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Monaba

Anonymouse imageboard engine written in Haskell and powered by Yesod. Demo board.

It is experimental software and hardly ready for use in the real world.

Features

• Multiple file attachment
• File censorship ratings SFW/R-15/R-18/R-18G
• AJAX posting
• Live update based on Server-Send Events
• Answer map and previews
• Thread and image expanding
• Thread hiding
• Post deletion and editing by user
• Prooflabes as replacement of tripcodes
• Kusaba-like formatting with code highlighting and LaTeX support
• Internationalization
• Country flag support
• Antigate-resistant CAPTCHA
• Responsive design
• Switchable stylesheets
• YouTube and pleer.com embedding
• Works fine with JavaScript disabled
• Rudimental JSON API
• Administration
  • Hellbanning
  • Banning by IP
  • Thread moderation by OP
  • Flexible account system with customizable groups and permissions
  • Ability to stick and lock threads and to put on auto-sage
  • Moving threads between boards
  • Modlog which allows to view previous actions

Dependencies

• GHC >= 7.6
• PHP 5
• Imagemagick library
• PostgreSQL >= 9.1

Installation

git clone https://github.com/ahushh/Monaba
cd Monaba

Setup PostgreSQL user and password in config/postgresql.yml

Application root, port, site name and other settings you can change in config/settings.yml

Download GeoIPCity:

wget http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/GeoLiteCity.dat.gz
gzip -d GeoLiteCity.dat.gz
cp GeoLiteCity.dat /usr/share/GeoIP/GeoIPCity.dat

Or it can be installed from repositories. You can change the path in config/settings.yml

Download GeSHi:

wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/geshi/files/geshi/GeSHi%201.0.8.11/GeSHi-1.0.8.11.tar.gz
tar -zxvf GeSHi-1.0.8.11.tar.gz
mv geshi /your/path/to/geshi

Set your path to GeSHi in highlight.php

Install all required packages (apt based distros):

apt-get install ghc php5 imagemagick libmagickwand-dev libmagickcore-dev postgresql
apt-get install cabal-install zlibc libpcre++-dev libpcre3 libpcre3-dev libgeoip-dev libcrypto++-dev libssl-dev postgresql-server-dev-9.1

Using already compiled binary:

Download Monaba-[your-arch]-[your-platform].7z here and unpack to dist/build/Monaba/

Be aware that it might be quite old.

Manual building:

cabal update
cabal sandbox init
cabal install --only-dependencies
cabal clean && cabal configure && cabal build

You may also want to change meta tags such as description and keywords in templates/default-layout-wrapper.hamlet. Do it before building.

Run:

Create a database:

psql -U postgres -c 'create database monaba_production';

Run the application to initialize database schema:

./dist/build/Monaba/Monaba production

Open another terminal and fill database with default values:

 psql -U postgres monaba_production < init-db.sql

You are done. Open http://localhost:3000 and navigate to manage page and use "admin" both for username and for password to log in.

Deployment

See extra/nginx.conf example if you want to use Nginx as reverse proxy.

For systemd users: extra/monaba.service

Coming soon…