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16.Dd $Mdocdate$
17.Dt HONK 8
18.Os
19.Sh NAME
20.Nm honk
21.Nd honk administration
22.Sh DESCRIPTION
23The
24.Nm
25daemon processes messages from other federated servers.
26This is the admin manual.
27For user operation, see
28.Xr honk 1 .
29.Ss Setup
30.Pp
31Set up a TLS reverse proxy.
32.Nm
33can listen on TCP or unix sockets, but will not terminate TLS.
34https is a required component for federation.
35.Pp
36Make sure to pass the Host header, if necessary (as for nginx).
37.Bd -literal -offset indent
38proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
39.Ed
40.Ss Build
41Building
42.Nm
43requires a go compiler and libsqlite.
44On
45.Ox
46this is the go and sqlite3 packages.
47Other platforms may require additional development libraries or headers
48to be installed.
49Run make.
50Please be patient.
51Even on fast machines, building from source can take several seconds.
52.Ss Options
53The following options control where
54.Nm
55looks for data.
56.Bl -tag -width datadirx
57.It Fl datadir
58The root data directory, where the database and other user data are stored.
59Requires write access.
60Defaults to ".".
61.It Fl viewdir
62The root view directory, where html and other templates are stored.
63Read only.
64Defaults to ".".
65.El
66.Ss Init
67Run the
68.Ic init
69command.
70This will create the database and ask four questions, as well as creating
71the initial user.
72See below about importing existing data.
73.Ss Operation
74Run honk.
75Log messages are sent to stderr and should probably be redirected to a file.
76.Ss Customization
77Add custom memes (stickers) to the
78.Pa memes
79data directory.
80Image and video files are supported.
81.Pp
82Add custom emus (emoji) to the
83.Pa emus
84data directory.
85Image files are supported.
86.Pp
87Site CSS may be overridden by creating a
88.Pa views/local.css
89file in the data directory.
90A restart is required after changes.
91.Pp
92Custom HTML messages may be added to select pages by using the
93.Ic admin
94command.
95A restart is required after changes.
96.Bl -tag -width tenletters
97.It server
98Displayed on the home page.
99.It about
100Displayed on the about page.
101.It login
102Displayed about the login form.
103.It avatar colors
104Four 32-bit hex colors (RGBA).
105.El
106.Pp
107.Ss User Admin
108New users can be added with the
109.Ic adduser
110command.
111This is discouraged.
112.Pp
113Passwords may be reset with the
114.Ic chpass Ar username
115command.
116.Pp
117Users may be deleted with the
118.Ic deluser Ar username
119command.
120.Ss Maintenance
121The database may grow large over time.
122The
123.Ic cleanup Op Ar days
124command exists to purge old data, by default 30 days.
125This removes unreferenced, unsaved posts and attachments.
126It does not remove any original content.
127.Ss Upgrade
128Stop the old honk process.
129Backup the database.
130Perform the upgrade with the
131.Ic upgrade
132command.
133Restart.
134.Pp
135There's also a
136.Pa blob.db
137file which is important to backup and restore.
138.Pp
139The current version of the honk binary may be printed with the
140.Ic version
141command.
142.Ss unplug
143Sometimes servers simply disappear, resulting in many errors trying to deliver
144undeliverable messages.
145Running
146.Ic unplug Ar hostname
147will delete all subscriptions and pending deliveries.
148.Ss Security
149.Nm
150is not currently hardened against SSRF, server side request forgery.
151Be mindful of what other services may be exposed via localhost or the
152local network.
153.Ss Debug
154Debug mode may be enabled or disabled by running
155.Ic debug Ar on|off .
156In debug mode, secure cookies are disabled and templates are reloaded
157every request.
158Debug mode is really more useful for development, not debugging production.
159.Ss Import
160Data may be imported and converted from other services using the
161.Ic import
162command.
163Posts are imported and backdated to appear as old honks.
164No other information is imported.
165Currently supports Mastodon and Twitter exported data.
166.Pp
167To prepare a Mastodon data archive, extract the archive-longhash.tar.gz file.
168.Dl ./honk import username mastodon source-directory
169.Pp
170To prepare a Twitter data archive, extract the twitter-longhash.zip file.
171After unzipping the data archive, navigate to the tweet_media directory
172and unzip any zip files contained within.
173.Dl ./honk import username twitter source-directory
174.Ss Advanced Options
175To support separate mentions without a subdomain,
176e.g. @user@example.com and https://honk.example.com/u/user,
177add a ('masqname', 'example.com') row the config table of the database.
178.Sh FILES
179.Nm
180files are split between the data directory and the view directory.
181Both default to "." but may be specified by command line options.
182.Pp
183The data directory contains:
184.Bl -tag -width views/local.css
185.It Pa honk.db
186The main database.
187.It Pa blob.db
188Media and attachment storage.
189.It Pa emus
190Custom emoji.
191.It Pa memes
192Stickers and such.
193.It Pa views/local.css
194Locally customized CSS.
195.El
196.Pp
197The view directory contains:
198.Bl -tag -width views
199.It Pa views
200HTML templates and CSS files.
201.El
202.Sh EXAMPLES
203This series of commands creates a new database, sets a friendly
204welcome message, and runs honk.
205.Bd -literal -offset indent
206honk-v98> make
207honk-v98> ./honk -datadir ../honkdata init
208username: puffy
209password: OxychromaticBlowfishSwatDynamite
210listen address: /var/www/honk.sock
211server name: honk.example.com
212honk-v98> ./honk -datadir ../honkdata admin
213honk-v98> date; ./honk -datadir ../honkdata >> log 2>&1
214.Ed
215.Pp
216The views directory includes a sample pleroma.css to change color scheme.
217.Bd -literal -offset indent
218honk-v98> mkdir ../honkdata/views
219honk-v98> cp views/pleroma.css ../honkdata/views/local.css
220.Ed
221.Pp
222Upgrade to the next version.
223Clean things up a bit.
224.Bd -literal -offset indent
225datadir> cp honk.db backup.db
226datadir> cd ../honk-v99
227honk-v99> make
228honk-v99> ./honk -datadir ../honkdata upgrade
229honk-v99> ./honk -datadir ../honkdata cleanup
230honk-v99> date; ./honk -datadir ../honkdata >> log 2>&1
231.Ed
232.Sh ENVIRONMENT
233Image processing and scaling requires considerable memory.
234It is recommended to adjust the datasize ulimit to at least 1GB.
235.Sh SEE ALSO
236.Xr intro 1 ,
237.Xr honk 1
238.Sh CAVEATS
239There's no online upgrade capability.
240Upgrades may result in minutes of downtime.