nntpchan/doc/setting-up.md

Configuring NNTPChan
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This document provides a step-by-step guide to configurin your NNTPChan node.

## Configuring via web-interface (WIP)

You can configure NNTPChan via the web-interface by navigating your browser to http://127.0.0.1:18000.

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### Selecting your data-storage system

![Image 1](http://i.imgur.com/l9iiXxB.png)

First your will be asked what data-storage system you would like to use. We support Redis and Postgres. Below we have configuration information for both Redis and Postgres.

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#### Postgres configuration

![Image 3](http://i.imgur.com/WPXedZB.png)

**First** [Install and Configure Postgres database](database/postgres/configure-postgres.md).
**Then** fill in the fields below:

* **Hostname or IP Address** - This is the hostname or IP address of your Postres server (I would run it locally on 127.0.0.1 to be safe).
* **Port number** - This is the port that your Postgres server is running on.
* **Username** - The username for Postgres.
* **Password** - The password for Postgres.

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### Configuring the NNTP server

![Image 4](http://i.imgur.com/FXxShtu.png)

Fill in the fields required for the NNTP server.

* **Name of NNTP instance** - What is the significamce of this name.
* **Allow attachements** - Check the box if you want people to be able to add attachements to posts.
* **Allow anonymous posters** - Check the box if you want to allow anonymous posters.
* **Allow attachments from anonymous posters** - Check the box if you want to allow anonymous posters to add attachments to their posts.
* **Require TLS for incoming connections** - Check the box if NNTP connections must be encrypted and authenticated with TLS (highly recommended).

### Configuring TLS

![Image 5](http://i.imgur.com/EjkrjTT.png)

Fill in the fields required for the TLS security system.

* **Hostname or IP address** - Represents the `Common Name (CN)` in the TLS certificate
* **TLS keyname** - Represents the `Organization (O)` in the TLS certificate. Most nodes use `overchan`.

### Set paths to external programs

![Image 6](http://i.imgur.com/hBXYJDo.png)

NNTPChan needs to know the paths to the listed programs on your system.

* **convert path** - Path to the `convert` program.
* **ffmpeg path** - Path to the `ffmpeg` program.
* **sox path** - Path to the `sox` program.

## Manual configuration (WIP)

Check out the following in order:

1. Setting up data-storage system (choose i or ii)

1. [Setting up using Postgres](database/postgres/configure-postgres.md)
2. [Setting up NNTPChan system](srnd.md)
3. [Setting up feeds](feeds.md)