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These are general guidelines on how to stand-up your own Gemmit instance.

Build

Requirements

Go 1.16

If 1.16 is not available in your repo (as is with ubuntu)

you may manually install it

git clone https://github.com/t-900-a/gemmit.git

cd gemmit

go build .

chmod +x gemmit

sudo cp gemmit /usr/local/bin

cd cmd/fetchentries

go build .

chmod +x fetchentries

sudo cp fetchentries /usr/local/bin

cd ../fetchmonero

go build .

chmod +x fetchmonero

sudo cp fetchmonero /usr/local/bin

Certs

You may need to chmod and/or adjust chown certs, so that the server can read the certs.

mkdir /var/lib/gemini/

mkdir /var/lib/gemini/certs

cd /var/lib/gemini/certs

openssl req -x509 -newkey rsa:4096 -keyout key.rsa -out cert.pem -days 99999 -nodes

Database

Postgres quickstart

Crons

Shell scripts are intended to be ran via a cron job

Example crontab

*/5 * * * * /home/gemmit/gemmit_babysitter.sh

*/13 * * * * /home/gemmit/fetchmonero.sh

0 5,17 * * * /home/gemmit/fetchentries.sh

gemmit_babysitter.sh : ensures gemmit server is running, if not it will start it

fetchmonero.sh : Refreshes the Monero transactions for all feeds

fetchentries.sh : Refreshes the entries for each feed