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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.
 35Also, http signature verification requires accurate time keeping.
 36.Pp
 37Make sure to pass the Host header, if necessary (as for nginx).
 38.Bd -literal -offset indent
 39proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
 40.Ed
 41.Ss Build
 42Building
 43.Nm
 44requires a go compiler 1.16 and libsqlite.
 45On
 46.Ox
 47this is the go and sqlite3 packages.
 48Other platforms may require additional development libraries or headers
 49to be installed.
 50Run make.
 51Please be patient.
 52Even on fast machines, building from source can take several seconds.
 53.Ss Options
 54The following options control where
 55.Nm
 56looks for data.
 57.Bl -tag -width datadirxdirx
 58.It Fl datadir Ar dir
 59The root data directory, where the database and other user data are stored.
 60This directory contains all user data that persists across upgrades.
 61Requires write access.
 62Defaults to ".".
 63.It Fl viewdir Ar dir
 64The root view directory, where html and other templates are stored.
 65The contents of this directory are generally replaced with each release.
 66Read only.
 67Defaults to ".".
 68.El
 69.Pp
 70The following options control log output.
 71Acceptable values include "stderr" (the default), "stdout", "null", "syslog",
 72or a file name.
 73syslog messages will be sent to the UUCP facility.
 74.Bl -tag -width errorlogxlogx
 75.It Fl errorlog Ar log
 76The error log.
 77Something bad has happened.
 78.It Fl infolog Ar log
 79The informative messages log.
 80Something has happened, but probably not too bad.
 81.It Fl debuglog Ar log
 82The debug log.
 83There's probably no reason to care.
 84.It Fl log Ar log
 85Set all three logs.
 86.El
 87.Ss Init
 88Run the
 89.Ic init
 90command.
 91This will create the database and ask four questions, as well as creating
 92the initial user.
 93See below about importing existing data.
 94.Ss Operation
 95Run honk.
 96.Ss Customization
 97The funzone contains fun flair that users may add to posts and profiles.
 98Add custom memes (stickers) to the
 99.Pa memes
100data directory.
101Image and video files are supported.
102Add custom emus (emoji) to the
103.Pa emus
104data directory.
105PNG and GIF files are supported.
106.Pp
107Site CSS may be overridden by creating a
108.Pa views/local.css
109file in the data directory.
110Site JS may similarly be included by creating
111.Pa views/local.js .
112A restart is required after changes.
113A site icon.png and favicon.ico will be served from the views directory
114in the data directory, if present.
115.Pp
116Custom HTML messages may be added to select pages by using the
117.Ic admin
118command.
119This interface is a little rough.
120A restart is required after changes.
121.Bl -tag -width tenletters
122.It server
123Displayed on the home page.
124.It about
125Displayed on the about page.
126.It login
127Displayed on the login form.
128.It avatar colors
129Four 32-bit hex colors (RGBA).
130.El
131.Pp
132.Ss User Admin
133New users can be added with the
134.Ic adduser
135command.
136This is discouraged.
137.Pp
138Passwords may be reset with the
139.Ic chpass Ar username
140command.
141.Pp
142Users may be deleted with the
143.Ic deluser Ar username
144command.
145.Pp
146Follow and unfollow requests can be sent via command line with
147.Ic follow Ar username Ar url
148and
149.Ic unfollow Ar username Ar url .
150.Ss Maintenance
151The database may grow large over time.
152The
153.Ic cleanup Op Ar days
154This will not immediately reduce the size of the database, but frees space
155for future use.
156A vacuum may be performed manually if necessary, but will require more time
157and additional disk space.
158.Pp
159Backups may be performed by running
160.Ic backup dirname .
161Backups only include the minimal necessary information, such as user posts
162and follower information, but not external posts.
163.Pp
164Sometimes servers simply disappear, resulting in many errors trying to deliver
165undeliverable messages.
166Running
167.Ic unplug Ar hostname
168will delete all subscriptions and pending deliveries.
169.Ss Upgrade
170Stop the old honk process.
171Backup the database.
172Perform the upgrade with the
173.Ic upgrade
174command.
175Restart.
176.Pp
177The current version of the honk binary may be printed with the
178.Ic version
179command.
180.Ss Security
181.Nm
182is not currently hardened against SSRF, server side request forgery.
