fauria/hn

Roll your own Hacker News⁠ clone with this Docker image.

It is based on Anarki⁠, a publicly modifiable 'wiki-like' fork of Arc Lisp⁠.

It allows the customization of the following features:

• Site and parent site URLs
• Site name and description
• Color
• Favicon
• Admin user
• Google Analytics code

Installation from Docker registry hub⁠.

You can download the image using the following command:

docker pull fauria/hn

Environment variables

The customization of the HN clone is done through the following environment variables:

• Variable name: SITE_NAME
• Default value: "My Forum"
• Accepted values: Any string.
• Description: Sets the site name, displayed in the top bar and used as the page title.

• Variable name: SITE_DESCRIPTION
• Default value: "What this site is about."
• Accepted values: Any string.
• Description: Sets the description of the site.

• Variable name: SITE_URL
• Default value: "http://news.example.com⁠"
• Accepted values: Public URL of the site.
• Description: Sets is the main URL of the site.

• Variable name: PARENT_URL
• Default value: "http://www.example.com⁠"
• Accepted values: Any URL.
• Description: Sets is the URL of the parent site, linked through the logo on the top bar. If there is no parent site, use the same value as in SITE_URL.

• Variable name: ADMIN_USER
• Default value: "admin"
• Accepted values: Any valid username.
• Description: Username of the admin user. After launching your site, register an account with that username to get admin privileges.

• Variable name: RGB_COLOR
• Default value: "B4B4B4"
• Accepted values: Any RGB color expressed in hexadecimal, without hash.
• Description: Sets the color for the top bar. Grey by default.

• Variable name: FAVICON_URL
• Default value: "/arc.png"
• Accepted values: Any path or URL.
• Description: Location of the favicon. By default, it uses the same file as the logo.

• Variable name: GA_CODE
• Default value: "disabled"
• Accepted values: A Google Analytics tracking code, such as UA-12345678-9
• Description: If specified, adds a Google Analytics tracking code to the site.

Exposed port and volumes

The image exposes port 8080 and exports two volumes:

• /anarki/static: Static files such as images. UID: 0, GID: 2.
• /anarki/www: User generated content and logs. UID: 0, GID: 2.

Use cases

Create a temporary container for testing purposes:

docker run -i -t --rm -e SITE_URL="http://127.0.0.1/" -e PARENT_URL="http://127.0.0.1/" -p 80:8080 fauria/hn

Create a production container, such as KeyDao⁠:

docker run -e RGB_COLOR="649afa" -e ADMIN_USER=fauria -e SITE_NAME="KeyDao" -e SITE_DESCRIPTION="BlockChain news aggregator" -e SITE_URL="https://keydao.com/" -e PARENT_URL="https://keydao.com/" -e GA_CODE="UA-87936404-1" -p $COREOS_PRIVATE_IPV4:8080 -v /srv/keydao/www:/anarki/www -v /srv/keydao/static:/anarki/static -d --restart=always --name keydao fauria/hn

Note: This container is intended to be used behind a proxy such as Nginx.