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[Arch Linux] is my primary desktop operating system, with the [Awesome] window
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[Arch Linux] is my primary desktop operating system, with the [Awesome] window
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manager. However, I have migrated to [Chimera Linux] on my laptop and plan to
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manager. However, I have migrated to [Chimera Linux] on my laptop and plan to
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eventually do the same on my desktop. The [server hosting this website][my
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eventually do the same on my desktop. The [server hosting this website][my
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server] runs [Alpine Linux] and is hosted by [Vultr]<sup>(affiliate link)</sup>.
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server] runs [Alpine Linux]. You can read more about my OS adventures on
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You can read more about my OS adventures on [bitcannon.net].
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[bitcannon.net].
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[{{ float_image(image="../static/images/keyboards.jpg", float="right", width=128, alt="Photo of my keyboards") }}](../images/keyboards.jpg)
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[{{ float_image(image="../static/images/keyboards.jpg", float="right", width=128, alt="Photo of my keyboards") }}](../images/keyboards.jpg)
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I prefer typing on mechanical keyboards. I have a small collection in a range
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I prefer typing on mechanical keyboards. I have a small collection in a range
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[Read Rust]: https://readrust.net/
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[Read Rust]: https://readrust.net/
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[Rust]: https://www.rust-lang.org/
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[Rust]: https://www.rust-lang.org/
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[WK870]: https://www.keebmonkey.com/en-au/products/wk870
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[WK870]: https://www.keebmonkey.com/en-au/products/wk870
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[Vultr]: https://www.vultr.com/?ref=7903263
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## Contact
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## Contact
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title = "Generating a Static Website From a Pleroma Archive"
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date = 2024-11-25T20:21:44+10:00
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#[extra]
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#updated = 2024-06-06T08:24:45+10:00
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Almost two years ago, in Jan 2023 I migrated from my Fediverse presence from my
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self-hosted [Pleroma] instance to a single user Mastodon instance hosted by
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[masto.host]. Since then I've wanted to retire the Pleroma instance, but I
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didn't want to just take it offline. I wanted to preserve my posts and
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links to them. That became a priority over the weekend so I built a
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tool, `pleroma-archive` to do it.
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A few months after the switch to Mastodon I tried pulling my posts via RSS hit
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a runtime error. [I reported it to the project][runtime-error] but nothing came
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of it.
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I ignored it for another 18 months until this weekend when I tried to
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upgrade my PostgreSQL server from version 12 to 16 and migrate it to a new
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host. I chose the dump and load method of doing this but when restoring the Pleroma
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database it appeared to get stuck building one of the indexes. I eventually
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concluded that it was going to take something like 30 hours to complete. [I'm
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not the first one to hit this problem either][pg-restore].
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Retiring Pleroma had now become a priority. I discovered that there was now an
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account backup option in the import/export section of the settings. I
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downloaded my archive and set about building a tool that could generate a
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website from it.
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As usual I built the tool in Rust, my scripting language of choice. It's
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imaginatively called `pleroma-archive`. It generates an index page of all posts
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as well as a page for each individual post. The public URLs that Pleroma uses
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are not part of the archive, so for each post the tool does a `HEAD` request
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with the post id to determine the public URL of the post. The results of this
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are cached so it only needs to do it once for each post.
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With a little bit of help from [Nginx try\_files][try_files] a page like
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`notice/ARQGKLTJNiP8Lu2gT2.html` can be served at `/notice/ARQGKLTJNiP8Lu2gT2`,
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matching the URL it had when served by Pleroma:
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```nginx
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location / {
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try_files $uri $uri/index.html $uri.html =404;
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}
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```
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The end result is at <https://decentralised.social/>.
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Source code and instructions for using `pleroma-archive` is available at
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<https://forge.wezm.net/wezm/pleroma-archive>.
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[Pleroma]: https://pleroma.social/
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[masto.host]: https://masto.host/
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[runtime-error]: https://git.pleroma.social/pleroma/pleroma/-/issues/3149
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[pg-restore]: https://git.pleroma.social/pleroma/pleroma/-/issues/3031
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[try_files]: https://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_core_module.html#try_files
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