Orange Forum is an easy to deploy forum that has minimal dependencies and uses very little javascript. It is written is golang and a compiled binary is available for linux. Try the latest version hosted here. Please contact [email protected] if you have any questions or want support.
By default, sqlite is used, so it's easy to get started. Download the binary and migrate the database with:
./orangeforum -migrate
Create a superadmin:
./orangeforum -createsuperuser
Finally, start the server:
./orangeforum
There are three types of privileged users in orangeforum: superadmin, admin, and mod. A superadmin has rights to
everything across all groups. This includes editing/deleting/closing posts across all groups and editing the list
of mods/admins for all groups in the forum. mods of a group can edit/delete/close posts in that group. admins of
a group have all the privileges of mods for that group and can also edit the name/description of the group and assign
mods for that group.
Orangeforum allows all users to create groups. The user that creates a group becomes an admin of that group. This can be disabled and group creation can be restricted to the superadmin.
- Go 1.8 (only for compiling)
- Postgres 9.5 (or use embedded sqlite3)
-addr <port>: Use./orangeforum -addr :8086to listen on port 8086.-dbdriver <db>and-dsn <data_source_name>: PostgreSQL and SQLite are supported. SQLite is the default driver.
To use postgres, run ./orangeforum -dbdriver postgres -dsn postgres://pguser:pgpasswd@localhost/orangeforum
To save an sqlite db at a different location, run ./orangeforum -dsn path/to/myforum.db.
-help: Show a list of all commands and options.-migrate: Migrate the database. Run this once after updating the orangeforum binary (or when starting afresh).-createsuperuser: Create a super admin.-createuser: Create a new user with no special privileges.-changepasswd: Change password of a user.-deletesessions: Drop all sessions and log out all users.