1 ViChan - A lightweight and full featured PHP imageboard.
2 ========================================================
7 *Security problems can be reported to Fredrick Brennan at his email: COPYPASTE \<AT\> KITTENS \<DOT\> PH.*
11 vichan is a fork of (now defunc'd) [Tinyboard](http://github.com/savetheinternet/Tinyboard),
12 a great imageboard package, actively building on it and adding a lot of features and other
15 Some documentation may be found on our [wiki](https://github.com/vichan-devel/vichan/wiki). (feel free to contribute)
20 2. MySQL/MariaDB server
21 3. [mbstring](http://www.php.net/manual/en/mbstring.installation.php)
22 4. [PHP GD](http://www.php.net/manual/en/intro.image.php)
23 5. [PHP PDO](http://www.php.net/manual/en/intro.pdo.php)
24 6. A Unix-like OS, preferrably FreeBSD or Linux.
25 Notes. ViQa is developed on Ubuntu18.04 with an Ubuntu18.04 VPS Server
27 We try to make sure vichan is compatible with all major web servers. vichan does not include an Apache ```.htaccess``` file nor does it need one.
30 1. MySQL/MariaDB server >= 5.5.3
31 2. ImageMagick (command-line ImageMagick or GraphicsMagick preferred).
32 3. [APC (Alternative PHP Cache)](http://php.net/manual/en/book.apc.php),
33 [XCache](http://xcache.lighttpd.net/) or
34 [Memcached](http://www.php.net/manual/en/intro.memcached.php)
38 You can contribute to vichan by:
39 * Developing patches/improvements/translations and using GitHub to submit pull requests
40 * Providing feedback and suggestions
41 * Writing/editing documentation
45 1. Download and extract vichan to your web directory or get the latest
46 development version with:
48 git clone git://github.com/vichan-devel/vichan.git
50 2. Navigate to ```install.php``` in your web browser and follow the
52 3. vichan should now be installed. Log in to ```mod.php``` with the
53 default username and password combination: **admin / password**.
55 Please remember to change the administrator account password.
57 See also: [Configuration Basics](https://web.archive.org/web/20121003095922/http://tinyboard.org/docs/?p=Config).
63 To upgrade from any version of Tinyboard or vichan:
65 Either run ```git pull``` to update your files, if you used git, or
66 backup your ```inc/instance-config.php```, replace all your files in place
67 (don't remove boards etc.), then put ```inc/instance-config.php``` back and
68 finally run ```install.php```.
70 To migrate from a Kusaba X board, use http://github.com/vichan-devel/Tinyboard-Migration
74 vichan is still beta software -- there are bound to be bugs. If you find a
75 bug, please report it.
79 There are a few command line interface tools, based on Tinyboard-Tools. These need
80 to be launched from a Unix shell account (SSH, or something). They are located in a ```tools/```
83 You actually don't need these tools for your imageboard functioning, they are aimed
84 at the power users. You won't be able to run these from shared hosting accounts
85 (i.e. all free web servers).
89 vichan makes use of [wPaint](https://github.com/websanova/wPaint) for oekaki. After you pull the repository, however, you will need to download wPaint separately using git's `submodule` feature. Use the following commands:
96 To enable oekaki, add all the scripts listed in `js/wpaint.js` to your `instance-config.php`.
100 Read `inc/lib/webm/README.md` for information about enabling webm.
104 vichan provides by default a 4chan-compatible JSON API. For documentation on this, see:
105 https://github.com/vichan-devel/vichan-API/ .
109 See [LICENSE.md](http://github.com/vichan-devel/vichan/blob/master/LICENSE.md).