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discourse.plugins: Make the updater able to package plugins
Let the update.py script handle the initial, repetitive task of
packaging new plugins. With this in place, the plugin only needs to be
added to the list in `update-plugins` and most of the work will be
done automatically when the script is run. Metadata still needs to be
filled in manually and some packages may of course require additional
work/patching.
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<chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
version="5.0"
xml:id="module-services-discourse">
<title>Discourse</title>
<para>
<link xlink:href="https://www.discourse.org/">Discourse</link> is a
modern and open source discussion platform.
</para>
<section xml:id="module-services-discourse-basic-usage">
<title>Basic usage</title>
<para>
A minimal configuration using Let's Encrypt for TLS certificates looks like this:
<programlisting>
services.discourse = {
<link linkend="opt-services.discourse.enable">enable</link> = true;
<link linkend="opt-services.discourse.hostname">hostname</link> = "discourse.example.com";
admin = {
<link linkend="opt-services.discourse.admin.email">email</link> = "admin@example.com";
<link linkend="opt-services.discourse.admin.username">username</link> = "admin";
<link linkend="opt-services.discourse.admin.fullName">fullName</link> = "Administrator";
<link linkend="opt-services.discourse.admin.passwordFile">passwordFile</link> = "/path/to/password_file";
};
<link linkend="opt-services.discourse.secretKeyBaseFile">secretKeyBaseFile</link> = "/path/to/secret_key_base_file";
};
<link linkend="opt-security.acme.email">security.acme.email</link> = "me@example.com";
<link linkend="opt-security.acme.acceptTerms">security.acme.acceptTerms</link> = true;
</programlisting>
</para>
<para>
Provided a proper DNS setup, you'll be able to connect to the
instance at <literal>discourse.example.com</literal> and log in
using the credentials provided in
<literal>services.discourse.admin</literal>.
</para>
</section>
<section xml:id="module-services-discourse-tls">
<title>Using a regular TLS certificate</title>
<para>
To set up TLS using a regular certificate and key on file, use
the <xref linkend="opt-services.discourse.sslCertificate" />
and <xref linkend="opt-services.discourse.sslCertificateKey" />
options:
<programlisting>
services.discourse = {
<link linkend="opt-services.discourse.enable">enable</link> = true;
<link linkend="opt-services.discourse.hostname">hostname</link> = "discourse.example.com";
<link linkend="opt-services.discourse.sslCertificate">sslCertificate</link> = "/path/to/ssl_certificate";
<link linkend="opt-services.discourse.sslCertificateKey">sslCertificateKey</link> = "/path/to/ssl_certificate_key";
admin = {
<link linkend="opt-services.discourse.admin.email">email</link> = "admin@example.com";
<link linkend="opt-services.discourse.admin.username">username</link> = "admin";
<link linkend="opt-services.discourse.admin.fullName">fullName</link> = "Administrator";
<link linkend="opt-services.discourse.admin.passwordFile">passwordFile</link> = "/path/to/password_file";
};
<link linkend="opt-services.discourse.secretKeyBaseFile">secretKeyBaseFile</link> = "/path/to/secret_key_base_file";
};
</programlisting>
</para>
</section>
<section xml:id="module-services-discourse-database">
<title>Database access</title>
<para>
<productname>Discourse</productname> uses
<productname>PostgreSQL</productname> to store most of its
data. A database will automatically be enabled and a database
and role created unless <xref
linkend="opt-services.discourse.database.host" /> is changed from
its default of <literal>null</literal> or <xref
linkend="opt-services.discourse.database.createLocally" /> is set
to <literal>false</literal>.
</para>
<para>
External database access can also be configured by setting
<xref linkend="opt-services.discourse.database.host" />, <xref
linkend="opt-services.discourse.database.username" /> and <xref
linkend="opt-services.discourse.database.passwordFile" /> as
appropriate. Note that you need to manually create a database
called <literal>discourse</literal> (or the name you chose in
<xref linkend="opt-services.discourse.database.name" />) and
allow the configured database user full access to it.
