Monaba

Wakaba-like imageboard written in Haskell and powered by Yesod. Demo board.

Features

• Multiple file attachment
• Webm and audio support
• AJAX posting and quick reply
• Feed page and RSS
• Online user counter
• New posts counter
• Answer map and previews
• Thread and image expanding
• Thread hiding
• Post deletion and editing by user
• Prooflables as replacement of tripcodes
• Kusaba-like formatting with code highlighting and LaTeX support
• Custom CAPTCHA
• Internationalization (English, Русский, Português, Brasil)
• Country flag support
• Switchable stylesheets
• YouTube, vimeo, coub embedding
• Works fine with JavaScript disabled
• Thread catalog
• Bookmarks
• Private messages (buggy for now)
• Full-text search
• Administration
  • Hellbanning by session
  • Banning by IP
  • Thread moderation by OP
  • Flexible account system with customizable groups and permissions
  • Ability to stick and lock threads and to put on auto-sage
  • Moving threads between boards
  • Changing post's parent
  • Modlog which allows to view previous actions done by staff
  • Post search by ID and UID
  • Wordfilter with regex support

Requirements

• Nginx (for serving uploaded files)
• Postgresql >= 9.1
• PHP5 to use GeSHi for code highlighting
• Imagemagick (image thumbnails)
• ffmpeg/libav (webm thumbnails)
• exiftool (for audio and webm files)
• Sphinx (post search)

Required for building from source:

• stack

Installation

Open the prompt and type:

git clone https://github.com/ahushh/Monaba
cd Monaba

Main configuration file config/settings.yml

The maximum files size is hard coded and can be changed in Foundation.hs before building. Default value is 25 MB.

Geolocation

Download GeoIPCity by running the following commands:

wget http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/GeoLiteCity.dat.gz
gzip -d GeoLiteCity.dat.gz
cp GeoLiteCity.dat /usr/share/GeoIP/GeoIPCity.dat # or whatever path you want

Or it can be installed from repositories. You can change the in config/settings.yml

Download GeSHi

wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/geshi/files/geshi/GeSHi%201.0.8.11/GeSHi-1.0.8.11.tar.gz
tar -zxvf GeSHi-1.0.8.11.tar.gz
mv geshi ~/

Set your path to GeSHi in highlight.php. Home directory is usually good.

Using a binary packages

Download an archive of the latest version of Monaba here: https://github.com/ahushh/Monaba/releases/ and unpack it to current directory.

If it's not working or outdated, try to build from source.

Building from source

Sample list of the required packages on debian:

apt-get install haskell-stack zlibc libgeoip-dev libcrypto++-dev libssl-dev postgresql-server-dev-9.1 libmagickwand-dev libmagickcore-dev libicu-dev

Execute the following commands

wget https://hackage.haskell.org/package/nano-md5-0.1.2/nano-md5-0.1.2.tar.gz
tar -zxvf nano-md5-0.1.2.tar.gz
patch nano-md5-0.1.2/Data/Digest/OpenSSL/MD5.hs < extra/MD5.hs.patch

stack setup
stack build
stack install
cp ~/.local/bin/{Captcha,Monaba} .

Setup database

Create a database:

psql -U postgres -c 'create database monabas';

Run the application to initialize database schema:

./Monaba config/settings.yml

Wait until it finish (a few seconds) and fill the database with default values by visiting /admin/setup page. Now you're ready to log in.

Default login/password: admin

Configuring Sphinx search

See extra/sphinx.conf

Create the search index by running sudo indexer --rotate monaba and add this command to cron job so the index is regularly updated

Start searchd service:

systemctl start sphinxsearch.service

Configuring Nginx for serving uploaded files

See extra/nginx.conf

Init scripts

init.d script for gentoo: extra/monaba

For systemd users:

Firstly install libpam-systemd package and relogin.

Configure extra/monaba.service and put this file into /etc/systemd/user/ or ~/.config/systemd/user/ directory

Example of usage:

systemctl --user start monaba

systemctl --user stop monaba

systemctl --user restart monaba