# Installing Iceshrimp This document will guide you through manual installation of Iceshrimp on dev branch, for main branch, use Firefish's installation guide. ## Dependencies ### Build - C/C++ compiler like **GCC** or **Clang** - Build tools like **make** - **Python 3** ### Required - [**Node.js**](https://nodejs.org) v18.16.0+ (v20 recommended) - [**PostgreSQL**](https://www.postgresql.org/) 12+ - [**Redis**](https://redis.io/) 6+ - [**libvips**](https://www.libvips.org/) - **Web proxy** - nginx - Caddy ### Optional - [**FFmpeg**](https://ffmpeg.org/) for video transcoding - Full text search (Choose one) Iceshrimp has full text search powered by Postgres by default, however it's very slow, and these are alternatives for that - [**Meilisearch**](https://www.meilisearch.com/) | [Installation guide](https://www.meilisearch.com/docs/learn/getting_started/quick_start) - [**Sonic**](https://crates.io/crates/sonic-server) (More lightweight, but less features) | [Installation guide](https://github.com/valeriansaliou/sonic#installation) - Caching server (Choose one) This will be used for storing stuff like antennas. If you won't install any, mandatory Redis instance will be used instead - [**DragonflyDB**](https://www.dragonflydb.io/) | [Installation guide](https://www.dragonflydb.io/docs/getting-started) - [**KeyDB**](https://docs.keydb.dev/) | [Installation guide](https://docs.keydb.dev/docs/open-source-getting-started) - Another **Redis** server ## Preparations ### Download repository ```sh git clone https://iceshrimp.dev/iceshrimp/iceshrimp ``` ### Creating a new user In case you want to run Iceshrimp as a different user, run `adduser --disabled-password --disabled-login iceshrimp` Following steps will require you to run them as the user you have made, so use `su - iceshrimp`, or `sudo -iu iceshrimp`, or whatever else method in order to temporarily log in as that user. ### Configuration - Copy `.config/example.yml` to `.config/default.yml` - Edit `.config/default.yml` with text editor - Make sure to set PostgreSQL and Redis section correctly - Make sure to set/uncomment caching server and/or text search sections if you have chosen to set up these ## Installing project dependencies ```sh corepack enable corepack prepare yarn@stable --activate yarn ``` ## Building Iceshrimp ```sh yarn build ``` ## Database ### Creating database This will create a postgres user with your password and database, while also granting that user all privileges on database. Using `psql` prompt: ```sh sudo -u postgres psql ``` ```postgresql create database iceshrimp with encoding = 'UTF8'; create user iceshrimp with encrypted password '{YOUR_PASSWORD}'; grant all privileges on database iceshrimp to iceshrimp; \q ``` ### First migration In order for Iceshrimp to work properly, you need to initialise the database using ```bash yarn run init ``` ## Setting up Webproxy ### Nginx - Run `sudo cp docs/examples/iceshrimp.nginx.conf /etc/nginx/sites-available/ && cd /etc/nginx/sites-available/` - Edit `iceshrimp.nginx.conf` to reflect your server properly - Run `sudo ln -s ./iceshrimp.nginx.conf ../sites-enabled/iceshrimp.nginx.conf` - Run `sudo nginx -t` to check that the config is valid, then restart the nginx service. ### Caddy - Add the following to your Caddyfile, and replace `example.com` with your domain ``` example.com { reverse_proxy localhost:3000 } ``` ## Running Iceshrimp ### Running manually - Start Iceshrimp by running `NODE_ENV=production yarn run start`. If this is your first run, after Iceshrimp has started successfully, you'll be able to go to the URL you have specified in `.config/default.yml` and create first user. - To stop the server, use `Ctrl-C`. ### Running using systemd - Run `sudo cp docs/examples/iceshrimp.service /etc/systemd/system/` - Edit `/etc/systemd/system/iceshrimp.service` with text editor, and change `User`, `WorkingDir`, `ExecStart` if necessary. - Run `sudo systemctl daemon-reload` - Run `sudo systemctl enable --now iceshrimp` in order to enable and start Iceshrimp. - (Optional) Check if instance is running using `sudo systemctl status iceshrimp` ### Updating Iceshrimp Shut down Iceshrimp and then run these commands ```sh ## Run git stash commands only if you have uncommitted changes git stash git pull git stash pop yarn yarn build && yarn migrate ``` Start Iceshrimp back up ## Post-install See [post-install](post-install.md).