How to install and run GoBlog without docker?

[jondome]

How to install and run GoBlog without docker?

In areas with high levels of internet censorship, ghcr.io and hub.docker.com are almost completely inaccessible. Installing any program with docker is extremely difficult. docker itself consumes memory.

If docker is not available, one can only try to download the source code and compile it manually. Try to run the binary executable manually. The official documentation does not currently have instructions for manual installation.

I followed the documentation and compiled the binary file manually. The compilation was successful. But the program does not run properly. Take I created the data, static and config directories manually. I copied the modified example-config.yml into the config directory. I see the following output:

$ tree

├── config
│   └── config.yml
├── data
│   ├── db.sqlite
│   ├── db.sqlite-shm
│   └── db.sqlite-wal
├── GoBlog
└── static

$ ./GoBlog 
time=2025-07-14T11:02:06.326+08:00 level=INFO msg="Initialized configuration"
time=2025-07-14T11:02:06.326+08:00 level=INFO msg="Initialize components..."
panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference
[signal SIGSEGV: segmentation violation code=0x1 addr=0x28 pc=0x13548c6]

goroutine 1 [running]:
main.(*goBlog).initTemplateAssets.func1({0x1762a81, 0x10}, {0x0?, 0x0?}, {0x47f045?, 0x0?})
	go.goblog.app/app/templateAssets.go:30 +0x26
path/filepath.Walk({0x1762a81, 0x10}, 0xc0005a1a10)
	path/filepath/path.go:425 +0x4a
main.(*goBlog).initTemplateAssets(0xc0004d8408)
	go.goblog.app/app/templateAssets.go:29 +0x95
main.initializeComponents(0xc0004d8408)
	go.goblog.app/app/main.go:186 +0x158
main.main.func1(0xc00043e900?, {0x173e940?, 0x4?, 0x173e4ec?})
	go.goblog.app/app/main.go:26 +0x9f
github.com/spf13/cobra.(*Command).execute(0xc000496008, {0xc00013c060, 0x0, 0x0})
	github.com/spf13/cobra@v1.9.1/command.go:1019 +0xa7b
github.com/spf13/cobra.(*Command).ExecuteC(0xc000496008)
	github.com/spf13/cobra@v1.9.1/command.go:1148 +0x40c
github.com/spf13/cobra.(*Command).Execute(...)
	github.com/spf13/cobra@v1.9.1/command.go:1071
main.main()
	go.goblog.app/app/main.go:157 +0x3d6

OS: Debian 12
sqlite3 : 3.40.1

$ uname -a

Linux host 6.1.0-37-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.140-1 (2025-05-22) x86_64 GNU/Linux

Thanks to jlelse for developing this program.

[jlelse]

The first line of the error points to the template assets. It seems the templates/assets directory is missing. Feel free to extend the instructions in the documentation, once you got it running. 🙂