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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 INIT
 53Run the
 54.Ic init
 55command.
 56.Dl ./honk init
 57This will create the database and ask four questions, as well as creating
 58the initial user.
 59.Bd -literal -offset indent
 60username: (desired username)
 61password: (desired password)
 62listenaddr: (tcp or unix: localhost:31337, /var/www/honk.sock, etc.)
 63servername: (public DNS name: honk.example.com)
 64.Ed
 65.Ss OPERATION
 66Run honk.
 67.Dl date; ./honk >> log 2>&1
 68Log messages are sent to stderr and should probably be redirected to a file.
 69.Ss CUSTOMIZATION
 70Add custom memes (stickers) to the
 71.Pa memes
 72directory.
 73Image and video files are supported.
 74.Pp
 75Add custom emus (emoji) to the
 76.Pa emus
 77directory.
 78Image files are supported.
 79.Pp
 80Site CSS may be overridden by creating a
 81.Pa views/local.css
 82file.
 83.Pp
 84Custom HTML messages may be added to select pages by using the
 85.Ic admin
 86command.
 87.Dl ./honk admin
 88.Bl -tag -width tenletters
 89.It server
 90Displayed on the home page.
 91.It about
 92Displayed on the about page.
 93.It login
 94Displayed about the login form.
 95.El
 96.Pp
 97.Ss USER ADMIN
 98New users can be added with the
 99.Ic adduser
100command.
101This is discouraged.
102.Dl ./honk adduser
103.Pp
104Passwords may be reset with the
105.Ic chpass
106command.
107.Dl ./honk chpass username
108.Ss MAINTENANCE
109The database may grow large over time.
110The
111.Ic cleanup
112command exists to purge old data, by default 30 days.
113.Ss UPGRADE
114Stop the old honk process.
115.Dl pkill honk
116Backup the database.
117.Dl cp honk.db backup.db
118Perform the upgrade with the
119.Ic upgrade
120command.
121.Dl ./honk upgrade
122Restart.
123.Dl ./honk
124.Pp
125There's also a
126.Pa blob.db
127file which is important to backup and restore.
128.Sh SECURITY
129.Nm
130is not currently hardened against SSRF, server side request forgery.
131Be mindful of what other services may be exposed via localhost or the
132local network.
133.Sh DEBUG
134Debug mode may be enabled or disabled by running
135.Ic debug Ar on|off .
136In debug mode, secure cookies are disabled and templates are reloaded
137every request.
138.Sh ENVIRONMENT
139Image processing and scaling requires considerable memory.
140It is recommended to adjust the datasize ulimit to at least 1GB.
141.Sh SEE ALSO
142.Xr intro 1 ,
143.Xr honk 1
144.Sh CAVEATS
145There's no online upgrade capability.
146Upgrades may result in minutes of downtime.