acsim - Asynchronous Simple Imageboard

Basic imageboard engine written in rust and actix-web.

Features:

• Written in Rust (blazingly fast btw) and completely JS-free by default
• Website frontend is completely data-driven; you can change it in any way (as long as you keep the handlebars templates and general file structure)
• Supports both SQLite and Postgres databases

Installation

Standalone Docker container

A standalone Docker image is available for ACSIM.

sudo docker run --net=host -e ACSIM_PASS_OVERRIDE=YOURADMINPASSWORD --mount source=acs_data,target=/acsim/data --mount source=acs_frontends,target=/acsim/frontends jbruws/acsim:latest

This command will set up an SQLite-based instance with two Docker volumes for web frontend and board backend data, as well as a unique password for admin dashboard (available at 127.0.0.1:8080/dashboard). This is probably the fastest way to spin up an instance.

Docker Compose

You can also set up a Postgres-based instance via Compose.

1. Download the compose.yaml and pg_init.sql files:

   curl -L http://github.com/jbruws/acsim/raw/master/compose.yaml > compose.yaml

   curl -L http://github.com/jbruws/acsim/raw/master/pg_init.sql > pg_init.sql

2. Use your preferred text editor to add an ACSIM_PASS_OVERRIDE env variable to the board.environment section in compose.yaml in order to set the password to ACSIM's admin dashboard. Said section should look like this afterwards:

    environment:
      PGHOST: 'db'
      PGDATABASE: 'acsim_db'
      PGUSER: 'postgres'
      PGPASSWORD: 'generic'
      ACSIM_PASS_OVERRIDE: 'YOUR_ADMIN_DASHBOARD_PASSWORD'
      acsim_compose: 1
   

3. Launch the cluster:

   sudo docker compose up

   If the board fails to start due to database connection error, just wait for the database to finish initializing and restart the entire cluster.

That should service the board at localhost:8080, with admin dashboard available at localhost:8080/dashboard. Docker volumes for board data, board frontend and Postgres data will also be automatically created.

Manual installation

1. Install the dependencies:

   • cargo
   • git
   • sqlite3 (if you will use SQLite database)
   • postgresql (if you will use Postgres database)
   • libssl-dev
   • libmagic-dev

2. Clone the repository and enter it:

   git clone https://github.com/jbruws/acsim.git

   cd acsim

   DO NOT change directory afterwards, as this will break relative paths in setup.sh script. Just launch everything from the acsim directory.

3. Once you're in the acsim directory, run the setup.sh script, either with SQLITE argument and no username or POSTGRES argument and username you wish to use to connect to the database. Here's examples:

   • ./setup.sh POSTGRES postgres

   • ./setup.sh SQLITE

   You'll be prompted for a admin password. It's stored as a hash, so don't forget it!

   View .env and data/config.yaml files and check them for any errors.

4. Finally, run the program:

   cargo run

Once the compilation finishes, application logs will start appearing in the console and in data/acsim.log file. Navigate to localhost:8080 in your browser, and you should be greeted with ACSIM's home page. By default, the server will be accessible through any IP (0.0.0.0), as long as the port 8080 is open.

Special Thanks

@ZueffC - testing, coding advice

@CppCoder1, @Befrimon - testing