</para>
</section>
<section xml:id="module-services-discourse-mail">
<title>Email</title>
<para>
In addition to the basic setup, you'll want to configure an SMTP
server <productname>Discourse</productname> can use to send user
registration and password reset emails, among others. You can
also optionally let <productname>Discourse</productname> receive
email, which enables people to reply to threads and conversations
via email.
</para>
<para>
A basic setup which assumes you want to use your configured <link
linkend="opt-services.discourse.hostname">hostname</link> as
email domain can be done like this:
<programlisting>
services.discourse = {
<link linkend="opt-services.discourse.enable">enable</link> = true;
<link linkend="opt-services.discourse.hostname">hostname</link> = "discourse.example.com";
<link linkend="opt-services.discourse.sslCertificate">sslCertificate</link> = "/path/to/ssl_certificate";
<link linkend="opt-services.discourse.sslCertificateKey">sslCertificateKey</link> = "/path/to/ssl_certificate_key";
admin = {
<link linkend="opt-services.discourse.admin.email">email</link> = "admin@example.com";
<link linkend="opt-services.discourse.admin.username">username</link> = "admin";
<link linkend="opt-services.discourse.admin.fullName">fullName</link> = "Administrator";
<link linkend="opt-services.discourse.admin.passwordFile">passwordFile</link> = "/path/to/password_file";
};
mail.outgoing = {
<link linkend="opt-services.discourse.mail.outgoing.serverAddress">serverAddress</link> = "smtp.emailprovider.com";
<link linkend="opt-services.discourse.mail.outgoing.port">port</link> = 587;
<link linkend="opt-services.discourse.mail.outgoing.username">username</link> = "user@emailprovider.com";
<link linkend="opt-services.discourse.mail.outgoing.passwordFile">passwordFile</link> = "/path/to/smtp_password_file";
};
<link linkend="opt-services.discourse.mail.incoming.enable">mail.incoming.enable</link> = true;
<link linkend="opt-services.discourse.secretKeyBaseFile">secretKeyBaseFile</link> = "/path/to/secret_key_base_file";
};
</programlisting>
This assumes you have set up an MX record for the address you've
set in <link linkend="opt-services.discourse.hostname">hostname</link> and
requires proper SPF, DKIM and DMARC configuration to be done for
the domain you're sending from, in order for email to be reliably delivered.
</para>
<para>
If you want to use a different domain for your outgoing email
(for example <literal>example.com</literal> instead of
<literal>discourse.example.com</literal>) you should set
<xref linkend="opt-services.discourse.mail.notificationEmailAddress" /> and
<xref linkend="opt-services.discourse.mail.contactEmailAddress" /> manually.
</para>
<note>
<para>
Setup of TLS for incoming email is currently only configured
automatically when a regular TLS certificate is used, i.e. when
<xref linkend="opt-services.discourse.sslCertificate" /> and
<xref linkend="opt-services.discourse.sslCertificateKey" /> are
set.
</para>
</note>
</section>
<section xml:id="module-services-discourse-settings">
<title>Additional settings</title>
<para>
Additional site settings and backend settings, for which no
explicit <productname>NixOS</productname> options are provided,
can be set in <xref linkend="opt-services.discourse.siteSettings" /> and
<xref linkend="opt-services.discourse.backendSettings" /> respectively.
</para>
<section xml:id="module-services-discourse-site-settings">
<title>Site settings</title>
<para>
<quote>Site settings</quote> are the settings that can be
changed through the <productname>Discourse</productname>
UI. Their <emphasis>default</emphasis> values can be set using
<xref linkend="opt-services.discourse.siteSettings" />.
</para>
<para>
Settings are expressed as a Nix attribute set which matches the
structure of the configuration in
<link xlink:href="https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/config/site_settings.yml">config/site_settings.yml</link>.
