PREFACE

This guide is originally written by Corey DeGrandchamp who is an author on Tech Jawa, so it is posted here as well. For the original article (same content) please visit http://corey.degrandchamp.com/2012/02/01/guide-setup-working-siriproxy-three-little-pigs/

This guide is to tell you how to setup your own PRIVATE (or I suppose public…) SiriProxy server using the extremely well put-together “Three Little Pigs” proxy. It allows iPhone 4S’s and in the future iPad 3′s to feed Siri authentication keys/tokens to the server for other iOS devices to use. It also allows the use of SiriProxy plugins which allows for some advanced commands and very tech-savvy individuals to use Siri for things like home automation. We won’t get into that much of it, we just are trying to get iPhone 4 users up on Siri!

REQUIREMENTS

iPhone 4S (Or a friend/family member willing to help, even remotely).
iPhone 4 or 3GS running iOS 5.0.1 jailbroken. Save time by installing Spire on it now!
A dedicated, or VPS server running Ubuntu 11.10.
PuTTY, or a way to remotely access your server.

THANKS

First off, this guide is based on one written by Jeudi, but I had a ton of trouble with his. This should be some touch-ups and command changes, so thanks to him for the original, or else I would have been totally flying blind with all the Ruby stuff that follows (even though that’s where I had the most trouble…) Also thanks to Jacob and James who were kind enough to feed me some keys during testing stages.

STEP 1 – SERVER SETUP

Get your server setup!
If you haven’t already, go ahead and install Ubuntu 11.10.

Install all available updates, this can usually be done while installing the OS even.

Once all that is set, be sure to update your root password if it’s a brand new server.

sudo passwd root

Once you’ve changed your root password login as root, if you’re using a server with a GUI, make sure you log in as “Other” and then put root as the username and the password you just created.

STEP 2 – INSTALL BASICS

Issue all the following commands, if you get errors for dnsmasq that’s ok, but you shouldn’t get any other errors at this point.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y nano
sudo apt-get install -y dnsmasq
sudo apt-get install -y build-essential
sudo apt-get install -y openssl
sudo apt-get install -y libreadline6
sudo apt-get install -y libreadline6-dev
sudo apt-get install -y curl
sudo apt-get install -y git-core
sudo apt-get install -y zlib1g
sudo apt-get install -y zlib1g-dev
sudo apt-get install -y libssl-dev
sudo apt-get install -y libyaml-dev
sudo apt-get install -y libsqlite3-0
sudo apt-get install -y sqlite3
sudo apt-get install -y libxml2-dev
sudo apt-get install -y libxslt-dev
sudo apt-get install -y autoconf
sudo apt-get install -y libc6-dev
sudo apt-get install -y ncurses-dev
sudo apt-get install -y automake
sudo apt-get install -y libtool
sudo apt-get install -y bison
sudo apt-get install -y subversion
sudo apt-get install -y gcc
sudo apt-get install -y g++

If you get a dnsmasq starting error.

sudo nano /etc/dnsmasq.conf

At around line 78, change

#user=

to

user=root

Sane and close by pressing CTRL+O then Enter then CTRL+X.

STEP 3 – INSTALL RUBY

Download & Install RVM

sudo apt-get install -y rvm

sudo bash < <(curl -s https://raw.github.com/wayneeseguin/rvm/master/binscripts/rvm-installer)

Activate RVM

[[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && . "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm"

Add RVM to your .bash_profile

echo '[[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && . "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" # Load RVM function' >> ~/.bash_profile

If you're using putty or remote terminal access, restart it now.

Next install Ruby 1.9.3

rvm install 1.9.3

If you get a rvm command not found error, try this...

ln -s /usr/local/rvm/bin/rvm /usr/bin/

and then retry the previous step.

Set RVM to use 1.9.3 by default.

rvm use 1.9.3 --default

STEP 4 - RUBY SETUP

Run the following commands.

rvm gem update

rvm gem update --system

Edit gemrc

nano ~/.gemrc

Add this line with a return at the end.

gem: --bindir /usr/local/bin --no-ri --no-rdoc

To save and close .gemrc, press CTRL+O then Enter then CTRL+X.

Install the following gems.

rvm gem install eventmachine - -with-ssl-dir=/usr/bin/openssl
rvm gem install httparty
rvm gem install rails
rvm gem install json
rvm gem install uuidtools
rvm gem install rake
rvm gem install bundler
rvm gem install CFPropertyList

STEP 5 - INSTALL WEB INTERFACE

Run the following commands.

sudo apt-get install -y libmysqlclient-dev

rvm gem install mysql

sudo apt-get install -y apache2

Test if your server is online by going to http://server.ip-or.hostname/

Next we need to get PHP ready.

sudo apt-get install -y php5

sudo apt-get install -y libapache2-mod-php5

Restart Apache

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Install MySQL

sudo apt-get install -y mysql-server

Connect to MySQL

mysql -h localhost -u root -p

Create the required database

CREATE DATABASE siri;

Type exit to close the MySQL session.

