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Misskey Setup and Installation Guide

We thank you for your interest in setting up your Misskey server! This guide describes how to install and setup Misskey.

Japanese version also available - 日本語版もあります

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1. Create Misskey user

Running misskey on root is not a good idea so we create a user for that. In debian for exemple :

adduser --disabled-password --disabled-login misskey

2. Install dependencies

Please install and setup these softwares:

Dependencies 📦

• Node.js
• MongoDB >= 3.6
• Redis

Optional

• Elasticsearch - used to provide searching feature instead of MongoDB

3. Setup MongoDB

In root :

1. mongo Go to the mongo shell
2. use misskey Use the misskey database
3. db.users.save( {dummy:"dummy"} ) Write dummy data to initialize the db.
4. db.createUser( { user: "misskey", pwd: "<password>", roles: [ { role: "readWrite", db: "misskey" } ] } ) Create the misskey user.
5. exit You're done !

4. Install Misskey

1. su - misskey Connect to misskey user.
2. git clone -b master git://github.com/syuilo/misskey.git Clone the misskey repo from master branch.
3. cd misskey Navigate to misskey directory
4. git checkout $(git tag -l | grep -v 'rc[0-9]*$' | sort -V | tail -n 1) Checkout to the latest release
5. npm install Install misskey dependencies.

(optional) reCAPTCHA tokens

If you want to enable reCAPTCHA, you need to generate reCAPTCHA tokens: Please visit https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/ and generate keys.

(optional) Generating VAPID keys

If you want to enable ServiceWroker, you need to generate VAPID keys: Unless you have set your global node_modules location elsewhere, you need to run this in root.

npm install web-push -g
web-push generate-vapid-keys

(optional) Create a twitter application

If you want to enable the twitter integration, you need to create a twitter app at https://developer.twitter.com/en/apply/user.

In the app you need to set the oauth callback url as : https://misskey-instance/api/tw/cb

5. Make configuration file

1. cp .config/example.yml .config/default.yml Copy the .config/example.yml and rename it to default.yml.
2. Edit default.yml

6. Build Misskey

Build misskey with the following:

npm run build

If you're on Debian, you will need to install the build-essential package.

If you're still encountering errors about some modules, use node-gyp:

1. npm install -g node-gyp
2. node-gyp configure
3. node-gyp build
4. npm run build

7. That is it.

Well done! Now, you have an environment that run to Misskey.

Launch normally

Just npm start. GLHF!

Launch with systemd

1. Create a systemd service here: /etc/systemd/system/misskey.service
2. Edit it, and paste this and save:

[Unit]
Description=Misskey daemon

[Service]
Type=simple
User=misskey
ExecStart=/usr/bin/npm start
WorkingDirectory=/home/misskey/misskey
TimeoutSec=60
StandardOutput=syslog
StandardError=syslog
SyslogIdentifier=misskey
Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

3. systemctl daemon-reload ; systemctl enable misskey Reload systemd and enable the misskey service.
4. systemctl start misskey Start the misskey service.

You can check if the service is running with systemctl status misskey.

Way to Update to latest version of your Misskey

1. git fetch
2. git checkout $(git tag -l | grep -v 'rc[0-9]*$' | sort -V | tail -n 1)
3. npm install
4. npm run build

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If you have any questions or troubles, feel free to contact us!