To find a setting's path, you only need to care about the first
two levels; i.e. its category (e.g. <literal>login</literal>)
and name (e.g. <literal>invite_only</literal>).
</para>
<para>
Settings containing secret data should be set to an attribute
set containing the attribute <literal>_secret</literal> - a
string pointing to a file containing the value the option
should be set to. See the example.
</para>
</section>
<section xml:id="module-services-discourse-backend-settings">
<title>Backend settings</title>
<para>
Settings are expressed as a Nix attribute set which matches the
structure of the configuration in
<link xlink:href="https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/stable/config/discourse_defaults.conf">config/discourse.conf</link>.
Empty parameters can be defined by setting them to
<literal>null</literal>.
</para>
</section>
<section xml:id="module-services-discourse-settings-example">
<title>Example</title>
<para>
The following example sets the title and description of the
<productname>Discourse</productname> instance and enables
<productname>GitHub</productname> login in the site settings,
and changes a few request limits in the backend settings:
<programlisting>
services.discourse = {
<link linkend="opt-services.discourse.enable">enable</link> = true;
<link linkend="opt-services.discourse.hostname">hostname</link> = "discourse.example.com";
<link linkend="opt-services.discourse.sslCertificate">sslCertificate</link> = "/path/to/ssl_certificate";
<link linkend="opt-services.discourse.sslCertificateKey">sslCertificateKey</link> = "/path/to/ssl_certificate_key";
admin = {
<link linkend="opt-services.discourse.admin.email">email</link> = "admin@example.com";
<link linkend="opt-services.discourse.admin.username">username</link> = "admin";
<link linkend="opt-services.discourse.admin.fullName">fullName</link> = "Administrator";
<link linkend="opt-services.discourse.admin.passwordFile">passwordFile</link> = "/path/to/password_file";
};
mail.outgoing = {
<link linkend="opt-services.discourse.mail.outgoing.serverAddress">serverAddress</link> = "smtp.emailprovider.com";
<link linkend="opt-services.discourse.mail.outgoing.port">port</link> = 587;
<link linkend="opt-services.discourse.mail.outgoing.username">username</link> = "user@emailprovider.com";
<link linkend="opt-services.discourse.mail.outgoing.passwordFile">passwordFile</link> = "/path/to/smtp_password_file";
};
<link linkend="opt-services.discourse.mail.incoming.enable">mail.incoming.enable</link> = true;
<link linkend="opt-services.discourse.siteSettings">siteSettings</link> = {
required = {
title = "My Cats";
site_description = "Discuss My Cats (and be nice plz)";
};
login = {
enable_github_logins = true;
github_client_id = "a2f6dfe838cb3206ce20";
github_client_secret._secret = /run/keys/discourse_github_client_secret;
};
};
<link linkend="opt-services.discourse.backendSettings">backendSettings</link> = {
max_reqs_per_ip_per_minute = 300;
max_reqs_per_ip_per_10_seconds = 60;
max_asset_reqs_per_ip_per_10_seconds = 250;
max_reqs_per_ip_mode = "warn+block";
};
<link linkend="opt-services.discourse.secretKeyBaseFile">secretKeyBaseFile</link> = "/path/to/secret_key_base_file";
};
</programlisting>
</para>
<para>
In the resulting site settings file, the
<literal>login.github_client_secret</literal> key will be set
to the contents of the
<filename>/run/keys/discourse_github_client_secret</filename>
file.
</para>
</section>
</section>
<section xml:id="module-services-discourse-plugins">
<title>Plugins</title>
<para>
You can install <productname>Discourse</productname> plugins
using the <xref linkend="opt-services.discourse.plugins" />
option. Pre-packaged plugins are provided in
<literal>&lt;your_discourse_package_here&gt;.plugins</literal>. If
you want the full suite of plugins provided through
<literal>nixpkgs</literal>, you can also set the <xref
linkend="opt-services.discourse.package" /> option to
<literal>pkgs.discourseAllPlugins</literal>.