Install phpMyAdmin

sudo apt-get install -y phpmyadmin

When it asks you which package to reconfigure automatically choose apache2, and answer yes to the second question.
This will also ask for your password three times.

Edit php.ini

sudo nano /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini

Change around line 932, find

;   extension=msql.so

Change to

extension=msql.so

To save and close, press CTRL+O then Enter then CTRL+X.

Prepare phpMyAdmin

sudo ln -s /usr/share/phpmyadmin /var/www/phpmyadmin

Then restart Apache

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

You can test by going to http://server.ip-or.hostname/phpmyadmin/

STEP 6 - INSTALL THREE LITTLE PIGS SIRIPROXY

Clone the git repo.

git clone https://github.com/jimmykane/The-Three-Little-Pigs-Siri-Proxy

Change your directory.

cd The-Three-Little-Pigs-Siri-Proxy

If you have a security alert, continue with yes.

Generate the SiriProxy gem.

rvm all do rake install

Make a .sirproxy directory.

mkdir ~/.siriproxy

Move the config.

cp ./config.example.yml ~/.siriproxy/config.yml

Set up your own config.

sudo nano ~/.siriproxy/config.yml

You'll need to set your database password and change your.siri.proxy.server.com to your IP or hostname.
Save the file. CTRL+O then Enter then CTRL+X.
Edit openssl.cnf

sudo nano /etc/ssl/openssl.cnf

Around line 148, find this...

commonName  = Common Name (eg, YOUR name)
commonName_max  = 64

And directly below it, add this.

0.commonName = Common Name (eg, YOUR name)
0.commonName_default = guzzoni.apple.com
0.commonName_max = 64
1.commonName = Common Name (eg, YOUR name)
1.commonName_default = YOUR.IP.OR.HOSTNAME.HERE
1.commonName_max = 64

Close by pressing CTRL+O then Enter then CTRL+X.

Time to generate the certificate.

rvm all do siriproxy gencerts

Now you MUST install this ca.pem on the iPhone 4S and the iPhone 4/3GS that will be using Siri via Spire...
Email it to yourself, or you can put it on the web portion of your server for quick access via Mobile Safari.

sudo chmod -R 777 /var/www

cp /root/.siriproxy/ca.pem /var/www/ca.pem

With the above method your ca.pem is located at http://server.ip-or.hostname/ca.pem

Now we must bundle SiriProxy.

rvm all do siriproxy bundle

Then create the tables in the siri database.

rvm all do siriproxy gentables

STEP 7 - SETTING UP DNSMASQ

Setting up the dnsmasq.conf

sudo nano /etc/dnsmasq.conf

At around line 63, find the following

#address=double-click.net/127.0.0.1

Under it, add this...

address=/guzzoni.apple.com/YOUR.IP.OR.HOSTNAME

To close dnsmasq.conf, press CTRL+O then Enter then CTRL+X.
Then restart dnsmasq with the following.

sudo /etc/init.d/dnsmasq restart

STEP 8 - INSTALL WEB INTERFACE

We need to move some files, issue each of these commands.

cd

sudo chmod 777 /var/www

sudo cp -R The-Three-Little-Pigs-Siri-Proxy/webInterface/* /var/www/

sudo chmod -R 777 /var/www

Next we need to edit the config, if it gives an error ignore it for now.

nano /var/www/inc/config.inc.php

In this file, you'll want to replace your hostname with your hostname or IP address, as well as set an admin username and password for the web interface. Be sure to update your MySQL password here as well to your root password!
Close the file by pressing CTRL+O then Enter then CTRL+X.
Now we test...

mv /var/www/index.html /var/www/index.html.bk

Head to http://server.ip-or.hostname/
You should see the Three Little Pigs interface!

STEP 9 - START SIRI PROXY

First let us make sure named isn't interfering with dnsmasq.

sudo /etc/init.d/dnsmasq stop

sudo killall named

sudo /etc/init.d/dnsmasq start

Let's start SiriProxy now...

cd ~/The-Three-Little-Pigs-Siri-Proxy

rvm all do siriproxy server

If you'd like a way for the server to restart on crash, launch via this method.

cd ~/The-Three-Little-Pigs-Siri-Proxy

./siriproxy-restarter

STEP 10 - Configure Phones

If your server is behind a firewall make sure you forward all the proper ports, including 53, 80, and 443 for the server!