183Be mindful of what other services may be exposed via localhost or the
184local network.
185.Ss Development
186Development mode may be enabled or disabled by running
187.Ic devel Ar on|off .
188In devel mode, secure cookies are disabled, TLS certs are not verified,
189and templates are reloaded every request.
190.Ss Import
191Data may be imported and converted from other services using the
192.Ic import
193command.
194Currently supports Honk, Mastodon, Twitter, and Instagram exported data.
195Posts are imported and backdated to appear as old honks.
196The Mastodon following list is imported, but must be refollowed.
197.Pp
198To prepare a Honk data archive, extract the export.zip file.
199.Dl ./honk import username honk source-directory
200.Pp
201To prepare a Mastodon data archive, extract the archive-longhash.tar.gz file.
202.Dl ./honk import username mastodon source-directory
203.Pp
204To prepare a Twitter data archive, extract the twitter-longhash.zip file.
205After unzipping the data archive, navigate to the tweet_media directory
206and unzip any zip files contained within.
207.Dl ./honk import username twitter source-directory
208.Pp
209To prepare an Instagram data archive, extract the igusername.zip file.
210.Dl ./honk import username instagram source-directory
211.Ss Export
212User data may be exported to a zip archive using the
213.Ic export
214command.
215This will export the user's outbox and inbox in ActvityPub json format,
216along with associated media.
217.Dl ./honk export username zipname
218.Ss Advanced Options
219Advanced configuration values may be set by running the
220.Ic setconfig Ar key value
221command.
222For example, to increase the fast timeout value from 5 seconds to 10:
223.Dl ./honk setconfig fasttimeout 10
224.Pp
225To support separate mentions without a subdomain,
226e.g. @user@example.com and https://honk.example.com/u/user,
227set config key 'masqname' to 'example.com'.
228Route
229.Pa /.well-known/webfinger
230from the top domain to honk.
231.Pp
232Custom URL seperators (not "u" and "h") may be specified by adding
233"usersep" and "honksep" options to the config table.
234e.g. example.com/users/username/honk/somehonk instead of
235example.com/u/username/h/somehonk.
236.Sh FILES
237.Nm
238files are split between the data directory and the view directory.
239Both default to "." but may be specified by command line options.
240.Pp
241The data directory contains:
242.Bl -tag -width views/local.css
243.It Pa honk.db
244The main database.
245.It Pa blob.db
246Media and attachment storage.
247.It Pa emus
248Custom emoji.
249.It Pa memes
250Stickers and such.
251.It Pa views/local.js
252Locally customized JS.
253.It Pa views/local.css
254Locally customized CSS.
255.El
256.Pp
257The view directory contains:
258.Bl -tag -width views
259.It Pa views
260HTML templates and CSS files.
261.El
262.Sh EXAMPLES
263This series of commands creates a new database, sets a friendly
264welcome message, and runs honk.
265.Bd -literal -offset indent
266honk-v98> make
267honk-v98> ./honk -datadir ../honkdata init
268username: puffy
269password: OxychromaticBlowfishSwatDynamite
270listen address: /var/www/honk.sock
271server name: honk.example.com
272honk-v98> ./honk -datadir ../honkdata admin
273honk-v98> date; ./honk -log honk.log -datadir ../honkdata
274.Ed
275.Pp
276The views directory includes a sample mastodon.css to change color scheme.
277.Bd -literal -offset indent
278honk-v98> mkdir ../honkdata/views
279honk-v98> cp views/mastodon.css ../honkdata/views/local.css
280.Ed
281.Pp
282Upgrade to the next version.
283Clean things up a bit.
284.Bd -literal -offset indent
285datadir> cp honk.db backup.db
286datadir> cd ../honk-v99
287honk-v99> make
288honk-v99> ./honk -datadir ../honkdata upgrade
289honk-v99> ./honk -datadir ../honkdata cleanup
290honk-v99> date; ./honk -log honk.log -datadir ../honkdata
291.Ed
292.Sh ENVIRONMENT
293Image processing and scaling requires considerable memory.
294It is recommended to adjust the datasize ulimit to at least 1GB.
295.Sh SEE ALSO
296.Xr intro 1 ,
297.Xr honk 1
298.Sh CAVEATS
299There's no online upgrade capability.
300Upgrades may result in minutes of downtime.