Gochan is an imageboard server with a backend written in Go. It works in a manner similar to Kusaba X, Tinyboard and others. As such, Gochan generates static HTML files which can optionally be served by a separate web server.
2. Copy gochan.example.json to either gochan.json or (if you're in a UNIX-like OS) /etc/gochan/gochan.json and modify it as needed. See the Configuration section for more info.
3. If you're using nginx, copy gochan-http.nginx, or gochan-fastcgi.nginx if `UseFastCGI` is set to true to /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/, or the appropriate folder in Windows.
4. If you're using a Linux distribution with systemd, you can optionally copy gochan.service to /lib/systemd/system/gochan.service and run `systemctl enable gochan.service` to have it run on startup. Then run `systemctl start gochan.service` to start it as a background service.
1. If you aren't using a distro with systemd, you can start a screen session and run `/path/to/gochan`
5. Go to http://[gochan url]/manage/staff, log in (default username/password is admin/password), and create a new admin user (and any other staff users as necessary). Then delete the admin user for security.
Gochan has a built-in [Lua](https://lua.org) interpreter and an event system to allow for extending your Gochan instance's functionality. See [events_triggered.md](./events_triggered.md) for a list of events and information about when they are used.
If you run gochan v3.0 or newer and get a message telling you that your database is out of date, please run gochan-migration -updatedb. If this does not work, please contact the developers.
1. Install Vagrant and Virtualbox. Vagrant lets you create a virtual machine and run a custom setup/installation script to make installation easier and faster.
2. From the command line, cd into vagrant/ and run `vagrant up`. By default, MariaDB (a MySQL fork that most Linux distributions are defaulting to) is used, but if you want to test with a different SQL type, run `GC_DBTYPE=dbtype vagrant up`, replacing "dbtype" with either mysql or postgresql
- **Note on MySQL:** While MariaDB and mainline MySQL are very similar, there are a few features that MariaDB has that MySQL lacks that may cause issues. To specifically use the mainline MySQL server, run `GC_MYSQL_MAINLINE=1 vagrant up`
1. Install go, the vs-go extention and gcc (I think, let me know if you need something else)
2. Install either postgreSQL or mariaDB. Setup a database with an account and enter the ip:post and login information into the gochan.json config. See "Configuration". (Tools like PG admin highly recommended for easy debugging of the database)
3. Set "DebugMode" to true. This will log all logs to the console and disable some checks.
4. Open the folder containing everything in vscode (named gochan most likely), go to "Run"
1. Select "gochan" if you wish to run/debug the website itself
