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Generate image URLs relative to the site's canonical URL instead of relative to the domain of the current request. This means that all subdomains of Danbooru - safebooru.donmai.us, shima.donmai.us, saitou.donmai.us, and kagamihara.donmai.us - will use image URLs from https://danbooru.donmai.us, instead of from the current domain. The main reason we did this before was so that we could generate either http:// or https:// image URLs, depending on whether the current request was HTTP or HTTPS, back when we tried to support both at the same time. Now we support only HTTPS in production, so there's no need for this. It was also pretty hacky, since it required storing the URL of the current request in a per-request global variable in `CurrentUser`. This also improves caching slightly, since users of safebooru.donmai.us will receive cached images from danbooru.donmai.us. Downstream boorus should make sure that the `canonical_url` and `storage_manager` config options are set correctly. If you don't support https:// in development, you should make sure to set the canonical_url option to http:// instead of https://.
Installation
It is recommended that you install Danbooru on a Debian-based system since most of the required packages are available on APT. Danbooru has been successfully installed on Fedora, CentOS, FreeBSD, and OS X. The INSTALL.debian install script is straightforward and should be simple to adapt for other platforms.
For best performance, you will need at least 256MB of RAM for PostgreSQL and Rails. The memory requirement will grow as your database gets bigger.
On production Danbooru uses PostgreSQL 9.4, but any 9.x release should work.
Use your operating system's package management system whenever possible. This will simplify the process of installing init scripts, which will not always happen when compiling from source.
Troubleshooting
These instructions won't work for everyone. If your setup is not working, here are the steps I usually recommend to people:
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Test the database. Make sure you can connect to it using psql. Make sure the tables exist. If this fails, you need to work on correctly installing PostgreSQL, importing the initial schema, and running the migrations.
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Test the Rails database connection by using rails console. Run Post.count to make sure Rails can connect to the database. If this fails, you need to make sure your Danbooru configuration files are correct.
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Test Nginx to make sure it's working correctly. You may need to debug your Nginx configuration file.
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Check all log files.
Services
Danbooru employs numerous external services to delegate some functionality.
For development purposes, you can just run mocked version of these
services. They're available in scripts/mock_services and can be started
automatically using Foreman and the provided Procfile.
Amazon Web Services
In order to enable the following features, you will need an AWS SQS account:
- Pool versions
- Post versions
- IQDB
- Saved searches
- Related tags
Google APIs
The following features requires a Google API account:
- Bulk revert
- Post versions report
IQDB Service
IQDB integration is delegated to the IQDBS service.
Archive Service
In order to access versioned data for pools and posts you will need to install and configure the Archives service.
Reportbooru Service
The following features are delegated to the Reportbooru service:
- Related tags
- Missed searches report
- Popular searches report
- Favorite searches
- Upload trend graphs
Recommender Service
Post recommendations require the Recommender service.
Cropped Thumbnails
There's optional support for cropped thumbnails. This relies on installing
libvips-8.6 or higher and setting Danbooru.config.enable_image_cropping
to true.