EMOJI STREAM

Stream emojis over http. Hosted at ghost.schroederspace.com

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Installation

With go installed:

go get -u github.com/jpschroeder/emoji-stream

Usage

emoji-stream -h
  -emoji string
        the emoji shortcode to stream
        http://www.unicode.org/emoji/charts/emoji-list.html
         (default ":ghost:")
  -httpaddr string
        the address/port to listen on for http
        use :<port> to listen on all addresses
         (default "localhost:8083")

Building

In order to build the project, just use:

go build

Deploying

You can build the project under linux (or Windows Subsystem for Linux) and just copy the executable to your server.

You can then run the program directly or use systemd to install it as a service and keep it running.

Customize the emoji-stream.service file in the repo for your server and copy it to /lib/systemd/system/emoji-stream.service (ubuntu)

Start the app with: systemctl start emoji-stream
Enable it on boot with: systemctl enable emoji-stream
Check it's status with: systemctl status emoji-stream
See standard output/error with: journalctl -f -u emoji-stream

NGINX

You can host the application using go directly, or you can listen on a local port and use nginx to proxy connections to the app.

Make sure that nginx is installed with: apt-get install nginx

Customize emoji-stream.nginx.conf and copy it to /etc/nginx/sites-available/emoji-stream.nginx.conf

Remove the default website configuration: rm /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default

Enable the go proxy: ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/emoji-stream.nginx.conf /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/emoji-stream.nginx.conf

Restart nginx to pick up the changes: systemctl restart nginx

NGINX HTTPS

When running behind a proxy, you should enable https in nginx and forward to the localhost http address.

Install the letsencrypt client with:

add-apt-repository ppa:certbot/certbot
apt-get install python-certbot-nginx

Generate and install a certificate with: certbot --nginx -d emojistream.me

The certificate should auto-renew when necessary.