2 separate users in Trilium Next

[9acca9]

I've had Trilium installed as a server for a couple of years, and now my wife wants to use it too because she thinks it's cool.
The problem is that it doesn't support multiple users. So I wanted to know if it's possible to run two instances of Trilium Next on the same server, pointing to different databases, of course.
Security isn't an issue; it's simply so everyone has their own clear workspace.
Is this possible?
Since I'm not very knowledgeable on the subject, I asked Chatgpt. It told me that if I create two services for systemd that point to different locations, one already exists, which is mine, and the other creates one for my partner... but it didn't work.
What could be wrong? Is it possible to fix it?
This is my systemd service that works like always:

cat /etc/systemd/system/trilium.service
[Unit]
Description=Trilium Daemon
After=syslog.target network.target

[Service]
User=root
Group=users
Type=simple
ExecStart=/opt/trilium/trilium.sh
WorkingDirectory=/opt/trilium/

TimeoutStopSec=20
# KillMode=process leads to error, according to https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.kill.html
Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

And this the one i try for my girlfriend:

root@trilium:/opt/trilium/data-sol# cat /etc/systemd/system/trilium-sol.service
[Unit]
Description=Trilium Sol
After=syslog.target network.target

[Service]
User=root
Group=users
Type=simple
ExecStart=/opt/trilium/node/bin/node /opt/trilium/src/www --data-dir /opt/trilium/data-sol --port 37842
WorkingDirectory=/opt/trilium/

TimeoutStopSec=20
Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Thanks!

[pano9000]

the stuff ChatGPT was proposing seems to be just hallucinations unfortunately...

it looks like we are talking about the "baremetal" server installation here (i.e. without Docker).

In that case you should be able to achieve what you want by starting two instances, and supplying each with a different port and data dir.

You can use the following env variables for that:

e.g. instance A:

TRILIUM_NETWORK_PORT=8080 TRILIUM_DATA_DIR=/path/to/your/data-dir-A /opt/trilium/trilium.sh

e.g. instance B:

TRILIUM_NETWORK_PORT=8081 TRILIUM_DATA_DIR=/path/to/your/data-dir-B /opt/trilium/trilium.sh

you can then use each instance, by browsing to the different port number, e.g. http://your-domain.com:8080 for instance A and http://your-domain.com:8081 for instance B
(by using a reverse proxy you can also get rid of port numbers and use different paths, but that is a bit more "complicated" and a different story)

[9acca9]

Thanks! It works perfect!
And yes, im using caddy as proxy reverse, with two subdomains.