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Installing Plume (for development or production)
Prerequisites
In order to be installed and to work correctly, Plume needs:
- Git (to get the code)
- Curl (for RustUp, the Rust installer)
- GCC and make (to compile C dependencies)
- PostgreSQL (for the database)
- GetText (to manage translations)
- Rust and Cargo (to build the code)
- OpenSSL and OpenSSL librairies (for security)
All the following instructions will need a terminal.
Here are the commands to install PostgreSQL and GetText on various operating systems. Some of them may need root permissions.
You can also install the project using Docker and docker-compose, please refer
to the Docker install
section.
On Debian:
apt update
apt install gettext postgresql postgresql-contrib libpq-dev git curl gcc make openssl libssl-dev
On Fedora, CentOS or RHEL:
dnf install postgresql-server postgresql-contrib mariadb-devel libsq3-devel libpqxx libpqxx-devel git curl gcc make openssl openssl-devel gettext
On Gentoo:
emerge --sync
emerge -av postgresql eselect-postgresql gettext && emerge --ask dev-vcs/git
On Mac OS X, with Homebrew:
brew update
brew install postgres gettext git
Creating a new user (optional)
This step is recommended if you are in a production environment, but it is not necessary.
adduser plume
su - plume
cd ~
Creating a new user will let you use systemd to manage Plume if you want (see the dedicated section below).
Installing Rust and Cargo
We said that Plume needed Rust and Cargo to work, but we didn't install them at the same time as PostgreSQL and GetText, because there is an universal installation method called RustUp.
You can install it on GNU/Linux and Mac OS X with:
curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh
When asked, choose the "1) Proceed with installation (default)" option.
Then run this command to be able to run cargo in the current session:
export PATH="$PATH:/home/plume/.cargo/bin:/home/plume/.local/bin:/usr/local/sbin"
On Windows, you'll need, if you don't already have them, to download and install the Visual C++ 2015 Build Tools. Then, download the rustup installer and run it.
Getting and compiling the Plume source code
Plume needs to be compiled from source.
git clone https://github.com/Plume-org/Plume.git
cd Plume
# This may take some time as RustUp will download all
# the required Rust components, and Cargo will download
# and compile all dependencies.
cargo build
We may provide precompiled packages and Docker images in the future; if you have experience in these fields and want to help, feel free to discuss this in issues and to propose pull-requests!
Configuring PostgreSQL
You can either run PostgreSQL from the machine that runs Plume, or from another server. We recommend you to use the first setup for development environments, or in production for small instances.
In the first case, just run this command after the PostgreSQL installation, to start it:
service postgresql start
If you want to have two separate machines, run these commands on the database server once you've installed the dependencies mentioned above on both servers:
service postgresql start
su - postgres
createuser -d -P plume
createdb -O plume plume
Running migrations
Migrations are scripts used to update the database. They are run by a tool called Diesel, which can be installed with:
cargo install diesel_cli --no-default-features --features postgres --version '=1.2.0'
Plume should normally run migrations on your behalf as needed, but if you want to run them manually, use the following command:
diesel migration run --database-url postgres://USER:PASSWORD@IP:PORT/DATABASE_NAME
This command may be useful if you decided to use a separate database server.
Starting Plume
First, you'll need to install Plume and the CLI tools to manage your instance.
cargo install && cargo install --path plume-cli
Before starting Plume, you'll need to create a configuration file, called .env
. Here is a sample of what you should put inside.
# The address of the database
# (replace USER, PASSWORD, PORT and DATABASE_NAME with your values)
DB_URL=postgres://USER:PASSWORD@IP:PORT/DATABASE_NAME
# The domain on which your instance will be available
BASE_URL=plu.me
# Secret key used for private cookies and CSRF protection
# You can generate one with `openssl rand -base64 32`
ROCKET_SECRET_KEY=
For more information about what you can put in your .env
, see the documentation about environment variables.
After that, you'll need to setup your instance, and the admin's account.
plm instance new
plm users new --admin
For more information about these commands, and the arguments you can give them, check out their documentaion.
After that, you are almost done, the last thing to do is to create the media directory, where uploads will be stored:
mkdir media
Finally, you can start Plume with:
plume
Docker install
You can use docker
and docker-compose
in order to manage your Plume instance and have it isolated from your host:
git clone git@github.com:Plume-org/Plume.git
cd Plume
cp docs/docker-compose.sample.yml docker-compose.yml
cp docs/docker.sample.env .env
# Build the containers
docker-compose build
# Launch the database
docker-compose up -d postgres
# Run the migrations
docker-compose run --rm plume diesel migration run
# Setup your instance
docker-compose run --rm plume plume instance new
docker-compose run --rm plume plume users new --admin
# Launch your instance for good
docker-compose up -d
Then, you can configure your reverse proxy.
