LeanClub

High performance C++ forum system

WARNING: Not recommended for production

DEMO: https://leanclub.org/

Features

1. Extremely Fast , 20000 RPS on i7 iMac.
2. Simple and clean frontend.
3. Full ajax and API.
4. Google GitHub Twitter OAuth sign in.

Minimum Requirements

• GCC 4.8
• CMake 2.8

(Windows is not supported)

Setup

Datebase

1. Install Apache Couchdb
2. Create 4 databases named “category” “notification” “topics” and “user”.
3. Import design docs from “databases” directory.

Environment

1. apt-get install build-essential cmake libcurl4-nss-dev libboost-all-dev redis-server libtcmalloc-minimal4 && sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libtcmalloc_minimal.so.4 /usr/lib/libtcmalloc_minimal.so
2. Install hiredis from sources ( redis3m is already included )

Config

cp src/config.h.example.h src/config.h
vi src/config.h

Build and run

mkdir Build
cd Build
cmake ..
make
./leanclub

Nginx

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name leanclub.org;
    client_max_body_size MAX_UPLOAD_SIZE;
    root /path/to/leanclub/;

    location / {
        proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:18080;
        proxy_redirect off;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $http_x_forwarded_for;
        proxy_set_header Host leanclub.org;
        add_header X-XSS-Protection "1; mode=block";
        add_header X-Frame-Options DENY;
    }
    	
    # Cache the avatar (Optional) 
    # location /info/ {
    #    proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:18080;
    #    proxy_redirect off;
    #    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $http_x_forwarded_for;
    #    proxy_set_header Host leanclub.org;
    #    proxy_cache one;
    #    proxy_cache_key "$request_uri";
    #    proxy_cache_valid  200 302  120m;
    # }

    location /static/ {
        expires 10d;
    }
    location /attachments/ {
        expires 365d;
    }
}   

reverse proxy 127.0.0.1:18080 , and map the "static" and "attachments" folder.

About

This program based on: Crow

I’m newbie for c++ , the code may “buggy" , not recommended for production.

License

MIT