A simple 4chan-style imageboard built on Laravel.
- 🧅 Tor - Built in Tor proxy
- 🤖 CAPTCHA - Self-hosted captchas.
- 🚫 No .JS - No front-end JavaScript.
- 🖥 Laravel - Built on Laravel 8
LaraChan can be installed in 5 easy commands.
git clone [email protected]:anthonybudd/LaraChan.git
cd LaraChan
docker-compose up -d
php artisan larachan:install
php artisan serve
To set-up a Raspberry Pi server run the following commands.
git clone [email protected]:anthonybudd/LaraChan.git
cd LaraChan
mv docker-compose.arm64.yml docker-compose.yml
// TOR
git clone [email protected]:anthonybudd/nginx-tor-proxy.git && cd nginx-tor-proxy
docker run -ti --entrypoint="mkp224o" -v $(pwd):/tor larachan_larachan-tor-proxy -n 1 -S 10 -d /tor [FILTER]
mv *.onion web
chmod 700 web
sed -ie 's#xxxxx.onion#'"$(cat web/hostname)"'#g' nginx/tor.conf
cat web/hostname
cd ..
docker-compose build
docker run -it --rm -v $(pwd):/app larachan_larachan composer install
docker-compose up
docker exec -it larachan php artisan larachan:install --platform=pi
LaraChan comes with some commands to make managing your imageboard easy.
To populate your instance with fake data run the command
php artisan larachan:populate
If you would like an automatically updating live view of all of the most popular threads on your imageboard use the command
php artisan larachan:monitor {--threads=5} {--replies=5}
List all the current boards
php artisan larachan:boards
To create a new board run
php artisan larachan:create-board {boardName} {boardTitle} {about?}
Example
php artisan larachan:create-board pol "Politically Incorrect"
To delete a board
php artisan larachan:delete-board {boardName}
To delete a thread
php artisan larachan:delete-thread {uuid}
To delete a reply
php artisan larachan:delete-reply {uuid}
LaraChan is still in active development.
- Admin Interface
- IPFS integration
- API
- Tests
- Fix validation - hacky solution atm, Validator::make()->validate() never returning an error bag? Probable session or Tor issue.