anonymous realtime imageboard with user-created boards 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.

• PostgresSQL >= 10.0

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

First, run

git clone git://github.com/bakape/meguca.git

Second, navigate to the folder that was just created with

cd meguca

Then, install Docker and Docker Compose and run

docker-compose build
docker-compose up -d

Grab a coffee. This will take a while.

For more information refer to the Docker Compose docs.

If you ever want to update meguca to the newest version, stop the container with

docker-compose down

Then, pull the changes with

git pull origin

Finally, rebuild and start the container with

docker-compose build
docker-compose up -d

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

• 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
• 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

• Run make

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/.

• Login into the "admin" account via the infinity symbol in the top banner with the password "password"
• Change the default password
• Create a board from the administration panel
• Configure server from the administration panel

• 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,test_docker} run regular, without data race detection and Dockerized test suites, respectively
• To run server unit tests (unless Dockerized) add database creation rights to your PostgreSQL role