</para>
<para>
Plugins can be built with the
<literal>&lt;your_discourse_package_here&gt;.mkDiscoursePlugin</literal>
function. Normally, it should suffice to provide a
<literal>name</literal> and <literal>src</literal> attribute. If
the plugin has Ruby dependencies, however, they need to be
packaged in accordance with the <link
xlink:href="https://nixos.org/manual/nixpkgs/stable/#developing-with-ruby">Developing
with Ruby</link> section of the Nixpkgs manual and the
appropriate gem options set in <literal>bundlerEnvArgs</literal>
(normally <literal>gemdir</literal> is sufficient). A plugin's
Ruby dependencies are listed in its
<filename>plugin.rb</filename> file as function calls to
<literal>gem</literal>. To construct the corresponding
<filename>Gemfile</filename> manually, run <command>bundle
init</command>, then add the <literal>gem</literal> lines to it
verbatim.
</para>
<para>
Much of the packaging can be done automatically by the
<filename>nixpkgs/pkgs/servers/web-apps/discourse/update.py</filename>
script - just add the plugin to the <literal>plugins</literal>
list in the <function>update_plugins</function> function and run
the script:
<programlisting language="bash">
./update.py update-plugins
</programlisting>.
</para>
<para>
Some plugins provide <link
linkend="module-services-discourse-site-settings">site
settings</link>. Their defaults can be configured using <xref
linkend="opt-services.discourse.siteSettings" />, just like
regular site settings. To find the names of these settings, look
in the <literal>config/settings.yml</literal> file of the plugin
repo.
</para>
<para>
For example, to add the <link
xlink:href="https://github.com/discourse/discourse-spoiler-alert">discourse-spoiler-alert</link>
and <link
xlink:href="https://github.com/discourse/discourse-solved">discourse-solved</link>
plugins, and disable <literal>discourse-spoiler-alert</literal>
by default:
<programlisting>
services.discourse = {
<link linkend="opt-services.discourse.enable">enable</link> = true;
<link linkend="opt-services.discourse.hostname">hostname</link> = "discourse.example.com";
<link linkend="opt-services.discourse.sslCertificate">sslCertificate</link> = "/path/to/ssl_certificate";
<link linkend="opt-services.discourse.sslCertificateKey">sslCertificateKey</link> = "/path/to/ssl_certificate_key";
admin = {
<link linkend="opt-services.discourse.admin.email">email</link> = "admin@example.com";
<link linkend="opt-services.discourse.admin.username">username</link> = "admin";
<link linkend="opt-services.discourse.admin.fullName">fullName</link> = "Administrator";
<link linkend="opt-services.discourse.admin.passwordFile">passwordFile</link> = "/path/to/password_file";
};
mail.outgoing = {
<link linkend="opt-services.discourse.mail.outgoing.serverAddress">serverAddress</link> = "smtp.emailprovider.com";
<link linkend="opt-services.discourse.mail.outgoing.port">port</link> = 587;
<link linkend="opt-services.discourse.mail.outgoing.username">username</link> = "user@emailprovider.com";
<link linkend="opt-services.discourse.mail.outgoing.passwordFile">passwordFile</link> = "/path/to/smtp_password_file";
};
<link linkend="opt-services.discourse.mail.incoming.enable">mail.incoming.enable</link> = true;
<link linkend="opt-services.discourse.mail.incoming.enable">plugins</link> = with config.services.discourse.package.plugins; [
discourse-spoiler-alert
discourse-solved
];
<link linkend="opt-services.discourse.siteSettings">siteSettings</link> = {
plugins = {
spoiler_enabled = false;
};
};
<link linkend="opt-services.discourse.secretKeyBaseFile">secretKeyBaseFile</link> = "/path/to/secret_key_base_file";
};
</programlisting>
</para>
</section>
</chapter>