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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


If you can use Docker, please see Setup with Docker.

1. Domains

Misskey requires two domains called the primary domain and the secondary domain.

  • The primary domain is used to provide main service of Misskey.
  • The secondary domain is used to avoid vulnerabilities such as XSS.

Ensure that the secondary domain is not a subdomain of the primary domain.

Subdomains

Note that Misskey uses following subdomains:

  • api.{primary domain}
  • auth.{primary domain}
  • docs.{primary domain}
  • ch.{primary domain}
  • stats.{primary domain}
  • status.{primary domain}
  • dev.{primary domain}
  • file.{secondary domain}

2. reCAPTCHA tokens

Misskey requires 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:

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

3. Install dependencies

Please install and setup these softwares:

Dependencies 📦

Optional
  • Elasticsearch - used to provide searching feature instead of MongoDB

4. Install Misskey

  1. git clone -b master git://github.com/syuilo/misskey.git
  2. cd misskey
  3. npm install
  4. npm run build

Update

  1. git reset --hard && git pull origin master
  2. npm install
  3. npm run build

5. That is it.

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

Launch

Just sudo npm start. GLHF!

Testing

Run npm test after building

Debugging 🐛

Show debug messages

Misskey uses debug and the namespace is misskey:*.