. This documentation is being rewritten against the release — pages outside Quick start and Reference still describe planned behaviour. The current reference lives in docs/getting-started.md and docs/architecture.md in the repository.

Installation

Download the Linux package or the desktop app, and start the gateway.

Solidway installs from a package — there is nothing to build.

Linux server

Download the deb or rpm for your distribution from Releases and install it:

sudo apt install ./solidway_<version>-1_amd64.deb
# or: sudo dnf install ./solidway-<version>-1.x86_64.rpm
sudo systemctl enable --now solidway

The package installs /usr/bin/solidway, a systemd unit, a solidway system user and /var/lib/solidway as the data root. Ports 80/443 are granted through CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE, so built-in HTTPS works without running as root.

Desktop app

Releases also publish a desktop application for Linux, Windows and macOS (solidway-app_<version>_<arch>). Each installer ships the gateway binary, so one install is enough; there is no separate server package to add.

The macOS build is self-signed and not notarized, and Windows builds are unsigned — expect a first-launch prompt from Gatekeeper or SmartScreen.

First start

On first start Solidway creates the data directory, prints a one-time bootstrap token to stdout and listens on 127.0.0.1:6565:

solidway: listening addr=127.0.0.1:6565
solidway: bootstrap token=<token> url=http://127.0.0.1:6565/bootstrap#<token>

For the Linux package the same message is in journalctl -u solidway. Open the URL, set the admin password, then continue with Your first request.

If the download page is not up yet

Ask for the package (or a local copy) instead of building from source — this site will link to the downloads once they are published.