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vichan - A lightweight and full featured PHP imageboard.
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**Vichan was recently taken on by new maintainers. Please stay tuned for updates. The new maintainers at this time are basedgentoo, along with Kuz and Angeleno of KolymaNET**
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**Please do not contact Fredrick Brennan in regards to vichan issues.**
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**A community support board is coming soon. In the meantime you can join our IRC support channel. Connection details are below!**
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As of 29 August 2022 it supports PHP8.1.
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About
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------------
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vichan is a free light-weight, fast, highly configurable and user-friendly
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imageboard software package. It is written in PHP and has few dependencies.
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**For best results, you should use a stable release from the releases page. The master branch is used for development work and testing. You may experience bugs if you use master.**
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For support, feel free to join our [IRC channel](https://chat.kolyma.net/#/connect?channels=vichan) at irc.kolyma.net.
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Some documentation may be found on our [wiki](https://github.com/vichan-devel/vichan/wiki). (feel free to contribute)
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History
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vichan is a fork of (now defunc'd) [Tinyboard](http://github.com/savetheinternet/Tinyboard),
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a great imageboard package, actively building on it and adding a lot of features and other
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improvements.
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### Maintainer timeline
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1. Development Commission lead by [@basedgentoo](https://github.com/basedgentoo), [@kuz-sysadmin](https://github.com/kuz-sysadmin), and [@RealAngeleno](https://github.com/RealAngeleno). (2023 - )
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2. [@h00j](https://github.com/h00j) (2021 - ???)
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3. [@ctrlcctrlv](https://github.com/ctrlcctrlv) (2017 - 2021)
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4. [@czaks](https://github.com/czaks) (2014 - 2017) (The author of vichan fork)
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5. [@savetheinternet](https://github.com/savetheinternet) (2010 - 2014) (The creator of Tinyboard)
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Requirements
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1. PHP >= 5.4 (we still try to keep compatibility with php 5.3 as much as possible)
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PHP 7.0 is explicitly supported. PHP 7.2 works as well, but may cause as yet unreported bugs.
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2. MySQL/MariaDB server
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3. [mbstring](http://www.php.net/manual/en/mbstring.installation.php)
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4. [PHP GD](http://www.php.net/manual/en/intro.image.php)
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5. [PHP PDO](http://www.php.net/manual/en/intro.pdo.php)
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6. A Unix-like OS, preferrably FreeBSD or GNU/Linux
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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.
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### Recommended
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1. MySQL/MariaDB server >= 5.5.3
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2. ImageMagick (command-line ImageMagick or GraphicsMagick preferred).
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3. ~~[APC (Alternative PHP Cache)](http://php.net/manual/en/book.apc.php)~~,
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[APCu (Alternative PHP Cache)](http://php.net/manual/en/book.apcu.php),
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[XCache](http://xcache.lighttpd.net/),
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[Memcached](http://www.php.net/manual/en/intro.memcached.php) or
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[Redis](https://redis.io/docs/about/)
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Contributing
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------------
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You can contribute to vichan by:
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* Developing patches/improvements/translations and using GitHub to submit pull requests
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* Providing feedback and suggestions
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* Writing/editing documentation
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Installation
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1. Download and extract vichan to your web directory or get the latest
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development version with:
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git clone git://github.com/vichan-devel/vichan.git
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2. run ```composer install``` inside the directory
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3. Navigate to ```install.php``` in your web browser and follow the
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prompts.
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4. vichan should now be installed. Log in to ```mod.php``` with the
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default username and password combination: **admin / password**.
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Please remember to change the administrator account password.
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See also: [Configuration Basics](https://github.com/vichan-devel/vichan/wiki/config).
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Upgrade
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-------
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To upgrade from any version of Tinyboard or vichan:
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Either run ```git pull``` to update your files, if you used git, or
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backup your ```inc/instance-config.php```, replace all your files in place
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(don't remove boards etc.), then put ```inc/instance-config.php``` back and
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finally run ```install.php```.
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To migrate from a Kusaba X board, use http://github.com/vichan-devel/Tinyboard-Migration
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Demo
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Demo with the most updated version of [Vichan](https://vichan.27chan.org).
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1. PHP 8.1
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2. MySQL 5.7
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3. KeyDB 6.2.1 (Redis)
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4. NGINX 1.14.0
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Support
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vichan is still beta software -- there are bound to be bugs. If you find a
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bug, please report it.
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CLI tools
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-----------------
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There are a few command line interface tools, based on Tinyboard-Tools. These need
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to be launched from a Unix shell account (SSH, or something). They are located in a ```tools/```
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directory.
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You actually don't need these tools for your imageboard functioning, they are aimed
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at the power users. You won't be able to run these from shared hosting accounts
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(i.e. all free web servers).
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Oekaki
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------
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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:
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```
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git submodule init
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git submodule update
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```
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To enable oekaki, add all the scripts listed in `js/wpaint.js` to your `instance-config.php`.
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WebM support
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Read `inc/lib/webm/README.md` for information about enabling webm.
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vichan API
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vichan provides by default a 4chan-compatible JSON API. For documentation on this, see:
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https://github.com/vichan-devel/vichan-API/ .
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License
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--------
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See [LICENSE.md](http://github.com/vichan-devel/vichan/blob/master/LICENSE.md).
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