meguca

anonymous realtime imageboard focused on high performance, free speech and transparent moderation

Platforms: Linux, Docker

License: GNU AGPL

The master branch is currently undergoing active breaking changes towards meguca v7. If you intend to deploy meguca, please use the v6 branch.

Runtime dependencies

• PostgresSQL >= 10.0

Docker

Meguca can be deployed in a self-contained Docker container.

Simply run

docker run --network host --mount $image_dir:/meguca/images bakape/meguca -d $DB

where:

• $image_dir is the directory to store uploaded images
• $DB is the URL to a PostgreSQL database to use for data storage

Building from source

Native installation.

For installing meguca directly onto a server follow the steps bellow. A reference list of commands can be found in ./docs/installation.md

Build dependencies

• Go >=1.13 (for building server)
• Node.js >=12.0 (for building client)
• Rust >= 1.41
• C11 compiler
• make
• pkg-config
• pthread
• ffmpeg >= 4.1 libraries (libavcodec, libavutil, libavformat, libswscale) compiled with:
  • libvpx
  • libvorbis
  • libopus
  • libtheora
  • libx264
  • libmp3lame
• OpenCV 2-3
• libgeoip
• OpenSSL
• git

NB: Ubuntu patches to ffmpeg on some Ubuntu versions <19.10 break image processing. In that case please compile from unmodified ffmpeg sources using:

sudo apt build-dep ffmpeg
git clone https://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git ffmpeg
cd ffmpeg
git checkout n4.1
./configure
make -j`nproc`
sudo make install

Compilation

Run make

Setup

Deployment

meguca can be started in debug mode simply with ./meguca. Configurations are split between meguca instance configurations and server instance configurations, which are required to start the server and connect to the database. The meguca instance configurations are stored in the database, but server instance configurations are optionally loaded from a config.json file on server start. A sample configuration file can be found under docs/config.json. Documentation for this file is available under docs/config.jsonc.

It is recommended to serve meguca behind a reverse proxy like NGINX or Apache with properly configured TLS settings. A sample NGINX configuration file can be found in docs/.

Initial instance configuration

• TODO: grant first user to go to a URL admin rights

Development

TODO: note about compile-time query checking and how to support it

• See ./docs for more documentation
• make install_tools to install required build tools
• make server and make client build the server and client separately
• Pass DEBUG=1 before make command to build in debug mode
• Pass NO_DEPS=1 before make command to not install dependencies with npm on each build
• make clean removes files from the previous compilation
• make {test,test_no_race} run regular test and tests without data race detection, respectively
• To run server unit tests add database creation rights to your PostgreSQL role