HackMD/docs/setup/manual-setup.md

Manual Installation

Requirements on your server

• Node.js 6.x or up (test up to 7.5.0) and <10.x
• Database (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite, MSSQL) use charset utf8
• npm (and its dependencies, node-gyp)
• libssl-dev for building scrypt (see here for further information)
• For building CodiMD we recommend to use a machine with at least 2GB RAM

Instructions

1. Download a release and unzip or clone into a directory
2. Enter the directory and type bin/setup, which will install npm dependencies and create configs. The setup script is written in Bash, you would need bash as a prerequisite.
3. Setup the configs, see more below
4. Setup environment variables which will overwrite the configs
5. Build front-end bundle by npm run build (use npm run dev if you are in development)
6. Modify the file named .sequelizerc, change the value of the variable url with your db connection string For example: postgres://username:password@localhost:5432/codimd
7. Run node_modules/.bin/sequelize db:migrate, this step will migrate your db to the latest schema
8. Run the server as you like (node, forever, pm2)

How to upgrade your installation

⚠️ When you are still running from the old repository, please run: git remote set-url origin https://github.com/codimd/server.git ⚠️

If you are upgrading CodiMD from an older version, follow these steps:

1. Fully stop your old server first (important)
2. git pull or do whatever that updates the files
3. npm install to update dependencies
4. Build front-end bundle by npm run build (use npm run dev if you are in development)
5. Modify the file named .sequelizerc, change the value of the variable url with your db connection string For example: postgres://username:password@localhost:5432/codimd
6. Run node_modules/.bin/sequelize db:migrate, this step will migrate your db to the latest schema
7. Start your whole new server!