/docs/self-hosting/Recent content in Self-Hosting onHugo -- gohugo.ioen-US/docs/self-hosting/getting-started/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000/docs/self-hosting/getting-started/Get started There are two main ways to self-host mCaptcha: Bare metal With Docker With Ansible/docs/self-hosting/bare-metal/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000/docs/self-hosting/bare-metal/2. Configure mcaptcha is highly configurable. Configuration is applied/merged in the following order: path to configuration file passed in via MCAPTCHA_CONFIG ./config/default.toml /etc/mcaptcha/config.toml environment variables. 1. Install postgres if you don’t have it already. For Debian based distributions: 1sudo apt install postgres 2. Create new user for running mcaptcha 1$ sudo useradd -b /srv -m -s /usr/bin/zsh mcaptcha 3. Create new user in Postgres 1$ sudo -iu postgres # switch to `postgres` user 2$ psql 3postgres=# CREATE USER mcaptcha WITH PASSWORD 'my super long password and yes you need single quote`; 4$ createdb -O mcaptcha mcaptcha # create db 'mcaptcha' with 'mcaptcha' as owner 4./docs/self-hosting/ansible/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000/docs/self-hosting/ansible/Ansible playbooks to install mCaptcha are available here. Instructions Installation Clone the repository: 1git clone https://git.batsense.net/mCaptcha/iac && cd iac Create inventory file. You should have SSH access to the remote machine, and the user must have sudo privileges. Example inventory file: 1[mcaptcha_hosts] 2"mcaptcha_hosts" 3<node name> ansible_host=<node IP> ansible_user=<remote username> It is important that the group name be mcaptcha_hosts. Configure installation by editing ansible/vars/mcaptcha/vars.yml. Most parameters have defaults, and the required parameters are annotated./docs/self-hosting/docker/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000/docs/self-hosting/docker/With Docker 1. Configure mcaptcha is highly configurable. Configuration is applied/merged in the following order: path to configuration file passed in via MCAPTCHA_CONFIG ./config/default.toml /etc/mcaptcha/config.toml environment variables. See CONFIGURATION.md for configurable options. 2. Run image If you have already have a Postgres instance running, then: 1docker run -p <host-machine-port>:<port-in-configuration-file> \ 2 --add-host=database:<database-ip-addrss> \ 3 -e RUST_LOG=debug \ 4 -e DATABASE_URL="postgres://<db-user>:<db-password>@database:<db-port>/<db-name>" \ 5 mcaptcha/mcaptcha:latest If you don’t have a Postgres instance running, you can either install one using a package manager or launch one with docker./docs/self-hosting/dependencies/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000/docs/self-hosting/dependencies/Notes Database Database migrations are baked into the server binary so don’t worry about them. When compiling from source, unset database configuration(comment out database configuration/ unset relevant environment variables). mCaptcha uses sqlx database client library which checks SQL queries at compile time. So if you are starting with a fresh database without migrations applied, compilation will fail. Redis Redis is an optional dependency.