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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.