Configuring Nginx
Here is a sample Nginx configuration for a Plume instance (replace blog.example.com
with your domain name):
server {
listen 80;
listen [::]:80;
server_name blog.example.com;
location /.well-known/acme-challenge {}
location / {
return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
}
}
server {
listen 443 ssl http2;
listen [::]:443 ssl http2;
server_name blog.example.org;
access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;
root /home/plume/Plume/ ;
SSLCertificateFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/blog.example.com/cert.pem
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/blog.example.com/privkey.pem
SSLCertificateChainFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/blog.example.com/chain.pem
# for ssl conf: https://cipherli.st/
ssl_protocols TLSv1.2 TLSv1.3;# Requires nginx >= 1.13.0 else use TLSv1.2
ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
ssl_dhparam /etc/letsencrypt/ssl-dhparams.pem;# openssl dhparam -out /etc/letsencrypt/ssl-dhparam.pem 4096
ssl_ciphers ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA512:DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA512:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384;
ssl_ecdh_curve secp384r1; # Requires nginx >= 1.1.0
ssl_session_timeout 10m;
ssl_session_cache shared:SSL:10m;
ssl_session_tickets off; # Requires nginx >= 1.5.9
ssl_stapling on; # Requires nginx >= 1.3.7
ssl_stapling_verify on; # Requires nginx => 1.3.7
resolver 9.9.9.9 80.67.169.12 valid=300s;
resolver_timeout 5s;
add_header Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=63072000; includeSubDomains; preload";
add_header X-Frame-Options DENY;
add_header X-Content-Type-Options nosniff;
add_header X-XSS-Protection "1; mode=block";
add_header Content-Security-Policy "default-src 'self'; frame-ancestors 'self'; frame-src https:";
location ~* \.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif|ico|js|pdf)$ {
add_header Cache-Control "public";
expires 7d;
}
location / {
proxy_pass http://localhost:7878/;
proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
client_max_body_size 10m;
}
}
Configuring Apache
If you prefer Apache, you can use this configuration (here too, replace blog.example.com
with your domain):
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName blog.example.com
Redirect / https://blog.example.com/
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:443>
ServerAdmin admin@example.com
ServerName blog.example.com
<Directory "/home/plume/Plume">
Header always set Referrer-Policy "strict-origin-when-cross-origin"
Header always set Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=31536000"
SSLEngine on
# for cipher conf: https://cipherli.st/
SSLCipherSuite EECDH+AESGCM:EDH+AESGCM:AES256+EECDH:AES256+EDH
SSLProtocol All -SSLv2 -SSLv3 -TLSv1 -TLSv1.1
SSLHonorCipherOrder On
Header always set Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=63072000; includeSubDomains; preload"
Header always set X-Frame-Options DENY
Header always set X-Content-Type-Options nosniff
SSLCompression off
SSLUseStapling on
SSLStaplingCache "shmcb:logs/stapling-cache(150000)"
# Requires Apache >= 2.4.11
SSLSessionTickets Off
SSLCertificateFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/blog.example.com/cert.pem
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/blog.example.com/privkey.pem
SSLCertificateChainFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/blog.example.com/chain.pem
ProxyPreserveHost On
RequestHeader set X-Forwarded-Proto "https"
ProxyPass / http://127.0.0.1:7878/
ProxyPassReverse / http://127.0.0.1:7878/
</VirtualHost>
Systemd integration
If you want to manage your Plume instance with systemd, you can use the following unit file (to be saved in /etc/systemd/system/plume.service
):
[Unit]
Description=plume
[Service]
Type=simple
User=plume
WorkingDirectory=/home/plume/Plume
ExecStart=/home/plume/.cargo/bin/plume
TimeoutSec=30
Restart=always
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
Now you need to enable all of these services:
systemctl enable /etc/systemd/system/plume.service
Now start the services:
systemctl start plume.service
Check that they are properly running:
systemctl status plume.service
SysVinit integration
This script can also be useful if you are using SysVinit.
#!/bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:
# Required-Start: $remote_fs $syslog
# Required-Stop: $remote_fs $syslog
# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop: 0 1 6
# Short-Description: Start daemon at boot time
# Description: Federated blogging
# Based on https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fhd/init-script-template/master/template
### END INIT INFO
dir="/home/plume/Plume"
cmd="/home/plume/.cargo/bin/plume"
user="plume"
name=`basename $0`
pid_file="/var/run/$name.pid"
stdout_log="/home/plume/Plume/plume.log"
stderr_log="/home/plume/Plume/plume.err"
get_pid() {
cat "$pid_file"
}
is_running() {
[ -f "$pid_file" ] && ps -p `get_pid` > /dev/null 2>&1
}
case "$1" in
start)
if is_running; then
echo "Already started"
else
echo "Starting $name"
cd "$dir"
if [ -z "$user" ]; then
sudo $cmd >> "$stdout_log" 2>> "$stderr_log" &
else
sudo -u "$user" $cmd >> "$stdout_log" 2>> "$stderr_log" &
fi
echo $! > "$pid_file"
if ! is_running; then
echo "Unable to start, see $stdout_log and $stderr_log"
exit 1
fi
fi
;;
stop)
if is_running; then
echo -n "Stopping $name.."
kill `get_pid`
for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
# for i in `seq 10`
do
if ! is_running; then
break
fi
echo -n "."
sleep 1
done
echo
if is_running; then
echo "Not stopped; may still be shutting down or shutdown may have failed"
exit 1
else
echo "Stopped"
if [ -f "$pid_file" ]; then
rm "$pid_file"
fi
fi
else
echo "Not running"
fi
;;
restart)
$0 stop
if is_running; then
echo "Unable to stop, will not attempt to start"
exit 1
fi
$0 start
;;
status)
if is_running; then
echo "Running"
else
echo "Stopped"
exit 1
fi
;;
*)
echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|status}"
exit 1
;;
esac
exit 0
Caveats:
- Pgbouncer is not supported yet (named transactions are used).
- Rust nightly is a moving target, dependancies can break and sometimes you need to check a few versions to find the one working (run
rustup override set nightly-2018-05-15
orrustup override set nightly-2018-05-31
in the Plume directory if you have issues during the compilation) - Rust nightly 2018-06-28 is known to be failing to compile diesel 1.3.2
Acknowledgements
Most of this documentation has been written by gled-rs. The systemd unit file, Nginx and Apache configurations have been written by nonbinaryanargeek. Some parts (especially the instructions to install native dependencies) are from the Aardwolf project. The docker instructions, and files have been added by Eliot Berriot.