Start with the iPhone 4S, make sure you installed that ca.pem from earlier, that we dumped to the web address. From there you'll want to edit the DNS settings on your iPhone 4S that MUST be connected to (any) WiFi access point. Add your server IP address followed by a comma to the front of the DNS server list. This allows the proxy server to take requests for Siri (guzzoni.apple.com).

After that, have the 4S user use Siri, it should work fine, and it will feed it's authentication key to the proxy. Be sure at least one iPhone 4S user is using that DNS server to feed a key to the server once every 24 hours!!!

Next just point Spire to your proxy, https://your.server.ip.or.hostname.com/. Use siri...

SOURCES

http://www.paradox-productions.net/

http://am3yrus.over-blog.com/article-installation-of-jimmykane-s-the-three-little-pigs-siri-proxy-on-ubuntu-11-10-vps-97476772.html

http://k2designlab.wordpress.com/2012/01/01/multi-process-siri-proxy-with-automatic-authentication-for-iphone-43gsipod-touch/

https://github.com/jimmykane/The-Three-Little-Pigs-Siri-Proxy

http://www.howtoforge.com/ubuntu_lamp_for_newbies

https://github.com/plamoni/SiriProxy/issues/145

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=514214

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/screen-manages-multiple-sessions-on-one-terminal.html#more-1415

http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/phpmyadmin

http://www.rackaid.com/resources/linux-screen-tutorial-and-how-to/

http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/rubyonrails

http://www.liberiangeek.net/2011/03/login-root-ubuntu-11-04-natty-narwhal/

http://www.the-tech-tutorial.com/?p=1868

http://www..linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/ruby-rake-install-error-on-siriproxy-925111/

The script automates 4 tasks that our server has. Restarting out PostgreSQL database, restarting apache, vacuuming the database, and running our custom import scripts, which has to be done as a specific user each day, and NOT as root… which has caused issues in the past, but now if you run them with the script I wrote, there’s no issue at all.

When launched, the script displays a menu for you, on which you make your choices.

You can then make your choice, via number, and it will complete the task and prompt you to continue.
When a wrong choice is made it tells you that you need to select a number from the list. The help command gives you an idea of what each other command does, and exit obviously exits the script.

So here’s a video to demonstrate how the menu system works.

Its a simple shell script, but it works, and it works well for what it does.
And of course I’d want to share the actual script with you, and document it in my blog,
so here it is, Frank’s maintenance script!

#######################################################
#  _______        _            _                      #
# |__   __|      | |          | |                     #
#    | | ___  ___| |__        | | __ ___      ____ _  #
#    | |/ _ \/ __|  _ \   _   | |/ _` \ \ /\ / / _` | #
#    | |  __/ (__| | | | | |__| | (_| |\ V  V / (_| | #
#    |_|\___|\___|_| |_|  \____/ \__,_| \_/\_/ \__,_| #
#                                                     #
#           www.techjawa.com/category/code            #
#             www.corey.degrandchamp.com              #
#                                                     #
#######################################################
#                                                     #
# Written  By: Corey DeGrandchamp                     #
# Written  On: June 18, 2009                          #
# Written For: Michigan Drill Corporation             #
# Description: This shell script will automate all of #
#              the maintenance tasks on Frank.        #
#                                                     #
#######################################################
#                                                     #
# Edit   Date: June 24, 2009                          #
# Edit     By: Corey DeGrandchamp                     #
# About  Edit: Fixed script so the heading/title will #
#              show every time now, also made it      #
#              pause and wait for the ENTER key to    #
#              be pressed before it continues.        #
#                                                     #
#######################################################

#!/bin/bash

# Display the title.
clear
echo '
     __  __    __    ____  _  _  ____  ____  _  _    __    _  _  ___  ____
    (  \/  )  /__\  (_  _)( \( )(_  _)( ___)( \( )  /__\  ( \( )/ __)( ___)
     )    (  /(__)\  _)(_  )  (   )(   )__)  )  (  /(__)\  )  (( (__  )__)
    (_/\/\_)(__)(__)(____)(_)\_) (__) (____)(_)\_)(__)(__)(_)\_)\___)(____)

