How do I host a kbin instance on NixOS?

pumpkin, 11 months ago

You've probably found it, but in the off chance you haven't, it seems there's an issue on the nixpkgs repo for getting kbin packaged.

baduhai, 11 months ago

You'll probably want to write a derivation for kbin, then write a nixos module that configures a systemd service to manage kbin as a system service.

kotatsuyaki, 11 months ago

There is a NixOS module for Lemmy, and it's usage is documented in the NixOS manual. To quote the minimal example from the manual:

services.lemmy = {
  enable = true;
  settings = {
    hostname = "lemmy.union.rocks";
    database.createLocally = true;
  };
  caddy.enable = true;
}

kotatsuyaki, 11 months ago

I just saw that you're asking for kbin, not lemmy. The steps probably wouldn't work as-is, and the "correct" way is to create a NixOS module for kbin. Some of the configuration steps (e.g. creating the kbin service user, configuring PHP, configuring Nginx, configuring Let's Encrypt etc.) are supported by NixOS modules in nixpkgs. It's also necessary to package kbin itself, and to create systemd services to run it.

Creating a module requires effort, though, and I'd rather use a container to deploy it for simplicity, if it were me.

Klaymore, 11 months ago

There's actually an entry in the NixOS manual about enabling Lemmy, but it seems a little short. I would also look at the available Lemmy options and try messing around with those if it doesn't work.

There's also a wiki page about it, but from first glance it seems overly complicated and way more than you should need to do. If the other things don't work you can take a look at this, but I don't think you should need it.

eneff, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

Lemmy is packaged already, and you can find configuration options here.

kbin is not packaged yet, thus there are no configuration options for it.

There currently is an open issue requesting it to be packaged here.