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Installing Iceshrimp
This document will guide you through manual installation of Iceshrimp. We also provide prebuilt packages for various platforms, should you prefer those over a manual install.
Dependencies
Build
- C/C++ compiler like GCC or Clang
- Build tools like make
- Python 3
Required
- Node.js v18.16.0+ (v20 recommended)
- PostgreSQL 12+
- Redis 6+
- libvips
- Web proxy
- nginx
- Caddy
Optional
- FFmpeg 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 | Installation guide
- Sonic (More lightweight, but less features) | Installation guide
Preparations
Download repository
Make sure you have git-lfs
installed before cloning the repo, as we are using Git LFS for efficient storage of binary blobs.
git clone https://iceshrimp.dev/iceshrimp/iceshrimp.git --depth=1
If you don't want to run the latest development version, pick a version from here and run git checkout <version>
before continuing.
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 text search sections if you have chosen to set up a search backend
Installing project dependencies
This project uses corepack to manage yarn versions, please make sure you don't have a globally installed non-corepack yarn binary (e.g. by having run npm install -g yarn
in the past, or via your operating system's package manager)
corepack enable
corepack prepare --activate
yarn
Note: If you get a lot of The remote archive doesn't match the expected checksum
errors, please make sure you installed git-lfs
and ran git lfs install && git lfs fetch
.
Building Iceshrimp
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:
sudo -u postgres psql
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
yarn run init
Optimizing performance
For optimal database performance, it's highly recommended to configure PostgreSQL with PGTune using the "Mixed type of application" profile. This is especially important should your database server use HDD instead of SATA or NVMe SSD storage.
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 changeUser
,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
Before you start, if you cloned the iceshrimp repository before the Git LFS migration, please follow these instructions to get your repository back in sync.
First, stop the Iceshrimp service and then run the following commands:
## Run git stash commands only if you have uncommitted changes
git stash
If you were previously running a tagged release and/or want to upgrade to one, run:
git fetch --tags
git checkout <new-version>
If you were previously running a development version, and want to continue doing so or switch to the latest commit, run:
git switch dev
git pull
Regardless of which of the above you picked, run:
git stash pop
yarn
yarn build && yarn migrate
Note: If you get a lot of The remote archive doesn't match the expected checksum
errors, please make sure you installed git-lfs
and ran git lfs install && git lfs fetch
.
Now restart the Iceshrimp service and everything should be up to date.
Post-install
See post-install.