	'
# Display possible choices.
CHOICES="RESTART_POSTGRESQL RESTART_APACHE VACUUM_DATABASE RUN_IMPORTS HELP EXIT"
# Define commands for choices.
select choice in $CHOICES; do
	if [ "$choice" = "RESTART_POSTGRESQL" ]; then
		/etc/rc.d/init.d/postgresql restart
		echo ""
		echo ""
		echo ""
		echo ""
		echo "Finished restarting PostgreSQL."
		echo ""
		echo "Press ENTER to continue."
		read
		clear
	elif [ "$choice" = "RESTART_APACHE" ]; then
		service httpsd restart
		echo ""
		echo ""
		echo ""
		echo ""
		echo "Finished restarting Apache."
		echo ""
		echo "Press ENTER to continue."
		read
		clear
	elif [ "$choice" = "VACUUM_DATABASE" ]; then
		su ********-c "/usr/bin/vacuumdb -* *******"
		echo ""
		echo ""
		echo ""
		echo ""
		echo "Finished vacuuming the database."
		echo ""
		echo "Press ENTER to continue."
		read
		clear
	elif [ "$choice" = "RUN_IMPORTS" ]; then
		su ********-c "/home/********/********/********/IMPORT"
		echo ""
		echo ""
		echo ""
		echo ""
		echo "Finished running the imports."
		echo ""
		echo "Press ENTER to continue."
		read
		clear
	elif [ "$choice" = "HELP" ]; then
		clear
		echo "RESTART_POSTGRES"
		echo "     - Useful for when SOEFIE giving errors, or functioning slowly."
		echo ""
		echo "RESTART_APACHE"
		echo "     - When changes are made to websites, or websites are not working."
		echo ""
		echo "VACUUM_DATABASE"
		echo "     - This will vacuum the veritime database, clearing our all of the junk."
		echo ""
		echo "RUN_IMPORTS"
		echo "     - Runs the imports from the AS/400 to SOEFIEs database."
		echo ""
		echo "HELP"
		echo "     - Displays this menu"
		echo ""
		echo "EXIT"
		echo "     - Exits the program."
		echo ""
		echo ""
		echo ""
		echo ""
		echo "Press ENTER to continue."
		read
		clear
	elif [ "$choice" = "EXIT" ]; then
		clear
		exit
	else
		echo ""
		echo ""
		echo ""
		echo ""
		echo "Please choose a number from the list."
		echo ""
		echo "Press ENTER to continue."
		read
		clear
	fi
# Display the title after each choice again.
	echo '
     __  __    __    ____  _  _  ____  ____  _  _    __    _  _  ___  ____
    (  \/  )  /__\  (_  _)( \( )(_  _)( ___)( \( )  /__\  ( \( )/ __)( ___)
     )    (  /(__)\  _)(_  )  (   )(   )__)  )  (  /(__)\  )  (( (__  )__)
    (_/\/\_)(__)(__)(____)(_)\_) (__) (____)(_)\_)(__)(__)(_)\_)\___)(____)

	'
done

Some parts taken out to protect our security….

I know there are other ways to do what I achived here, but as I said before, this is my VERY FIRST shell script.

So the following script is one of my firsts that I wrote for work.

Sub Delete_Unchanged_Prices()

'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
'  _______        _            _                      '
' |__   __|      | |          | |                     '
'    | | ___  ___| |__        | | __ ___      ____ _  '
'    | |/ _ \/ __|  _ \   _   | |/ _` \ \ /\ / / _` | '
'    | |  __/ (__| | | | | |__| | (_| |\ V  V / (_| | '
'    |_|\___|\___|_| |_|  \____/ \__,_| \_/\_/ \__,_| '
'                                                     '
'           www.techjawa.com/category/code            '
'             www.corey.degrandchamp.com              '
'                                                     '
'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
'                                                     '
' Written  By: Corey DeGrandchamp                     '
' Written  On: December 10, 2008                      '
' Written For: Michigan Drill Corporation             '
' Description: This Excel VBScript will search column '
'              B, and if a cell in B has a null value '
'              then the script deltes the entire row. '
'              This is mainly used for our end of the '
'              year cost changes, but can be modified '
'              to suit your own needs.                '
'                                                     '
'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
'                                                     '
' Edit   Date: June 18, 2009                          '
' About  Edit: Added information.                     '
'                                                     '
'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''

  Application.ScreenUpdating = False
  Application.Calculation = xlCalculationManual
  Dim Rng As Range, ix As Long
  Set Rng = Intersect(Range("B:B"), ActiveSheet.UsedRange)
  For ix = Rng.Count To 1 Step -1
      If Trim(Replace(Rng.Item(ix).Text, Chr(160), Chr(32))) = "" Then
        Rng.Item(ix).EntireRow.Delete
      End If
  Next
done:
  Application.Calculation = xlCalculationAutomatic
  Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub

It basically goes through and checks every row in column B, and if there is a cell with a value of “” (AKA null) then it removes the entire row.

This can be changed to any column/value combination, but this is the specific combination we need at work.